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The 2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in National Reporting

Finalist: Joshua Schneyer, Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke of Reuters

For a year-long investigation that exposed how two of the world’s largest automakers and a major poultry supplier in Alabama violated child labor laws and exploited undocumented immigrant children.

Nominated Work

Biography

Joshua Schneyer is an enterprise reporter for Reuters. His projects often focus on corporate wrongdoing and they have received recognitions including a Hillman Prize, the John B. Oakes Award and two Gerald Loeb awards. Before moving to New York to join Reuters in 2009, Schneyer spent a decade as a foreign correspondent in Brazil and Venezuela.

Mica Rosenberg leads the U.S. immigration team at Reuters. She previously worked for seven years as foreign correspondent in Guatemala and Mexico, reporting from close to a dozen countries in Latin America, and also covered legal affairs and white collar crime in New York. She completed a Knight Bagehot Fellowship in business journalism, has a master’s in international affairs and is originally from New Mexico.

Kristina Cooke is a national reporter at Reuters, mostly focused on investigative projects. Her work has explored immigration, income inequality, drug abuse and China's influence in Hollywood. Originally from Germany, she joined Reuters in London in 2005, and now lives in San Francisco.

Winners

Prize Winner in National Reporting in 2023:

Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post

For unflinching reporting that captured the complex consequences of life after Roe v. Wade, including the story of a Texas teenager who gave birth to twins after new restrictions denied her an abortion. National Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in National Reporting in 2023:

Stephania Taladrid, contributing writer, The New Yorker

For sweeping and empathetic reporting on individuals caught in the abortion fight in New Mexico, Texas and Mexico, including stories about an abortion underground, women and girls trying to get health care, and the final days of a Houston abortion clinic.

The Jury

Julie Pace(Chair)

Vice President/Executive Editor, Associated Press

Rebekah Allen

Politics Editor, The Texas Tribune

Steven Ginsberg

Executive Editor, The Athletic

Kimbriell Kelly

Washington Bureau Chief/Assistant Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times

Dianne Solis

Senior Writer, The Dallas Morning News

Winners in National Reporting

2022

Staff of The New York Times

For an ambitious project that quantified a disturbing pattern of fatal traffic stops by police, illustrating how hundreds of deaths could have been avoided and how officers typically avoided punishment.
2019

Staff of The Wall Street Journal

For uncovering President Trump’s secret payoffs to two women during his campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him, and the web of supporters who facilitated the transactions, triggering criminal inquiries and calls for impeachment.
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2023 Prize Winners

Commentary

Kyle Whitmire of AL.com, Birmingham

For measured and persuasive columns that document how Alabama's Confederate heritage still colors the present with racism and exclusion, told through tours of its first capital, its mansions and monuments–and through the history that has been omitted.
Investigative Reporting

Staff of The Wall Street Journal

For sharp accountability reporting on financial conflicts of interest among officials at 50 federal agencies, revealing those who bought and sold stocks they regulated and other ethical violations by individuals charged with safeguarding the public’s interest.
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