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front row (sitting) left to right: E. Ramshaw, N. Brown, T. Shelby, M. Miller; back row left to right: C. Lozada, N. Barnes, V. T. Nguyen, K. Lytle Hernández, A. Applebaum, J. Cobb (on screen; attending virtually), K. Merida, N. Carroll, S. Chan, D. Remnick (slightly behind S. Chan), G. Escobar, G. Thompson (slightly behind G. Escobar) and E. Alexander (absent: M. Shafik). (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)

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Neil Brown and Tommie Shelby, co-chairs; Marjorie Miller, administrator

Staff of The Villages Daily Sun

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For its comprehensive investigation and moment-by-moment account of Florida officials’ inaction before, during and after Hurricane Ian, the deadliest storm to strike the state since 1935.
Tags: 2024
Categories: Local Reporting

Staff of the Honolulu Civil Beat

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For its distinctive, sweeping and urgent coverage of the Maui wildfires that killed more than 100 people and left a historic town in ruins, reporting that held officials to account and chronicled the aftermath and efforts to rebuild. (Moved by the jury from the Local Reporting category.)
Tags: 2024

Keri Blakinger of The Marshall Project

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For her insightful, humane portrait, reported with great difficulty, of men on Death Row in Texas who play clandestine games of “Dungeons & Dragons,” countering their extreme isolation with elaborate fantasy. (Co-published with The New York Times Magazine.)
Tags: 2024
Categories: Feature Writing