Michael Kelly Award Finalists Announced

The Michael Kelly Award was created by Atlantic Media Company Chairman David G. Bradley after Kelly’s death while covering the war in Iraq in 2003. Kelly had been editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal. The Michael Kelly Award is bestowed annually upon a journalist whose work exemplifies the fearless pursuit and expression of truth that animated Kelly’s own career.

This year’s finalists are:

•Kelly Kennedy, Army Times – for a series on an infantry regiment in Iraq hit hard by casualties.

•Joshua Kors, The Nation – for stories on the misdiagnosis of injured soldiers returning from Iraq.

•Blake