California Watch has added two new reporters -- Susanne Rust and Ryan Gabrielson. Rust, who recently completed a Knight fellowship at Stanford University, will focus on the environment. Ryan Gabrielson, who recently completed a fellowship at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, will focus on public safety and law enforcement.

Brad Schrade will be joining the Minneapolis Star Tribune as an investigative reporter. He is currently a senior reporter and investigative editor at the Tennessean in Nashville.

Seattle Times' reporters Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry have written "Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity," which will be published by Bison Books in September.

Debbie Cenziper of the Washington Post won the National Association of Black Journalists’ investigative reporting prize. The Post’s Cheryl W. Thompson shared the special project prize with the Contra Costa Times.

The Alaska Press Club’s Public Service award was presented to the Skagway News and the University of Alaska at Fairbanks Journalism department. Brian Patrick O'Donoghue, UAF chair, and his students were recognized for "Reporting from Iraq," a month-long news feed featuring blogs, print and broadcast coverage of Alaska-based soldiers.

The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, a $10,000 prize given for local, national and international reporting by journalists under the age of 35, were awarded to:

Abbie Boudreau, CNN, for international reporting, “Killings at the Canal: The Army Tapes.”

Mark Greenblatt, KHOU-TV, for local reporting, “Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard.”

David Nathaniel Philipps, the Colorado Springs Gazette, for national reporting, “Casualties of War.”

John Bartosek has been hired as the new editor of PolitiFact Florida, a joint project of the St. Petersburg Times and the Miami Herald. Most recently, Bartosek worked at the Palm Beach Post. PolitiFact fact-checks politicians’ statements and claims.

Paul D'Ambrosio, Asbury Park Press Regional Editor, and staff writer Shannon Mullen were on the “Fighting New Jersey’s Tax Crush” team that won first place in the National Headliner Series Writing (over 75,000) category. The series was also a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.

CNN’s Abbie Boudreau, Scott Zamost, and Jessi Joseph won first place in the network investigative reporting category of the National Headliner Awards. Their series, “Post Office Mansion,” led to changes in the U.S. Postal Service’s policy on buying expensive homes of employees who relocate to a different city.

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Eddie Curran, formerly a reporter at the Mobile Press-Register, has published "The Governor of Goat Hill: Don Siegelman, the Reporter Who Exposed his Crimes, and the Hoax that Suckered some of the Top Names in Journalism." It chronicles his coverage of the former Alabama governor.