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1988 IRE Awards
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Donald Barlett and James Steele
The Philadelphia Inquirer
A series demonstrating how congressional committees granted special tax breaks to wealthy individuals and corporations.

Craig Flourney
The Dallas Morning News
Series reveals how 150 poor, black families were forced to live in a crime-ridden slum costing millions of federal tax dollars after the government bailed out a housing project.

Bill Dedman
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
A series on how home mortgage lending practices by banks and savings and loans discriminated against blacks.

Newspapers under 75,000

Paul Nyden
The Charleston Gazette
Stories about the West Virginia Department of Energy's systematic failure to enforce environmental and safety laws concerning the coal mining industry.

Staff
The Anchorage Daily News
Series about the cultural devastation of the Indians, Eskimos and Aleuts of Alaska

Book

Steven Emerson
G.P. Putnam and Sons
Secret Warriors
The Pentagon's secret involvement in covert operations during the Reagan administration.

Christopher Simpson
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Blowback
American intelligence agencies used Nazi war criminals in covert operations after World War II.

Neil Sheehan
Random House
A Bright Shining Lie
Accounting of the Vietnam War told primarily through the actions of John Paul Vann, an influential American officer.

Television, larger markets

Lea Thompson, Rick Nelson and Sheila Duffy
WRC-TV (Washington, D.C.)
Series about a fertility specialist preying on the desperation of couples by leading them to believe the wife was pregnant when she was not.

Television, smaller markets

Erin Hayes and Pat Slattery
WSMV-TV (Nashville)
Series showing how the city's sewer department was dumping sludge into creeks, rivers and ditches.

John Camp
WBRZ-TV (Baton Rouge)
A documentary demonstrating that Louisiana's Office of Alcoholic Beverage Control had become a virtual do-nothing agency.

Radio

Denis O'Hayer
WGST (Atlanta)
Stories about the questionable practices of a foundation that claimed to raise money to grant wishes to sick children.