2023 Schaufler Prize Journalism Award Winners Announced

The New York Times’ Hannah Dreyer has won first place in the 2023 Schaufler Award for Journalism for “Loneliness and Exploitation,” a powerful and comprehensive investigation into the resurgence of child labor in the United States.

Hanna traveled to nine states and interviewed hundreds of children, finding that immigrant youth work in some of the toughest jobs in the country. She painstakingly documented the failures of the federal government, immigrant sponsors, schools, and employers.

“I am grateful to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism for this meaningful recognition. I have drawn much inspiration from past Schaufler Award winners, and I am thrilled to join this company. I’m honored,” Dreyer said. “It is essential for us as journalists to focus on underserved communities. This is also a recognition of the children of immigrants who have bravely shared their stories. FINAL Their courage has led to tangible change across businesses and government agencies.”

Dreier’s first article was published on February 25, 2023, and follow-up reports have attracted the attention of the White House and other policymakers.

“Hannah Dreier’s work embodies the spirit of the Schaufler Award,” said Dr. Battinto L. Butts, Jr., dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. “Her commitment to telling the stories of exploited child workers is both inspiring and informative.”

The Schaufler Awards, administered by the Cronkite School, recognize America’s best journalism that advances understanding of stories and issues related to underserved populations in society, including people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, and people with disabilities. It is something to be commended. This contest will distribute a $20,000 prize.

Second place in the professional category went to Courtney Tanner of the Salt Lake Tribune for her project “Failing the Utes.” The project investigated how children from the Ute tribe, Utah’s namesake, perform poorly in school, as measured by dropout rates. Graduation rates and test proficiency. This shortcoming is an embarrassing legacy that dates back to her two Native American boarding schools that operated on the reservation since the late 1800s. The series relied on documentation and the difficult task of building relationships with tribal members.

In third place is “Surviving the Water: New York City’s Flood Crisis in the Age of Climate Change,” produced by Documented, Climate Central and the Pulitzer Center by lead reporters Rommel H. Ojeda and John Upton. The study took a closer look at flooding that has threatened the Hollis neighborhood in Queens for more than a century. The study not only found evidence of the rainfall that has plagued the neighborhood since 1926, but also how infrastructure is failing to protect residents, mostly immigrants, from increased rainfall due to the effects of climate change. It became clear.

The winner of the student category was New York City News Service’s “New York City News Service” by City University’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, which examined the new long-term challenges posed by the coronavirus and other challenges in New York schools. It was a hard lesson. of New York. Newmark’s team examined indicators of inequality highlighted by the pandemic.

Schaufler Award recipients will be recognized at a ceremony on March 26 at Cronkite School. This event will also be streamed on YouTube as a CronkiteLIVE special event.

Now in its third year, the Schaufler Award was established by Paul B. Anderson, president and CEO of Workhouse Media in Seattle, Washington, to honor his late friend Ed Schaufler, who passed away at the end of 2020. . Undervalued people.

“This year’s recognition for journalism brings much-needed attention to the challenges of many underrepresented groups in our society,” Anderson said. “I’m glad that Many quality works continue to honor Ed’s spirit and the principles he espoused. ”