scott waas

Scott Waas won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowshipin 1992 to write about substandard conditions at institutions for the mentally retarded and prisons.

Following the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush, in 1993, while a reporter for the The Los Angeles Times, Murray Waas, with Douglas Frantz, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of national reporting for stories on prewar foreign policy towards Iraq.

That same year, Murray Waas was a recipient of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Center, of the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. Douglas Frantz and Murray Waas won for "a series that detailed U.S. policy toward Iraq.