NEWS: SUN-TIMES REPORTERS EARN THE GEORGE POLK AWARDS IN JOURNALISM

Three Chicago Sun-Times reporters have been awarded one of the nation’s top honors in journalism for stories that led to the conviction of a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley in a decade-old killing.

The George Polk Awards in Journalism announced Sunday that its 2014 prize for the nation’s best local reporting will go to reporters Tim Novak, Chris Fusco and Carol Marin.

The award recognizes four years of reporting on the 2004 death of 21-year-old David Koschman of Mount Prospect that “sparked the successful prosecution of a 10-year-old Chicago homicide” in which authorities were “reluctant to charge its well-connected perpetrator.”

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