Finalist: Staff of The Villages Daily Sun
For its comprehensive investigation and moment-by-moment account of Florida officials’ inaction before, during and after Hurricane Ian, the deadliest storm to strike the state since 1935.
Nominated Work
March 4, 2023
June 10, 2023
September 29, 2023
December 5, 2023
Winners
Prize Winner in Local Reporting in 2024:
Sarah Conway of City Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of the Invisible Institute
For their investigative series on missing Black girls and women in Chicago that revealed how systemic racism and police department neglect contributed to the crisis.
Local Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Local Reporting in 2024:
Jerry Mitchell, Ilyssa Daly, Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield of Mississippi Today and The New York Times
For their detailed examination of corruption and abuse, including the torturing of suspects, by Mississippi sheriffs and their officers over two decades.
The Jury
The Jury
Carol Hunter(Chair)
Executive Editor, The Des Moines Register
Oseye Boyd
Editor in Chief, Mirror Indy/Free Press Indiana
Adam Ganucheau
Editor in Chief, Mississippi Today
Nic Garcia
Regions Editor, The Texas Tribune
Nita Lelyveld
Managing Editor, Portland Press Herald
Matt Purdy
Editor at Large, The New York Times
Rochell Bishop Sleets
Managing Editor, Newsday
Winners in Local Reporting
Anna Wolfe of Mississippi Today, Ridgeland, Miss.
For reporting that revealed how a former Mississippi governor used his office to steer millions of state welfare dollars to benefit his family and friends, including NFL quarterback Brett Favre.
Madison Hopkins of the Better Government Association and Cecilia Reyes of the Chicago Tribune
For a piercing examination of the city’s long history of failed building- and fire-safety code enforcement, which let scofflaw landlords commit serious violations that resulted in dozens of unnecessary deaths.
Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi of the Tampa Bay Times
For resourceful, creative reporting that exposed how a powerful and politically connected sheriff built a secretive intelligence operation that harassed residents and used grades and child welfare records to profile schoolchildren.
Staff of The Baltimore Sun
For illuminating, impactful reporting on a lucrative, undisclosed financial relationship between the city’s mayor and the public hospital system she helped to oversee.
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.