Center for Public Integrity, ABC News share Goldsmith Prize for series on black-lung disease

A series on underground coal miners' black-lung disease has earned the Center for Public Integrity and ABC News the annual Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The award, which includes $25,000, "honors investigative reporting that best promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government, the making of public policy, or the practice of politics," reports the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. (Read more)

The series, "Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine," by Chris Hamby, Ronnie Greene, Jim Morris and Chris Zubak-Skees of the Center for Public Integrity, and Matthew Mosk, Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz of ABC, can be viewed by clicking here.