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Tampa Bay Times “Failure Factories” series wins Bingham Prize for investigative reporting

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The Tampa Bay Times has won another journalism prize for theirĀ expose on how five elementary schools in South St. Petersburg devolved into some of the worst in Florida. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University announced on Friday that the TimesĀ “Failure Factories” reports has been awarded the 2015 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. ā€œIn precise, compelling prose, this series exposed how a Florida county school board neglected African-American schools until they become little more than warehouses for children,”…

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Tampa Bay Times receives Innovation in Journalism Award for ā€œFailure Factoriesā€ series

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The National Press Foundation said Wednesday that its newly minted Innovation in Journalism Award goes to the Tampa Bay Times. The Times earned the award for its ā€œFailure Factoriesā€ series, first published in early August, which investigated how the Pinellas County School Board turned five schools in the county’s black areas into among the worst in the state. ā€œThe Tampa Bay TimesĀ investigation surfaced the disastrous impact of resegregation of its local schools,ā€ the NPF judges said. ā€œIts innovative use of…

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