Scripps Howard Awards honor best of 2020 journalism with finalists in 14 categories
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CINCINNATI, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The New York Times and The Washington Post are the front-runners in the 68th Scripps Howard Awards, each with three entries selected as finalists for one of the media industry s most prestigious honors.
The Awards, presented by the Scripps Howard Foundation and The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP), will award $160,000 in prize money for work across 14 categories and the coveted Impact Award. Following a year that challenged journalists to navigate a global pandemic, societal unrest and intense partisanship, it s more important than ever to recognize journalists roles as the eyes and ears of our communities, said Liz Carter, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Foundation. We see a common theme in the reporting recognized – tenacity to hold the powerful accountable, protect our democracy a
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A three-time finalist for the Latin American Prize for Investigative Journalism, Joseph Poliszuk is co-founder of Armando.info, the only platform dedicated exclusively to investigative journalism in Venezuela.
He worked for 10 years in the investigation unit of
El Universal, where he discovered cases of local corruption, mineral trafficking, and the presence of land mines on Venezuelan soil, which earned him the recognition of Amnesty International.
He has collaborated with such outlets as
El Nuevo Herald of Miami and
El País of Spain, where he was a fellow in 2007. He is part of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, where he coordinated the Venezuelan team of the Panama Papers. He was awarded the Knight International Journalism Award from the International Center for Journalists and has completed the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.
Grace Mugabe with daughter Bona and her husband Simba Chikore
WHILE the late former president Robert Mugabe’s regime was corrupt and incompetent it allowed ministers, top civil servants and its busines cronies to loot public resources Mugabe himself was very strict with family members and relatives when it came to accessing money-spinning tenders and public assets.
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Records seen by
The NewsHawks this week show that Mugabe refused to allow his family members and relatives to be involved in government contracts and deals for self-aggrandisement.
Unlike President Emmerson Mnangagwa whose family members are deeply involved in business with the state, Mugabe only allowed his family members to have farms, not tenders and public assets, the records show. The Mugabe family accumulated 24 farms as reported in detail by
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Secret guilty plea revealed in US Panama Papers criminal probe
Joachim Alexander von der Goltz repaid the U.S. government more than $230,000 after admitting to financial crimes revealed by the ICIJ investigation. March 5, 2021
A third person has pleaded guilty to financial crimes as part of a probe sparked by the Panama Papers investigation, newly released court documents show.
The unexpected guilty plea by Joachim Alexander von der Goltz was revealed by a federal court order in the Southern District of New York on Thursday.
Von der Goltz is the son of Harald Joachim von der Goltz, the 83-year old former U.S. resident who pleaded guilty to tax evasion and fraud in 2020 and was sentenced to four years in prison.