Yesterday, I was surprised and delighted to discover that a documentary produced as part of Bloomberg New’s collaboration with Distributed Denial of Secrets on the Foreclosure Files, The Zombie Debts Making Wall Street Rich, had won an Emmy for Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage!
The documentary was based on an article by Bloomberg News, written as part of an investigation led by Jason Grotto and Jeff Kao. I’m especially grateful for this investigation because it took years to find the right journalists to work on it, which can be one of the lengthiest and most discouraging parts of working with leaked datasets.
The Foreclosure Files also received an Honorable Mention for investigative journalism from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, one of nearly a dozen awards and honors that DDoSecrets’ work has received in the last few years.
I was even more surprised to discover that this wasn’t the first Emmy that our work had won! Last year, as part of the Narco Files project CNN produced a documentary which won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative News Coverage in Spanish. The Narco Files project also won an EPPY Award for Best Investigative/ Enterprise Feature.
In 2024, the Deforestation Inc. project won the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism from the Columbia Journalism School! The year before, the project received an EPPY Award for Best Investigative/Enterprise Feature and an Online Journalism Award for Explanatory Reporting.
Cyprus Confidential won the 2024 TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting, and a Nonprofit News Award for Journalism Collaboration of the Year. The same project received the 2023 Malcolm Forbes And Morton Frank Award from the Overseas Press Club of America.
I really need to do a better job of keeping track of these things. 😅
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