Finalist: The Boston Globe, by The Boston Globe
For its stories, videos, photos and graphics exposing a poorly regulated, profit-driven housing system that subjected thousands of college students in Boston to unsafe, and even deadly, conditions.
Nominated Work
May 4, 2014
Although designed as an integrated web presentation, "Shadow Campus" was entered in PDF form. All stories listed below may be accessed from the central link.
May 4, 2014: A house jammed with students, a life of promise lost
Video Spotlight: Shadow Campus
May 5, 2014: Overcrowded and at risk: a way of life, and sometimes death, for student tenants
Interactive Graphic: Tracking the dorm shortfall
May 5, 2014: Neighborhoods lose as rents rise
May 6, 2014: A devastating mismatch: city vs. scofflaw landlords
May 6, 2014, 2014: Lax security and violations endanger student tenants
May 8, 2014: Walsh vows off-campus student housing crackdown
June 4, 2014: Colleges to give data on off-campus housing
June 8, 2014: Notorious landlord has another problem to explain
June 13, 2014: Oft-critized landlord gets board approval
June 25, 2014: Inspection of cleared buildings limited
August 14, 2014: Landlord rejects negligence claims
August 20, 2014: Family prepares to sue landlord in fatal fire
August 21, 2014: Boston presses colleges for details on addresses
August 21, 2014: Colleges get a request to add dorms
Winners
Prize Winner in Public Service in 2015:
The Post and Courier
For "Till Death Do Us Part," a riveting series that probed why South Carolina is among the deadliest states in the union for women and put the issue of what to do about it on the state's agenda.
Public Service
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Public Service in 2015:
The Wall Street Journal
For "Deadly Medicine," a stellar reporting project that documented the significant cancer risk to women of a common surgery and prompted a change in the prescribed medical treatment.
The Jury
The Jury
Scott Kraft(Chair )
deputy managing editor
Rebecca Blumenstein
deputy editor-in-chief
Robin Fields
managing editor
Martin Gottlieb
editor
Josh Meyer
director of education and outreach, National Security Journalism Initiative
Sandy Sugawara
managing editor
Rene Sanchez
editor and senior vice president
Winners in Public Service
The Guardian US
For its revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, helping through aggressive reporting to spark a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy.
Sun Sentinel
For its well documented investigation of off-duty police officers who recklessly speed and endanger the lives of citizens, leading to disciplinary action and other steps to curtail a deadly hazard.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
For its exploration of pervasive violence in the city's schools, using powerful print narratives and videos to illuminate crimes committed by children against children and to stir reforms to improve safety for teachers and students.
Los Angeles Times
For its exposure of corruption in the small California city of Bell where officials tapped the treasury to pay themselves exorbitant salaries, resulting in arrests and reforms.
2015 Prize Winners
Anthony Doerr
An imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology.
Julia Wolfe
A powerful oratorio for chorus and sextet evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th Century.
Stephen Adly Guirgis
A nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death.
David I. Kertzer
An engrossing dual biography that uses recently opened Vatican archives to shed light on two men who exercised nearly absolute power over their realms.