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• PressReader

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  Discover award-winning journalism from 'The Boston Globe', 'The Washington Post', 'The Wall Street Journal' and 'The New Yorker'.

• ProPublica, for urgent reporting by Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz

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  Winner - Public Service. "About pregnant women who died after doctors delayed urgently needed care for fear of violating vague “life of the mother” exceptions in states with strict abortion laws."

• Staff of The Washington Post

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  Winner - Breaking News Reporting. "For urgent and illuminating coverage of the July 13 attempt to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, including detailed story-telling and sharp analysis that coupled traditional police reporting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Staff of Reuters

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  Winner - Investigative Reporting. "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."

• Azam Ahmed, Matthieu Aikins, contributing writer, and Christina Goldbaum of The New York Times

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  Winner - Explanatory Reporting. "For an authoritative examination of how the United States sowed the seeds of its own failure in Afghanistan, primarily by supporting murderous militia that drove civilians to the Taliban."

• The Naked Don't Fear the Water

  An Underground Journey With Afghan Refugees

  Aikins, Matthieu

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  Matthieu Aikins is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. "He was part of a New York Times team that won the 2022 Pulitzer for International Reporting for an investigation of civilian casualties from U.S. airstrikes. A video they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times

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  Winner - Local Reporting. "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Staff of The Wall Street Journal

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  Winner - National Reporting. "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Declan Walsh and the Staff of The New York Times

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  Winner - International Reporting. "For their revelatory investigation of the conflict in Sudan, including reporting on foreign influence and the lucrative gold trade fueling it, and chilling forensic accounts of the Sudanese forces responsible for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nine Lives of Pakistan

  Dispatches From a Divided Nation

  Walsh, Declan

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  "Declan Walsh is The New York Times' chief Africa correspondent. He was previously based in Egypt, covering the Middle East, and in Pakistan. He previously worked at The Guardian and is the author of The Nine Lives of Pakistan [...] He started his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mark Warren, contributor, Esquire

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  Winner - Feature Writing. "For a sensitive portrait of a Baptist pastor and small town mayor who died by suicide after his secret digital life was exposed by a right-wing news site."

• Esquire

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  Discover the award-winning feature "A Death in Alabama" in the April 2024 issue. "Mark Warren worked as an editor at Esquire Magazine for twenty-eight years, twenty of those years as Executive Editor, where he oversaw much of the award-winning…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mosab Abu Toha, contributor, The New Yorker

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  Winner - Commentary. "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."

• Forest of Noise

  Abu Toha, Mosab

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  "Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

  Poems From Gaza

  Abu Toha, Mosab

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  "In this poetry debut Mosab Abu Toha writes about his life under siege in Gaza, first as a child, and then as a young father. A survivor of four brutal military attacks, he bears witness to a grinding cycle of destruction and assault, and yet, his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alexandra Lange, contributing writer, Bloomberg CityLab

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  Winner - Criticism. "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."

• Meet Me by the Fountain

  An Inside History of the Mall

  Lange, Alexandra

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  "Alexandra Lange is a design critic and author. Her essays, reviews and profiles have appeared in numerous design publications including Architect, Bloomberg CityLab, Harvard Design Magazine, and Metropolis, as well as in The Atlantic, New York…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg and Leah Binkovitz of the Houston Chronicle

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  Winner - Editorial Writing. "For a powerful series on dangerous train crossings that kept a rigorous focus on the people and communities at risk as the newspaper demanded urgent action."

• Staff of The New Yorker "In the Dark"

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  Winner - Audio Reporting. "For their “In the Dark” podcast, a combination of compelling storytelling and relentless reporting in the face of obstacles from the U.S. military, a four-year investigation into one of the most high-profile crimes of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Boston Globe, with contributions from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

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  Finalist - Public Service. "For its sweeping coverage of the financial mismanagement of a major hospital chain, exposing how corporate malfeasance, personal greed and government neglect led to compromised care and deaths."