Finalist: Chris Hamby of BuzzFeed News
For an exposé of a dispute-settlement process used by multinational corporations to undermine domestic regulations and gut environmental laws at the expense of poorer nations.
Nominated Work
August 28, 2016
August 30, 2016
August 31, 2016
September 1, 2016
September 9, 2016
September 29, 2016
October 12, 2016
Biography
Chris Hamby is an investigative reporter at BuzzFeed News. His work has been recognized with the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, Harvard University’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, two White House Correspondents’ Association awards, and UCLA’s Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, as well as awards from the National Press Club, the National Press Foundation, and the Society of Professional Journalists, among others. He has reported on a range of subjects, including labor, public health, the environment, criminal justice, politics and international trade. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Chris lives and works in Washington, D.C.
Winners
Prize Winner in International Reporting in 2017:
The New York Times Staff
For agenda-setting reporting on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to project Russia’s power abroad, revealing techniques that included assassination, online harassment and the planting of incriminating evidence on opponents.
International Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in International Reporting in 2017:
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and the Miami Herald
For the Panama Papers, a series of stories using a collaboration of more than 300 reporters on six continents to expose the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens. (Moved by the Board to the Explanatory Reporting category.)
The Wall Street Journal Staff
For clear and persistent coverage that shaped the world’s understanding of dramatic events in Turkey as that nation careened from a promising democracy to a near-autocracy.
The Jury
The Jury
Jason Szep(Chair)*
U.S. National Affairs Editor
Elana Beiser
Editorial Director
Dayan Candappa
Global Editor-in-Chief
Jon Sawyer
Executive Director
Trish Wilson
International Investigations Editor
Winners in International Reporting
Alissa J. Rubin
For thoroughly reported and movingly written accounts giving voice to Afghan women who were forced to endure unspeakable cruelties.
The New York Times Staff
For courageous front-line reporting and vivid human stories on Ebola in Africa, engaging the public with the scope and details of the outbreak while holding authorities accountable.
Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall
For their courageous reports on the violent persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar that, in efforts to flee the country, often falls victim to predatory human-trafficking networks.
David Barboza
For his striking exposure of corruption at high levels of the Chinese government, including billions in secret wealth owned by relatives of the prime minister, well documented work published in the face of heavy pressure from the Chinese officials.
2017 Prize Winners
C. J. Chivers
For showing, through an artful accumulation of fact and detail, that a Marine’s postwar descent into violence reflected neither the actions of a simple criminal nor a stereotypical case of PTSD.
Peggy Noonan
For rising to the moment with beautifully rendered columns that connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the nation’s most divisive political campaigns.
Hilton Als
For bold and original reviews that strove to put stage dramas within a real-world cultural context, particularly the shifting landscape of gender, sexuality and race.
Art Cullen
For editorials fueled by tenacious reporting, impressive expertise and engaging writing that successfully challenged powerful corporate agricultural interests in Iowa.