Hugo Balta is the recipient of the 2024 Cecilia Vaisman Award from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.
Balta is the publisher of Illinois Latino News (ILLN). An affiliate of the Latino News Network, ILLN is a multiplatform digital news outlet that focuses on health and democracy. He is the host of Chicago Politics on CAN-TV, a solutions journalism program centered on responses to social challenges and highlighting opportunities facing the marginalized communities of Cook County. Balta also is the director of Solutions Journalism and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with The Fulcrum, a national publication.
The Vaisman Award honors an individual working in audio or video journalism who works every day to shed light on the various issues affecting Hispanic and Latine communities inside and outside the United States. It includes a $5,000 cash prize. The award is named for Medill faculty member Cecilia Vaisman who died in 2015.
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