ESPN.com Wins Investigative Journalism Award for Pat Tillman Coverage

Published: August 17, 2007, 8:48 am

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Filed under: AZ Cardinals, NFL Media Watch, Phoenix"An Un-American Tragedy," Mike Fish's investigative series on the death of Arizona Cardinals safety-turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman, won the top prize in this year's Military Reporters and Editors journalism competition.Writing for ESPN.com, Fish explored how Tillman died in a friendly fire incident, and how the military subsequently covered up the true cause of Tillman's death. ESPN.com also won an award for its online multimedia presentation of Fish's reporting, and ESPN won a broadcast journalism award for a program called "Tillman's Final Mission," also based on Fish's reporting. Fish's reporting was posted on ESPN.com as a series that ran for three consecutive days beginning on July 19, 2006. New information has surfaced since then, but it's still worth reading now. We bloggers bash ESPN a lot, and often with good reason, but they sometimes do phenomenal journalism at the Worldwide Leader, and this is one instance of

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