Reporters among six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for "Casualties of Peace," the newspaper's October series on the Peace Corps
`NEWS' AWARD FINALIST
Feb 5, 2004 - Dayton Daily News
Author(s): Dayton Daily News
Dayton Daily News reporters Russell Carollo and Mei-Ling Hopgood are among six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for "Casualties of Peace," the newspaper's October series on the Peace Corps.
The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at an awards ceremony March 17 at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
The other finalists include The New York Times and Frontline, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, and WTVF-TV in Nashville.
The prize honors journalism that promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government, the making of public policy, or the practice of politics by disclosing excessive secrecy, impropriety and mismanagement, or instances of particularly commendable government performance.
"This year's finalists are a superb cross section of that special kind of investigative reporting that we seek to honor," said Alex S. Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard. "We look for stories that have a real impact, and these finalists all have high muzzle velocity."
Of the Daily News' Peace Corps series, the judges said: "Their findings have shown that the assaults against Peace Corps volunteers more than doubled since 1991 and for years the agency concealed the extent of the threat to volunteers, who are mostly women."
This is the second straight year the Daily News was named a finalist for the national award. Last year, the paper was a finalist for "Down on the Factory," a series on the environmental impacts from large livestock farms.
