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ALAN C. MILLER
EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR
JOHN S. CARROLL
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Alba Mendiola
Natalie Y. Moore
Alba Mendiola, an Emmy-award winning journalist
turned educator at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in
Chicago, is the 2023 Alan C. Miller Educator of the
Year. Mendiola created a dual language broadcast
journalism course in English and Spanish to serve
the student population, which comes largely from
families of recent immigrants. As an immigrant
herself, Mendiola saw the need to help Spanishspeaking students and those from underserved
communities —like the one she teaches in —
become more news-literate. “I’m very honored to
receive this award because it’s not just for me.
This award also recognizes the need for news
literacy among the Latino communities,” she said.
Natalie Y. Moore, a reporter who covers race, class
and communities at WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR a昀케liate, is
this year’s John S. Carroll Journalist of the Year. Moore
has tackled race, housing, economic development,
food injustice and violence. She is the author of
several books, including The South Side: A Portrait
of Chicago and American Segregation, winner of the
2016 Chicago Review of Books award for non昀椀ction.
Moore has been involved in NLP’s work almost
from the start and this past year helped develop
our newest Checkology lesson, “Harm & Distrust,”
and is the on-camera lesson host. “I believe that
having a skill set around news literacy is helpful to
equip people to be better citizens of democracy.”
Read more about Mendiola and
watch her story here.
Read more about Moore and
watch her story here.
About the award
About the award
Alan C. Miller is the founder and retired CEO of the News
Literacy Project, the largest provider of news literacy
education in the country. He was a reporter with the
Los Angeles Times for 21 years, spending 19 of them
in the paper’s Washington bureau before leaving in
2008 to establish NLP. He previously worked at The
Times Union in Albany, New York, and The Record in
Hackensack, New Jersey. Miller has won more than a
dozen national reporting honors, including the 2003
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. In 2020, Miller was
named a Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian
magazine. In 2021, he won the AARP Purpose Prize.
Named for one of the most revered newspaper editors of
his generation, the John S. Carroll Journalist of the Year
Award is given annually to journalists who have contributed
signi昀椀cantly to NLP and its mission. The honorees are
selected by a committee of NLP board members and
staff. During an acclaimed journalism career spanning
four decades, Carroll was the editor of three major U.S.
newspapers — the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader,
The Baltimore Sun and the Los Angeles Times. He was a
founding member of NLP’s board and served as its chair
for four years until shortly before his death in 2015.
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