The Knight Science Journalism at MIT program’s Victor K. McElheny Award honors outstanding local and regional journalists’ reporting on science, public health, tech, and the environment.
Latest awards include National Headliner Award and National Press Foundation recognition for Big Poultry, a series about a secretive and lightly regulated industry raising 1 billion birds across the state.
The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT has announced that the investigative series “Big Poultry,” published by The Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News & Observer, has been …
An investigation into poultry farming in North Carolina and related unregulated environmental hazards won the 2023 Victor K. McElheny Award in Science Journalism, an award honoring local and regional science journalism from the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT.