October 4, 2005: Headlines: Journalism: Investigative Journalism: Editor & Publisher: Russell Carollo wins journalism prize for "The Toll of War"
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Russell Carollo wins journalism prize for "The Toll of War"
The $2,000 Joseph L. Galloway Award for Distinguished Journalism went to scribes Jim DeBrosse, Russell Carollo, Larry Kaplow, Ken McCall, Mehul Srivastava, and Mike Wagner of the Daily News, according to the release first posted on the Romenesko site. The reporters spent 10 months on the stories, which were entitled "The Toll of War" and focused on non-combat deaths of soldiers. Russell Carollo and Mei-ling Hopgood of the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News previously shared a prize for "Casualties of Peace," a seven-day series that revealed an outbreak of violence against Peace Corps volunteers. They won the Edgar A. Poe Award for reporting of national or regional significance.
Russell Carollo wins journalism prize for "The Toll of War"
MIlitary Reporters and Editors Announce Prize Winners
By Joe Strupp
Published: October 04, 2005 4:20 PM ET
[Excerpt]
NEW YORK A group of Dayton Daily News reporters won the top prize in the 2005 Military Reporters and Editors writing awards for a series of reports on the Iraq war.
The $2,000 Joseph L. Galloway Award for Distinguished Journalism went to scribes Jim DeBrosse, Russell Carollo, Larry Kaplow, Ken McCall, Mehul Srivastava, and Mike Wagner of the Daily News, according to the release first posted on the Romenesko site. The reporters spent 10 months on the stories, which were entitled "The Toll of War" and focused on non-combat deaths of soldiers. Those included suicides of soldiers returning from combat duty, and civil claims filed by Iraqi citizens against the U.S. military.
"The Dayton Daily News reporting team undertook three investigate projects of incredible breadth and depth to reveal the little-known costs of war on returning soldiers, their families and others," Ellen Shearer, assistant dean and William F. Thomas Professor of Journalism at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, said in the release. She judged the awards along with Associate Professor David Nelson of Medill.
Nelson offered praise to the paper for "uncovering the high incidence of suicides among soldiers who had served in Iraq as well as detailing the problems in how the military handles non-combat deaths," the announcement said. "Especially important was the series on how little Iraqis receive when filing civil claims against the U.S. -- stirring further animosity toward American policy."
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