Columbia University awarded a 2004 Maria Moors Cabot Prize to Joel Millman for outstanding reporting on Latin America. Joel is the Wall Street Journal’s U.S.-Mexico border bureau chief. Joel is the seventh Alicia Patterson fellow to win the prize, which is the oldest international award in journalism. The others are

Kay Mills’ book about the landmark communications law case that forced broadcasters to hire more minorities and cover their entire community was published by the University Press of Mississippi. Its title is, “Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case That Transformed Television.” The Freedom Forum hosted a book party for Kay

Investigative Reporters and Editors presented an award this May to the book on foster care that NINA BERNSTEIN wrote based on her Patterson research, “The lost Children of Wilder:The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care.”(Pantheon/Vintage Books)

Harry Abrams Publisher has issued, “Ireland Ever: The Photographs of Jill Freedman,” with texts by Frank McCourt and Malachy McCourt. Jill’s book was chosen by the National Press Club for inclusion in its book fair. Jill has relocated to New York from Florida.

A paperback version of BILL BERKELEY’s book, “The Graves are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa” will be released this spring by Basic Books. Bill is writing editorials for The New York Times.

Joseph Rodriguez’s latest book, “Juvenile,” was published by PowerHouse Books. He was interviewed by Aaron Brown on Newsnight for an hour.

Simon & Schuster published “Vows of Silence: Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II, by Jason Berry and Gerald Renner. The authors were recipients of the Fund for Investigative Journalism’s book award.

FRANK BROWNING covered the 14th International AIDS conference in Barcelona, Spain for National Public Radio.