“Forced Out” wins Goldsmith

Washington Post reporters Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen won the $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their report “Forced Out.”
According to the release, “Forced Out” revealed how Washington, D.C. landlords drove hundreds of tenants from rent-controlled apartments by refusing to make repairs and other harassment methods, and then profited from redevelopment.
After the stories ran the attorney general in Washinton D.C. sued 23 landlords, fired many in the city’s housing-inspection forces and “The Tenant Protection Act of 2008″ was introduced.

“These journalists championed the interests of utterly powerless people, which shows yet again how essential investigative journalism is in our society,” said Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center.

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