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The New York Times Magazine
Jake Silverstein, Editor in Chief
Edited by Ilena Silverman and Kirsten Danis
Three articles by Hannah Dreier: “Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.,” February 25 at nytimes.com/magazine, “As Migrant Children Were Put to Work, U.S. Ignored Warnings,” April 17 at nytimes.com/magazine, and “Lost in Dreamland,” September 24

Bloomberg Businessweek
Joel Weber, Editor
Edited by Susan Berfield, Bloomberg Investigations
“Eyedrop Emergency,” by Peter Robison and Priyanka Pulla, July 24

High Country News With Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jennifer Sahn, Editor in Chief, High Country News
Theodore Ross, Editor in Chief, FERN
Edited by Kate Schimel, High Country News
“Alone on the Range,” by Teresa Cotsirilos, FERN, October

The Marshall Project
Susan Chira, Editor in Chief
“These States Are Using Fetal Personhood to Put Women Behind Bars,” by Cary Aspinwall, July 25, published with AL.com, The Frontier, Mississippi Today, The Post and Courier and The Guardian; “How One Alabama County Declared War on Pregnant Women Who Use Drugs,” by Amy Yurkanin, July 26, published with AL.com; and “They Were Prosecuted for Using Drugs While Pregnant. But It May Not Have Been a Crime,” by Anna Wolfe, November 16, published with Mississippi Today

New York With ProPublica
David Haskell, Editor in Chief, New York
Stephen Engelberg, Editor in Chief, ProPublica
Edited by Nick Summers, New York, and Eric Umansky, ProPublica
“Protecting a Predator,” by Bianca Fortis and Laura Beil, September 11–24

The New Yorker With The Outlaw Ocean Project
David Remnick, Editor, The New Yorker
Ian Urbina, Director, The Outlaw Ocean Project
Edited by Nimal Eames-Scott, The New Yorker
“The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat,” by Ian Urbina, October 9 at newyorker.com

ProPublica
Stephen Engelberg, Editor in Chief
Edited by Jesse Eisinger
Three articles from the series “Friends of the Court” by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski: “Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire,” April 6, “Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court,” June 20, and “Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events,” September 22