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As part of his work for the Alicia Patterson Foundation, Murray Waas published a 7,912 word article about how mentally retarded children had died because of abuse and neglect.

Following the presidency of George Bush, in 1993, while a reporter for the The Los Angeles Times, Murray Waas was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his stories detailing that administration's prewar foreign policy towards the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.That same year, Murray Waas was a Goldsmith Prize recipient-- awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center of the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. Murray Waas and Douglas Frantz won the award for "a series that detailed United States policy toward Iraq.