Finalist: Staffs of Associated Press and FRONTLINE, in collaboration with the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism
For a three-year investigation involving dozens of reporters and the creation of a database to document more than 1,000 deaths around the country in which police officers subdued victims with methods intended to be non-lethal.
Nominated Work
April 30, 2024
Winners
Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting in 2025:
Staff of Reuters
For a boldly reported exposé of lax regulation in the U.S. and abroad that makes fentanyl, one of the world’s deadliest drugs, inexpensive and widely available to users in the United States.
Investigative Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Investigative Reporting in 2025:
Christopher Weaver, Anna Wilde Mathews, Mark Maremont, Tom McGinty and Andrew Mollica of The Wall Street Journal
For a lucid, comprehensive series that revealed how insurance companies gamed the Medicare Advantage system and collected billions of dollars for nonexistent ailments while shunting expensive cases onto the public.
The Jury
The Jury
Douglas Foster(Chair)
Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
Adam Ganucheau
Editor-in-Chief, Mississippi Today
Lauren McGaughy
Investigative Reporter/Editor, The Texas Newsroom
Zachary Mider*
Reporter, Bloomberg News
Brody Mullins
Journalist/Author, Washington, D.C.
Manuel Torres
Senior Editor, The Marshall Project
Alexandra Zayas
Deputy Managing Editor, ProPublica
Winners in Investigative Reporting
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.
Staff of The Wall Street Journal
For sharp accountability reporting on financial conflicts of interest among officials at 50 federal agencies, revealing those who bought and sold stocks they regulated and other ethical violations by individuals charged with safeguarding the public’s interest.
Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington and Eli Murray of the Tampa Bay Times
For a compelling exposé of highly toxic hazards inside Florida’s only battery recycling plant that forced the implementation of safety measures to adequately protect workers and nearby residents.
Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen and Brendan McCarthy of The Boston Globe
For reporting that uncovered a systematic failure by state governments to share information about dangerous truck drivers that could have kept them off the road, prompting immediate reforms.
2025 Prize Winners
Staff of The Wall Street Journal
For chronicling political and personal shifts of the richest person in the world, Elon Musk, including his turn to conservative politics, his use of legal and illegal drugs and his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times
For a compassionate investigative series that captured the breathtaking dimensions of Baltimore’s fentanyl crisis and its disproportionate impact on older Black men, creating a sophisticated statistical model that The Banner shared with other newsrooms.
Mosab Abu Toha, contributor, The New Yorker
For essays on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience of more than a year and a half of war with Israel.
Alexandra Lange, contributing writer, Bloomberg CityLab
For graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural components that allow children and communities to thrive.