A series on the beef industry published in The Kansas City Star last year has won the 2013 Gerald Loeb Award for explanatory journalism.
The award, issued by the University of California-Los Angeles Anderson School of Management, was for “Beef’s Raw Edges,” published in December 2012.
The series, by reporters Mike McGraw and Alan Bavley, investigated several aspects of the Midwest-centered beef industry.
The series included a look at cost-cutting production methods such as mechanical tenderization, which has sickened some people, and efforts by the industry to recast beef in a healthier light.
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