2018 Toner Award goes to reporters at The Washington Post for coverage of the Alabama Senate race

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WashPost team wins this year's Toner Prize

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Wonderful news —> WaPo’s @mccrummenWaPo @bethreinhard @alice_crites @DDaltonBennett @byaaroncdavis @ShawnBoburg & @TomLeGro win Toner Prize for their relentless and painstakingly factual reporting of Roy Moore’s history of sexual assault. They are an inspiration!

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By Brian Stelter and CNN's media team

This year's Toner Prize goes to...

On Monday evening the 2018 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting was awarded "to a team of reporters from The Washington Post for their coverage of the Alabama Senate race and uncovering a pattern of sexual misconduct by candidate Roy Moore. The wining Washington Post team includes reporters Stephanie McCrummen, Beth Reinhard and Shawn Boburg; researcher Alice Crites; senior video producer Tom LeGro; and video reporter Dalton Bennett..."

Mark Warner at Syracuse event: Trump should stop delegitimizing American journalism

Updated Mar 26, 10:42 PM; Posted Mar 26, 8:38 PM

By Mark Weiner [e-mail],
syracuse.com

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Mark Warner warned Monday night that Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election may have permanently undermined the faith Americans have in civil discourse and democracy. .... The two-term senator made his remarks in the keynote speech at the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, a journalism award sponsored by SU's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

A series of prominent political figures have given the keynote address at the annual event, including Ohio Gov. John Kasich last year, Barack Obama in 2016, Hillary Clinton in 2015 and Joe Biden in 2014. ... Kasich and Obama warned in the previous speeches about threats against journalism and American democracy, but Warner offered perhaps the most severe assessment.

Warner said that after months of investigating on the Senate Intelligence Committee, he realized "that if a hostile intelligence organization had to develop an ideal vehicle for information warfare from scratch, they may very well have built the kind of social media ecosystem that we all live in" ... "This proliferation of misinformation is beyond what I think most policy makers and most of you in this room fully realize," Warner said. "The national security threat that it poses targets the very heart of our democracy and our society."
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After Warner's speech, the 2018 Toner Prize was awarded to a team of reporters from The Washington Post for their coverage of the Alabama Senate race and uncovering a pattern of sexual misconduct by candidate Roy Moore. ... The wining Washington Post team includes reporters Stephanie McCrummen, Beth Reinhard and Shawn Boburg; researcher Alice Crites; senior video producer Tom LeGro; and video reporter Dalton Bennett.