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The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Investigative Reporting

Finalist: Carol Marbin Miller and Audra D.S. Burch of Miami Herald

For a sweeping investigation of Florida’s juvenile justice system, prompted by the tragic death of a foster child and told in heartbreaking detail, that spurred legislative reform intended to better protect that states' young charges.

Nominated Work

October 10, 2017
Fight Club

Biography

Carol Marbin Miller is a senior investigative reporter at the Miami Herald, where she has written extensively for almost 20 years about child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, disabilities and elders. She has received the Goldsmith Prize, Selden Ring Award, Associated Press Managing Editors Award, Heywood Broun Award and the Eugene S. Pulliam First Amendment Award, among others. The Florida Society of News Editors bestowed on Marbin Miller the Paul Hansell Award for Distinguished Achievement in Florida Journalism, and a series she co-write on assisted living facilities was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in public service.

Audra D.S. Burch is an award-winning National Enterprise Correspondent for The New York Times. Before that, she was an enterprise writer at the Miami Herald before joining the Investigations Team. As part of a two-person team, Burch worked on Innocents Lost, a project exploring failures in Florida’s child welfare system. The project won the 2015 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize and the Worth Bingham Prize. Burch began her career at the Gary Post-Tribune followed by a stint at the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. She is a graduate of Florida A&M University and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.

Winners

Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting in 2018:

Staff of The Washington Post

For purposeful and relentless reporting that changed the course of a Senate race in Alabama by revealing a candidate’s alleged past sexual harassment of teenage girls and subsequent efforts to undermine the journalism that exposed it. Investigative Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Investigative Reporting in 2018:

Tim Eberly of The Virginian-Pilot

For compelling reporting that resulted in changes to Virginia’s parole board system, which operated for decades behind closed doors, designating first-time convicts as repeat offenders under the state’s three-strikes law and condemning them to longer sentences than some murderers, with no hope of parole.

The Jury

Peter Bhatia(Chair)

Editor and Vice President

Brian Carovillano

Vice President and Managing Editor

Scott Klein

Deputy Managing Editor

Lyle Muller

Executive Director and Editor

Nate Silver

Editor-in-Chief

Kara Swisher

Executive Editor

Ben Welsh

Data Editor

Winners in Investigative Reporting

2017

Eric Eyre

For courageous reporting, performed in the face of powerful opposition, to expose the flood of opioids flowing into depressed West Virginia counties with the highest overdose death rates in the country.
2015

Eric Lipton

For reporting that showed how the influence of lobbyists can sway congressional leaders and state attorneys general, slanting justice toward the wealthy and connected.
2014

Chris Hamby

For his reports on how some lawyers and doctors rigged a system to deny benefits to coal miners stricken with black lung disease, resulting in remedial legislative efforts.
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2018 Prize Winners

Investigative Reporting

Staff of The Washington Post

For purposeful and relentless reporting that changed the course of a Senate race in Alabama by revealing a candidate’s alleged past sexual harassment of teenage girls and subsequent efforts to undermine the journalism that exposed it.
See All 2018 Winners