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Josh Marshall: Picks up a George Polk Award

Congratulations to Josh Marshall, whose Talking Points Memo is one of the most widely read history blogs. He's won a George Polk Award for legal reporting for TPM's coverage of the Bush administration's firing of eight United States attorneys and forced the Justice Department to put him back on its mailing list for credentialed reporters after it removed him last year. All this and more in Noam Cohen's"Blogger, Sans Pajamas, Rakes Muck and a Prize," NYT, 25 February.
Read entire article at Ralph Luker at HNN blog, Cliopatria