Category: Documentary Journalism

Winner

Ben Garvin and Lindsey Seavert / KARE11/Tegna
“Love Them First”

Finalist

Ed Ou, Kitra Cahana and Jonathan Ade / NBC Left Field
“A Different Kind of Force—Policing Mental Illness”

Finalist

Noelle Crombie, Kale Williams, Beth Nakamura and Dave Killen / The Oregonian/OregonLive
“No Mercy”

Finalist

Johnny Harris, Valerie Lapinski and Tom Fox / Vox
“How this border transformed a subcontinent | India & Pakistan”

Finalist

Jonah M. Kessel / The New York Times
“Killer Robots Aren’t Regulated. Yet.”

Finalist

“How this border transformed a subcontinent | India & Pakistan”

The British tasked Cyril Radcliffe with the job of drawing a line to separate Punjab and Bengal provinces from India into East and West Pakistan. Muslims and Hindus weren’t the only ones being separated from each other. Sikhs and people from other faiths were affected as well.

A Sikh pilgrimage was divided because of the new border, Punjabi people of all faiths were separated from each other, and a culture was ultimately divided.

This Vox Borders episode looks at how the Radcliffe line changed Punjab and how communities are affected now.

How this border transformed a subcontinent | India & Pakistan