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06/21/2005

Three journalists honored with Livingston awards

NEW YORK (AP) -- Reporters for The Associated Press, The Dallas Morning News and the Discovery Times Channel were among winners of the 2004 Livingston Awards, which honor young journalists for outstanding reporting, the awards panel announced June 14.

AP National Writer Pauline Arrillaga, 34, won the local reporting award for "Doors to Death," a three-part investigative serial describing human smuggling and a deadly tractor-trailer run in Texas.

Reese Dunklin, 31, of The Dallas Morning News, won the national reporting award for "Runaway Priests: Hiding in Plain Sight," a series detailing how some priests flee sexual abuse allegations and charges for positions in new parishes in other countries.

The Discovery Times Channel's Sharmeen Obaid, 27, was awarded the prize for international reporting for "Reinventing the Taliban," a 46-minute documentary about the MMA, a Pakistan-based group similar to the Taliban whose power is growing.

The $10,000 prizes go to journalists under age 35 and are the largest all-media general-reporting awards in the country. The prizes are sponsored by the Mollie Parnis Livingston Foundation.

Ken Auletta of The New Yorker, Tom Brokaw of NBC News, and Ellen Goodman of The Boston Globe announced the winners. The program is directed by Professor Charles Eisendrath at the University of Michigan.

The panel gave the Clurman Award for Mentoring to John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University and founding editorial director of USA Today. The $5,000 award is given to senior journalists who are outstanding on-the-job mentors.

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Livingston Awards: http://www.livawards.org