Journalists Honored for Investigative Efforts
The University of Southern California School of Journalism will present the 1990 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting today in West Los Angeles.
A reporter from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a team of 10 reporters from the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader will each be awarded $25,000 during a ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel. The Ring Award is the largest monetary journalism award given in the United States, according to university officials.
Both winning entries “uncovered political/bureaucratic corruptions that were damaging to children in the South,” according to a university news release.
This is the first year the award, sponsored by developer Selden Ring, has been given.
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