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Gray Stations and InvestigateTV Honored by IRE Awards for Outstanding Investigative Journalism
ATLANTA, June 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) awarded three Gray Media stations and Gray’s national investigative unit, InvestigateTV, for outstanding watchdog journalism at IRE’s annual conference in New Orleans on Saturday. WANF in Atlanta, Georgia and InvestigateTV won Video Division II for “In Plane Sight: The Fix.” The two-year investigation led to unprecedented action by the US Department of Justice. The DOJ ordered the Drug Enforcement Administra
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