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Line 97: "Inside Scientology: The Truth Rundown" was recognized with journalistic honors, including the 2010 Gold Medal for Public Service award from the Florida Society of News Editors.<ref>{{cite news \|last=Sentinel Staff Report \|title=Orlando Sentinel wins 17 awards from Florida Society of News Editors \|work=Orlando Sentinel \|location=Florida \|publisher=www.orlandosentinel.com \|date=June 18, 2010 \|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-orlando-sentinel-fsne-awards-20100618,0,3887288.story \|archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160521193051/http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-orlando-sentinel-fsne-awards-20100618,0,3887288.story \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=May 21, 2016 \|access-date=June 18, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last=Florida Society of News Editors \|title=FSNE Gold Medal for Public Service \|work=FSNE 2010 Journalism Awards \|location=Florida \|publisher=fsne.org \|date=June 18, 2010 \|url=http://fsne.org/2010awards/ \|access-date=June 18, 2010 \|quote=Inside Scientology – The ''St. Petersburg Times'' reporting on the Church of Scientology is in the finest traditions of American journalism. The reporting by Joseph Childs and Thomas Tobin stands out for the ways in which it held accountable the powerful. \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624185654/http://fsne.org/2010awards/ \|archive-date=June 24, 2010 \|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|title=Winners of 76th Annual National Headliner Awards \|work=[[The New York Times]] \|date=March 24, 2010 \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/24/us/AP-US-Headliner-Awards-List.html?ref=news \|access-date =March 25, 2010}} {{dead link\|date=September 2010\|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|title=Print Division – Daily Newspapers and News Syndicates – Writing & Reporting \|work=National Headliner Awards \|publisher=www.nationalheadlinerawards.com \|url=http://www.nationalheadlinerawards.com/Winners2010Print.html \|access-date=March 25, 2010 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325023131/http://www.nationalheadlinerawards.com/Winners2010Print.html \|archive-date=March 25, 2010 \|df=mdy}}</ref> The series was cited as a basis for subsequent journalistic investigations, including a weeklong series hosted on [[CNN]] by [[Anderson Cooper]]. In an incident also witnessed and supported by Amy Scobee,<ref name="ecclesiasticalj" /> Jeff Hawkins, a former marketing guru for Scientology, said he had attended a meeting where Miscavige "jumped up on the conference room table, like with his feet right on the conference room table, launched himself across the table at me — I was standing — battered my face, and then shoved me down on the floor".<ref>{{cite news\|title=Scientology: A History of Violence; Students Charged in Bullying Case (Transcript)\|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/30/acd.01.html\|work=Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees\|publisher=CNN \|access-date=November 6, 2013\|date=March 30, 2010}}</ref> Scientology representatives have consistently denied abuse by Miscavige, insisting that the allegations come from [[apostate]]s motivated by bitterness or attempting to extract money from the organization.<ref name="TruthRunDown" /><ref name="Tobin">Tobin, Thomas C; Childs, Joe (January 13, 2013). "Scientology defectors describe violence, humiliation in "the Hole"". Tampa Bay Times.</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologypart3.html\|title=The man behind Scientology \|access-date=April 9, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1012139.ece \|title=Scientology: Origins, celebrities and holdings \|access-date=April 9, 2011 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526073416/http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1012139.ece \|archive-date=May 26, 2010 \|url-status=dead \|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Hawkins' claims were responded to by Scientology when he reiterated them in a documentary, saying they were "fabricated" and referring to him as "a discredited anti-Scientology media source".<ref>{{cite web\|author=Erin Jensen, USA TODAY \|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2016/12/21/leah-remini-scientology-and-the-aftermath-episode-4-/95689966/ \|title='Scientology' accuses church leader David Miscavige of physical abuse \|work=USA Today \|date=December 21, 2016 \|access-date=June 19, 2018}}</ref> Scientology executive David Bloomberg said that it was Hawkins who attacked Miscavige.<ref name="ecclesiasticalj">{{cite news\|title=Scientology: Ecclesiastical Justice, Part 3 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology\|first1=Thomas\|last1=Tobin\|first2=Joe\|last2=Childs\|date=June 23, 2009\|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2009/06/23/ecclesiastical-justice/\|access-date=December 11, 2011}}</ref> Miscavige sent an [[open letter]] to the newspaper challenging the integrity of the reporters and labeling their sources as "lying", after the persons in question had been removed from the Scientology organization for what Miscavige described as "fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion".<ref name="DMLetter" /> Scientology also commissioned an independent review of the ''Times''{{'}}s reporting, but have not, to date, released those findings.<ref name=wusf>{{cite news\|title=Scientology Hires Reporters to Investigate St. Petersburg Times\|first=Scott\|last=Finn\|publisher=[[WUSF (FM)\|WUSF Public Media]]\|date=February 25, 2010\|url=http://www.wusf.usf.edu/news/2010/02/25/scientology_hires_reporters_to_investigate_st._petersburg_times\|access-date=October 18, 2010\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706231444/http://www.wusf.usf.edu/news/2010/02/25/scientology_hires_reporters_to_investigate_st._petersburg_times\|archive-date=July 6, 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=reldis>{{cite news\|title=The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media\|first=Hugh B.\|last=Urban\|work=[[Religion Dispatches]]\|date=March 17, 2010 \|url=http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/2358/the_rundown_truth:_scientology_changes_strategy_in_war_with_media_ \|access-date=October 18, 2010}}</ref> Miscavige is portrayed within Scientology as "a servant of Hubbard's message, not an agent in his own right".<ref name="invention">{{cite book \|last=Lewis \|first=James R. \|author-link=James R. Lewis (scholar) \|author2=Olav Hammer \|title=The Invention of Sacred Tradition \|url=https://archive.org/details/inventionsacredt00lewi \|url-access=limited \|publisher = Cambridge University Press \|year=2007 \|isbn=978-0-521-86479-4 \|page=[https://archive.org/details/inventionsacredt00lewi/page/n48 36] \|author2-link=Olav Hammer}}</ref> Official Scientology websites describe him as Hubbard's "trusted friend".<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Sappell \|first1=Joel \|title=Scientology Won't Set Me Free \|url=https://www.lamag.com/longform/the-tip-of-the-spear/5/ \|website=Los Angeles Magazine \|access-date=20 November 2019}}</ref> Miscavige uses Church publications as well as professionally produced videos of gala events, at which he acts as [[master of ceremonies]], to communicate with Scientologists worldwide.<ref name="manbehindpart4" /> According to the organization, as the RTC's chairman of the board his primary task is to "preserve, maintain and protect" the Scientology organization.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologypart1.html\|title=The man behind Scientology\|work=St.{{nbsp}}Petersburg Times\|access-date=April 10, 2015}}</ref>