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Alec MacGillis
Alec MacGillis is an American journalist whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, an on-line news source, and books. Currently, he is a senior reporter for ProPublica and an editor-at-large for the ''Baltimore Banner''. MacGillis is a resident of Baltimore, Maryland. Career MacGillis’ father is Donald MacGillis, the former ''Boston Globe'' editorial writer and former executive editor of ''The Berkshire Eagle''. Alec MacGillis received a BA in history and English from Yale University. He has worked for six newspapers including ''The Baltimore Sun'' and ''The Washington Post''. In 1997, he started working at ''The Brooklyn Paper''. In 2011, he switched from newspaper journalism to writing for magazines. He wrote for ''The New Republic''. In 2015, he began writing for Pro Publica. MacGillis has also written several non-fiction books. In 2014, he published '' The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell'', a biography of Mitch McConnell. In 2021, MacGillis publi ...
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ProPublica
ProPublica (), legally Pro Publica, Inc., is a nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in New York City. ProPublica's investigations are conducted by its staff of full-time reporters, and the resulting stories are distributed to news partners for publication or broadcast. In some cases, reporters from both ProPublica and its partners work together on a story. ProPublica has partnered with more than 90 different news organizations and has won several Pulitzer Prizes. In 2010, ProPublica became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize; the story chronicled the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital's exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina,''The Guardian'', April 13, 2010Pulitzer progress for non-profit newsProPublicaPulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting: Deadly Choices at Memorial and it was published both in the ''New York Times Magazine'' Sheri Fink, ''New York Times Magazine'', August 25, 2009 ...
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The Political Education Of Mitch McConnell
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Scripps Howard Awards
The Scripps Howard Awards, formerly the National Journalism Awards, are $10,000 awards in American journalism given by the Scripps Howard Foundation. Awardees receive "cash prizes, citations and plaques." As of 2023, the categories are: * Excellence in Audio Storytelling, honoring Jack R. Howard * Excellence in Coverage of Breaking News * Excellence in Business/Financial Reporting * Excellence in Environmental Reporting, honoring Edward W. “Ted” Scripps II * Distinguished Service to the First Amendment, honoring Edward Willis Scripps * Excellence in Narrative Human-Interest Storytelling, Honoring Ernie Pyle * Excellence in Innovation, honoring Roy W. Howard * Excellence in Local/Regional Investigative Reporting * Excellence in Local Video Storytelling, honoring Jack R. Howard * Excellence in Multimedia Journalism * Excellence in National/International Investigative Reporting, the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize * Excellence in National/International Video Storytelling, hono ...
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Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award
The Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award is presented annually by Colby College to a member of the newspaper profession who has contributed to the country's journalistic achievement. The award is named for Elijah Parish Lovejoy, and established in 1952. Award criteria The award was established to: # Stimulate and honor the kind of achievement in the field of reporting, editing, and interpretive writing that continues the Lovejoy heritage of fearlessness and freedom. # Promote a sense of mutual responsibility and cooperative effort between a newspaper world devoted to journalistic freedom and a liberal arts college dedicated to academic freedom. The recipient is chosen, based on a selection committee's judgement of a journalist's integrity, craftsmanship, character, intelligence, and courage. Recipients See also * Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (to editors) References External links

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George Polk Award
The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the award as "one of only a couple of journalism prizes that means anything". The award is described as follows: History 20th century The awards were established in 1949, in memory of George Polk, a CBS News correspondent who was murdered in March 1948 while covering the Greek Civil War. 21st century In 2008, Josh Marshall's blog, ''Talking Points Memo'', was the first blog to receive the Polk Award in recognition of its reporting on the 2006 U.S. Attorneys dismissal scandal. In 2009, John Darnton, a former editor with ''The New York Times'', was named curator of the George Polk Awards. In 2024, ''The New York Times'' was awarded three Polk Awards for the newspaper's "unsurpassed coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas The I ...
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Toner Prize For Excellence In Political Reporting
The Robin Toner Program in Political Reporting was established in 2009 to celebrate the life and work of Robin Toner, the late ''New York Times'' political correspondent. It is awarded by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications of Syracuse University. The program includes the annual Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting and Toner Prize Celebration. The award, which includes $5,000, is presented at an annual ceremony that features a distinguished speaker. In 2016, then-President Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. O ... delivered the keynote address. Entries are judged on how well they reflect the high standards and depth of reporting that marked Toner's work. In particular, the judges look for how well the entries: * illuminate the e ...
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Winning And Losing In One-Click America
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The New Republic
''The New Republic'' (often abbreviated as ''TNR'') is an American magazine focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts from a left-wing perspective. It publishes ten print magazines a year and a daily online platform. ''The New York Times'' described the magazine as partially founded in Teddy Roosevelt's living room and known for its "intellectual rigor and left-leaning political views." History 1914–1974: Early years Founded in 1914 by several leaders of the progressive movement, it attempted to find a balance between "a liberalism centered in humanitarian and moral passion and one based in an ethos of scientific analysis". ''The New Republic'' was founded by Herbert Croly, Walter Lippmann, and Walter Weyl. They gained the financial backing of heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney and of her husband, Willard Straight, who eventually became the majority owner. The magazine's first issue was published on November 7, 1914. The magazine's politics were libe ...
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The Baltimore Banner
''The Baltimore Banner'' is a news website in Baltimore founded by the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, which is a nonprofit set up by Stewart W. Bainum Jr. It launched June 14, 2022. It had a staff of 125, with about 80 working the newsroom, as of March 2024. The newspaper had 55,000 subscribers by the end of 2024, and brought in $13 million in revenue with 45% from subscriptions, 35% from advertising and 22% from philanthropy. The Banner won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in recognition of its coverage of drug overdoses. History Bainum stated ''The Baltimore Banner'' takes its name from the Star-Spangled Banner flag that waved over Fort McHenry in 1814 during the War of 1812 and gave its name to the American national anthem. Others have cited other inspiration. After Alden Global Capital refused an offer from Bainum to buy ''The Baltimore Sun'' as part of their 2021 acquisition of Tribune Publishing, Bainum backed an all-digital, nonprofit competitor ...
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The Brooklyn Paper
''Brooklyn Paper'' is a weekly newspaper that covers news related exclusively to the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ''Brooklyn Paper'' covers news and cultural events throughout the borough, using different mastheads for neighborhoods such as Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Bay Ridge, etc. In addition to news coverage, the paper also publishes a weekly entertainment guide entitled ''GO Brooklyn''. It was founded in 1978. Though the various print editions are published once a week, Brooklyn Paper's website is updated every weekday with stories. In January 2007, the company name "Brooklyn Papers" was renamed "The Brooklyn Paper", and the local editions (''The Park Slope Paper'', ''The Bay Ridge Paper'') were all renamed ''The Brooklyn Paper'' with the local edition printed under the title. The local editions currently include ''The Bay Ridge Courier'' (covering Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, and Bensonhurst), ''Brooklyn Paper'', (covering Brooklyn Heights, Downtown, Cobble Hill, an ...
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