Former LA Reporter Beats ProPublica, Then Joins Them

Here’s one way to get a job: edge out your future employer for a prestigious national journalism prize. That’s how it happened for Marshall Allen on paper, only, but the timing of it all is still good for a Fifth Estate chuckle.

Yesterday, March 7th, the one-time Pasadena Star-News staffer (pictured, right) was officially confirmed as a winner of Harvard’s 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism, for his work on last year’s excellent Las Vegas Sun look at area hospitals.

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