recognized news when they heard it. The White House reporters jumped on President Joe Biden's off-the-cuff warnings about nuclear âArmageddon,â made during a sleepy fundraiser, and set the news agenda, immediately moving a news alert followed by a 200-word story that rocketed around the globe ahead of all competitors.Read more
for her exclusive interview with Aretha Franklin, in which the Queen of Soul vented her frustrations with former friend Dionne Warwick. http://apne.ws/2q2D0G4
The civil war gripping Yemen for the last three years has created one of the worldâs worst humanitarian disasters as millions of people face starvation. In an effort to understand the scope of the crisis, The Associated Press launched a one-year project with the Pulitzer Center, a non-profit news organization that helps cover underreported stories internationally.
AP Cairo-based reporter Maggie Michael, one of the few journalists who has followed the unfolding tragedy in Yemen from the beginning, often at great risk, used the Pulitzer grant for an extended reporting trip across Yemen with Cairo photographer Nariman el-Mofty and Yemen-based videographer Maad al-Zekri.
They drove more than 400 miles through five governorates, including one harrowing drive near an active front line outside of Khoukha, from their base in Aden. They interviewed mothers and families affected, plus food experts, doctors and volunteers, and they found that more than 8.4 million of the nationâs 29 million people rely almost completely on food aid.
The teamâs courageous efforts to tell this story win the Beat of the Week.
for reporting that foreign companies working with Alibaba's online retail site were punished when they refused to sign exclusivity deals, a move which may be illegal in China. https://bit.ly/2Kxa9kq
for getting an interview with two scientists who worked in a Soviet Union secret chemical lab to produce the Novichok nerve agent that may have ended up in the attack on Sergei Skripal in Salisbury. https://bit.ly/2HRj6Dp
for their exclusive cross-formats story showing that a growing number of Syrian refugees are returning to Syria from Europe and neighboring countries. http://bit.ly/2EvOXuY
for an AP investigation that found thousands more civilian deaths caused by the U.S.-led coalition in Mosul than earlier acknowledged. http://bit.ly/2phgQ3a
for scoring APâs latest scoop on the unfolding mystery in Cuba by being first to report a series of U.S. actions in retaliation for what are being called health âattacks" on U.S. diplomats. http://bit.ly/2xUd42P
for a dozen vibrantly illustrated dispatches and a two-part series documenting the impact that a dramatic decline in sea ice has had on the environment, wildlife and people in the Arctic Circleâs Northwest Passage. https://www.apnews.com/tag/NewArctic
for scoring the first national interview with Montanaâs incoming congressman, Republican Greg Gianforte, who had pleaded guilty to assaulting a reporter during the campaign. He called for civility in politics. http://bit.ly/2s1i3rB
for an exclusive story confirming rumors that had been circulating for weeks that Jordan was deporting record numbers of Syrian refugees. https://apnews.com/6026c216fbfa4073b7ef57ec1514809...
for getting word of a highly classified and highly sensitive U.S. intelligence conclusion that Russia had foreknowledge of Syria's chemical weapons attack. http://apne.ws/2o1Cjs3
What do reporters do when more than 300 war-ravaged miles separate them from an immense story â in this case, the gassing of civilians in Syria, allegedly by their own government? They work the phones, and the apps.
Which is how Beirut reporter Sarah El Deeb came to interview Abdel Hameed Alyousef, who lost his two children, his wife and other relatives in the attack on the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun. And how she persisted in finding ways to bring the familyâs story to the world in all formats.
And it is how she won the Beat of the Week.
for being first with the final death toll in an Oakland warehouse fire, for using social media reporting to quickly tell the unusual story of the warehouse and its creator, and for drawing troubling parallels with a Rhode Island fire. http://bit.ly/2hjnIaH http://abcn.ws/2gxSGbm https://yhoo.it/2hu48H1 http://abcn.ws/2hqldE8
As soon as the flames were doused on an Oakland, California, warehouse known as the Ghost Ship two things were clear: The death toll would be huge, and telling the story would be complicated. It took a cross-format team effort to tell the story, and the staff in California rose to the occasion, including incoming San Francisco news editor Juliet Williams, who got an early start on her new job, dashing to the bureau from Sacramento to run the story.
for examining the unusually harsh and coarse language used in the presidential campaign, especially by Donald Trump and his supporters, and its potential for long-term harm to the U.S. Quoting authorities on political speech and electoral history, he reported that incivility reached new lows in 2016 and may signal worse to come. http://apne.ws/2eDOyKO
More than three years ago, Lebanon-Syria News Director Zeina Karam in Beirut began her quest to get an interview with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Karam, along with APâs longtime Damascus stringer Albert Aji, worked their sources, convincing reluctant Syrian officials about The Associated Pressâ reach and significance. Last week, their work paid off: the first fully televised interview Assad has given to an international news agency, resulting in an exclusive, news-breaking all-formats package.
for one of the first published interviews that Warren Beatty has given in years on the occasion of his new Howard Hughes biopic, "The Rules Don't Apply."
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for an exclusive, multi-format profile about a family that fled Syria and arrived in San Diego ...
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Joan Lowy, transportation reporter, Washington, D.C., and Emily Schmall, correspondent, Fort Worth, Texas, for scoring significant news beats after a hot air balloon caught fire, killing 16.
