Pulitzer Center Update

Olga's Girls a Finalist for the Harry Chapin Media Awards

Image by Carlos Avila Gonzalez. Nepal, 2009.

"Olga's Girls," Meredith May's piece for the San Francisco Chronicle, is a finalist for the Harry Chapin Media Awards. The finalists were chosen as being representative of the best coverage of hunger and poverty issues this year.

The winners will be chosen by an independent panel of judges, all highly respected journalists and/or experts and advocates in the fields of hunger and poverty. The judging event is scheduled for mid-June. The winners will be announced and all entrants notified of the decisions immediately thereafter.