Opinion: The urgent necessity of public-interest journalism
Migrant families walk from the Rio Grande near McAllen, Tex., in March, right before being apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol.
Each of this year’s honorees has done invaluable work to expose uncomfortable truths about these turbulent, often troubling times. The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer’s incisive commentary, especially on issues of race, has made him one of the Trump era’s most indispensable voices. The reporters who led NBC News and MSNBC’s broadcast coverage of Trump’s controversial family separation policy “helped bring national awareness to the Trump Administration’s policy and, ultimately, its reversal.
This was also a banner year for women at the Hillmans . In addition to MSNBC’s Julia Ainsley and Reuters’s Januta and Nelson, female journalists won in each of the remaining categories. The prize for newspaper journalism went to the Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown and Emily Michot for their investigation into the secret plea deal that Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, during his tenure as federal prosecutor, negotiated with serial sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
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