Within the News Climate has won four higher awards for reporting from the company for the advancement of business editing and writing in health, climate, economy and characteristics.
Sabew, the business journalism organization that sponsorizes the best annual business prices, said ICN won more awards than any other small newsroom. All said, 181 news organizations of all sizes presented 1,100 introductions this year.
“We are pleased and honored to receive this recognition from our peers and hope that it is a measure of our service to the readers we work for,” said Vernon Loeb, ICN Executive Editor.
ICN received high honors in four categories of small small division.
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The “captured”, reported by Lisa Gross and Peter Aldhous, won the category of health and science. Judges called it “an extraordinary package that detailed the wrong support in the scientific analysis of EPA industry and the health impact of such chemicals used in fields in farm workers.”
“This project was inspired by pesticide reform lawyers who were fighting what they called separate and unequal rules proposed by Pesticide Regulators in California,” said Gross, who has long reported to abuse science for private benefits. “The rules essentially said that people living near the fields treated with 1.3-D can be safely exposed to the dramatic levels of this chemicals that cause cancer than state health scientists said it is safe. Most people living near the fields treated with 1.3-D are Latino, so this is a clear issue of environmental injustice.”
“This was a heavy elevator, using state data on pesticide applications, plus detailed mapping of school bases and nearby agricultural fields, to evaluate potential exposures of children at school,” said Aldhous, a San Francisco -based data report. “In doing so, we provided a source that local communities have called.”
“Cashing Out”, reported by Katie Surma and Nicholas Kusnetz, gained the category of energy, durability and climate change. The series investigated the extensive consequences of the environment and the human rights of a little known international arbitration system, which allows companies that do business abroad to stimulate efforts to regulate them and gain heavy penalties in taxpayers’ expenses.
“When I opened the idea for the series I knew the system was widely criticized in legal circles,” said Surma, a lawyer who specialized in commercial court cases before joining the ICN. “But it was surprising to find out how powerful multinational corporate rights are, especially when compared to the rights of communities and people affect their operations.”
“Without failing, when I told people about this system they were shocked by his existence and what he allowed,” said Kusnetz, who first learned about resolving investor-state disputes through his oil and gas industry coverage. “Few people have heard of it, yet its influences reach the lives of citizens around the world. We wanted to illuminate this system for readers and to underline what it means to people living close to projects that have prompted claims. “
“Gaslighting”, reported by Inside Clima News’ Lisa Sorg in partnership with the Assembly, won the category of features. “The eye opening series paints a vibrant portrait of a state that is caught with an alarming rapid expansion of natural gas infrastructure,” the judges said, as catastrophes overwhelmed by the Change of Pummel that same-carolin.
“I had been to ICN just a month when I started this project,” Sorg said, a journalist for 30 years who came to ICN in 2024 from NC Newsline. “Started with a question: What is the emotional number for people living near a pipeline, power plant or a liquid gas structure? Where do they find the strength to fight these projects?
“Politically accused,” reported by Marianne Lavelle and Dan Gearino, won the economy category. The series examined the increasingly politicized electrical vehicle business in the 2024 elections. Judges said journalists “professionally document the importance of EV for the American economy and why their adoption is not (or should not be) political issues.”
“Although it is clear that the world is going through EV, it is just as clear that the feeling of vehicles in the United States is divided along the country’s political guilt lines,” said Lavelle, who is ICN in Washington, DC, the bureau. “And the feeling is important because the cars are not just a practical purchase. The car we choose convey a lot about who we are. The places I visited that brought this home, to say, were South Carolina, which is benefiting from the new EV and battery factories, but remains skeptical about technology, and Mexico, where China is offering us.”
“The conversations I will recall from this project are with diligent people, whose common sense of EV remained in contrast to the way this product is politicized,” said Gearino, an Ohio-based reporter who covers energy. “I’m especially thinking about the car seller in Elk River, Minnesota, who is as good as I wanted to buy a right then, and the worker-Bateri-Batter near Youngstown, Ohio, who said he is ‘daddy’.
Gearino also received an honorable mention of his newspaper within pure energy. Judges writes that “paches over its weight, with well -researched analysis, well researched on important issues that form the transition to a future of clean energy.”
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