NYU's Carter Journalism Institute names the decade's top 10 works of U.S. journalism. The top five selections were:
The New York Times' "A Nation Challenged" section published daily after
September 11, 2001; Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's "Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx" (Scribner, 2003); Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11"
(Knopf, 2006); "The Giant Pool of Money," a 2008 program on "This American Life" (Chicago Public Radio/Public Radio International) by Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson; and, the ongoing reporting from
the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan by
New York Times' reporters C.J. Chivers and Dexter Filkins and photographer Tyler Hicks. The winners were selected from 80 nominees determined by a
national panel of judges, selected from nonfiction work on current events.
