Finalist: Staff of the Honolulu Civil Beat
For its distinctive, sweeping and urgent coverage of the Maui wildfires that killed more than 100 people and left a historic town in ruins, reporting that held officials to account and chronicled the aftermath and efforts to rebuild. (Moved by the jury from the Local Reporting category.)
Nominated Work
August 12, 2023
August 16, 2023
September 20, 2023
Winners
Prize Winner in Breaking News Reporting in 2024:
Staff of Lookout Santa Cruz, California
For its detailed and nimble community-focused coverage, over a holiday weekend, of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands of residents and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses.
Breaking News Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Reporting in 2024:
Staff of the Los Angeles Times
For urgent and thoughtful coverage of a Lunar New Year overnight shooting that left 11 senior citizens dead, demonstrating clear knowledge of and commitment to the local Asian communities.
The Jury
The Jury
Greg Borowski(Chair)
Executive Editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Battinto L. Batts Jr.
Dean and Professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University
Carolyn Fox
Managing Editor, Tampa Bay Times
Karen Hawkins
Story Editor, The 19th
Jamie Stockwell
Executive Local Editor, The Washington Post
Winners in Breaking News Reporting
Staff of the Los Angeles Times
For revealing a secretly recorded conversation among city officials that included racist comments, followed by coverage of the rapidly resulting turmoil and deeply reported pieces that delved further into the racial issues affecting local politics.
Staff of the Miami Herald
For its urgent yet sweeping coverage of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex, merging clear and compassionate writing with comprehensive news and accountability reporting.
Staff of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.
For its urgent, authoritative and nuanced coverage of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis and of the reverberations that followed.
Staff of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.
For its rapid coverage of hundreds of last-minute pardons by Kentucky’s governor, showing how the process was marked by opacity, racial disparities and violations of legal norms. (Moved by the jury from Local Reporting, where it was originally entered.)
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.