ANSA's Lara Sirignano gets Mario Francese Prize for crime reporting. The award is named after a Sicilian journalist murdered by Cosa Nostra in 1979.
Lara scooped the arrest of Mafia super fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro in January last year. The citation read : "for having interpreted crime reporting with a method that combines precision, independence, tinmeliness and civic commitment" Sirignano: "access to judicial documents is being increasingly hampered, and limits are being set on magistrates"