Jeff Horwitz and a team of Wall Street Journal journalists as the winners of the 2022 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism from the New York Financial Writers’ Association.
Horwitz and a team of journalists from the Journal won for their “Facebook Files” series, which details Facebook’s knowledge of the harmful impact of Instagram on young users –particularly teenage girls, and how the company hid and played down this knowledge.
(View the winning articles here.)
Following the award presentation on Oct. 24, Horwitz and members of the winning team will take part in a panel discussing the story behind their series of articles – from how they reported and found their sources, to where they found key data and how they dealt with Facebook executives.
