By: E&P Staff It's not exactly the Golden Globes tipping off likely Academy Award winners, but the six finalists announced today for the 2006 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting offer a close look at people and papers likely up Pulitzers in April.
The Goldsmiths are awarded every year by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard?s Kennedy School of Government.
The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at an awards ceremony on March 14 at the Kennedy School. "This year's Goldsmith finalists represent not only resourceful and aggressive investigative reporting, but stories of vital importance to our nation," said Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center, in a statement. "It is an honor to be honoring them."
The finalists for 2006 are:
--Joshua Boak, James Drew, Steve Eder, Christopher D. Kirkpatrick, Jim Tankersley and Mike Wilkinson
The Blade (Toledo, OH)
"Uncovering 'Coingate'"
--Marcus Stern and Jerry Kammer
Copley News Service
"Randy 'Duke' Cunningham" (congressional bribe scandal)
--Evelyn Larrubia, Robin Fields and Jack Leonard
The Los Angeles Times
"Guardians for Profit" (victimizing the elderly)
--James Risen and Eric Lichtblau
The New York Times
"Domestic Spying"
--Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith
The Washington Post
"The Abramoff Scandal"
--Dana Priest
The Washington Post
"The CIA's Secret War Against Terrorism"
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