Announcement of a 2002 Sigma Delta Chi award entry in the category, Investigative reporting - newspaper/wire service. Mike Lee of theTri-City Herald, Kennewick, Washington, received the award. Investigation uncovered 15 years of flagrant law-breaking and abuse by two farmer brothers. Actions involved disregard of state and federal laws and regulations, including illegal water and air pollution. Series titled, "Bitter Harvest."
This issue is in the ACDC file of NAAJ/NFEA newsletters., News item about a series of investigative stories, "Failing the Grade," by Jeff Taylor and Mike McGraw that earned a Pulitzer Prize for the Kansas City Star.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25699
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Via Messenger Online. 2 pages., Announces the Ezzell family of the Canadian Record newspaper (Canadian, Texas) as winner of the Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. Award presented by the Institute of Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24758
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Retrieved September 27, 2006, Via Poynteronline. 3 pages., Case report about award-winning coverage by the News and Observer of issues related to big swine operations in North Carolina.
