The Grantham Prize for Environmental Journalism
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2008 Grantham Prize Awarded at the Newseum
Grantham Prize Seminar
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The third annual Grantham Prize Seminar on the State of Environmental Journalism was held at the Freedom Forum’s Newseum on September 8th, 2008, to honor the year’s best environmental journalism from the U.S. and Canada.
The day-long program began with presentations by each of the Grantham Prize Award of Special Merit recipients, and culminated in a presentation by the 2008 Grantham Prize winner, The New York Times. Reporter Jim Yardley spoke on behalf of the eight person team that developed the winning series, "Choking on Growth."
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New York Times team wins 2008 Grantham Prize
David Barboza, Keith Bradsher, Howard French, Joseph Kahn, Chang W. Lee, Jimmy Wang, and Jim Yardley of the The New York Times are the 2008 winners of the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment. Barboza, Bradsher, French, Kahn, Lee, Wang, and Yardley received the $75,000 prize for “Choking on Growth,” their 10-part series about the environmental degradation that has accompanied China’s unprecedented development.
Three more entrants received $5,000 Awards of Special Merit, including Dinah Voyles Pulver of the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Alison Richards and David Malakoff of National Public Radio, and Edward Struzik, whose work appeared in both the Edmonton Journal and the Toronto Star.