These DDRP-projects won big journalism awards
The Data-Driven Reporting Project has awarded nearly $2 million to 46 news organizations since its inaugural round in 2022.
Several projects from awardees have already won national, state and local recognition.
WABE , announced that the station won a national Murrow award in the Large Market Radio category for its DDRP-supported project on Black homeowners in Georgia who’ve lost homes in an unbalanced tax-sale process.
The Times Union won three awards in early April 2022 from the New York Press Association for its investigation into the use of restraint and seclusion in schools. They were honored with the Best use of the Freedom of Information Act award, Best Investigative reporting and third place honors in coverage of education. When schools use force by Hearst Newspapers Albany, NY, USA | Oct. 27, 2022
LSU Manship School News Service won Investigative Reporters & Editor’s 2023 Student Large Division. This project also prompted an apology from the governor.
Half Century Later, Question Remains: What Deputy Killed Two Students? by LSU Cold Case Project
Baton Rouge, LA, USA | October 30, 2022
News&Observer won the Victor K. McElheny Award in science journalism honors series on poultry farming and the environment and also the Investigative Reporters & Editor’s 2023 Print/Online (written word) Division IV. Big poultry in North Carolina by News&Observer and The Charlotte Observer. Raleigh, NC, USA | Nov. 30, 2022
Three of our cohort members either won or were named finalists in the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes. While these were not directly related to projects funded by the Data-Driven Reporting Project, we are honored to support newsrooms that produce this impactful journalism.
The Invisible Institute won two Pulitzer Prizes: The 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for an “investigative series on missing Black girls and women in Chicago that revealed how systemic racism and police department neglect contributed to the crisis” and the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting for a “series that revisits a Chicago hate crime from the 1990s, a fluid amalgam of memoir, community history and journalism.”
Honolulu Civil Beat (2023) was named a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News 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.”
New Hampshire Public Radio (2024) was named a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting for “their gripping and extensively reported investigation of corruption and sexual abuse within the lucrative recovery industry that sought accountability despite legal pressure.”
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