Raw Story nominated for online journalism award

RAW STORY is proud to announce that its investigative news series "The Permanent Republican Majority," conducted and penned by Larisa Alexandrovna Muriel Kane and Lindsay Beyerstein, has been nominated for an online investigative journalism award by the Online News Association.

RAW STORY 's investigation, "The Permanent Republican Majority" series, blew open details of the GOP's involvement in the arrest and imprisonment of Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

Recently, the involvement of former Bush political advisor Karl Rove in the prosecution of Siegelamn was raised by the House Judiciary Committee in its debates on holding him in contempt for refusing to testify. The committee wishes to question Rove about the case.

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The winners will be announced on Sept. 13 during a Washington, D.C. dinner banquet.