Left to right: Erika Solomon, Sam Jones, Ahmad Mhidi, Guy Chazan and Robin Kwong.
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story
AWARD DATE: 2015
AWARD NAME: Best Investigative Reporting 2015
RECIPIENTS: Erika Solomon, Sam Jones, Ahmad Mhidi, Guy Chazan and Robin Kwong
AFFILIATION: Financial Times
HONORED WORK: “ISIS Inc.”
This powerful and revealing series turned a spotlight on the inner workings of one of the most opaque and dangerous organizations in the world. This groundbreaking investigation into ISIS’s oil trading and financial operations was based on resourceful, brave and deep reporting into where the extremist group gets its revenue and how it exploits and extorts from just about everyone in the territory it controls. The crisp, well-organized stories were aided by excellent explanatory graphics.
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Citation Recipient: Ken Dornstein, Brian Funck and Raney Aronson
Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Honored Work: “My Brother’s Bomber”
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