WASHINGTON, D.C., April 15, 2013 - Atlantic Media announced today that Brian Mockenhaupt is this year’s recipient of the Michael Kelly Award for his story, "The Living and the Dead," published by Byliner.com.

The $25,000 award is given annually to a journalist whose work exemplifies a quality that animated Michael Kelly’s own career: the fearless pursuit and expression of truth. Kelly, who was the editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal, was killed 10 years ago while covering the war in Iraq.

In "The Living and the Dead," Mockenhaupt tells the story of a Marine platoon in Afghanistan that suffered heavy casualties and the toll it took on those who survived.

"Michael Kelly would have greatly admired the ambition of Mockenhaupt’s work, the courage he displayed in reporting the story, and the power of his writing,” said the Kelly Award judges in a statement. “It is fitting that on the tenth anniversary of Mike’s death, we are honoring a journalist whose work exemplifies many of the qualities that distinguished Mike’s own reporting from the battlefield."

The judges also recognized three journalists as finalists, selected from a field of more than 60 entries from U.S.-based media organizations: Alberto Arce of the Associated Press, David Barboza of The New York Times, and Michael M. Phillips of The Wall Street Journal.

The winner and finalists were honored at a dinner last night in Washington.

Five judges comprised this year’s Michael Kelly Award selection panel: James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic; Charles Green, editor, National Journal; Cullen Murphy, editor at large, Vanity Fair; Sarah Stillman, staff writer, The New Yorker and 2012 winner of the Michael Kelly Award; and Scott Stossel, editor, The Atlantic magazine.

For additional information, including full entries and past winners, please visit http://www.kellyaward.com/.

Atlantic Media Company is a Washington, D.C.-based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive.

Washington, D.C. (March 21, 2013)—Celebrating the fearless pursuit and expression of truth in journalism, Atlantic Media Company announces four finalists for the 10th annual Michael Kelly Award. The $25,000 award will be given at a ceremony on April 14.

The award was created in honor of Michael Kelly, who was the editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal, and was killed while covering the war in Iraq in 2003.

Chosen from a field of more than 60 entries, the finalists for the 2013 Michael Kelly Award are:

• Alberto Arce, the Associated Press. Arce is the only foreign correspondent in Honduras, one of the most violent countries in the world. Through a series of reports, he ventured into various corners of Honduran society to capture the corrosive daily violence, lack of justice, and political instability there.
  
• David Barboza, The New York Times. Barboza spent more than a year piecing together the finances of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and discovered he had amassed a secret wealth of $2.7 billion. His articles caused a sensation in China and laid bare the weakness of the country’s entire political system.
  
• Brian Mockenhaupt, Byliner.com. Mockenhaupt, a former infantryman, wrote about a Marine platoon in Afghanistan that suffered heavy casualties and the toll it took on those who survived. The reporting for his piece stretched over 18 months, taking him from foot patrols in Northern Marjah to Camp Lejeune, N.C., where Marines struggled to reintegrate into the world they had left behind.
  
• Michael Phillips, The Wall Street Journal. Phillips wrote a series of stories from Afghanistan and the United States on the experiences of U.S. troops in combat and upon their return home. In one article, he described the bombing of a convoy in which he was riding. Phillips helped drag a wounded sergeant out of the street while under gunfire from insurgents.
  

Five judges comprised this year's Michael Kelly Award selection panel:

James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic
Charles Green, editor, National Journal
Cullen Murphy, Editor-at-Large, Vanity Fair
Sarah Stillman, staff writer, The New Yorker and 2012 winner of the Michael Kelly Award
Scott Stossel, editor, The Atlantic magazine

For additional information, including full entries and past winners, please visit http://www.kellyaward.com/.

Atlantic Media Company is a Washington, D.C.-based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive.

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2012 - David Bradley, chairman of Atlantic Media Company, announced today that Sarah Stillman is this year's recipient of the Michael Kelly Award for her story, published in The New Yorker, on the mistreatment of foreign contract workers at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The $25,000 award is given annually to a journalist whose work exemplifies a quality that animated Michael Kelly's own career: the fearless pursuit and expression of truth. Kelly, who was the editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal, was killed while covering the war in Iraq in 2003.

