Overseas Press Club names biz reporting award winners
The Overseas Press Club named its winners, including two for company journalism.
The Malcolm Forbes Award for best global enterprise information reporting in newspapers, news products and services, journals or electronic went to International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Washington Publish, Miami Herald and just about 150 media partners for “The Pandora Papers.”
The judges wrote, “Another tour de power by the ICIJ, the Pandora Papers introduced alongside one another journalists from dozens of information companies to rummage by means of a treasure trove of a lot more than 11 million leaked paperwork exhibiting how dollars and ability function in the 21st century.”
The Morton Frank Award for very best international business enterprise news reporting in Television set, movie, radio, audio or podcast went to Sandy Tolan, Euclides Cordero Nuel and Michael Montgomery of Expose from the Middle for Investigative Reporting, PRX and Mother Jones, with assistance from the Pulitzer Heart, for “The Bitter Get the job done Powering Sugar.”
The judges wrote, “This comprehensive investigation by Sandy Tolan and Euclides Cordero Nuel took listeners deep into the sugar cane harvesting camps manned by Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic. The reporting, which has prompted scrutiny from Congress and the Office of Labor, documented personnel enduring $4 a day wages, staggering personal debt, substandard housing and woeful healthcare treatment although enhancing Central Romana Corp.’s profitability.”
See all of the winners in this article. They will be honored April 22 at a dinner in New York.