The seven great investigations

Look at the finalists for the first Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, just announced by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Formerly the ICIJ Award, the prize was renamed this year after Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was slain by militants in Pakistan in 2002.

This award is unique among journalism prizes in that it was created specifically to honor cross-border investigative reporting. It is presented by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a project of the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C.

This year’s biennial competition attracted 86 entries from 24 countries, involving reporting in more than 60 countries during 2006 and 2007. A panel of five international judges selected the following seven entries as finalists:

• Michael Kranish, Peter S. Canellos, Farah Stockman, Kevin Baron, Susan Milligan, Rick Klein, and Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe for their series “Exporting Faith.” Read the full story here.
• Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times for their series “A Toxic Pipeline.” Read all the stories here.
• Joachim Dyfvermark and Fredrik Laurin for their TV4 Sweden investigation “The Illegal Cod.” Read more here.
• Loretta Tofani for her Salt Lake Tribune series “American Imports, Chinese Deaths.” Read this report here.
• Andrew O. Selsky of The Associated Press for “Guantanamo Detainees.” Read Selsky’s stories archived by Google.
• Sven Bergman, Joachim Dyfvermark, and Fredrik Laurin for their SVT –Swedish Television investigation “Gripen — the Secret Deals.” Read more here.
• Gregory L. White, David Crawford, Glenn R. Simpson, Alan Cullison, and James Bandler of The Wall Street Journal for their investigation “Putin’s Russia.”

There will be winning entries in two categories — one American and one international — which will each receive U.S. $10,000. The five remaining finalist entries will each receive U.S. $1,000. The winners will be announced September 13 at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer, Norway.

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