The series that won the 2013 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism began with a call from a source. A social worker told Sacramento Bee reporter Cynthia Hubert about a man the police had brought in named James Flavy Coy Brown. Read more
The Sacramento Bee has won the 2013 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for its five-part series Nevada Patient Busing. The Bee’s investigation found that over the course of five years, the Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas transported more than 1,500 mentally ill patients out of Nevada by bus, sending at least one person to every state in the continental United States. A third of those patients were sent to California. Read more
A series by The Sacramento Bee about the misuse and abuse of Latino immigrants who work in America's forest industry has won the 2006 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. Read more
