KJZZ's Fronteras Desk accepted five national awards from the Public Media Journalists Association at a ceremony in San Antonio on Friday night.
Reporters won second place in Division AA — the largest division that includes stations with 16 or more full-time news staff — in the Arts Feature, Continuing Coverage, Feature, Sports Feature and Use of Sound categories.
Revisit the award-winning stories from Kendal Blust, Alisa Reznick and Murphy Woodhouse.
Arts Feature
Asylum seekers turn to traditional arts to ease the strain of long waits at the border by Kendal Blust
U.S. immigration policies have left migrants and asylum seekers waiting in Mexico for months or years, often in precarious situations. In an effort to ease the strain for those waiting, the binational group Artisans Beyond Borders has turned to fiber arts to bring comfort and hope to migrants in Nogales, Sonora.
Continuing Coverage
Title 42 leaves asylum seekers in limbo at the U.S.-Mexico borderby KJZZ's Fronteras Desk
Since former President Donald Trump took office, approaches to immigration enforcement that were previously considered marginal or too extreme have become mainstream — even bipartisan — policy positions. Perhaps most significant among them is Title 42, a public health measure implemented at the start of the pandemic. The protocol’s official purpose was to slow the spread of COVID-19, but its effectiveness has since been widely debunked. Whatever its origins, Title 42’s principal effect has been to short-circuit the attempts of hundreds of thousands of people from a growing list of countries to request asylum in the United States.
Feature and Use of Sound
Hundreds of feet in the air, Sonoran highliners face fears and find balanceby Murphy Woodhouse
A small but growing group of extreme athletes in neighboring Sonora has turned some of the state’s most stunning natural features into proving grounds, where they push their bodies — and nerves — to their limits.
Sports Feature
In a Sonoran mining town, the pins have been falling in historic bowling alley for nearly a centuryby Murphy Woodhouse
Leaders of the Circulo Social Anahuac said the alley’s arrival is tied to the sizable presence of well-heeled Americans during the early 20th century company town days of Cananea, when the Consolidated Copper Company dominated daily life.
