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April 26, 2007 4:01 PM

From The Blotter:

Blotter_grahic_nr It's our birthday. And we want to thank our readers.

One year after the Blotter first appeared on ABCNews.com, we have logged more than 36 million page views, broken dozens of important stories and won several major journalism awards.

With your support, we have been able to create a site where investigative stories grow and evolve, often going to a new level with reader feedback and follow-up suggestions.

That's how we were able to break the story of the sexually explicit instant messages former Republican Congressman Mark Foley, R-Fla., sent to current and former pages of high school age.

Former pages read the first story and responded online, providing us with the messages that would lead to Foley's resignation and an investigation of the entire House Republican leadership.

Click Here for Full Blotter Coverage.

For that story and others that focused on what we call "conduct unbecoming" by government officials, we have been honored with a Peabody Award, the Walter Cronkite Award from the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Online Reporting Award and the National Headliner Online Journalism Award.

Most of all, we are grateful to see that every day a growing number of people around the world are checking in to see what's on the Blotter.

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April 26, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (8)

User Comments

Happy B-Day...now stop deleting our posts...

Posted by: Jazz | Apr 27, 2007 7:15:21 AM

Thank you Brian, and we know a whole lot of work has gone into your information-gathering.

You and your splendid staff are doing a good job. Can you keep it up? We all hope so. USA needs truth. Thanks again. PerryA

Posted by: PerryAnn | Apr 28, 2007 1:13:14 AM

PS: Here's to your successful and happy birthday!

Posted by: PerryAnn | Apr 28, 2007 1:15:17 AM

Hope you have many more great/and maybe not so great:) years.

Posted by: Rosemary | Apr 28, 2007 12:18:47 PM

Keep it up; this is a great format. We love the posting feature (provided those who abuse it are few and far between) and the ability to debate the stories in such a free and democratic forum.

Posted by: Nick | Apr 29, 2007 2:41:33 PM

Agreed, all news should be like this...a place were people can post their opinions is another fine example of freedom.

Maybe the Govt webpages should take note?

Posted by: Aaron C | Apr 30, 2007 4:09:00 PM

Happy Birtday !!
Thank You for all the stories you've looked
into, I'll keep watching , julie Runco Burbank

Posted by: julie Runco | May 6, 2007 7:50:44 PM

I would like to see Brian Ross address a simple but costly issue that does get to myself and so many others. The Thousands of Mobile Homes that have been purchased by Tax dollars that were meant for Hurricane Victims (or so they say), but the Tax Payers are not only paying for the purchase of these homes, but due to the GROSS Negligence and total Stupidity and poor management skills of FEMA, its Director or whoever is even remotely in charge, but also for "RENT" to park them in numerous locations across the country. My Point is... There is anm entire town that has lost their homes due to a Tornado in Greenburg, KS and these people should NOT have spent more than a night or two without a home. Yes..I'm sure it all gets down to the MONEY some Politicians pockets are being lined with. I had heard one rumor that the government was going to auction some off at half price as to cost. I'm sure you have the ability and resources to look deeper into this if you find it worthy.
Thanks,
JU

Posted by: J. U. | May 14, 2007 9:53:38 AM

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