TPM Muckrakers Win Polk Award!

I want to congratulate Josh Marshall on his receipt of the George Polk Award for Legal Reporting. The Polk Awards are among journalism's most prestigious prizes, and have a well-deserved reputation for honoring good reporting, wherever it may be found.

From the citation:

His site, www.talkingpointsmemo.com, led the news media coverage of the
politically motivated dismissals of United States attorneys across the country.
Noting a similarity between firings in Arkansas and California, Marshall (with
staff reporter-bloggers Paul Kiel and Justin Rood) connected the dots and found
a pattern of federal prosecutors being forced from office for failing to do the
Bush Administration's bidding.

Congratulations to the entire TPM Muckraker crew.