By: E&P Staff A New York Times series about deadly Chinese counterfeit drugs sold around the world and a TV4 Sweden investigation into Russian overfishing in the Barents Sea won the first Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting.
Formerly the ICIJ Award (named for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists), the prize was renamed this year in honor of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was slain by militants in Pakistan in 2002.
The award (which offers a total of $26,000 in prize money) was created specifically to honor cross-border investigative reporting. The competition attracted 86 entries from 24 countries, involving reporting in more than 60 countries.
The winning New York Times series was "A Toxic Pipeline" by Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker, who also won this year's Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. By also winning the Daniel Pearl honor, they received $10,000 for best investigation by a U.S.-based medium.
Joachim Dyfvermark and Fredrik Laurin of TV4 Sweden were awarded $10,000 for best investigation by an international medium.
The judges also gave a $2,000 special citation to freelancer Loretta Tofani for her "American Imports, Chinese Deaths" series for Utah's Salt Lake Tribune.
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