Gunrunning Archives | John Tedesco https://johntedesco.net/blog/tag/gunrunning/ Investigative Journalist in Houston, Texas Fri, 13 May 2022 19:41:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 26139830 Express-News reporters win national honors https://johntedesco.net/blog/2009/07/15/express-news-reporters-win-national-honors/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:59:43 +0000 http://johntedesco.net/blog/?p=1723 Reporters 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: Related: Call an investigative reporter in Houston, Texas “Reporters Todd Bensman ...

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]]> 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:

Related: Call an investigative reporter in Houston, Texas

“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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