Finalist: Staffs of The Texas Tribune, ProPublica, and FRONTLINE
For advancing understanding of law enforcement’s catastrophic response to the mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school and also for documenting the political and policy shortcomings that have led to similar deadly police failures across the country.
Nominated Work
December 5, 2023
March 20, 2023
Winners
Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting in 2024:
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.
Explanatory Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Explanatory Reporting in 2024:
Staff of Bloomberg
For rigorous, far-reaching reporting that holds corporate water profiteers to account and exposes how they willfully exacerbate the effects of climate change at the expense of less powerful communities.
The Jury
The Jury
Kelly McBride(Chair)
Senior Vice President and Chair of Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership, Poynter Institute; Public Editor, NPR
Tristan Ahtone
Editor at Large, Grist
Kathleen McGrory*
Editor, Local Investigations Fellowship, The New York Times
Molly O’Toole*
Independent Journalist and Author, Washington, D.C.
Toluse Olorunnipa*
White House Bureau Chief, The Washington Post
Pia Sarkar
Deputy Business Editor, Enterprise and Storytelling, Associated Press
Alexandra Zayas
Deputy Managing Editor, ProPublica
Winners in Explanatory Reporting
Caitlin Dickerson of The Atlantic
For deeply reported and compelling accounting of the Trump administration policy that forcefully separated migrant children from their parents, resulting in abuses that have persisted under the current administration.
Staff of Quanta Magazine, New York, N.Y., notably Natalie Wolchover
For coverage that revealed the complexities of building the James Webb Space Telescope, designed to facilitate groundbreaking astronomical and cosmological research.
Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts of Reuters
For an exhaustive examination, powered by a pioneering data analysis of U.S. federal court cases, of the obscure legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” and how it shields police who use excessive force from prosecution.
Staff of The Washington Post
For a groundbreaking series that showed with scientific clarity the dire effects of extreme temperatures on the planet.
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.