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6/2/2002 |
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Kudos for 2001 reporting include top national award for "All in the Family" by Larry Shook.
Larry Shook's examination of Cowles family conflicts of interest earned a first-place award for media reporting in the annual Alternative Newsweekly Awards. Shook's reporting appeared in a two-part series, "All in the Family," that was published simultaneously on this web site and in The Local Planet, one of Spokane's two weekly newspapers.
The Local Planet also won first-place for feature writing for a compilation of accounts in the aftermath of the World Trade Center buildings in New York. The awards, announced May 31st, were selected from entries submitted by the nation's weekly newspapers, including such prominent publications as The Village Voice, the Seattle Weekly, the LA Weekly, Willamette Week and Gambit Weekly of New Orleans.
Shook's award for "All in the Family" was his second award for the articles. The same articles had earlier won first-place for investigative reporting from the Inland Northwest Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists. It was the second time in four years Shook earned the top regional SPJ award for investigative reporting. (The other was for "Burned," the story of Spokane's municipal incinerator.)
The "All in the Family" articles are available on this web site and in the book, Under the Influence: Spokane, the Cowles Family, and River Park Square. Last month, the national Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) organization noted the "Under the Influence" collection in the online investigative reporting award category. Although no web site took a top award, four finalists were named for their 2001 reporting: Camas Magazine.com, Mother Jones.com, Salon.com, and a consortium of journalists.
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