John Hechinger and Janet Lorin of Bloomberg News won the national reporting award for a yearlong series that looked at abuses in the system for financing higher education, while the local reporting award went to Gina Barton of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for reporting on a Milwaukee man who died in police custody after repeatedly telling officers he couldn't breathe.

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Mr. Page was fired from his job in 2010, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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This assessment may be especially true if his rivals keep playing nice -- as Dean did in Sunday's Wisconsin debate, sponsored by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and television station WTMJ.

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Barrett's hometown paper, also came to Walker's defense with a helpful messaging point last week, writing in an editorial that the governor deserves to finish his term.

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The case is published in Genetics and Medicine, a research journal, and was the subject of a heart-rending and informative three-part series by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that deserves to win an award.

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Winners also include journalists from Bloomberg News, The New York Times, CBS News, McClatchy Newspapers, GlobalPost, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, the Maine Sunday Telegram, "Frontline, " and the nonprofit California Watch.

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He won easily among those who made up their minds in the last three days, thanks partly to a good performance in an eve-of-polling debate and partly to the late endorsement of Wisconsin's largest newspaper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Finalists: Dan Egan of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for his exhaustive examination of the struggle to keep Asian carp and other invasive species from reaching the Great Lakes and ultimately all of the nation's inland waters, a story enhanced by animated graphics, and Tony Bartelme of The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.

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The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel carried a graphic description of how the loss of manufacturing in the city has affected the lives of its people, and the city itself.

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