In “The Invisible Army,” Sarah Stillman tells the story of ten Fijian beauticians who were recruited for lucrative jobs in a posh Dubai salon, only to end up in Iraq giving manicures and massages to U.S. soldiers.

"Through their mistreatment, Stillman exposes the larger scandal of thousands of foreign workers on U.S. military bases reduced to something like indentured servitude," said the Kelly Award judges in a statement. "Working as a freelance reporter without a contract, Stillman spent more than a year reporting the story, traveling to four countries, six military bases, and two war zones."

The judges also recognized four journalists from other organizations as finalists: Rukmini Callimachi of the Associated Press, Kathy Dobie of Harper's, and A.M. Sheehan and Matt Hongoltz-Hetling of the Advertiser Democrat (Norway, Maine).

The winners and finalists were honored at a dinner last night in Washington at Atlantic Media Company headquarters.

The finalists were selected from a field of 59 entries from journalists at U.S.-based newspapers and magazines.

A panel of five journalists served as judges for this year's award: Charles Green, executive editor of National Journal; Mandy Locke, reporter at The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) and co-winner of the 2011 Michael Kelly Award; Cullen Murphy, editor-at-large for Vanity Fair; Jonathan Rauch, a contributing editor for National Journal; and Alexis Simendinger, White House correspondent for RealClearPolitics.

For additional information, including full entries and past winners, please visit http://www.kellyaward.com/.

Atlantic Media Company is a Washington, D.C.-based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive.

Washington, D.C. - Honoring the fearless pursuit and expression of truth in journalism, the Atlantic Media Company announced today four finalists for the 9th annual Michael Kelly Award. The $25,000 award will be given at a dinner at the company's Watergate headquarters on April 15. The award was created in honor of Michael Kelly, who was the editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal, and was killed while covering the war in Iraq in 2003.

Chosen from a field of 59 entries, the finalists for the 2012 Michael Kelly Award are:

• Rukmini Callimachi, Associated Press. for her coverage of West Africa and strife in the Ivory Coast.
  
• Kathy Dobi, Harper's magazine about sexual abuse on Indian reservations.
  
• A.M. Sheehan and Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, Advertiser Democrat. for their series on substandard Section 8 housing.
  
• Sarah Stillman, New Yorker. piece on the mistreatment of contract workers at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  

Five judges comprised this year's Michael Kelly Award selection panel:

Charles Green, Executive Editor, National Journal
Mandy Locke, Reporter, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) and co-winner of the 2011 Michael Kelly Award
Cullen Murphy, Editor-at-Large, Vanity Fair
Jonathan Rauch, Contributing Editor, National Journal
Alexis Simendinger, White House Correspondent, RealClearPolitics

For additional information, including full entries and past winners, please visit http://www.kellyaward.com/.

Atlantic Media Company is a Washington, D.C.-based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive.

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 18, 2011 - David Bradley, chairman of Atlantic Media Company, announced today that Raleigh News & Observer reporters Mandy Locke and Joseph Neff are this year's recipients of the Michael Kelly Award for their series exposing widespread misconduct at the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) in North Carolina.

The $25,000 award is given annually to a journalist whose work exemplifies a quality that animated Michael Kelly's own career: the fearless pursuit and expression of truth. Kelly, who was the editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal, was killed while covering the war in Iraq in 2003.

The reporting from Locke and Neff revealed that North Carolina SBI agents fabricated stories or cut corners to prove prosecutors' theories, while lab examiners flouted accepted scientific techniques and withheld evidence to help build cases for prosecutors.

In an statement, the award judges concluded:
"As a result of the series, top officials at the bureau have been fired or replaced and the SBI is rewriting its policies and procedures. The series was an example of the News & Observer’s exemplary criminal-justice reporting over the past several years—reporting that helped free a death row inmate and trigger the establishment of the nation’s first Innocence Inquiry Commission."

