Jan Murphy is a prominent journalist in Pennsylvania and works for ''

The Patriot-News ''The Patriot-News'' is the largest newspaper serving the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area. In 2005, the newspaper was ranked in the top 100 in daily and Sunday circulation in the United States. It has been owned by Advance Publicati ...

''. In 2007, she and colleague Craig Staudenmaier won the "Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence" from the

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. In 2008, she was awarded a first place

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for "News Beat Reporting" and a second place

in "Ongoing News Coverage" for her series on the

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. She also won the

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Managing Editors Award for a series called "Opening up PHEAA records." In 2008, the political website PolitickerPA.com named her one of the "Most Powerful Political Reporters" in Pennsylvania. In 2009, she and Charlie Thompson shared an "Honorable Mention"

in Spot News Reporting from the

for their "Bonus Busts" coverage of the "

Bonusgate In 2007, Pennsylvania Attorney General Republican Tom Corbett began investigating $3.8 million in public bonuses which were paid to state legislative staffers in the Pennsylvania General Assembly to work on party politics and campaigns. While the ...

" arrests.

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