This year’s WERT Global Prize was awarded to a team of Wall Street Journal reporters for a series exposing workplace discrimination and harassment at the World Economic Forum, sponsor of the Davos gatherings.
The Journal investigation was led by reporters Shalini Ramachandran and Khadeeja Safdar, who interviewed more than 80 former and current staffers and reviewed emails, texts, HR complaints and legal documents that backed up the claims of a toxic workplace that did not live up to the ideals it expounded publicly.
AnnaMaria Andriotis, Jenny Strasburg and Suzanne Vranica joined in to expand and follow the story after the initial exposé.
The WERT Global Prize honors excellence in business journalism by a woman for work that fosters a greater understanding of global business. It was established in 2018 with funding by a bequest from The Women’s Economic Round Table (WERT) and has received support from the Muriel F. Siebert Foundation and the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
The recipient of the prize receives $2,000.
Last year’s winner was Olivia Carville of Bloomberg News for a series of stories that masterfully drove home the many dangers of social media to the mental health and safety of young people.
