Times Team Wins Reporting Award
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A Los Angeles Times team Monday was named a winner of the prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for stories disclosing that U.S. government officials had funneled secret aid to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the years before Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Reporter Douglas Frantz and Special Correspondent Murray Waas will share the award with writers for the Seattle Times, who reported on sexual misconduct charges against former Sen. Brock Adams (D-Wash.).
The award was announced by the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. It includes a $25,000 cash award, which will be split among the winners.
The articles by Frantz and Waas documented how the Administration of former President George Bush gave loan guarantees worth billions of dollars and sent sophisticated military technology to Iraq in hopes of influencing the Hussein regime.
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