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1979 IRE Awards
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IRE Investigative Reporting Contest

This Year's Winners

Newspapers with a circulation of 75,000 or more:

Lewis M. Simmons and Ron Shaffer
Washington Post
A four-part investigation of Pride Inc., a social service agency

John Hanchette, William F. Schmick and Carlton Sherwood
Gannett News Service
A series detailing improper use of vast assets of a religious order

Stephen Kurkjian, Nils Bruzelius, Alexander Hawes, Robert Porterfield and Joan Venocchi
Boston Globe
A series on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Newspapers with a circulation under 75,000:

Gordon Eliot White
Deseret News
A series on radioactive fallout of atomic weapons tests

Mike Masterson
Sentinel-Record (Hot Springs, Ark.)
Clay Bailey
Arkansas Democrat (Little Rock, Ark.) A joint investigation of a series of murders and Arkansas medical examiners

Chuch Cook and Jim Carlton
Port Arthur News (Texas)
A series about dangerous chemical wastes in the environment

Television:

Jack Cloherty and Lea Thompson
WRC-TV (Washington, D.C.)
An investigation into the dangers posed by asbestos in hairdryers

Dan Medina
KXAS-TV (Fort Worth, Texas)
A series exposing the plight of illegal immigrants

Richard Samuels and Chuck Collins
WMAQ-TV (Chicago)
A series that exposed a major auto theft ring

Books:

Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court

John Marks
The search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control

Jonathan Kwitny
Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace

Magazine:

Stephen Levy
New Jersey Monthly
An expose of emergency medical assistance in New Jersey