The Des Moines Register and its staff won 40 awards in the annual Iowa Better Newspaper Contests, the Iowa Newspaper Association announced at a banquet Thursday evening.
The Register, which competes against other news outlets of its circulation class, swept the Harrison “Skip” Weber Investigative Reporting Awards category, with investigative projects winning first, second and third places.
In the winning investigation, with the headline “An inmate who was COVID-19 positive died in prison by suicide, the state says. His family is still searching for answers.”, reporters Eric Ferkenhoff and Andrea Sahouri explored the death of inmate Christopher Rios.
A series of pieces about the shielding of police officers who have complaints against them, from Andrea Sahouri and former Register reporter Jason Clayworth, won second place in the investigative category. “Unemployed workers turned to state for help in pandemic — and now must repay thousands” from reporter Tyler Jett won third place.
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