Project 2
A groundbreaking investigative through the AAJA Voices fellowship that resulted in a first-of-its kind dataset and calls for change by top news leaders.
In April 2022, OpenNews published an open letter to the Pulitzer Prize board, calling for the prize to play a bigger part in pushing for diversity in the news industry, in which 77% of newsroom workers are still non-Hispanic white.
That got the Asian American Journalists Association Voices program investigative team thinking: what does diversity look like on the prize boards themselves?
We were shocked to find that, in its 104-year history, the Pulitzer Prizes has only had one Asian American voting judge — who wasn't appointed until 2020.
We embarked on two months of tireless outreach to collect a first-of-its-kind dataset on the racial and ethnic identities of top prize judges, as well as conducting in-depth interviews with news leaders and prize administrators.
I created a web scraper to get initial data across four prize boards. I handled outreach and interviews for the Livingston Awards, and created all interactive graphics in the final piece.
The final piece was republished by The Objective.
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