Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill has been named one of nine recipients of Yale University’s inaugural Windham Campbell Prizes for writing. The $150,000 award honors “emerging and established writers for outstanding achievement in fiction, non-fiction, and drama.” The prize was founded with an endowment by the late novelist Donald Windham. Scahill writes for The Nation magazine and is the author of “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army” and the forthcoming book “Dirty Wars.”