Nieman honors | Michael J. Berens wins Worth Bingham Prize for 'Seniors for Sale'
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A reporter for the Seattle Times wins the 2010 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for his comprehensive six-part series 'Seniors for Sale: Exploiting the aged and frail in Washington’s adult family homes'

Pretty good timing | Getting pictures for history in Tahrir Square
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Photographer Peter Turnley, a 2001 Nieman Fellow, has covered many of the great world events of the past 30 years. Here is how he came to be in Cairo on Feb. 11th, along with more than 40 pictures he took that will tell the story of that day for a long time.

Read all about it | Great books about reporters who fought hard and told the truth
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Great reporting is the opposite of access journalism -- it’s about finding out things the people you cover don’t want you to know. Investigative reporter Michael Hudson shares his reading list of journalists who persevered and got the story.

‘See one, do one, teach one’ | The Morning News takes a long, hard look at hospital care in Dallas SHOWCASE In a year-long examination of Parkland Memorial Hospital and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the paper finds much reliance on doctors in training but little supervision of them, harm done to patients, allegations of billing fraud and a ‘class-based culture of care.’

'Campaign season' | Newsday's striking coverage of the NY governor's race
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A one-hour documentary, done on the fly, gives a narrative arc to political coverage, exposes high-level betrayals and brings back into view some old New York pols like Alfonse D'Amato, Ed Koch, and (in cameos) Mario and Matilda Cuomo. It's a multimedia effort: newspaper and online coverage and TV specials. Here Thomas Maier tells how it was put together.

But in this case, no happy ending | How watchdog reporting is supposed to work
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Toluse Olorunnipa, a Miami Herald reporter, gets a phone call from a distraught woman, tries to be of a little help, and in the process digs deep into the nightmare story of home foreclosures in Florida, exposing fraud on multiple levels and a court system that is hopelessly overwhelmed.

| ‘Killer ate fried chicken, waited’ SHOWCASE Herman and me: Barry Sussman’s personal recollections and tribute to Herman Giles, a big-time, smalltown newspaperman, tough as nails and a great mentor. Those were the days.

Conscience and integrity in journalism/' | Somali reporter wins Louis M. Lyons Award
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Mohammed Olad Hassan, a correspondent for AP and the BBC, is said to be the eyes and ears and "in a real sense, the voice" of his country.

In praise of local reporting | 'Practicing journalism without fear'
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Craig McCoy of the Philadelphia Inquirer, recipient of this year's I.F. Stone Medal, has spent more than three decades exposing high-level legislative corruption, a shoddy court system, the fateful burial of rape cases, failings in the handling of child abuse, and other issues.

The fix was in | The more we learn about how the Iraq War began the worse the story gets
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In an extraordinary three-part investigative series for the National Security Archives, John Prados documents how the Bush and Blair governments 'fixed the facts' on Iraq.

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