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1981 IRE Awards
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The IRE Awards were established in 1979. Click on a date to see past winners:
1980 1979

Newspapers over 75,000:

Joseph Albright, Andrew Alexander, Cheryl Arvidson and Henry Eason
Cox Newspapers
A series on snub-nosed handguns

Joel Brinkley *Blue Ribbon Award Winner*
Louisville Courier-Journal
A series on the state of Kentucky's coroner system

John Hanchette
Gannett News Service
Penny Feuerzeig
Virgin Islands Daily News
A series on corruption in the Virgin Islands

Newspapers less than 75,000:

Sam Meddis
Bridgewater Courier-News (New Jersey)
An investigation of payments by a state school to an attorney

Mike Thomas and Wyatt Emmerich
Cocoa Today (Florida)
Investigation into the collapse of a condominium

Roger Morris, Toni Drew, Kingsley Hammett, David Hendry, Karen McDaniel, Kathy Morris, Peter Morris, Mary Lynn Roper, Diana Stauffer and Charles Zdravesky
Inter-Media Investigative Group (Santa Fe, N.M.)
A group of broadcast and print journalists collaborates on an investigation of a state penitentiary

Magazine:

Robert Howard
Mother Jones
"Drugged, Bugged and Coming Unplugged at AT&T"

Television, larger markets:

Pierre Salinger, Robert E. Frye, Robert Roy and Av Westin (Blue Ribbon Award Winner)
ABC News
America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations

Charles Duncan
WFAA-TV (Dallas)
"Dr. Psycoeverything"

Mark Potter and Lance Haflin
WPLG-TV (Miami)
"Human Cargo"

Radio:

Rod Hansen and Gene Fogel *Blue Ribbon Award Winners*
WJR (Detroit)
"News File: A Bankruptcy Court"