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	News Reporter Captures Award The Dallas Morning News [Dallas TX] June 15, 2005 Dallas Morning News projects reporter Reese Dunklin was named the 2004 winner of the Livingston Award for national reporting. Mr. Dunklin, a Morning News reporter since 1999, was honored Tuesday for his work on "Runaway Priests: Hiding in Plain Sight," a series about priests who leave allegations and charges of sexual abuse for new parishes in other countries. DallasNews.com/extra Runaway Priests: Hiding in Plain Sight "This series posed significant reporting challenges, but Reese did a superb job and brought our readers some of the most significant and original reporting done on this subject," said Morning News Vice President/Managing Editor George Rodrigue. "We are delighted that he is being recognized with a Livingston Award." The Livingston Awards are limited to journalists under the age of 35 and are the largest all-media, general-reporting prizes in the country. Mr. Dunklin is 31. Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw, one of the judges for the contest, presented the award to Mr. Dunklin, saying that his work exposed a large and previously uncovered dimension of the Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis. Mr. Brokaw particularly praised the reporter's work in Rome, where he found several abusers sheltered near the Vatican. "I thought I'd read all the stories" on the subject, Mr. Brokaw said, "but Reese took us to other places." Mr. Brokaw was joined by Ken Auletta of The New Yorker and Ellen Goodman of The Boston Globe in announcing the winners of the $10,000 awards in local, national and international reporting. The awards were presented at the Yale Club in New York City. Morning News reporters Joshua Benton from Metro and Katherine Yung from Business News were named as finalists. The awards are unusual in judging print, broadcast and online entries against one another. The prizes are sponsored by the Mollie Parnis Livingston Foundation. She established the program in 1980 to honor her son, Robert, who published the journalism review More.
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