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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.”...

Raw Story investigative reporter Alexandria Jacobson today won first prize in the 2023 ION Awards contest for her series of exclusive reports about members of Congress violating a federal law designed to stop insider trading, curb financial conflicts of interest and enhance public transparency.

Jacobson is the lead reporter on Raw Story's "Lawmakers, Law Breakers" project, which this year has outed two-dozen members of Congress as violators of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act — a law Congress itself passed in 2012 to govern public officials' personal financial activity.

Jacobson discovered scofflaw Republicans and Democrats alike, including some of Congress' most powerful members....