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Finalist: Staff of BuzzFeed News

For a stunning probe across two continents that proved that operatives with apparent ties to Vladimir Putin have engaged in a targeted killing campaign against his perceived enemies on British and American soil.

Nominated Work

Winners

Prize Winner in International Reporting in 2018:

Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato of Reuters

For relentless reporting that exposed the brutal killing campaign behind Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. International Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in International Reporting in 2018:

Staff of Associated Press

For a devastating series that vividly showed that the human cost of the U.S.-led defeat of the Islamic State in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was far greater than acknowledged.

The Jury

Trish Wilson(Chair)

International Investigations Editor

Jill Abramson

Senior Lecturer in English

Neela Banerjee

Senior Reporter

Ethan Bronner

Senior Editor

Efrain Hernandez Jr.

Assistant Foreign & National Editor

Winners in International Reporting

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.

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.

2018 Prize Winners

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.