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Wednesday, May 3, 2017
5:30 P.M. | Cocktails & hors d'oeuvres
6:30 P.M. | Awards presented by Richard H. Driehaus
7:15 P.M. | Keynote conversation with Marty Baron
Union League Club
Main Dining Room
6th Floor
65 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
~ Business Attire ~
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Union League Club of Chicago
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William R. Tobey, Jr.
Marty Baron became executive editor of The Washington Post in 2013. Under his leadership, The Post has won four Pulitzer Prizes. Previously, Baron worked as editor of The Boston Globe, which won six Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure, including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its investigation into a pattern of concealing clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
That story was later retold in the Academy Award-winning film “Spotlight,” in which Baron’s character was played by actor Liev Schreiber (pictured, below). While Baron was editor at The Miami Herald, the paper won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage.
2017 AWARD FINALISTS
"Code of Silence" by Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute)
In this four-part investigation, Jamie Kalven describes in rich narrative detail a massive criminal enterprise within the Chicago Police Department, the institutional conditions that allowed it to operate for more than a decade, and the fate of two officers who sought to expose it.
"Jail Deaths" by Jacob Carpenter and Cara Lombardo (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
What began as a simple email asking, "What happened to Terrill?", grew into an in-depth investigation of four deaths in a six-month span at Milwaukee County Jail.
"Suffering in Secret" by Michael J. Berens and Patricia Callahan (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Tribune reporters revealed that Illinois steered thousands of its poorest adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities into less expensive private group homes, then cloaked harm and death with secrecy and silence.
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR 2017 JUDGES
Noreen Ahmed-Ullah, Associate Editor, University of Toronto News; Former Staff Reporter, Chicago Tribune
Chris Bury, Senior Journalist in Residence, DePaul University
Renee Ferguson, Retired Investigative Reporter, NBC-5 Chicago
Brant Houston, Professor and Knight Chair of Investigative Reporting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Luke Kolman, Partner, Vedder Price, P.C.; Executive Committee and Former Chair of Investigations, BGA Board
Jackie Spinner, Correspondent, Columbia Journalism Review
PREVIOUS WINNERS
2016 1st Place: "Sixteen Shots" by Jamie Kalven (Slate)
2015 1st Place: "Harsh Treatment" by David Jackson, Gary Marx and Duaa Eldeib (Chicago Tribune)
2014 1st Place: "Chronic Crisis" by Meg Kissinger (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
2013 1st Place: Crime Data Investigation by John Diedrich, Ben Poston (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
2012 1st Place: "Pension Games" by Mark Suppelsa, Marsha Bartel, Jason Grotto, Ray Long and Jodi Cohen (WGN-TV and Chicago Tribune)
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
5:30 P.M. | Cocktails & hors d'oeuvres
6:30 P.M. | Keynote Speaker: Marty Baron
7:00 P.M. | Awards presented by Richard H. Driehaus
Union League Club
Main Dining Room
6th Floor
65 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
~ Business Attire ~