Craig McCoy of the Philadelphia Inquirer took this year's I.F. Stone Award for investigative reporting from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

“The reporter has exposed injustice and corruption in Philadelphia for almost three decades,” the announcement stated. “He is said to be persistent, able to penetrate the 'official fog,' and imbued with a strong sense of civic right and wrong.”

McCoy has been an investigative reporter at The Inquirer for 12 years. He has been at the paper since 1982, “mainly as a reporter, but also as city editor and bureau chief in City Hall and Trenton. In 2007, he won the Rosey Award, given annually to the paper's most tenacious reporter; the award is named after Robert J. Rosenthal, a former executive editor at The Inquirer.”