The judges also recognized three journalists from other organizations as finalists: Emily Bazelon of Slate, John Bowe of Mother Jones, and Jonathan Katz of the Associated Press.

The winners and finalists were honored at a dinner last night in Washington at Atlantic Media Company headquarters.

The finalists were selected from a field of more than 50 entries from journalists at U.S.-based newspapers and magazines.

A panel of five journalists served as judges for this year's award: Sheri Fink, a reporter for ProPublica and a 2010 Michael Kelly Award finalist; Charles Green, executive editor of National Journal; Cullen Murphy, editor-at-large for Vanity Fair; David Rohde, a reporter for the New York Times and the 2010 Michael Kelly Award winner; and Stuart Taylor, Jr., a contributing editor for National Journal.

For additional information, including full entries and past winners, please visit http://www.kellyaward.com/.

Atlantic Media Company is a Washington, D.C.-based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive.

Washington, D.C. - Celebrating the fearless pursuit and expression of truth in journalism, the Atlantic Media Company announces four finalists for the 8th annual Michael Kelly Awards. The $25,000 award will be given at a ceremony at the company's Washington, D.C. headquarters on April 17. The award was created in honor of Michael Kelly, who was the editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal and was killed while covering the war in Iraq in 2003.

Chosen from a field of 50 entries, the finalists for the 2011 Michael Kelly Award are:

• Emily Bazelon, Slate. In “What Really Happened to Phoebe Prince?” Emily Bazelon of Slate shows that the journalism establishment and the legal system both erred in ascribing the suicide of a 15-year-old girl in South Hadley, Mass. to bullying by her high school classmates. The notion of a clique of students driving a classmate to her death was a compelling narrative, but it wasn’t true. Bazelon’s reporting makes clear that prosecuting Prince’s classmates for what a troubled girl did to herself was an abuse of the law. Her meticulously reported account of Prince’s final months is a model of challenging conventional wisdom and grappling with a complicated situation in a thoughtful and well-rounded way."
  
• John Bowe, Mother Jones. A result of a two-year investigation, John Bowe’s “Bound for America” exposed practices that amounted to human trafficking by a U.S. firm that recruited Thai farmers for agricultural jobs in the United States and charged them $10,000 to $20,000 apiece—plus interest—for job placement. After arriving here, the farmers worked only sporadically and didn’t earn enough to even cover their loan payments. Five months after the publication of Bowe’s story, which was supported by The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, a federal grand jury indicted company officials for engaging in “a conspiracy to commit forced labor.” The offices of the company, Global Horizons, are now closed.
  
• Jonathan Katz, Associated Press. Jonathan M. Katz was the only foreign correspondent stationed in Haiti when a powerful earthquake hit on January 12, 2010. From that moment—when he borrowed a cell phone to call in the news even though his house had collapsed around him—Katz covered the earthquake and its aftermath with resourcefulness and determination. Over the course of the next year, his reporting on stalled recovery efforts triggered the resignation of a government official and his revelations linking a cholera outbreak to U.N. peacekeepers forced the United Nations to appoint an independent panel to investigate the matter. His coverage represents foreign correspondence at its best.
  
• Mandy Locke and Joseph Neff, The New York Times. In their four-part series, “Agents’ Secrets,” Mandy Locke and Joseph Neff exposed widespread misconduct at the State Bureau of Investigation in North Carolina. Agents fabricated stories or cut corners to prove prosecutors’ theories. Lab examiners flouted accepted scientific techniques and withheld evidence to help build cases for prosecutors. As a result of the series, top officials at the bureau have been fired or replaced and the SBI is rewriting its policies and procedures. The series was an example of the News & Observer’s exemplary criminal-justice reporting over the past several years—reporting that helped free a death row inmate and trigger the establishment of the nation’s first Innocence Inquiry Commission.
  

