Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
AWARD YEAR: 2015
AWARD NAME: The Whitman Bassow Award 2015
RECIPIENT: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media Partners
AFFILIATION: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media Partners
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor”
Projects funded by the World Bank physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people over the past 10 years. More than 80 journalists from over 20 countries worked for more than a year documenting tragedies that occurred as bank-funded projects failed to abide by the institution’s principles and policies. The investigation was led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Huffington Post. Days after being informed of the reporting team’s findings, the World Bank said it would address the problem of “involuntary resettlement.” The investigation combines searing local reporting for both written and visual media, instructive data visualizations and a rigorous analysis of 4,000 World Bank files related to some 1,500 bank-funded projects.
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Citation Recipients: Ian James, Steve Elfers, Steve Reilly
Affiliation: The Desert Sun/USA Today
Honored Work: “Pumped Dry: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater”
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