Here are the winners of the Deadline Club’s business journalism awards:
Business Feature
Andy Greenberg, “The Crypto Trap: Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site” Wired Magazine
Unfolding like a thriller, Andy Greenberg’s crackling writing kept us hooked from the first sentence to the last, taking us along on a law enforcement investigation that used new bitcoin tracing technology to hunt down the creator and customers of a dark website who bought and sold thousands of videos of child sexual abuse and wrongly believed they were operating anonymously.
Business Investigative Reporting
Andrew Lehren, Molly Boigon, Anna Schecter, Katie McQue, Courtney Kube “The Pentagon knows contractors for overseas bases have engaged extensively in trafficking workers despite ‘zero tolerance.’ The punishment: more contracts.” NBC News, ICIJ, ARIJ and The Washington Post
Reporters for NBC, The Washington Post and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists painstakingly documented labor abuses on U.S. military bases abroad, overcoming a series of reporting obstacles to shed an important light on a little-known and shocking practice that others had turned a blind eye to. Their determination to tell the story in the face of significant hurdles and the details of the abuses the workers endured, which one source called “modern day slavery,” sets this entry apart from the many fine contestants in this category.
See all of the winners here.
