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More props and perspectives on TPM’s Polk Awards win. Ongoing question is noted in the post, “Do you think this means that bloggers who do journalism will finally be accorded respect by their traditional media counterparts?”
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One day in the not too soon future, reporters are going to use so many links in their articles that no one is actually going to focus on doing the actual reporting and writing. And then we’ll run out of links.
The 2007 winners of the George Polk awards were announced yesterday, and we were excited to see some of our own. This year, the Polk awards recognized, “journalists in 14 categories for media coverage that exposed corporate and government misfeasance, revealed the industrial roots of environmental catastrophe and uncovered the abuse of vulnerable populations including children, the elderly and veterans.”
The ones that popped out for us:
The Polk Award for Legal Reporting will go to Joshua Micah Marshall, editor and publisher of the widely read political blog, Talking Points Memo. His sites, www.talkingpointsmemo.com and www.tpmMuckraker.com, led the news media in coverage of the politically motivated dismissals of United States attorneys across the country. Noting a similarity between firings in Arkansas and California, Marshall and his staff (with his staff reporter-bloggers Paul Kiel and Justin Rood) connected the dots and found a pattern of federal prosecutors being forced from office for failing to do the Bush Administration’s bidding. Marshall’s tenacious investigative reporting sparked interest by the traditional news media and led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/us-attorneys/2007/03/
The George Polk Book Award will be presented to Jeremy Scahill, whose explosive bestseller, “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army,” (published by Nation Books, a co-publishing venture between The Nation Institute and the Perseus Books Group), chronicled the ascent of Blackwater USA, a North Carolina-based company that has become one of the world’s premiere providers of private military services. Scahill’s work exposed killings, human rights violations and misconduct allegedly by the firm’s personnel and revealed the U.S. government’s growing reliance on this “shadow army.” His reporting and Congressional testimony helped propel legislation that would ban U.S. government security contracts with Blackwater and other private military companies.
http://www.nationbooks.org/book/5/Blackwater
Freelance writer Joshua A. Kors will receive the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. His two-part series “Thanks For Nothing,” investigated the story of Jon Town, a former U.S. Army specialist who suffered severe hearing loss, memory problems and depression from exposure to a 107-millimeter rocket explosion in Iraq. Town received a purple heart but later was refused disability or medical benefits based on the Army’s claim that he had a pre-existing personality disorder. Building upon this case, Kors uncovered how military doctors were misdiagnosing thousands of soldiers wounded in Iraq as being mentally ill, thereby cheating them out of medical care and disability pay and saving the military billions of dollars. His two articles, which were published in The Nation, fueled a national uproar and congressional action; in January, President Bush signed a law requiring the secretary of defense to investigate all personality-disorder discharges and report them to Congress. Town is now receiving his medical and disability benefits.
http://www.joshuakors.com/military
The awards are also posthumously acknowledging Chauncey W. Bailey Jr., the slain editor of The Oakland Post, a weekly paper for black readers.
Via The NY Times, “[Bailey] was gunned down on August 2. during his investigation of Your Black Muslim Bakery, a business the police called a front for a criminal organization, which has been linked to kidnappings, rapes and killings, including Mr. Bailey’s.The police said seven men were arrested, a bakery worker confessed to the murder and the organization went out of business. The Committee to Protect Journalists said Mr. Bailey was the first journalist apparently picked as a target for killing in this country since 1993, though others have died in the line of duty.”
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Whoa.
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A must read. Many of the business models and cutting edge journalism production/distribution/sharing ideas that Jarvis writes about, are areas that The MC is experimenting with or strategizing around. I can’t wait to dive more into this meta discussion.
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ProPublica is modeling new form of journalism creation and distribution. Here’s the list of the brain trust who will be advising and directing this new org. Wait to see.
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Dan Gillmor’s response to the ProPublica advisory board.
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Clay Shirky’s new book on social media, coming out this month
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“In an unusual arrangement, NBC News shares campaign reporters with the political news service National Journal; National Journal pays the salaries, NBC pays the travel expenses and MSNBC.com supplies the equipment.” I like this cost-sharing idea. It’s s
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