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Local Investigative Specialized Reporting

For a distinguished example of investigative or other specialized reporting by an individual or other specialized reporting within a newspaper's local area of circulation by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series, giving prime consideration to initiative, resourcefulness, research, and high quality of writing, One thousand dollars ($1,000).
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Winners
Finalists

Gilbert M. Gaul and Elliot G. Jaspin of Pottsville (PA) Republican

For stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime.
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Anthony R. Dolan of The Stamford (CT) Advocate

For a series on municipal corruption.
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Acel Moore and Wendell Rawls Jr. of the Philadelphia Inquirer

For their reports on conditions in the Farview (Pa.) State Hospital for the mentally ill.
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Staff of Chicago Tribune

For uncovering widespread abuses in Federal housing programs in Chicago and exposing shocking conditions at two private Chicago hospitals.
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Staff of Indianapolis Star

For its disclosures of local police corruption and dilatory law enforcement, resulting in a cleanup of both the Police Department and the office of the County Prosecutor.
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William Sherman of New York Daily News

For his resourceful investigative reporting in the exposure of extreme abuse of the New York Medicaid program.
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Staff of The Sun Newspapers of Omaha, NE

For uncovering the large financial resources of Boys Town, Nebraska, leading to reforms in this charitable organization's solicitation and use of funds contributed by the public.
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Timothy Leland, Gerard M. O'Neill, Stephen A. Kurkjian and Ann Desantis of The Boston Globe

For their exposure of widespread corruption in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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William Jones of Chicago Tribune

For exposing collusion between police and some of Chicago's largest private ambulance companies to restrict service in low income areas, leading to major reforms.
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Harold Eugene Martin of Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal

For his expose of a commercial scheme for using Alabama prisoners for drug experimentation and obtaining blood plasma from them.
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Albert L. Delugach and Denny Walsh of St. Louis Globe-Democrat

For their campaign against fraud and abuse of power within the St. Louis Steamfitters Union, Local 562.
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J. Anthony Lukas of The New York Times

For the social document he wrote in his investigation of the life and the murder of Linda Fitzpatrick.
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Gene Miller of Miami Herald

Whose initiative and investigative reporting helped to free two persons wrongfully convicted of murder.
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John Anthony Frasca of Tampa (FL) Tribune

For his investigation and reporting of two robberies that resulted in the freeing of an innocent man.
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Gene Goltz of Houston Post

For his expose of government corruption Pasadena, Texas, which resulted in widespread reforms.
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James V. Magee, Albert V. Gaudiosi and Frederick Meyer of The Philadelphia Bulletin

For their expose of numbers racket operations with police collusion in South Philadelphia, which resulted in arrests and a cleanup of the police department.
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