High School Football Investigation Earns Newsday a Penn State Award
"Hard Knocks" led to immediate and wide-reaching changes.
John Affleck, director of the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State, calls Newsday’s Oct. 7, 2015 four-part series “Hard Knocks” an example of “classic watchdog journalism.” This year’s trio of judges agreed and as a result, the paper has earned the Center’s Award for Excellence in Coverage of Youth Sports.
From today’s announcement:
Newsday conducted a seven-month investigation for the project. The paper has 116 high schools with football programs in its region and it evaluated concussion reports from 104 schools and gathered helmet inventories from 108.
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