Topic: Community-Focused Initiatives
Posted on 9/8/2014
Gannett’s NBC affiliate KING-TV Seattle received a Peabody Award for its investigative reporting that uncovered an underground tank leak at a nuclear dump located 200 miles from Seattle. KING-TV found the leak had run into one of the region’s main source of drinking water. KING-TV’s program, "Hanford’s Dirty Secrets," also found that the site’s contractor, the company responsible for the nuclear site’s maintenance, had received a large payment despite failing to address the leak for over a year.
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