Finalist: Staff of The Boston Globe
For a poignant and illuminating exploration of the city's fraught history of race relations that went beyond the anecdotal, using data to demonstrate how racism infiltrates every institution and aspect of city life.
Nominated Work
December 10, 2017
Winners
Prize Winner in Local Reporting in 2018:
Staff of The Cincinnati Enquirer
For a riveting and insightful narrative and video documenting seven days of greater Cincinnati's heroin epidemic, revealing how the deadly addiction has ravaged families and communities.
Local Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Local Reporting in 2018:
Jason Grotto, Sandhya Kambhampati and Ray Long of Chicago Tribune and ProPublica Illinois
For deep reporting that included analysis of more than 100 million electronic tax records to show how systemic favoritism and political neglect influenced assessments at the expense of the working class and poor in majority black and Latino neighborhoods.
The Jury
The Jury
Rene Sanchez(Chair)
Executive Editor
Greg Burton
Executive Editor
Lee Ann Colacioppo
Editor
Jane Harrigan
former Professor and Journalism Director
Sherrie Marshall
Executive Editor
Debra Adams Simmons
Executive Editor, Culture
Hollis Towns
Executive Editor
Winners in Local Reporting
The Salt Lake Tribune Staff
For a string of vivid reports revealing the perverse, punitive and cruel treatment given to sexual assault victims at Brigham Young University, one of Utah’s most powerful institutions.
Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick and Lisa Gartner
For exposing a local school board's culpability in turning some county schools into failure factories, with tragic consequences for the community. (Moved by the Board from the Public Service category, where it was also entered.)
Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci
For their inquiry into widespread corruption in a small, cash-strapped school district, including impressive use of the paper's website.
Will Hobson and Michael LaForgia
For their relentless investigation into the squalid conditions that marked housing for the city's substantial homeless population, leading to swift reforms.
2018 Prize Winners
The New York Times, for reporting led by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, and The New Yorker, for reporting by Ronan Farrow
For explosive, impactful journalism that exposed powerful and wealthy sexual predators, including allegations against one of Hollywood’s most influential producers, bringing them to account for long-suppressed allegations of coercion, brutality and victim silencing, thus spurring a worldwide reckoning about sexual abuse of women.
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.
John Archibald of Alabama Media Group
For lyrical and courageous commentary that is rooted in Alabama but has a national resonance in scrutinizing corrupt politicians, championing the rights of women and calling out hypocrisy.
Staffs of The Arizona Republic and USA Today Network
For vivid and timely reporting that masterfully combined text, video, podcasts and virtual reality to examine, from multiple perspectives, the difficulties and unintended consequences of fulfilling President Trump's pledge to construct a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.