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Legal journos reap awards

By Mark Obbie

Two recent journalism awards, including the top-shelf Polk Awards, included legal reporters among their honorees. The Polk for justice reporting went to Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin for "Reasonable Doubt," a five-part series in The East Valley Tribune on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's campaign against illegal immigrants in and around Phoenix. The Polk for local reporting honored Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick of the Detroit Free Press for their "Mayor in Crisis" coverage of Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. That scandal -- which centered on misuse of public money and perjury in a lawsuit against the city -- also won a Nieman Foundation Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism last week.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).