María Inés Zamudio wins Cecilia Vaisman award

Maria Ines Zamudio

María Inés Zamudio is the recipient of the 2020 Cecilia Vaisman Award from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Zamudio covers immigration for WBEZ, the Chicago NPR affiliate.

The Vaisman award honors an individual working in audio or video journalism who works every day to shed light on the various issues affecting Hispanic and Latinx communities inside and outside the United States. The award is named for Medill faculty member and Homelands co-founder Cecilia Vaisman, who died in 2015.

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