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Veteran Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown was given a lifetime achievement award Monday night by IRE, Investigative Reporters and Editors, for her work exposing the sex crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, alongside a selection of the best investigative reporters in the nation, including Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Brown was one of 20 honorees to receive IRE’s Champion of Investigative Journalism Award in New York City at a gala hosted by longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley.
Brown has been with the Miami Herald since 2005. It was her investigative reporting in 2018, revisiting the Jeffrey Epstein case, that broke the story open after a decade of dormancy — and that ultimately led New York federal prosecutors to reopen the case and charge Epstein with sex trafficking charges in July 2019. Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell a month later. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging.
IRE is the leading organization in the U.S. supporting and teaching investigative reporting techniques. Monday night’s event included fellow honorees Paul Steiger, the former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and founding editor-in-chief of ProPublica, and Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the New York Times reporters who broke open the #MeToo era with their investigation of Harvey Weinstein.
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