Five judges comprised this year's Michael Kelly Award selection panel:

Sheri Fink, Reporter, ProPublica; Finalist, 2010 Michael Kelly Award
Charles Green, Executive Editor, National Journal
Cullen Murphy, Editor-at-Large, Vanity Fair
David Rohde, Reporter, New York Times; Winner, 2010 Michael Kelly Award
Stuart Taylor, Jr., Contributing Editor, National Journal

For additional information, including full entries and past winners, please visit http://www.kellyaward.com/.

Atlantic Media Company is a Washington, D.C.-based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive.

"David Rohde epitomizes fearlessness in the pursuit of truth. He put himself in harm's way to learn more about the Taliban. He responded bravely to his capture and seven-month captivity. And he displayed moral courage in reliving his ordeal through an unflinching five-part series. Michael Kelly would have been the first to admire his work," said Charles Green, editor of National Journal and a Michael Kelly Award judge.

Rohde was cited for a riveting five-part series in The New York Times, describing how he and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by the Taliban outside Kabul and held for seven months before he and one of his colleagues escaped on foot to a Pakistani military base. Rohde was initially reluctant to write about his experience, telling his editors, "I don't want to make myself look like a hero. I am not a hero." But he bravely used his captivity to illuminate the world about the minds of terrorists who repeatedly threatened to behead him and to provide insights into what Rohde termed a "Taliban mini-state" in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

Five judges comprised this year's Michael Kelly Award selection panel:

Ken Armstrong, The Seattle Times
Siobhan Gorman, The Wall Street Journal
Charlie Green, National Journal
Kathy Kiely, USA Today
Cullen Murphy, Vanity Fair

For additional information, including full entries and past winners, please visit http://www.kellyaward.com/.

Atlantic Media Company is a Washington, D.C.-based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive.

Washington, D.C. - Celebrating the fearless pursuit and expression of truth in journalism, the Atlantic Media Company announces four finalists for the 7th annual Michael Kelly Awards. The $25,000 award will be given at a ceremony at the company's Washington, D.C. headquarters on April 18. The award was created in honor of Michael Kelly, who was the editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal and was killed while covering the war in Iraq in 2003.

Chosen from a field of 50 entries, the finalists for the 2010 Michael Kelly Award are:

• Ken Bensinger and Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times. Based on five months of tenacious reporting, Ken Bensinger and Ralph Vartabedian of the Los Angeles Times chronicled the problem of unintended acceleration in Toyotas. The two reporters methodically compiled a body of work that challenged Toyota's explanation that the acceleration problems were caused by a glitch involving floor mats. Although their work was repeatedly disparaged by Toyota, it consistently was proven to be on target and helped prod the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to take actions it had resisted for years. As Los Angeles Times Editor Russell W. Stanton wrote in his nomination letter, Bensinger and Vartabedian "challenged assumptions, developed their own evidence and built a compelling case of corporate malfeasance and regulatory indulgence."
  
• Sheri Fink, ProPublica Who should be saved first when disaster strikes? That's the question that doctors and nurses at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans faced in the harrowing days after Hurricane Katrina when scores of patients were trapped in a building without electricity or running water. In "The Deadly Choices at Memorial," ProPublica writer and medical doctor Sheri Fink reconstructed the decisions that resulted in some patients being injected with lethal doses of morphine as others were boarded onto rescue helicopters. As a result of her two-year investigation, published in The New York Times Magazine, Fink informed the state and national debate over instituting medical guidelines on dealing with shortages of life-saving resources in the event of a disaster.
  
• Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times. As the East Africa correspondent for The New York Times, Jeffrey Gettleman has tracked the spread of Islamic radicalism, interviewed pirate bosses in Somalia (one of whom laughed that their lunch together was like "the cat eating with the mice") and described how mass rape of women and men has become a weapon of war in eastern Congo. He's been shot at by insurgents and dealt with the constant risk that his reporting will put him in harm's way. "The Gettleman method," Jack Shafer wrote in Slate, "is to play it straight and direct, easy on the cynicism, and without a hint of any world weariness."
  
