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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 02/19/2008 | McClatchy Baghdad chief wins Polk award for Iraq reporting

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 02/19/2008 | McClatchy Baghdad chief wins Polk award for Iraq reporting: "Leila Fadel, McClatchy's Baghdad bureau chief, won the George R. Polk Award for outstanding foreign reporting and The Charlotte Observer won the Polk Award for outstanding economic reporting, Long Island University announced Tuesday.
Fadel, 26, was cited for her “vivid depictions” of the military and political struggle in Iraq. 'Her work provided a comprehensive array of disturbing, first-hand accounts of violence and conflict by juxtaposing the agonizing plight of families in ethnically torn neighborhoods with the braggadocio of a vengeful insurgent proud of his murderous exploits, and the carnage and sorrow among victims of Iraq’s most deadly car bombing in a remote region of the country where few reporters ventured,' the jurors said."

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