Newspaper wins award for Kwame Kilpatrick investigation

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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The Associated Press has the announcement about the Gannett-owned Detroit Free Press newspaper:

NEW YORK (AP) — Investigative journalism revealing that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff lied under oath in a costly lawsuit against the city has earned the Detroit Free Press a Public Service award from the Associated Press Managing Editors association.
The newspaper’s report followed a review of 14,000 text messages sent to and from the female chief of staff’s city-issued pager. Days later, a prosecutor investigated and eventually charged Kilpatrick and his aide with a total of 12 felonies, including perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office.

Here’s the link to my blog post that explains Kwame’s link to Asheville and his alleged tryst at the Grove Park Inn.