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Three Raw Story investigations by investigative reporter Alexandria Jacobson won first place prizes in the National Federation of Press Women’s 2024 Professional Communications Contest.

Jacobson’s work was honored on June 22 at the organization’s national conference in St. Louis, Mo. Jacobson won first place in three categories:

• Continuing Coverage or Unfolding News for her series with Raw Story Editor-in-Chief Dave Levinthal, “Lawmakers, Law Breakers,” that identified at least 37 congressional violators of a federal conflicts-of-interest and financial disclosure law
• In-depth Reporting for “Losing Track,” a three-part series about various failures of the country’s enfeebled national security vetting system
• Specialty Articles: Education for “‘Too preposterous to be real’: College hires ‘pink slime’ publisher as journalism prof” about a Tennessee university’s controversial hire of an executive associated with a widely scrutinized conservative PAC-backed media network

“The NFPW professional communications contest puts a spotlight on outstanding entries from throughout the United States,” said Helen S. Plotkin, National Federation of Press Women professional contest director. “Our judges continue to comment about the high quality of entries they judge in the contest. The entries showcase high quality and exceptional efforts.”...

Raw Story journalists have won four 2024 Folio Awards for their investigative reporting on politics, government and extremism, the Fair Media Council announced today at its annual luncheon on Long Island, N.Y.

Raw Story awardees include:

• Investigative reporter Mark Alesia won the Sean. A. Fanelli Award for education news for his chilling tale about an Indiana school administrator who became the subject of death threats and national ridicule after a conservative nonprofit and Fox News teamed up to "unfairly and inaccurately" thrust her into the crucible of "culture war cruelty." Folio Award judges wrote that Alesia's report earned "high marks for relevance" and is a "well-rounded examination of the issue."
• Editor-in-chief Dave Levinthal and congressional correspondent Matt Laslo took top honors in the public policy news category for a data-driven deep dive that revealed how the Senate Ethics Committee had failed to punish any of its Senate colleagues during its last 1,523 tries. "The topic and investigative approach to the data earned this story high marks," judges wrote.
• Investigative reporter Alexandria Jacobson and Levinthal won in the enterprise news category for their "Lawmakers, Law Breakers" series that revealed how 37 members of the current Congress last year violated a federal law designed to stop insider trading, curb financial conflicts of interest and enhance public transparency. (The number this year has grown to 46 members.) "Great topic," judges wrote.
• Investigative reporter Jordan Green won in the January 6 coverage category for his "Our Best Face" series, which revealed how "peaceful" pro-Trump rally organizers cultivated ties to violent extremists in the weeks before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. "Exhaustive coverage of a seminal event in American history" and "great investigative reporting," judges wrote. Last year, Green became the first journalist in Raw Story's history to win a Folio Award, doing so for his investigative reporting on extremism.

The Fair Media Council, one of the nation's oldest nonprofit news consumer advocacy organizations, describes the annual Folio Awards as "the gold standard for recognizing the best in news and social media."...

Editor & Publisher has named Raw Story to its 2024 "News Media's 10 to Watch" list — an honor recognizing 10 news organizations for their innovation and ingenuity.

The publication praised Raw Story's staff expansion, "deep reporting" and growth in readership and subscribers.

"Raw Story spent 2023 investing heavily in investigative and enterprise journalism, and it isn’t stopping," Editor & Publisher wrote in an article published online Thursday. "These investments aim to dramatically expand its original journalism, increase its subscriber base and enhance its overall leadership in national media." ...

Raw Story investigative reporter Alexandria Jacobson has won the prestigious Sidney Award for her months-long investigation into violence against letter carriers and a recent spike in mail-related crime.

Jacobson's investigation, "Letter carriers face bullets and beatings while postal service sidelines police," prompted immediate reaction from federal lawmakers who called on Congress to pass legislation that helped enhance safety for postal workers and the mail itself.

“Jacobson’s meticulous reporting casts a light on the risks faced by letter carriers and the official indifference to their wellbeing on the job,” Sidney Award judge Lindsay Beyerstein said Wednesday. “This story makes it clear how the security of letter carriers affects not only the workers involved but all of us in terms of the scale of thefts and fraud.”...

Editor & Publisher magazine has awarded Raw Story a 2023 EPPY Award as the "best news / political blog" among all news sites with 1 million or more unique monthly visitors.

Raw Story was judged on its "overall content regarding news and politics — with focus on analysis and insight as well as wit and wisdom" as well as a submitted portfolio of published articles.

"Being acknowledged alongside some of the nation's most respected news outlets is a privilege," Raw Story Publisher Roxanne Cooper said. "I'm especially proud in the investigative projects we've undertaken in the past year — all made possible by the steadfast support of our loyal subscribers."...

WASHINGTON — Raw Story today filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of the Navy following the agencies’ refusal to release records related to a former U.S. Marine and avowed neo-Nazi.

In May, Raw Story investigative reporter Jordan Green filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the U.S. Navy for “memoranda, emails, correspondence or other documents” related to the former Marine, Jordan Duncan, who the government has accused of participating in a white supremacist terror plot and possessing classified government documents.

The U.S. Navy denied Raw Story’s request and subsequent appeal of that denial, citing Duncan’s privacy interests. Duncan, who has been detained since his arrest in 2020, is charged with conspiracy to illegally manufacture and transport firearms and conspiracy to damage an energy facility. ...