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Spokesman-Review Reporter Wins Award

From Staff Reports

Spokesman-Review reporter Lynda Mapes has won a Gerald Loeb Award for her series of stories documenting the failure of salmon recovery in the Columbia Basin.

The Loeb awards are presented by the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles, to honor distinguished business and financial journalism.

Mapes’ three-part series, “River of No Return,” was published last July.

It showed how taxpayers and electric rate payers had spent nearly $3 billion on rebuilding Columbia Basin salmon runs since 1980, but the fish keep dying.

Other 1997 Loeb winners were the Boston Globe, the Orange County Register, the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal and Business Week.

Winners were selected on the basis of quality of reporting and writing, news and analytical value, and ingenuity and exclusivity. , DataTimes