Alt-Weekly Projects Win IRE Awards
By AAN Staff
march 26, 2008 08:57 am
Miami New Times' Isaiah Thompson was awarded a IRE certificate in the local circulation weeklies category for
his stories on how residency restrictions forced sex offenders to live under a Miami bridge. In the same category, the AAN-commissioned "
Who Killed Brad Will?" was a finalist, along with
Peter Byrne's series on Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the
North Bay Bohemian and
Wayne Barrett's reporting on Rudy Giuliani in the
Village Voice. The
Texas Observer's
reporting on sexual abuse at a state-run youth prison and the cover-up that followed it was also a finalist, in the Magazine/specialty publication category. The
Chauncey Bailey Project, which the
San Francisco Bay Guardian took part in, was awarded this year's Tom Renner Award, which honors "outstanding reporting covering organized crime or other criminal acts."