Award-Winning Journalism Covering Migrant Farm Workers, Meat Packers, & Covid

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The 2021 Winner of the Online Journalism Awards in the category of “Explanatory Reporting, Small Newsroom” goes to the Center for Public Integrity for their coverage of migrant farm workers, meat packers, and Covid.

You can read CPI’s coverage here (“Trump attacks them. COVID-19 threatens them. But immigrants keep the U.S. fed.”) here (“Nationwide, immigrants produce food while facing COVID-19”) and here (“Hidden hardship: Guest farmworkers with visas died of COVID-19 in obscurity while Trump planned wage freezes).

You can also listen to OPI’s reporting here:

Here is the judges’ praise for OPI’s reporting:

This series done by CPI did a great job of showing how COVID-19 has affected this needed, but repeatedly forgotten, group of workers. The data work on this project was amazing; it must have been a massive lift to identify the people involved. This story was the ideal of what data journalism can do.

-KitJ