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September 25, 2006

N.J. newspaper to receive $75,000 Metcalf award

NARRAGANSETT -- Representatives from four media outlets will gather at the University of Rhode Island this morning to honor the winners of a journalism competition sponsored by the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting.

The Record, a newspaper based in Bergen County, N.J., will receive top honors -- which comes with a $75,000 prize -- at the 11 a.m. event. A nine-member reporting team from the paper wrote an investigative series on pollution caused by a Mahwah, N.J., Ford Motor Company automobile-assembly plant.

The journalists spent eight months investigating how actions of the company, government officials, and organized crime exposed northern New Jersey residents to numerous environmental risks, according to the Metcalf Institute.

Other award winners this year include the Oakland Tribune, The New Yorker and WBAL-TV of Baltimore.

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