for reporting that a federal judge in Washington blocked President Donald Trump's controversial order excluding transgender people from the military. http://bit.ly/2xBl9X6
for breaking the news that a man promoted by President Donald Trump as an authority on voter fraud, and who was the source of a claim that 3 million illegal immigrants voted, was himself registered to vote in three states during the 2016 presidential election. http://apne.ws/2kNMmij
for capturing how President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and rhetoric are leaving some Mexican-Americans and immigrants feeling at odds with a holiday they already thought was appropriated by liquor companies, event promoters and bars. http://apne.ws/2pE3Xyh
for their joint analysis with the media analytics company Cortico that showed declining engagement with President Donald Trump’s tweets across ages, genders and political affiliations. http://apne.ws/2pKNM2K
obtained, through personal contacts and sources, 1500 pages of secret court documents that detail the evidence and justification behind a decision by Colombia’s Supreme Court subjecting former president Alvaro Uribe to house arrest while he awaits formal charges for alleged witness tampering. The documents include accounts of urgent WhatsApp messages, secretly recorded meetings and intercepted phone calls that reveal a rushed search by Uribe’s team for witnesses – loyalists willing to do anything necessary to stop the case from proceeding. https://bit.ly/2XTiPtu
for getting an interview with Marine Le Pen, the French presidential candidate, hours before candidates had to stop making public statements. http://abcn.ws/2pAvdLQ
for showing that in spite of a wave of activism among people opposed to President Donald Trump, political gerrymandering controlled by Republican state legislatures is a key reason why Democrats will have trouble regaining control of the U.S. Congress. http://apne.ws/2kjJ5d4
for reaching the family of Army Sgt. La David Johnson, including the aunt who raised him as a son, and reporting that the woman felt the president had shown “disrespect” for the slain soldier during a condolence call to the family. http://nydn.us/2hfC4rM
Former President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 presidential election and his efforts to spread the false claim that widespread voter fraud cost him a second term raised a critical question: How much voter fraud occurred in the six crucial battleground states disputed by Trump?
Turns out, just 473 potential cases in those states. Many of the cases involved Republicans and virtually every case was an individual acting alone rather than coordinated fraud.
AP’s finding was the result of an exhaustive investigation by a team of reporters, data journalists and others, based on detailed fact checks of the vote entries for every county in each of the six states. The investigation also led to an exceptionally rare recorded phone interview with the former president in which he repeated his unfounded conspiracy theories but could find no fault with AP’s reporting.
The story made headlines and was widely cited. For meticulous reporting and analysis that revealed the actual attention-grabbing sliver of voter fraud cases, the team of Christina A. Cassidy, Scott Bauer, Bob Christie, David Eggert, Camille Fassett, Anthony Izaguirre, Shawn Marsh, Anna Nichols, Michelle Price, Ed White and Corey Williams is AP’s Best of the Week — First Winner.
for landing an exclusive interview with Catalan Vice President Oriol Junqueras, which foreshadowed Catalan’s formal declaration of independence and earned AP rare front-page mentions in Spanish media. https://apnews.com/822b25c1db1f44258b58d6b29c927bf...
for an investigation revealing that a dozen potentially lifesaving Transportation Department safety regulations have been sidelined in the Trump administration’s push to cut red tape. http://bit.ly/2HfgVbU
for an exclusive AP analysis of deleted tweets that revealed that disguised Russian agents worked to deflect scandalous news about Donald Trump while refocusing online criticism toward Hillary Clinton during last year’s U.S. presidential campaign.http://bit.ly/2zJMDhKhttp://bit.ly/2zJAGbChttp://bit.ly/2hx1ssO
resisted competitive pressure, holding off on a Department of Justice press release on an investigation into “discarded” military ballots for President Donald Trump, instead taking the time to do a more deeply reported story.Most media rushed to publish when a U.S. attorney in the battleground state of Pennsylvania took the unusual step of announcing the ongoing investigation, saying nine mail-in ballots for the president had been “cast aside” in a county elections office. The county manager later blamed the incident on confusion over the appearance of the envelopes, but conservative social media quickly seized on the initial announcement while the Trump campaign blamed Democrats for “trying to steal the election.”The original press release, however, was short on details and no one, federal or local, was talking. Pennsylvania news editor Christina Paciolla brought the story to the attention of AP’s voting team, and a deeper examination began.The AP drew on expertise across the organization to produce a far more well-informed story the following day, providing essential context and new information, including the U.S. attorney defending his announcement of the votes for Trump, and that Attorney General William Barr had previously briefed the president on the case. https://bit.ly/3if2LJZ
for uncovering news that associates of President Trump held a secret meeting in Moscow that investigators say may have been a strategy session to come up with an explanation for why Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner met with Russian nationals in New York a year earlier. http://bit.ly/2AYe4Ss
for an all-formats AP interview from Morocco with Ivanka Trump, a rare moment in which she addressed the impeachment inquiry at length, scoring blockbuster play for video, text and photos, including a sweep of the morning TV shows.https://bit.ly/32S5d17https://bit.ly/2pjmN0nhttps://bit.ly/2qewxtm
for breaking the news that Trump would extend sanctions relief to Iran and not pull the U.S. out of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal. http://bit.ly/2CZZRcf
for an exclusive interview, after months of negotiations with the club, with Josep Bartomeu, president of FC Barcelona. The story, in which Bartomeu talks about life after Lionel Messi, was prominently picked up internationally and by Spanish media. https://bit.ly/2pp6wqY
for being first to report that testing of prototypes of Trump’s proposed wall with Mexico found that their imposing heights would likely stop border crossers, a finding that pleased border hawks. http://bit.ly/2n4PUzF
for breaking the news of President Donald Trump’s letter to African leaders that pledged “deep respect” and announced Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s first Africa visit. http://wapo.st/2DXqtLF
for weaving into a single strong narrative the story of how Donald Trump became only the fourth American president to be the subject of an impeachment inquiry. By pooling reporting efforts, the reporting team provided a comprehensive, and highly readable, account of how we got to this place. in presidential history. https://bit.ly/32tuleM