Mary Duan and Sara Rubin received the recognition for their years-long effort to unearth public records, conduct interviews and produce an ambitious series outlining the story behind the story of a sexual abuse case involving Father Edward FitzHenry and the Monterey Diocese.
Local NBC affiliate KSBW falsely accused Monterey County Weekly of paying for access to Obama/Biden fundraiser.
Mary Duan was most recently the energy and green technology reporter at the San Jose Business Journal.