• David Rohde, The New York Times. In a riveting five-part series in The New York Times, David Rohde described how he and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by the Taliban outside Kabul and held for seven months before he and one of his colleagues escaped on foot to a Pakistani military base. Rohde was initially reluctant to write about his experience, telling his editors, "I don't want to make myself look like a hero. I am not a hero." But he bravely used his captivity to illuminate the world about the minds of terrorists who repeatedly threatened to behead him and to provide insights into what Rohde termed a "Taliban mini-state" in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
  

Five judges comprised this year's Michael Kelly Award selection panel:

Ken Armstrong, The Seattle Times
Siobhan Gorman, The Wall Street Journal
Charlie Green, National Journal
Kathy Kiely, USA Today
Cullen Murphy, Vanity Fair

For additional information, including full entries and past winners, please visit http://www.kellyaward.com/.

Atlantic Media Company is a Washington, D.C.-based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive.

Washington, D.C. - David Bradley, chairman of Atlantic Media Company, announced tonight that Seattle Times reporters Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry are this year's recipients of the Michael Kelly Award for their series exposing the criminal histories of members of a Rose Bowl-winning University of Washington football team.

The $25,000 award is given annually to a journalist whose work exemplifies a quality that animated Michael Kelly's own career: the fearless pursuit and expression of truth. Kelly, who was the editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal, was killed while covering the war in Iraq in 2003.

In a statement, the award judges said Armstrong and Perry displayed "the commitment to truth that will alienate readers, risk advertising accounts, and jeopardize a newspaper's standing during already precarious times." The panel also noted that their "Victory and Ruins" series "showed how it wasn't only the athletic department and university administrators who looked the other way at the players' run-ins with the law but also local police, prosecutors, judges, and influential alumni."

The judges also recognized four journalists from three other organizations as finalists: Barry Bearak and Celia Dugger of The New York Times, Richard Behar of Fast Company and Peter Godwin of Vanity Fair.

The winners and finalists were honored at a dinner tonight in Washington at Atlantic Media Company headquarters.

The finalists were selected from a total of 50 entries from journalists at U.S.-based newspapers and magazines. The award is for work published in 2008.

A panel of five journalists served as judges for this year's award: Carl Cannon, a contributing editor for National Journal; Charles Green, editor of National Journal; Kelly Kennedy, a staff writer at Army Times and a Michael Kelly Award finalist last year; Cullen Murphy, editor-at-large for Vanity Fair; and freelance writer Loretta Tofani, last year's winner of the Michael Kelly Award. Murphy, former managing editor of The Atlantic, recused himself from deliberations and voting regarding the Vanity Fair entry.

To read this year's entries, and for additional information about the Michael Kelly Award, visit www.kellyaward.com.

Atlantic Media Company is a Washington, D.C.-based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive.

Washington D.C. - The Atlantic Media Company today named journalists from Fast Company, The New York Times, The Seattle Times and Vanity Fair as the finalists for this year's Michael Kelly Award. The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at an April 16 ceremony in Washington.

The Michael Kelly Award was created by Atlantic Media Company Chairman David G. Bradley after Kelly's death while covering the war in Iraq in 2003. Kelly had been editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal. The Michael Kelly Award is bestowed annually upon a journalist whose work exemplifies the fearless pursuit and expression of truth that animated Kelly's own career.

The finalists were selected from a total of 50 entries from journalists at U.S.-based newspapers and magazines for work published in 2008.

This year's finalists are:

• Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry of The Seattle Times for a series exposing the criminal histories of players on the last University of Washington football team to win the Rose Bowl.
• Barry Bearak and Celia Dugger of The New York Times for coverage of the rigged presidential election in Zimbabwe.
• Richard Behar of Fast Company for an article on China’s growing appetite for mineral resources in Africa.
• Peter Godwin of Vanity Fair for coverage of Robert Mugabe’s reign of terror in Zimbabwe

Five judges comprised this year's Michael Kelly Award selection panel: Carl Cannon, contributing editor, National Journal; Charles Green, editor, National Journal; Kelly Kennedy, staff writer, Army Times and a 2008 Michael Kelly Award finalist; Cullen Murphy, editor at large, Vanity Fair; and Loretta Tofani, a freelance writer and the 2008 winner of the Michael Kelly Award.

