David Lamb, a 1981 Nieman Fellow and a longtime foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, died on Sunday in Alexandria, Virginia. Lamb, who had been battling lymphoma and esophageal cancer, was 76. Lamb is perhaps best known … Read more
The Los Angeles Times has won the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for its six-part series “Billions to Spend.” During an 18-month investigation, the paper found that a $5.7 billion program to rebuild nine community colleges in Los Angeles was plagued with serious problems including mismanagement and reckless spending that wasted tens of millions of dollars and betrayed the public’s trust. Read more
