IRE announces winners of the 2024 Philip Meyer Journalism Award

The annual Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors recognizes the best use of social science research methods in journalism. This year, IRE honors five investigative projects from a pool of exceptionally strong applicants.

Winning projects will be recognized March 7 at the 2025 NICAR Conference in Minneapolis, during the Friday evening Philip Meyer Award Presentation.

The winners are:

• First place: Bloomberg News for “How Thousands of Middlemen Are Gaming the H-1B Program,” on exploitation of the U.S. specialty worker visa program. 
• Second place: Center for Public Integrity in collaboration with Reveal, Mother Jones and PRX for “40 Acres and a Lie,” exposing failed promises of reparations to enslaved Americans. 
• Third place: The Dallas Morning News and the San Antonio Express-News for “Bleeding Out,” a critical accounting of trauma death within the American medical system.
• Honorable mention: The Wall Street Journal series, “Medicare Inc. How Giant Insurers Make Billions Off Seniors” (see part 1, 2, 3 and 4), on financial impropriety within the Medicare Advantage program.
• Honorable mention: The Examination and The Houston Chronicle for “Oil Companies Leak Toxic Gas across Texas — Making Local Residents Sick,” exposing pollution danger facing residents.

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