Carville wins WERT Prize for second time in three years

Bloomberg News reporter Olivia Carville has won the WERT Prize from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for the second time in three years.

Carville was awarded the 2024 WERT Global Prize for a series of stories that masterfully drove home the many dangers of social media to the mental health and safety of young people.

With deep reporting and engaging storytelling that spanned the globe, Carville showed readers the devastating – and sometimes deadly – effect that online sexual exploitation, AI-generated deep fakes and addictive algorithms have on teenagers and young adults.

The judges cited the stories as eye-opening and memorable work that shines the light on how little is done to protect our children and young adults today.

The WERT Prize honors excellence in comprehensively reported business journalism by a woman that fosters a greater understanding of global business.

It was established in 2018 and is funded by a bequest from the Women’s Economic Round Table and support from the Muriel F. Siebert Foundation and the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.