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GOLDSMITH PRIZE FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Awarded annually by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the prize, which honors journalism that "promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government," this year went to TIME editors at large Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele for their series "What Corporate Welfare Costs." This is the 10th major prize the pair has received for this series...
Three cheers to Don Barlett, Jim Steele and TIME for so graphically illustrating the insidious influence and devastating effects of campaign contributions on politics [Big Money & Politics, Feb. 7]. It is shameful that lawmakers and Administration officials are so desperate for cash that they will work tirelessly to bail out a single wealthy donor at the expense of small-business owners. What we need is genuine campaign-finance reform, so that lawmakers can no longer be encouraged to give their votes to the highest bidders. We need to ban soft money, allow for public financing of elections and provide free...
When the first installment of Don Barlett and Jim Steele's examination of corporate welfare appeared in November 1998, TIME was proud to present investigative journalism at its finest--reporting that is as much explanation as it is sensation and that exposes what those in power probably would prefer ordinary folks not see. The series demonstrated why the Washington Journalism Review called Barlett and Steele "almost certainly the best team in the history of investigative reporting." Their four-part "Corporate Welfare" series earned the pair eight major journalism prizes, including the 1999 National Magazine Award for Public Interest. And last...
This week they begin a new series, "Big Money & Politics," which will probe the consequences of all the campaign cash Washington rakes in--in this particular case, from the direction of banana magnate Carl Lindner. Barlett and Steele, who spent 27 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer before coming to TIME in 1997, are no strangers to covering campaign-finance abuses, but this investigation was especially challenging because, says Steele, "politicians and lobbyists are going to greater and greater lengths to disguise what they...
What also makes this week's report special is that Barlett and Steele don't dwell solely on politicians and their patrons. Many of us have become numb to the news of campaign-finance abuses, in part because they are usually seen as a Washington issue: of course money influences politics, but that's the government's problem, not mine. What Barlett and Steele set out to show is who gets hurt in the process, and that means you and your neighbors...