That series received The Scripps Howard National Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors' Medal, the National Academies' reporting award and other recognition.
David Barstow of The New York Times and a freelance reporter working on behalf of the newspaper, Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab, won the business reporting award for "Wal-Mart Abroad," which showed how the company's growth in Mexico was fueled by the payment of bribes that allowed the company to skirt Mexican laws.
Business writer Gretchen Morgenson won the beat reporting award for her Wall Street coverage.
The Boston Globe won the explanatory reporting award for a series by Gareth Cook about the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem-cell research.
Scott McCartney of The Wall Street Journal, who won the transportation reporting award for articles about negligent practices of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Kathy Chu of USA Today won the business reporting award for "Credit Trap," a series showing how banks and other credit-card issuers used unscrupulous practices and steep fees to take billions from unwary customers.
Alan Schwarz of The Times won the sports reporting award for articles exposing the long-term dangers of concussions and the National Football League's flawed response to brain injuries.
Joshua Kors, a freelance, won the magazine reporting award for articles in The Nation exposing misdiagnoses by military doctors that cheated wounded Iraq veterans of disability and medical benefits by claiming they had pre-existing "personality disorders".
Southern Exposure, a quarterly published by the Institute for Southern Studies, won the magazine reporting award for "Banking on Misery: Citigroup, Wall Street and the Fleecing of the South," which detailed predatory corporate lending practices that victimized poor black and elderly Southerners.
_ Alan Schwarz, of The New York Times, who is the winner of the sports reporting award for his coverage of the danger presented by concussions and the National Football League's approach to such injuries.
Three Bloomberg News reporters — Ben Elgin, Alan Katz and Vernon Silver — won the international reporting award for articles about Western companies that sell surveillance technology and equipment to repressive governments for use against opposition figures.
