Senior editor Joe Rivano Barros and former data reporter Will Jarrett were honored in the "Explanatory Journalism" category for the mammoth effort of tracing and documenting the Russian dolls-like series of interconnected organizations funneling billionaires' dollars into San Francisco politics. The series, titled "BigMoneySF," included Rivano Barros' profile of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, the largest donor over the last several election cycles, and Jarrett's interactive chart, a stunning accomplishment requiring months of work unearthing reams of financial data structured in a manner so as to render it challenging to unearth.
"Money in politics is an ancient story but the amounts here in San Francisco are truly eye-watering," said Rivano Barros. "Will's graphics in particular made it effortless for readers to see the connections between big donors, and I do think other outlets have paid more attention to campaign finance since."
Individual articles included Yujie Zhou's reporting on the days and nights of our city's aspirational AI pioneers; Jarrett and Joe Eskenazi's discovery and graphic presentation of the then-55 fire department reports of autonomous vehicles interfering in emergency scenes; and Eskenazi's reporting on the aftermath of a Cruise autonomous vehicle pinning and dragging a pedestrian.
"I can't say enough about how rare it is to find a news site as good as Mission Local, and I love that we're always trying new things to push our journalism forward."
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