Feb 9, 2011

Post-LANG success story

Marshall Allen, who worked at the Pasadena Star-News for several years before heading to the Las Vegas Sun, is up for a Goldsmith Prize in Investigative Journalism, which comes with a $25,000 prize. Allen co-wrote a series called "Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas". Here's a description of the series:
After a two-year investigation, including the review of 2.9 million records, the Sun’s five-part series identifies the preventable infections and injuries taking place in Las Vegas hospitals. Allen and Richards set out to impose transparency on Las Vegas hospitals so they will be held accountable. Their findings resulted in consumers having access to quality-of-care data that will help them make smart decisions.
Also on the finalists' list is the city of Bell series done by the Los Angeles Times.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

There is life after LANG! All of you, start filling out your applications for other jobs. Leave while you still have a bit of self respect.

Anonymous said...

Nah, stay, organize, complain, have more benefits cut, complain some more, have a flu day, etc.

Anonymous said...

No, leave, send out bitter emails at 11:30 in the morning.

bob rector said...

marshall was an incredible success story. he came to the star-news from the news-press where he cranked out five briefs a day about small foothill communities. he had a masters in divinity and was a missionary at one point. by the time he left pasadena, he was a tenacious investigative reporter with a string of great stories. what a staff we had in those days.

Anonymous said...

Big Salute to Marshall and congratulations

Gary Scott said...

Thanks for the comment, Bob. As you note, Marshall is not the only success story. Gene Maddaus is now a lead reporter at the LA Weekly and Cindy Chang works at the Times-Picayune. Sonya Geis now works at KCRW after a stint at the Washington Post.

Anonymous said...

don't forget Zahniser

Gary Scott said...

Very true re: Dave Z. I only mentioned the people I was working with at the Star-News under Bob Rector who are still in journalism. I certainly don't mean to say that was an exhaustive list.