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Kotlowitz is an award-winning author, journalist and documentarian whose work has been featured in national magazines, on public radio and at film festivals. He is the author of There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, and Never a City So Real. There Are No Children Here is the winner of the Carl Sandburg Award, a Christopher Award, and the Helen B. Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. The New York Public Library selected this work as one of the 150 most important books of the century. Kotlowitz's journalism awards include the George Foster Peabody Award and the George Polk Award.
Kotlowitz has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Public Radio International’s This American Life. His articles have also appeared in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic and The New Republic.
Between 2008 and 2011 Kotlowitz worked with documentary production studio Kartemquin Films and Hoop Dreams director Steve James as a producer on the documentary The Interrupters, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 to widespread critical acclaim. The project was inspired by Kotlowitz's 2008 New York Times Magazine article "Blocking the Transmission of Violence.
During the past three years, he has produced three collections of personal narratives for Chicago Public Radio: Stories of Home, Love Stories and Stories of Money. Stories of Home was awarded a Peabody. He has served as a correspondant and writer for a Frontline documentary, Let’s Get Married, as well as correspondent and writer for two pieces for PBS’s Media Matters.
The Richard W. Johnston Memorial Project brings professionals to the school for campus lectures, workshops, and discussions with students, faculty members, and members of the community. It honors Dick Johnston, a gifted magazine editor, writer, and war correspondent who devoted himself to high-quality journalism. The project was made possible with generous gifts from his widow, Laurie; George E. Jones of U.S. News and World Report; and the Correspondents Fund.
Johnston, a 1936 graduate of the school, began his career as a news reporter during the Great Depression, working for the Eugene Register Guard and the Eugene Daily News. He went to Portland with United Press and during WWII had a distinguished career as a correspondent in the Pacific theater. He is best known for founding and shaping Sports Illustrated, where he served as executive editor until his death in 1981 at the age of 66.
2011 Jonathon Gold, Experts in the Age of Citizen Journalism
2010 Andrew Revkin, noted environmental writer and blogger for The New York Times on dot earth.
2009 Tony Horwitz, author of five books including A Voyage Long and Strange
2008 Peggy Orenstein, NYT contributing writer and author of Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids and Life in a Half-Changed World; Waiting for Daisy, and Schoolgirls.
2007 Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, a 2006 MacArthur Fellow, author of Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
2006 Benoit Denizet-Lewis, contributing writer The New York Times Magazine
2005 Erik Larson, author of Isaac's Storm
2004 Melissa Fay Greene, author, Last Man Out; The Temple Bombing
2003 Terry Tempest Williams, author, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
2002 Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, No Matter How Loud I Shout; Baby ER
2001 Susan Orlean, contributing writer, The New Yorker and author, The Orchid Thief; The Bullfighter Check her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People
2000 Alex Kotlowitz, author, There Are No Children Here; The Other Side of the River
1999 Peter Matthiessen, author, The Snow Leopard; In the Spirit of Crazy Horse; Zen Journals
1998 Randall Rothenberg, former contributing editor, Esquire; author, Where the Suckers Moon
1997 Barbara Ehrenreich, columnist, Time magazine; author, The Snarling Citizen
1996 James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly
1995 Victor Navasky, The Nation
1993 Robin Morgan, Ms. magazine
1991 Ambassador "Bill" Lane Jr., Sunset magazine
1990 David Haupert, Magazine Group of Meredith Corporation
1990 Jack Fincher, Reader's Digest, Smithsonian
1988 Suzanne Braun Levine, former editor and vice president, Ms. magazine
1987 Richard Stolley, former editor of Life magazine
1986 Harold Hayes, former editor of Esquire
1984 Ray Cave, Time magazine
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