American Society of Newspaper Editors
The Jesse Laventhol Prize for Deadline News Reporting by an Individual goes to
C.J. Chivers of the New York Times for his accounts of an American medic’s treatment of a member of his platoon in Iraq who was critically wounded by a sniper. The Jesse Laventhol Prize for Deadline News Reporting by a Team goes to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel staff for coverage of a factory explosion that killed three workers and injured 46.
PLUS: Seven more awards.
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Paper to give prize money to families of workers killed in blast (MJS)