Civil Beat Wins Two National Awards
Civil Beat journalists took home two prestigious national awards Saturday at the gathering in Atlanta.
“In the Name of the Law,” our investigative series on police misconduct records and why they are not available for the public to review, won the top honor in the Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism. That series was reported and written by Nick Grube and Patti Epler.
Sophie Cocke’s series on the Ala Wai Canal — “Hawaii’s Biggest Mistake?” — won the Explanatory Reporting category.
Both awards are in the “small” media category which is defined as news websites with fewer than 20 full-time employees. Civil Beat has nine full-time journalists on staff (plus three people on our business side) so we were especially proud. It takes a lot of effort and commitment for a small crew like ours to produce the kind of in-depth reports that stack up with the very best national journalism while still putting out robust news coverage every day.
Civil Beat was one of a only handful of news organizations to win two awards. The Guardian, ProPublica and the New York Times also each took home two honors.
