Boston Globe Nominated for Journalism Award for Collector-Bashing Series

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1 February 2007 at 04:02 a.m. ET

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It’s no Pulitzer, but the Boston Globe is one of six newspapers nominated for Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, in recognition of their multi-part series, “Debtor Hell.”

While sometimes insightful, especially when chronicling the way poor and lower-income individuals are targeted for credit they ultimately can’t manage, much of the Globe’s coverage leaned heavily on the consumer-side of the equation, and seemed to propagate the idea that the world would be a better place but for debt collectors and debt buyers.

The winners of the award, given by the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, will be announced March 13. The winning team will walk away with $25,000.