2006 STEVE HENDRICKS — Steve Hendricks’ book on the struggle between the FBI and Native Americans in the 1970s was published by Thunder’s Mouth Press. Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country was called “investigative journalism at its gutsiest, at its noblest” by author Studs Terkel. ...
2006 ALICIA SHEPARD — Alicia Shepard’s book, Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate, was published by John Wiley & Sons. “Alicia Shepard has long been one of the nation’s most important writers on journalism,” wrote Gene Roberts. “Now she turns her attention to two of history’s most famous journalists. Her book is a winner–penetrating, fascinating, and remarkably ...
2006 REBECCA CLARREN — Rebecca Clarren’s article on the health and environmental consequences of “fracking” a new process of natural gas extraction, was published by Salon, the online magazine. Additional articles on her investigation were published this week by Orion magazine in its print and online editions. One of the EPA’s own engineers called the agency’s failure to investigate “irrational ...
2006 MARIA O’ DONNELL — Maria O’Donnell’s investigation of Rudy Ulloa and press corruption in was published in Noticias, Argentina’s best-selling news magazine, under the headline El Hombre del millon de Pesos. Ulloa is the president’s former driver who has been able to channel large amounts of government money into press manipulation to benefit himself. ...
2006 ELIZABETH GROSSMAN — Elizabeth Grossman’s book, High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxins, and Human Health, has been published by Island Press. Her article on the role of IBM in polluting an area of New York state was published in The Nation magazine. One review called the book “a Silent Spring for the new millennium”. ...
2005 NIC DUNLOP — Nic Dunlop’s book about Comrade Duch, The Lost Executioner, has been published in London by Bloomsbury Publishing and Walker books in the US. The book examines the life of a man responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 people in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. Dunlop discovered Duch living in the west of the country ...
2005 JASON BERRY — Jason Berry’s Vows of Silence, a film based on his book, co-authored with Gerald Renner, won the Best TV Documentary Award at the 2008 Mexico City International Documentary Film Festival. The film follows the Vatican investigation of accused sex abuser Father Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ. It is based on a 2004 book of ...
2005 KATHERINE EBAN FINKELSTEIN — Katherine Eban Finkelstein’s book about stolen, tainted and counterfeit prescription drugs, Dangerous Doses, has been published by Harcourt. Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, offered this praise: “This is a book that comes along so rarely in non-fiction-brilliantly reported, written with the pace of a potboiler and harrowing in its societal repercussions. In Dangerous ...
2005 THE DUNCAN GROUP — The Cost of Freedom, a video documentary examining the impact of the USA Patriot Act on civil liberties. The 60-minute documentary aired on public television channels across the nation. ...
2005 STEPHANIE MENCIMER — Stephanie Mencimer, recipient of the Fund’s 2004 book award for her investigation of the “tort reform” movement, has been involved in a fierce exchange of views with Stuart Taylor, who reports on legal issues for Newsweek magazine. The argument has played out in The Washington Monthly, CNN’s Lou Dobbs program, a website called Overlawyered and elsewhere. ...