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Loretta Tofani Wins Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting
Published April 2, 2008
Loretta Tofani won the 2007 Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism for "American Imports, Chinese Deaths" published in The Salt Lake Tribune.
She won in the category of investigative reporting (circulation of 100,000 or greater). This year's winners were chosen by the Society of Professional Journalists from more than 1,000 entries of work published in 2007 in 48 categories including print, radio, television and online. The awards will be presented July 11 during the annual Sigma Delta Chi Awards banquet at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Tofani's "American Imports, Chinese Deaths" has received multiple other honors, including the Investigative Reporters and Editors' Gold Medal.
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