A Call for Entries for Michael Kelly Award

Journalists can now apply for the Michael Kelly Award, which honors writers and editors at U.S.-based newspapers and magazines whose work “exemplifies a quality that animated Michael Kelly’s own career: the fearless pursuit and expression of truth,” states a release.

Atlantic Media Company created the award to honor Kelly, who died in 2003 while covering the war in Iraq. Kelly was the editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal.

Among those who have won the award: Seattle Times reporters Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry in 2009 for their series exposing the criminal histories of a Rose-Bowl winning football team; Loretta Tofani in 2008 for her series “American Imports, Chinese Deaths” written for The Salt Lake Tribune; C.J.

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