BuzzFeed News won a Pulitzer Prize on Friday for a series of innovative articles that used satellite images, 3D architectural models, and daring in-person interviews to expose China’s vast infrastructure for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its Xinjiang region. The Pulitzer Prize is the highest honor in journalism, and this is the digital outlet’s first win since it was founded in 2012.
And the FinCEN Files series from BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Journalists, the largest-ever investigative reporting project, which exposed corruption in the global banking industry, was honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A former US Treasury Official was sentenced to prison just last week for leaking the thousands of secret government documents that served as its genesis.
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Wow, I saw this title and was going to dunk on it but if this is the type of story Buzzfeed writes in between listcicles, more power to em.Report
I, too, snorted. Then I read it and said “daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang”.Report
Yeah, phenomenal. A round of applause.Report
The FinCEN Files is an outrage. How many actual people were brought to justice using SARs? As usual, the Justice Dept. levies a fine against a big bank, with a threat of prosecution if things don’t change, a threat that is never made good on no matter how egregious subsequent contact is. How heads continue to not roll in cases like this is just a travesty.
Meahwhile, when I tried to make a cash deposit of $200 to my employer’s business checking account the teller asked to see my ID. I told her if I was going to launder money it was going to take a hell of a long time at $200 a visit.Report
[Pushes the ‘he said money launder’ button]
Mr. Leveler, would you mind stepping over here while we review your transaction. In the meantime, besides your ID can we see two proofs of address, proof of citizenship, and your original social security card. Do you rent or own?Report
That was definitely a thing I did not see coming.
I guess all the daily churn and “trend” stories, etc, pay for this sort of thing. Because they can’t lean on the classified ads any more for that.Report
Buzzfeed News has long been a very strong news outlet, because listicles about TikTok teens pay the bills just like the classifieds ads paid for actual journalism in newspapers or GM’s money used to pay for TV journalism.Report