Business Insider and STAT News were among the winners of George Polk Awards announced Wednesday, writes Katie Robertson of The New York Times.
Robertson writes, “The environmental reporting award went to the staff of Business Insider for their series ‘The True Cost of Data Centers,’ which examined the many impacts on communities and the environment of the infrastructure being rapidly built to support artificial intelligence.
“Lizzy Lawrence of Stat News was awarded the health reporting prize for her reports on turmoil at the Food and Drug Administration. The award also went to the staff of Stat News for the series ‘American Science, Shattered,’ on the vast disruption to scientific research caused by the rupture between the Trump administration and universities.”
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