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.

2025 Award Winner

St. Louis Public Radio, APM Reports, The Marshall Project

Unsolved

There were more than 1,900 murders in St. Louis, Missouri between 2014 and 2023, and the city’s police department has failed to solve more than one thousand of them. Reporting from St. Louis Public Radio, APM Reports and The Marshall Project reveals some of the reasons why most of those murders go unsolved: “shoddy detective work, lack of resources and an erosion of community trust.”

The reporting also highlights racial disparities in the city’s murder clearance rate and how the unsolved murders ripple “across the city, leaving families and friends yearning for closure and justice.” 

The story “is tragic and infuriating and also has very resonant national implications,” one judge wrote. It’s “a clear case of how a national and local collaboration worked to reveal a deep, heart-breaking injustice.”

Read the Winning Work

Why 1,000 Homicides in St. Louis Remain Unsolved

Why 1,000 Homicides in St. Louis Remain Unsolved (Episode)

St. Louis Homicide Cases Often Go Unsolved. Victims’ Families Want Justice.

In St. Louis, a Racial Disparity in Whose Killings Get Solved

In St. Louis, a Racial Disparity of Whose Murders Get Solved (Episode)

As Murders Increased, St. Louis Police Struggled for Resources to Solve Cases

As Murders Increased, St. Louis Police Struggled for Resources to Solve Cases (Episode)

Some St. Louis Detectives May Have Botched Homicide Investigations

Some St. Louis Detectives May Have Botched Homicide Investigations (Episode)

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