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Washington Post
March 26, 2008
Pg. 7
Washington Post staff writers Anne Hull and Dana Priest have won the 2007 IRE medal, which is awarded by Investigative Reporters and Editors as the organization's highest honor for investigative reporting.
The contest judges called the two reporters' investigation of substandard conditions for some recuperating patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center "the project with the highest impact of 2007."
The IRE medal is the most recent of several honors and accolades the two have received for the series, "The Other Walter Reed."
Contest judges wrote that Hull and Priest "penetrated the secretive world" of the medical center "to document in chilling detail the callous mistreatment and neglect of America's war-wounded."
"Their expose -- fueled by immersion reporting and fine narrative storytelling -- fired a shot heard around the world and led to decisive action at the Pentagon," the judges wrote. It exemplified "brilliant work, that proved how a local investigation can demand an international audience and provoke international outrage."
Three other IRE medals were awarded for work last year. Winners were the New York Times and Walt Bogdanich, Jake Hooker, Brent McDonald, Robert Harris and Andy Lehren for "Toxic Pipeline"; the Salt Lake Tribune and freelance reporter Loretta Tofani for "American Imports, Chinese Deaths"; and MSNBC and David Ridgen, Michael Hannan, Brad Clarke, Judith Greenberg and Scott Hooker for "Mississippi Cold Case." IRE said the documentary was aired by MSNBC and produced by Ridgen, of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
IRE is a nonprofit organization concerned with improving the quality of investigative reporting.
--Martin Weil
March 26, 2008
Pg. 7
Washington Post staff writers Anne Hull and Dana Priest have won the 2007 IRE medal, which is awarded by Investigative Reporters and Editors as the organization's highest honor for investigative reporting.
The contest judges called the two reporters' investigation of substandard conditions for some recuperating patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center "the project with the highest impact of 2007."
The IRE medal is the most recent of several honors and accolades the two have received for the series, "The Other Walter Reed."
Contest judges wrote that Hull and Priest "penetrated the secretive world" of the medical center "to document in chilling detail the callous mistreatment and neglect of America's war-wounded."
"Their expose -- fueled by immersion reporting and fine narrative storytelling -- fired a shot heard around the world and led to decisive action at the Pentagon," the judges wrote. It exemplified "brilliant work, that proved how a local investigation can demand an international audience and provoke international outrage."
Three other IRE medals were awarded for work last year. Winners were the New York Times and Walt Bogdanich, Jake Hooker, Brent McDonald, Robert Harris and Andy Lehren for "Toxic Pipeline"; the Salt Lake Tribune and freelance reporter Loretta Tofani for "American Imports, Chinese Deaths"; and MSNBC and David Ridgen, Michael Hannan, Brad Clarke, Judith Greenberg and Scott Hooker for "Mississippi Cold Case." IRE said the documentary was aired by MSNBC and produced by Ridgen, of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
IRE is a nonprofit organization concerned with improving the quality of investigative reporting.
--Martin Weil