Evan Vucci ’00, a chief photographer for the Associated Press in Washington, D.C., helped the AP photography staff win the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for a collection of photographs from multiple U.S. cities that cohesively captures the country’s response to the police killing of George Floyd.
IRE announces winners of 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism Award
The New York Times’ groundbreaking coronavirus tracking project took first place in the 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism Awards. Other top awards go to investigations that uncovered how deeply race and income determine causes of death in Massachusetts and how qualified immunity impacts excessive force cases against police.
“In this difficult year, journalists and news organizations stepped up to fill the void of important information for the public,” said Sarah Cohen, a contest judge and the Knight Chair in Data Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. “In the tradition of Philip Meyer, they created data and analyzed information using social science methods to help the public understand the pandemic, racial justice and other key issues.”
Elsewhere this week, you have been able to read a comprehensive recap of the top news stories of 2020 as compiled by the expert staff of The Davis Enterprise. Unfortunately, this effort led to several angry tweets from President Trump because not a single story reported that he won November’s election “by a lot.”
I will not make that mistake. In fact, one of my goals for 2020 was to get mentioned at least once in a presidential tweet, but I failed. Still, I have nearly three weeks to accomplish that goal before Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20, so please read on.
luther, my anger translator, ladies and gentlemen. [ applause ] now that i got that off my chest, investigative journalism, explanatory journalism, journalism that exposes corruption and injustice and gives voice to the different and the marginalized, the voiceless, that s power. it s a privilege. it s as important to america s trajectory, to our values, our ideals than anything we could do in elected office. we remember journalists we lost over the past year, like steven sotloff and james foley, murdered for nothing more than trying to shine a light into some of the world s darkest