Denver's Channel 7 Wins Prestigious Peabody Award
News businesses in Denver might be struggling financially, but great journalism persists. Channel 7 has won the prestigious Peabody Award for journalistic enterprise for an investigation of children who died while in the care of the state of Colorado. "Failing the Children: Deadly Mistakes," is a year-long series of stories by reporter John Ferrugia, producers Art Kane and Tom Burke, and photojournalist Jason Foster, writes The Denver Post.
"Motivated by the starvation death of a 7-year-old boy, the station's persistent investigation turned up systemic incompetence in Denver's Department of Human Services, and then broadened into a state-wide story," the Peabody citation reads.
It's the second Peabody for Channel 7 (the station's first was in 2004 for its story on the sex scandal at the Air Force Academy) and Ferrugia's third (he won his first in 1977 at a Kansas City television station).
Comments
Submitted by Ellen Wood (not verified) on Fri, 2010-08-13 16:45.
I do not believe they should have citizenship in the US. Most people are now aware of the benefits they receive by doing this. They slip in, have babies who becomes citizens. This makes them eligible for welfare payments, medical benefit and sometimes social security benefits if they are totally disabled when they are born. They can slip back into Mexico with their welfare checks and live very comfortably and then if they don't like the medical care there, they slip back and get their medical care at our hospitals.
Signed a former hospital employee
