Finalist: Staff of Reuters
For a series of deeply-reported, original dispatches from the Hong Kong protests, a battleground between democracy and autocracy that detailed China's grip behind the scenes and offered valuable insights into the forces that will shape the next century.
Nominated Work
December 20, 2019
Winners
Prize Winner in International Reporting in 2020:
Staff of The New York Times
For a set of enthralling stories, reported at great risk, exposing the predations of Vladimir Putin’s regime.
International Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in International Reporting in 2020:
Staff of The New York Times
For gripping accounts that disclosed China’s top-secret efforts to repress millions of Muslims through a system of labor camps, brutality and surveillance.
The Jury
The Jury
Scott Kraft(Chair)
Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times
Susan Chira
Editor-in-Chief, The Marshall Project
Jeffrey Goldberg
Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic
Jonathan Kaufman*
Director and Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University
Nancy San Martin
Managing Editor, El Nuevo Herald
Winners in International Reporting
Staff of Reuters, with notable contributions from Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo
For expertly exposing the military units and Buddhist villagers responsible for the systematic expulsion and murder of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, courageous coverage that landed its reporters in prison.
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.
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.
2020 Prize Winners
Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times
For a sweeping, provocative and personal essay for the ground-breaking 1619 Project, which seeks to place the enslavement of Africans at the center of America’s story, prompting public conversation about the nation’s founding and evolution.
Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times
For work demonstrating extraordinary community service by a critic, applying his expertise and enterprise to critique a proposed overhaul of the L.A. County Museum of Art and its effect on the institution’s mission.
Jeffery Gerritt of the Palestine (Tx.) Herald-Press
For editorials that exposed how pre-trial inmates died horrific deaths in a small Texas county jail—reflecting a rising trend across the state—and courageously took on the local sheriff and judicial establishment, which tried to cover up these needless tragedies.
Staff of The Washington Post
For a groundbreaking series that showed with scientific clarity the dire effects of extreme temperatures on the planet.