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The David Lynch Memorial Regional Reporting Award is given to an individual, daily print reporter whose work provides an understanding of the inner workings of Congress and explains how actions in Congress affect the local community. Judges look for thorough and incisive coverage, clear writing, and the reporter's ability to explain difficult and complex subjects to a hometown audience.
Donovan Slack of the Gannett Washington Bureau won the 2014 award for four stories that detailed then-Rep. Tom Petri's efforts on behalf of a home-district defense contractor, Oshkosh, in which he held hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of stock. After Slack's investigation was published last February, the wealthy, 35-year House veteran from Wisconsin chose not to stand for re-election.
Malloy was recognized for a "detailed and illuminating story about how a South Georgia canning operation was impacted by a fierce lobbying battle over where the government buys tuna" for federally subsidized school lunches. That story, "School lunch tuna fight extends from South Pacific to South Georgia," was published Jan. 14, 2014.
Jonathan Tamari of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Tom Brune of Newsday also received honorable mention recognition.
The annual competition is jointly administered by the Washington Press Club Foundation and the Standing Committee of Correspondents, which supervises the operations of the U.S. House and Senate Press Galleries.
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