The Society of Professional Journalists, Fort Worth Professional Chapter’s First Amendment Award
May 3, 2020
Category: Defending the Disadvantaged
April 19, 2019
Category: Defending the Disadvantaged
Judge’s comments:
“Bernd’s exhaustive interviews and reporting highlight an especially disadvantaged population seeking asylum in the U.S. under increasingly hostile policies. Her story breaks new ground in explaining what is happening at the border, detailing specific injustices, rather than re-explaining arguments that already are well-documented. Bernd’s work struck most closely to the idea of ‘defending the disadvantaged,’ telling an individual family’s story to illustrate the broader effects of U.S. immigration policies and procedures.”
The Native American Journalists Association’s National Native Media Award
October 15, 2020
Category: Print/Online, Best Feature Story
July 11, 2019
Category: Print/Online, Best Feature Story
The San Francisco Press Club’s Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards
“America’s Toxic Prisons: The Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration”
November 15, 2018
Category: Magazine/Trade Publications, Investigative Reporting
Category: Magazines/Trade Publications, Environment/Nature Report
The Dallas Peace and Justice Center’s Media Award
Category: Media
Judge’s comments:
“Disappointed with the lack of media coverage of issues of importance in her community, Candice chose to devote her journalistic expertise to independent media. She has consistently reported on events and issues that truly give a voice to the otherwise voiceless. Her courageous and objective reporting of grassroots activism, injustice, and other progressive topics the media tends to ignore, uplifts all while promoting pathways to peace and reconciliation. We honor Candice for her journalistic excellence and for her heartfelt, humanistic stories of real-life struggles of the people seeking justice and a better life in North Texas and the world.”
ORGANIZATIONAL AWARD FOR TRUTHOUT
The Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award
Truthout’s “Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19” series covering the political, economic, environmental and racial aspects of the pandemic.
Judge’s comments:
“Through the year of social distancing, Truthout proved that journalists need not be distant from the people hardest hit by the pandemic, including prisoners and ICE detainees. Its work during 2020 exposed social and racial injustices baked into COVID’s impacts and systemic flaws that worsened the pandemic. Inmate Lacino Hamilton wrote columns for Truthout about COVID in U.S. prisons, and thanks heavily to Truthout’s attention and public platform beginning in 2015, Hamilton won his freedom from the Michigan prison system in September after 26 years of wrongful incarceration for a crime he did not commit.”
I wrote the following stories for Truthout’s Izzy Award-winning series:
- Complexities at the Border Are Lost as Media, GOP Paint Situation as a “Surge”
- Border Town Links Fight Against Trump’s Wall to the Black Lives Matter Movement
- COVID-19 “Microschools” Are Betsy DeVos’s Latest Privatization Scheme
- Pandemic Policing Is Expanding the Use of Surveillance Technology
- Environmental and Labor Groups Team Up to Demand COVID-19 Relief
- Amid Pandemic, Workers Walk Out, Building Momentum Toward General Strike
- Vets Say We Need a Strong VA to Combat Coronavirus and Win Medicare for All
Candice Bernd 
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