Aaron L. Morrison

The 2011 UNITY Global Fellows Project

aaronlmorrison — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:45:32 +0000

I’ve completed a program with UNITY Journalists of Color, Inc. and its Global Reporting Fellowship. The assignment was to cover the United Nation’s High Level Meeting on AIDS from June 7 through June 10. The meeting was considered to be the most important to take place in recent years around AIDS issues, where world leaders took stock of global response, 30 years since the first recorded case.

A selection of my stories from the project:

Sexual violence against women, girls targeted (published 6/8/11)

For U.S. AIDS activist, stigma is biggest barrier for the HIV-positive (published 6/9/11)

Michel Sidibe, driving global battle against AIDS (with Laura Figueroa, published 6/10/11)

A photo essay on the U.N. flags can be viewed in the posting below.

The flags at the U.N.

aaronlmorrison — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:13:17 +0000

U.N. Flags

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National flags are raised and lowered each morning and afternon in front of the United Nations complex. Here the flags are lowered during the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York City on June 8, 2011. AARON MORRISON/UNITY AIDS News

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It takes nearly 30 minutes each morning and afternoon to raise and lower the 192 flags representing the United Nations’ members. This week, the guards performed their duties as nearly 3,000 delegates streamed in and out of the complex on First Avenue between East 42nd and East 46th streets in New York City for the 2011 High-Level Meeting on AIDS. The flag ceremonies served as a visual reminder for tourists, joggers and dog walkers of the collective strength the institution represents.

*Shot during a week I spent at the United Nations for the 2011 UNITY Global Reporting Fellowship. Thanks to Miami Herald Photographer Carl Juste for coaching me through it.

Beekeeping in New Jersey

aaronlmorrison — Tue, 17 May 2011 01:12:50 +0000

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Bin Laden reaction story

aaronlmorrison — Sat, 14 May 2011 21:18:43 +0000

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Other student reactions:

Click HERE for print story. Video below.

Robert P. Kelly Award

aaronlmorrison — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:54:49 +0000

I recently received a second place Robert P. Kelly Award, for news and feature writing by a first-year reporter, from the New Jersey Press Association. More than eight months in to my job at the Daily Record and my boss says I’ve “had a great start.” I’ll take it.

Breast cancer project

aaronlmorrison — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:09:52 +0000

Two of a few stories I wrote in New Jersey Press Media’s “Press for the Cure” series.

UPDATE: NJPM received The Lloyd P. Burns Award for Public Service for “Press for the Cure.” The campaign raised more than $62,000 for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. NJPM papers include the Daily Record, Asbury Park Press, Courier News, Courier-Post, Home News Tribune and Daily Journal.