The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced on Thursday that ProPublica and partners won five awards and received four honorable mentions in its Best in Business competition recognizing excellence in business journalism. “ Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Business ,” with contributions from Craig Silverman, Ruth Talbot and Jeff Kao, won in the data journalism and media/entertainment categories. Combining traditional investigative reporting with innovative coding and a web tool to analyze more than 7 million websites, this series revealed more about the functioning and abuses of Google’s billion-dollar ad business than ever before. It resulted in the removal of scores of partners, websites and article pages from Google’s ad network, choking off ad revenue for notorious disinformers and ad fraudsters, and pressured Congress to bring effective oversight to one of the most influential companies in the world. “ The Hospice Hustle ,” a collaboration between ProPublica and The New Yorker, won in the feature category. Half of all Americans die in hospice, and Ava Kofman’s groundbreaking investigation provoked a national conversation on the American way of death — along with demands to reform an industry that has long been ignored. Less than three weeks after the exposé […]
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