John Tedesco » National Press Club http://www.johntedesco.net/blog Investigative Reporter for the San Antonio Express-News Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:47:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Express-News reporters win national honorshttp://www.johntedesco.net/blog/2009/07/15/express-news-reporters-win-national-honors/ http://www.johntedesco.net/blog/2009/07/15/express-news-reporters-win-national-honors/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:59:43 +0000 John Tedesco http://johntedesco.net/blog/?p=1723 Gunrunner's land of plentyReporters Todd Bensman and Guillermo Contreras, my colleagues on the special projects team at the San Antonio Express-News, won an award from the National Press Club for their series of stories about gunrunning to Mexico called Texas’ Deadliest Export.

According to the press club:

“Reporters Todd Bensman and Guillermo Contreras of the San Antonio Express-News won the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence for a three-part series tracing the trail of high-powered guns smuggled from the United States into Mexico and the mounting body count in Mexico’s drug cartel war.”

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