Political blogger wins US journalism award
Joshua Micah Marshall, editor and publisher of US political blog Talking Points Memo, has received the George Polk Award for legal reporting and becomes the first blogger to do so.
Marshall won the award, which have been handed out by Long Island University since 1949, for his coverage of dismissals of United States attorneys, which were found to be politically motivated.
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