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. ...
2005 JORDAN GREEN — completed a series of articles on the Bush administration’s enforcement of voting rights laws that appeared in Southern Exposure magazine and its website. ...
2005 MARIAH BLAKE — Mariah Blake’s article investigating Jonathan Keith Idema, an American vigilante in Afghanistan, and his manipulation of the U.S. press for fame and profit, was published by Columbia Journalism Review. The story was the magazine’s cover story in its January-February issue. ...
2005 CHARLES LAYTON — Charles Layton’s story about devastating budget cuts at the Dallas Morning News was published by American Journalism Review. The newspaper laid off 65 reporters after it was caught up in a scandal over its circulation figures. ...
2005 KATHY SHERIDAN — Ms magazine‘s article investigating the treatment of women in post-Taliban Afghanistan was published in its winter 2004-2005 issue. The article was the work of reporter Kathy Sheridan and photographer Sharron Lovell. ...
2005 MICHAEL FLYNN — Michael Flynn’s article investigating the U.S. government’s activities in Manta, Ecuador, was published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and on its website. The article reveals that the U.S. is using its anti-drug program to block emigration by impoverished Ecuadorans, with little concern for legal or civil rights. His report on the huge number of ...
2005 REBECCA CLARREN — Rebecca Clarren, who received a discretionary grant to investigate the dairy industry, was published by Salon, an online magazine. Clarren’s story revealed wretched conditions at huge, industrial-scale confinement dairies that are still allowed by the USDA to call their milk “organic.” ...