I want to finally pay my interns. I still can’t pay them enough.

In June, the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists surprised me with their Robert D.G. Lewis Watchdog Award, for an investigative story I wrote about one man’s journey through the mental-health and criminal-justice systems. It was the chapter’s only award to include a cash prize. What to do with it was a no-brainer.

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