PUBLIC INTEREST
Honors magazine journalism that illuminates issues of national importance
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WINNER
ProPublica
Stephen Engelberg, Editor in Chief
Two articles by Lizzie Presser: "The Black American Amputation Epidemic," May 19, and "Tethered to the Machine," December 15

Judges' Citation
These elegant, gripping stories about healthcare inequities pushed the American Diabetes
Association—and Congress—to take immediate steps to end preventable amputations.

The Atlantic
Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in Chief
Three articles by Ed Yong: "How the Pandemic Will End," March 25 at theatlantic.com, "Long-Haulers Are Redefining COVID-19," August 19 at theatlantic.com, and "Anatomy of an American Failure," September

High Country News With the Pulitzer Center and Fund for Investigative Journalism
Brian Calvert, Editor in Chief
"Land-Grab Universities," by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone, March 30 at hcn.org

The New Yorker
David Remnick, Editor
"Punishment by Pandemic," by Rachel Aviv, June 22

Reveal From the Center for Investigative Reporting
Matt Thompson, Editor in Chief
"The Disappeared," by Aura Bogado, February 18, and "U.S. Detained Migrant Children for Far Longer Than Previously Known," co-published with Los Angeles Times, by Aura Bogado and Melissa Lewis, October 29