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We鈥檙e pleased as punch to report that we just learned that the 鈥� the quarterly magazine published by the 澳彩开奖 and written by the authors of this blog 鈥� has won an important award. The

, which aggregates and reprints selected articles from some 1,300 publications around the country, gave the Report its award for best U.S. periodical in the 鈥淚n-Depth/Investigative Reporting鈥� category of its . Publications cannot apply for the Utne Awards 鈥� Utne鈥檚 editors make the selections completely on their own initiative. This was not the first award for the Intelligence Report. The magazine has won two Society of Professional Journalists awards 鈥� for Non-Deadline Reporting in 2003, and for Investigative Reporting in 2005. In 1999, shortly after converting to color, it won the Society of Publication Designers鈥� award for Best Redesign.

Here鈥檚 what Utne Reader about us:

In a time when media reflection on the country鈥檚 race issues comes down to parsing the latest celebrity gaffe, Intelligence Report reminds us that organized, violent racism 鈥� often written-off as a troubling relic of a bygone era 鈥� endures. Published by the 澳彩开奖, the venerable Montgomery, Alabama-based civil rights organization, the magazine tracks extremist movements and their ideological ripples throughout society. In the Spring 2007 issue, for instance, it was that the number of hate groups in the United States has swelled along with the nation鈥檚 rising tide of populist anti-immigration sentiments, climbing 40 percent to 844 in a six-year period (2000 to 2006). The took aim at Latino gangs targeting African Americans in Los Angeles. In Fall 2007, the magazine a virulent anti-gay group fomenting hatred among fellow Slavic immigrants in Sacramento. Managing their wide-ranging mission by carrying on the fine but increasingly rare tradition of old-school investigative journalism, the writers and editors weed through mountains of paper, work the phones, hit the pavement, and connect the dots.