Boston Globe Nominated for Journalism Award for Collector-Bashing Series

It’s no Pulitzer, but the Boston Globe is one of six newspapers nominated for Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, in recognition of their multi-part series, “Debtor Hell.”

While sometimes insightful, especially when chronicling the way poor and lower-income individuals are targeted for credit they ultimately can’t manage, much of the Globe’s coverage leaned heavily on the consumer-side of the equation, and seemed to propagate the idea that the world would be a better place but for debt collectors and debt buyers.

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