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ProPublica Wins Two Investigative Journalism Awards
« on: April 16, 2011, 07:07:05 AM »
by Minhee Cho
ProPublica, April 8, 2011, 11:33 a.m.


ProPublica is proud to announce that it is the recipient of two IRE awards honoring the best in investigative journalism. Senior Editor Robin Fields, News Application Developer Al Shaw and Director of Computer-Assisted Reporting Jennifer LaFleur won an IRE certificate in Online Media for Dialysis: High Costs and Hidden Perils of a Treatment Guaranteed to All, a series which examined the disparate dialysis treatment system in the United States
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