We at The Sacramento Press are pleased to note that one of our new community contributors, Ali Tabatabai, who wrote just two days ago on a local health forum, has won a journalism award.

Tabatabai, who went to journalism school at San Francisco State, won fourth place in the 49th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program. Ali won in the second year of the Multimedia Competition, coming in fourth out of 78 entrants from 47 undergraduate journalism programs at colleges and universities around the country.

Ali won a $750 award for his work on a project he explains here.

“We did a street level ‘non-linear’ multimedia project, documenting the goings-ons of the community of Sixth Street (in San Francisco)," Ali said. “The area, ridden with SRO (Single Room Occupancy) hotels and drug problems has been a quagmire for the city for a while. Our project ... brought you to the lives, homes and businesses on the street, to meet the people and give you a chance to explore the area via the internet.”
To see Ali’s work, visit newsworx.org.

The Hearst Journalism Awards Program is funded by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and awards $550,000 in grants and awards every year. It is conducted under the auspices of accredited schools of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, and is made up of six monthly writing contests, three photojournalism contests and four broadcast news competitions. Ali competed in the multimedia competition.
Judging the multimedia competition this year were: Arthur S. Brisbane, ASB Consulting, East Dennis, MA; Janet Reeves, Former Senior Editor/Photography and Multimedia, The Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO; Fred Young, Former Senior Vice President of News, Hearst-Argyle Television, New York, NY.
For samples of winning work, please check the monthly winners section of the Journalism Awards’ website, hearstawards.org, which is updated shortly after each competition.

Congratulations, Ali!