AltWeekly Awards
2008 Investigative Reporting Above 55,000
1st Place: The Town the Law Forgot, Cuhady Reformers Lose, Mario Beltran's Wild Night, Politics Meet Street, The Trouble with Mario Beltran, Friends in Low Places, Did City Hall Fund a Gun-runner?, Taming the Wild 740 Club, Mario Beltran's Strange Bedfellows and Mario Beltran's Undertow by Jeffrey Anderson , L.A. Weekly
2nd Place: The Corporation that Ate San Francisco, Dust Still Settling and Green City
by Sarah Phelan
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San Francisco Bay Guardian
3rd Place: Swept Under the Bridge and Sex Offenders Set Up Camp
by Isaiah Thompson
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Miami New Times
Honorable Mention: The Worst Internal Scandal in NSA History was Blamed on Cold War Defectors' Homosexuality
by Rick Anderson
,
Seattle Weekly
2008 Investigative Reporting Below 55,000
1st Place: Hidden in Plain Sight (PDF) by Nate Blakeslee , The Texas Observer
2nd Place: The Loop, MLGW Networx: Keeping Us in the Dark?, Will the City Council Get the Real Story? Will Anyone?, Networx Down and Unplugged
by Chris Davis
,
The Memphis Flyer
3rd Place: Hot and Soured, Official Reactions Mixed on Allegations of Minimum-wage, Building-Code Violations and State Cracks Down on Burlington-Area Chinese Restaurant Owners
by Ken Picard
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Seven Days
Honorable Mention: Sluggish Response to Suicide, Punish the Mentally Ill!, Prisoners as Commodities, Prisoner Gagged, Maine Prison Bosses Violate Court Orders, Press Behind Bars, Mentally Ill Inmate Gets Care Despite State's Objections, Stabbed in the Back, Dangerous Waits for Psychiatric Evaluations? and Exiled Maine Prisoners Report Abuse, Danger
by Lance Tapley
,
Portland Phoenix
