Best Investigative Reporting 2014

C.J. Chivers

Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story

AWARD YEAR: 2014

AWARD NAME: Best Investigative Reporting

RECIPIENT: C.J. Chivers

AFFILIATION: The New York Times

HONORED WORK: Secret Casualties

Deep reporting, meticulous research, strong writing and the overall craft of assembling data, graphics and photos made The New York Times’s investigative series “Secret Casualties” the hands-down winner for investigative reporting this year. The series established a pattern of secrecy by the U.S. military for hiding from its own soldiers dangerous contamination from chemical munitions. The series peeled away layer after layer of outrage and injustice – from learning that the U.S. actually cooperated closely with Iraqis in producing the weapons to stating flatly that the government was hiding from its own soldiers the illegal weapons that were at the very heart of the reason the nation went to war.

Citation for Excellence:

Desmond Butler, Alberto Arce, Andrea Rodriguez and Michael Weissenstein
The Associated Press
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