ProPublica Wins Two NABJ Salute to Excellence Awards
Two ProPublica projects have been honored with the National Association of Black Journalists’ 2020 Salute to Excellence Awards. An investigation on the dispossession of African American landowners in the South, co-published with The New Yorker, won in the Magazine-Investigative category. Reporter Lizzie Presser came to the story after reading in a newspaper article that African Americans made up only 1% of the nation’s farmers. After poring over academic articles on the vulnerability of African American landowners who had, for generations, passed down land without a will, she decided to i...
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