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Investigative Reporters and Editors honored The Tennessean and investigations editor Walter F. Roche Jr. on Thursday for his 2013 reports, “Conservatorships in Tennessee.”
The organization recognized Roche’s articles, which examined practices and abuses involving court-appointed conservators, as finalists in its Print/Online — Medium category. Editors Deborah Fisher, Lisa Green and Scott Stroud also were named in the citation.
“Backfire,” a yearlong series by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was awarded the category’s top prize. The other finalists were “Chronic Crisis” by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Other Than Honorable” by The (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) Gazette and “Nightmare in Maryville” by The Kansas City Star.

— Staff reports