Louie Palu explores the U.S.-Mexico border where violence runs rampant: What does it look like? How has the immigration policy evolved? And what are the economic and security issues?
Published November 1, 2013
The Financial Times won an Editor & Publisher EPPY award for its Pulitzer Center-supported examination of UK austerity measures in the category of Best Investigative/Enterprise Feature on a website with 1 million unique monthly visitors and over.
The multimedia reporting "Britain: Charting the Impact of Austerity," is a data-led project investigating the impact of sweeping changes to Britain’s benefit system, and how widely it varies among local economies. The Austerity Audit project was produced by Sarah Neville, Emily Cadman, Chris Giles, and Christine Spolar.
Using part of the grant from the Pulitzer Center, the Financial Times commissioned researchers at the Center for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University to measure how much spending power would be lost by residents within each of the 379 local authority areas in England, Scotland and Wales as a result of the welfare reforms.
In addition, the Pulitzer Center-supported project by Louie Palu on the US-Mexico border for The Globe and Mail was a finalist for an EPPY award in the category for best use of photography on a website. For the project, Palu crisscrossed thousands of miles of borderland to tell the story of Mexico’s drug wars, which claimed nearly 50,000 lives in six years, according to government figures.
The EPPY Awards, presented by Editor & Publisher, has been honoring the best media-affiliated websites across 31 categories for the past 18 years.
For the full list of winners, visit this page.
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Louie Palu is an award-winning documentary photographer whose work has appeared in numerous publications, festivals and exhibitions internationally. He has been awarded many accolades including a...
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Sarah Neville is the public policy editor for the Financial Times. She has been with the paper for more than a decade, working in senior editing positions, including analysis editor and UK...
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Christine Spolar is the investigations editor for the Financial Times. She was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, a foreign correspondent and an investigative reporter...
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Emily Cadman is head of interactive at the Financial Times and from London leads a multi-disciplinary team of journalists, data specialists, developers and designers. She has worked in...
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Chris Giles has reported on the UK and global economy for the past 14 years. He is the economics editor of the Financial Times and has been an editorial writer and economics correspondent...