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Globe reporters receive merit award
The Boston Globe’s account of the life and death of 14-year-old Acia Johnson has won a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.
The Globe story, by Keith O’Brien and Donovan Slack, chronicled the life of Johnson, a rising basketball star at South Boston’s Patrick F. Gavin Middle School who was killed in a house fire with her 3-year-old sister, Sophia.
The story exposed flaws in the state system to protect children who have been neglected by their parents and helped initiate new policies.
The contest was held by the Journalism Center on Children & Families, a nonprofit affiliate of the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
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