Finalist: KFF Health News and Cox Media Group
For uncovering millions of cases in which the Social Security Administration overpaid beneficiaries, then demanded immediate repayment — imposing debts on elderly and disabled people who had already spent the funds.
Nominated Work
November 17, 2023
Winners
Prize Winner in Public Service in 2024:
ProPublica, for the work of Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg
Groundbreaking and ambitious reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court to reveal how a small group of politically influential billionaires wooed justices with lavish gifts and travel, pushing the Court to adopt its first code of conduct.
Public Service
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Public Service in 2024:
The Washington Post
For its sobering examination of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, which forced readers to reckon with the horrors wrought by the weapon often used for mass shootings in America. (Moved by the Board to the National Reporting category, where it also was entered.)
The Jury
The Jury
Gina Chua(Chair)
Executive Editor, Semafor
Hector Becerra
Managing Editor/California, Los Angeles Times
Leroy Chapman Jr.
Editor in Chief, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Barton Gellman*
Senior Advisor, Brennan Center for Justice
Kelly Ann Scott
Editor in Chief, Houston Chronicle
Patricia Wen
Magazine Staff Writer, The Boston Globe
Michael J. Williams
Global Enterprise Editor, Reuters
Winners in Public Service
Associated Press, for the work of Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko and Lori Hinnant
Courageous reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol that bore witness to the slaughter of civilians in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Washington Post
For its compellingly told and vividly presented account of the assault on Washington on January 6, 2021, providing the public with a thorough and unflinching understanding of one of the nation's darkest days.
The New York Times
For courageous, prescient and sweeping coverage of the coronavirus pandemic that exposed racial and economic inequities, government failures in the U.S. and beyond, and filled a data vacuum that helped local governments, healthcare providers, businesses and individuals to be better prepared and protected.
Anchorage Daily News with contributions from ProPublica
For a riveting series that revealed a third of Alaska’s villages had no police protection, took authorities to task for decades of neglect, and spurred an influx of money and legislative changes.
2024 Prize Winners
Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker
For a searing indictment of our legal system’s reliance on the felony murder charge and its disparate consequences, often devastating for communities of color.
Staff of Reuters
For an eye-opening series of accountability stories focused on Elon Musk’s automobile and aerospace businesses, stories that displayed remarkable breadth and depth and provoked official probes of his companies’ practices in Europe and the United States.
Hannah Dreier of The New York Times
For a deeply reported series of stories revealing the stunning reach of migrant child labor across the United States—and the corporate and governmental failures that perpetuate it.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Post
For passionate columns written under great personal risk from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his country.