FCIR Contributing Editor Tristram Korten told his story through Miami bail bonds agent Nidia Diaz. (Photo by Colby Katz/FCIR.)
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting Contributing Editor Tristram Korten’s public radio report “Fugitives on the Run, Bondsmen on the Hunt” won first place in the public affairs category of the 2012 Florida Associated Press Broadcasters Contest.
A collaboration between FCIR and WLRN-Miami Herald News, Korten’s story reported how Florida’s state attorney’s offices are not extraditing absconders due to budget cuts, creating an implicit public policy that means those who skip bond in Florida will not be followed.
Print stories in English and Spanish — which were published in the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, respectively — accompanied the radio report.
Korten’s report also won in two categories of the National Headliner Awards, including Best of Show for radio.