Parkland Students Awarded the Danny Schechter Global Vision Award

It was recently announced that the students involved in the Parkland, Florida school shooting and following activism, will be receiving the Danny Schechter Global Vision Award. Fourteen students and three staff members were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as a result of a shooter, and the students launched the ‘Never Again’ movement and March for Our Lives protests. In honor of these brave teenagers who will be receiving the award, we wanted to highlight further reading from our dear friend and author, the late Danny Schechter.


Danny Schechter was the author of 17 books, he released the following with Cosimo: Plunder, Investigating our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, When South Africa Called, We Answered - How the Media and International Solidarity Helped Topple Apartheid, and Blogothon: Reflections and Revelation from the News Dissector; and Occupy: Dissecting Occupy Wall Street. He also wrote introductions to the classic The History of the Standard Oil Company by muckraker Ida Tarbell and to the U,S. government's The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report.


About Danny Schechter 
Danny Schechter was a writer, television producer, and independent filmmaker who also spoke about media and financial issues. He was the editor of Mediachannel.org and blogged daily as the News Dissector at NewsDissector.net. Schechter was the author of sixteen books and produced and directed more than thirty documentaries and television specials. His blog was named the 2009 "Blog of the Year" by the Hunter College Media Department of the City University of New York.



About The Danny Schechter Global Vision Award for Journalism
The Global Center, a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to developing informative and socially responsible media and a new type of journalism in which the reporting of events and conditions is done in conjunction with those most affected by those events, is pleased to announce the creation of an annual award honoring the life and work of the late journalist, filmmaker and “News Dissector” Danny Schechter. The Danny Schechter Global Vision Award for Journalism will be given annually to a reporter who best emulates Schechter's practice of combining journalism with social activism and/or whose work is deserving of greater recognition and wider impact.

In addition to the award itself, which will be announced and promoted each year on or about Schechter's birthday of June 27th, each recipient will receive a check in the amount of $3000 to support future reporting. Recipients will be chosen by a panel including daughter Sarah Schechter and business partner Rory O'Connor.

March Classic of the Month: I Dare You! by William H. Danforth

In honor of the students in Florida who lost their lives, and their classmates who have decided to take charge of their communities and have risen up to protect schools and society against gun violence, we are highlighting I Dare You! by William H. Danforth as our Classic of the Month.

American entrepreneur and philanthropist William H. Danforth (1870-1956) is most famous for founding the Ralston Purina Company, but he also helped launch the American Youth Foundation in 1925 as a resource for spurring kids to becoming the best they can be. The spirit of his can-do philosophy is encapsulated here, in this cheerful and inspiring guide to being a creative, adventurous, magnetic, successful, daring person at any age.

For decades, I Dare You!, with its honest, heartfelt advice and entertaining and enlightening anecdotes, has encouraged and motivated children and adults alike to take control of their lives and become the happy, fulfilled people they've always dreamed of being.

As relevant and necessary today as it was when it was first published more than 70 years ago, this is a book to treasure and to share.