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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Las Vegas Sun

1. March 9, 2011 04:30 PM

   Las Vegas Sun Shines Light on Nevada Health Care

   Multimedia investigation of hospital injuries wins 2011 Goldsmith Prize

   By Cristine Russell

   CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—“Where do you go for great health care in Las Vegas?” Answer: “The airport.” That local joke set Las Vegas Sun reporters Marshall Allen and Alex Richards on a two-year quest to figure out what was wrong with medical treatment in Las Vegas—and why. The result, after a digital dig into 2.9 million inpatient hospital records and more than...

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2. July 27, 2012 03:10 PM

   Laurels to the Las Vegas Sun and News & Record

   For a strong ad factcheck, and for grappling with campaigns' message control

   By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx

   Jay Jones has already heaped praise this week upon the Las Vegas Sun’s Anjeanette Damon, but we’ll go ahead and give her a laurel for her takedown of a Mitt Romney campaign ad that ripped President Obama’s now-infamous “build that” line out of context. Damon’s short, to-the-point factcheck item didn’t mince any words, calling the ad “a classic example...

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