Category: Documentary Journalism
First Place
Nadia Sussman, Kathleen Flynn, Finlay Young, Claudia Milne, Joe Singer and Alexandra Zayas / ProPublica
“Unprotected”
Second Place
Taylor Adams, Adam B. Ellick, Kristin Bye and Leah Varjacques / New York Times
“‘It’s an Act of Murder’: How Europe Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown”
Third Place
Marta Iwanek and Christian Borys / CBC Short Docs
“Vika”
Award of Excellence
Almudena Toral, Andrea Patiño Contreras, Mauricio Rodríguez, Gerardo del Valle, Anna Spelman and Nacho Corbella / Univision
“America First: the Legacy of a Raid”
Award of Excellence
Whitney Shefte, Alice Li and Reem Akkad / Washington Post
“‘We're Kids, but We’re also Journalists’”
Award of Excellence
Malachy Browne, David Halbfinger, John Woo, Yousur Al Hlou, Neil Collier, Tim Chaffee, Nicholas Masterton, Mona El-Naggar, Marcelle Hopkins and Mark Scheffler / New York Times
“A Day and a Life: How Israeli Soldiers Killed a Volunteer Medic”
Award of Excellence
“America First: the Legacy of a Raid”
It’s been a decade since Postville, a small town in Iowa, suffered the largest immigration raid at a worksite in US history: 389 immigrants were arrested in the biggest kosher meatpacking plant in the country. With Donald Trump reviving George W. Bush’s immigration enforcement policies, Postville’s experience informs the impact, efficiency and repercussions of massive raids in worksites.