AltWeekly Awards
2011 Public Service Above 50,000
1st Place: City of Airheads by Patrick Range McDonald , L.A. Weekly2011 Public Service Below 50,000
1st Place: DNA Tests Undermine Evidence in Texas Execution by Dave Mann , The Texas Observer
Honorable Mention: Domestic Violence Coverage
by Ronni Mott, Lacey McLaughlin, Donna Ladd, Kamikaze, Casey Purvis and Sophie McNeil
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Jackson Free Press
2010 Public Service Above 50,000
1st Place: Wild Rides by Paul Knight , Houston Press
2nd Place: Ten Pieces on Why it Would be a Disaster for Chicago to Host the 2016 Olympics
by Ben Joravsky
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Chicago Reader
3rd Place: Los Angeles on $300,000 a Year
by Patrick Range McDonald, Tibby Rothman, Daniel Heimpl and Jill Stewart
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L.A. Weekly
2010 Public Service Below 50,000
1st Place: Smell Test by Dan McGraw, Peter Gorman and Jeff Prince , Fort Worth Weekly
2nd Place: Two Lakes
by Adam Lynch, Ward Schaefer, Todd Stauffer and Donna Ladd
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Jackson Free Press
3rd Place: TVA Ash Spill
by Charles Maldonado and Frank Carlson
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Metro Pulse
2009 Public Service Above 50,000
1st Place: Heroin by Robbie Woliver, Tim Bolger and Michael Martino , Long Island Press
2nd Place: Selling You
by Craig Malisow
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Houston Press
3rd Place: Detroit's Big Burn
by Curt Guyette
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Metro Times
2009 Public Service Below 50,000
1st Place: The Jackie Walker Story, Local Hero and A Promise Kept by Betty Bean , Metro Pulse
2nd Place: Hot Wired, The Series
by Greg Harman
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San Antonio Current
3rd Place: The Fayetteville Shale Play
by Gerard Matthews, David Koon and John Williams
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Arkansas Times
Honorable Mention: Reportage of the Rochester, NY Public Defender Search
by Christine Carrie Fien, Jeremy Moule and Mary Anna Towler
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City Newspaper
2008 Public Service Above 55,000
1st Place: Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution (PDF), Who's Sorry Now? (PDF), He Just Doesn't Get It (PDF), Wilenchik's a Liar and There's More (PDF), Extraordinary Contempt (PDF), Power Play (PDF), Information Blockade (PDF), Inhumanity Has Its Price (PDF) and Flushing Them Out (PDF) by Phoenix New Times Staff , Phoenix New Times
2nd Place: Blazing Saddles!, Angry Asian Rap Stalls Case, Kissing the Pinky Ring, Furious and Curiouser, They Got the Sheriff, Magnum Enforcer, She's the (Under) Sheriff, Draw Your Own Conclusions and Crossing the Thin Blue Line
by R. Scott Moxley
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OC Weekly
3rd Place: Off the Record, Judge Opens Secret Media Merger Files, Between the Sheets, Barons of Monopoly, Brown Must Fight the Media Monopoly, What We Know Now, Reilly's Right to Sue, Media Trial to Proceed --In Public, Barons Back Off Newspaper Trial and Beyond the Reilly Settlement
by G. W. Schulz and San Francisco Bay Guardian Staff
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San Francisco Bay Guardian
Honorable Mention: I.G. Popped, Where Credit is Due, Not Up to Code, On the Block, HUD-aches, Defame Game, Open Perjury, Nightmare Neighbor, In Ruins and Watching the Inspectors
by Edward Ericson, Jr.
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Baltimore City Paper
