Goldsmith Prize nominees

Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker, investigative reporters for The New York Times and winners of the inaugural Barlett & Steele Investigative Business Journalism award last year, have been nominated for a 2008 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism.
Their stories, collectively titled “A Toxic Pipeline,” are among six entries being considered for the $25,000 first prize. It is awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
The winning entry will be named March 18.
The stories by Bogdanich and Hooker uncovered a deadly Chinese export: diethlylene glycol, an ingredient found in antifreeze that was used in medicine and is suspected of killing hundreds of people around the world. The stories prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to halt imports of glycerin from China.
Among the others vying for the Goldsmith Prize is “The Other Walter Reed,” a Washington Post story authored by Dana Priest and Anne Hull, which exposed widespread problems at Walter Reed Medical Center in treating war veterans, and “American Imports, Chinese Deaths,” by Loretta Tofani of The Salt Lake Tribune. That story examined the harmful, and sometimes lethal, effects of Chinese products on the factory workers who made them