In 2014, after Hamas members kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, Israeli forces arrested hundreds of Palestinians, and the Israeli response quickly grew into an on-the-ground military operation in Gaza. In the subsequent seven-week assault, according to a United Nations report, 2,251 Palestinians were killed 1,462 of them civilians along with 67 Israeli soldiers and six civilians. At least four journalists were killed.
Omar was an Arab-American reporter on the ground in 2014 for a major American newspaper. (Omar is not his real name.) When he tried to cover the mass Palestinian causalities, he began to get what he saw as perplexing orders from his editor’s bosses.
Honored for our investigations into violence and dysfunction in the Mississippi prison system. By The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project was awarded the prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting on Tuesday night for our series on one of the most dangerous and dysfunctional penal systems in the country. The $25,000 award, which honors the best in public interest journalism, will be split among reporting teams at The Marshall Project and Mississippi Today, who led the investigations. The work also appeared in the Jackson Clarion Ledger, the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, and the USA Today Network.
The judging committee cited “outstanding, deeply reported, data-backed storytelling, and the direct impact this series is having on public policy reforms in Mississippi.” They honored the way reporters made policy failures real to readers by telling specific stories of individuals within the penal system. “These stories gave faces and names
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“This year’s winning projects show us the power of justice journalism. As an institution that educates fierce advocates for justice, we are proud to highlight their work,” said President Mason.
“Each of these projects shined a bright light on injustice and inequity and sparked calls for action leading to significant policy changes.”
“For the sixteenth year in a row, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is pleased to recognize the most compelling journalistic examinations of crime, violence, and justice in the United States,” said Foundation President Daniel F. Wilhelm. “Such work is essential to understanding how best to address the challenges our society faces in these important areas.”
Our investigation exposed Mississippi’s modern-day debtors prisons. By The Marshall Project
Reporters Anna Wolfe and Michelle Liu of Mississippi Today have been awarded the 2021 Harry Frank Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award for “Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi.” Their year-long investigation reveals how Mississippi locks people into modern-day debtors prisons where they’re sentenced to an amount of money, rather than time. First-of-its-kind data analysis by The Marshall Project’s Andrew R. Calderón shows that black people are disproportionately sentenced to these facilities, known as “restitution centers.”
Wolfe, Liu and Calderón revealed that the people detained in these facilities are placed into low-wage, sometimes dangerous jobs the Mississippi Department of Corrections handles their paychecks and takes the first cut in “room and board” and transportation costs. Since the story was pub
Precious Metal for Times Journalists: The Page One Plate
Carrying out this four-decade tradition at The Times has become more complicated because of the coronavirus pandemic. But it’s no less special.
Getting a commemorative Page One press plate is hard work. So is delivering it.Credit.Flora Lee Peir/The New York Times
By Flora Lee Peir
Jan. 17, 2021
The requests trickle in every two or three weeks: A reporter or photographer has made the front page of The New York Times for the first time. Could we honor them with a press plate of that day’s Page One?