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Darts and Laurels

Darts and Laurels

The diamond thief’s tale sounded too good to be true. Turns out it was.

n Valentine’s Day weekend in 2003, a gang of Italian thieves, led by a man named Leonardo Notarbartolo, broke into... More

Darts and Laurels

An LAT reporter did strong work on the Toyota story. But where was the rest of the auto press?

Complaints about Toyota and Lexus cars suddenly accelerating out of control began surfacing about a decade ago, and a series... More

Darts and Laurels

A paper in the Midwest exposes a scandal. Thirty years later, it does it again.

n 1979, Des Moines Register reporters Mike McGraw and Margaret Engel discovered sixty mentally disabled men eviscerating turkeys at an... More

Darts and Laurels

New profit demands raise questions about a commitment to quality

n September, soon after the Times Publishing Company sold the venerable Congressional Quarterly to The Economist Group, the new owners... More

Darts and Laurels

The East Valley Tribune uncovers abuse of a school tuition program

Editor’s Note: After this “Laurel” went to press, the East Valley Tribune announced that it will cease publication online and... More

Darts and Laurels

News outlets in Connecticut grapple with a hostage crisis

It was the kind of ethical dilemma that classroom case studies are made of, but the potential con- sequences of... More

Darts and Laurels

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Laurel to The Arizona Republic for “Perfectly Legal,” a series of six articles, published in May, that exposed a network... More

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Dart to the Deseret News for dereliction of journalistic duty in its coverage of the Mormon Church and the Church’s... More

Darts and Laurels 

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Laurel to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, The Tennessean, and The Post and Courier for strong reporting on the coal-ash... More

Dart to The Plain Dealer

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Dart to the Cleveland Plain Dealer for failing to stick by its story. Last October, investigative reporter Bob Paynter, at... More

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