Kate Ellis, Stephen Smith, and Catherine Winter of American Public Media, St. Paul, MN, have received the first-place 2007 National Headliner Award for their radio documentary "Rebuilding Biloxi: One Year after Katrina." Smith and Ellis are 2006 OSI Katrina Media Fellows.

"Rebuilding Biloxi" tells the stories of several families in one coastal community as they struggle to survive, and then recover, from the storm. The documentary gives radio listeners a deeply personal look at how racial and economic inequality plays out in the daily lives of those aiming to rebuild after Katrina.

Founded in 1934 by the Press Club of Atlantic City, the National Headliner Awards program is one of the oldest and largest annual contests recognizing journalistic merit in the communications industry. A complete list of recipients is available on the National Headliner Award website at www.nationalheadlinerawards.com/CurrentRecipients.html.

Katrina Media Fellowships support exceptional print and radio journalists, photographers, and documentary filmmakers to help foster a national conversation on race and class inequalities that Hurricane Katrina laid bare.