Honors a news-oriented project or ongoing partnership that exemplifies the culture of sharing and cooperation in nonprofit news and expands the impact of its journalism.

2024 Award Winner

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and media partners

Cyprus Confidential

Investigations by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and 68 media partners — more than 270 journalists — expose and explore “in vivid, painstaking detail how the island nation of Cyprus has helped finance Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, allowing his inner circle to shelter billions of dollars from the threat of sanctions from Europe and the U.S.,” 

Managing Editor Fergus Shiel wrote in a nomination letter. “For more than a decade, an astonishing flood of Russian money has been pouring into Cyprus — a member of the European Union — and yet EU and Cyprus officials did nothing. It was only the publication of Cyprus Confidential that brought action — by exposing this sprawling, secretive financial system and how it was fueling Putin’s war.”

The reporting collaboration Cyprus Confidential, which spanned eight months and was based on 3.6 million leaked files, also revealed that Cypriot financial services providers helped Putin allies shelter their wealth and hide billions of dollars, “even as sanctions came down in the wake of Russia’s full-scale Ukraine invasion.”

Finalists

• Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, More people are dying in Puerto Rico as its health-care system crumbles, Omaya Sosa Pascual, Jeniffer Wiscovitch, Andrew Ba Tran, Arelis Hernández, Dylan Moriarty
• Public Health Watch, Mountain State Spotlight, Louisville Public Media (Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting), Shots Health News from NPR, Federal Fix for Silica Dust Understates What We Found: Thousands of Coal Miners Still Sick and Dying, Howard Berkes, Justin Hicks, Allen Siegler, Carmel Wroth
• The Texas Tribune, ProPublica and FRONTLINE (PBS), Unprepared
• The Trace, Shot by a Civilian Wielding a Police Gun, Champe Barton, Alain Stephens, Chris Hacker, Stephen Stock, Amy Corral, Nicole Vap