Past winners of the award include C.J. Chivers, Esquire; Sharon LaFraniere, The New York Times; Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times; and Anthony Shadid, The Washington Post.

For additional information about the Michael Kelly Award, please visit www.kellyaward.com. Atlantic Media Company is a Washington, D.C.-based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive.

Washington, D.C. - David Bradley, chairman of Atlantic Media Company, announced Loretta Tofani the 2008 recipient of the Michael Kelly Award at a ceremony Thursday night in Washington. She was honored for her series on unsafe working conditions in China written for The Salt Lake Tribune.

The $25,000 award, which celebrates its 5th Anniversary this year, is given annually to a journalist whose work exemplifies a quality that animated Michael Kelly's own career: the fearless pursuit and expression of truth. Kelly, who was the editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal, was killed while covering the war in Iraq in 2003.

According to a statement from the award judges, Tofani's four-part series "is a tribute to her persistence, resourcefulness, and moral courage." After going into private business and seeing first-hand the working conditions in China, Tofani decided to return to journalism, but discovered that few news organizations were interested in her reporting. Only through her perseverance was she able to find a newspaper committed to collaborating with her on the series.

In addition to Tofani, the judges recognized as finalists journalists who wrote three other entries: Kelly Kennedy, a staff writer for Army Times, for her series on an Army battalion in Iraq; Joshua Kors, an investigative reporter for The Nation, for stories on the military denying medical benefits to soldiers returning from Iraq; and Blake Morrison, Peter Eisler, and Tom Vanden Brook for articles in USA Today, on the Pentagon's response to the threat of roadside bombs in Iraq. The finalists received $3,000 for their entry.

Atlantic Media received a total of 52 entries from reporters and editors at newspapers and magazines from across the country. The award is for work published in 2007.

Five judges comprised this year's Michael Kelly Award selection panel: Peter Beinart, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason.tv and Reason.com; Charles Green, editor of National Journal; Ruth Marcus, editorial writer and columnist of The Washington Post; and Cullen Murphy, editor-at-large of Vanity Fair.

Atlantic Media Company is a Washington, D.C.-based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive.

Washington D.C. - Today, the Atlantic Media Company named journalists from Army Times, The Nation, Salt Lake Tribune, and USA Today as the four finalists for this year's installment of the company's Michael Kelly Award. The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at a May 8 ceremony in Washington, DC.

The Michael Kelly Award was created by Atlantic Media Company Chairman David G. Bradley after Kelly's death while covering the war in Iraq in 2003. Kelly had been editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic and National Journal. The Michael Kelly Award is bestowed annually upon a journalist whose work exemplifies the fearless pursuit and expression of truth that animated Kelly's own career.

The finalists were selected from a total of 52 entries from journalists at U.S.-based newspapers and magazines for work published in 2007.

This year's finalists are:

• Kelly Kennedy, Army Times - for a series on an infantry regiment in Iraq hit hard by casualties.
• Joshua Kors, The Nation - for stories on the misdiagnosis of injured soldiers returning from Iraq.
• Blake Morrison, Peter Eisler, and Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today - for stories on the Pentagon's failure to respond to the problem of roadside bombs in Iraq.
• Loretta Tofani, Salt Lake Tribune - for a series on unsafe working conditions in China.

Five judges comprised this year's Michael Kelly Award selection panel: Peter Beinart, senior fellow, the Council on Foreign Relations; Nick Gillespie, editor of reason.tv and reason.com; Charles Green, editor, National Journal; Ruth Marcus, editorial writer and columnist, The Washington Post; and Cullen Murphy, editor-at-large, Vanity Fair.

Past winners of the award include C.J. Chivers, Esquire; Sharon LaFraniere, The New York Times; Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times; and Anthony Shadid, The Washington Post.

For additional information about the Michael Kelly Award, please visit www.kellyaward.com. Atlantic Media Company is a Washington, D.C.-based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive.