Board lander photo
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front row left to right: E. Alexander, T. Shelby, J. Dehli, K. Willey, R. Beck, E. Ramshaw, M. Pride, G. Collins; back row left to right: J. Diaz, N. Brown, A. Marqués, J. Daniszewski, K. Boo, E. Robinson, S. Engelberg, S. Hahn, R. Blau (absent: L. Bollinger, S. Coll)
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Randell Beck, Joyce Dehli and Keven Ann Willey, chairs; Mike Pride, administrator
The Orlando Sentinel Staff
Citation
For coverage of the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, including middle-of-the-night reports as party-goers hid and police prepared to storm the building and subsequent work that took readers inside the club and humanized the victims.
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2017
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Breaking News Reporting
Staff
Citation
For relentless coverage of the “Ghost Ship” fire, which killed 36 people at a warehouse party, and for reporting after the tragedy that exposed the city’s failure to take actions that might have prevented it.
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2017
Location
Oakland, CA
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Breaking News Reporting
Publication
East Bay Times
The Dallas Morning News Staff
Citation
For keeping readers informed during a chaotic shooting spree that killed five police officers and injured nine others and delivering timely, vivid and heartbreaking accounts of the horrific night.
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2017
Categories:
Breaking News Reporting
New York Daily News and ProPublica
Citation
For uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities.
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2017
Categories:
Public Service
Houston Chronicle
Citation
For exposing the grave injustice of arbitrary cost-cutting by the State of Texas that denied tutoring, counseling and other vital special education services to families, hindering the futures of tens of thousands of children.
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2017
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Public Service
Chicago Tribune
Citation
For innovative and superbly written and illustrated reporting that not only checked perilous practices by pharmacies in dispensing prescription drugs but also prevented harm from happening in the first place.
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2017
Categories:
Public Service
Jake May
Publication
The Flint Journal
Citation
For striking, wonderfully conceived photographs from Flint’s contaminated-water crisis that told a challenging story in human terms.
Location
Flint, MI
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2017
Categories:
Feature Photography
Katie Falkenberg
Publication
Los Angeles Times
Citation
For a photo essay from the front lines of Brazil’s war on Zika that showed the vulnerability, fear and love of mothers coping with the crisis.
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2017
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Feature Photography
E. Jason Wambsgans
Citation
For a superb portrayal of a 10-year-old boy and his mother striving to put the boy’s life back together after he survived a shooting in Chicago.
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2017
Categories:
Feature Photography
Publication
Chicago Tribune