På programmet: Vinderne af Pulitzer Prisen 2024.
Det er ikke første gang, vinderen af verdens mest prestigefulde pris for undersøgender journalistik, Pulitzer Prisen, er med på en Spadestikskonference, men vi er utroligt stolte over, at vores konference i år åbnes af de to vindere af Pulitzer Prisen 2024 for lokal undersøgende journalistik.
Deres vinderprojekt "Missing in Chicago" afslører, at politiet groft svigter eftersøgningen af især sorte unge kvinder og piger, som er meldt savnet. Det er også en opvisning i, hvor stærk kombinationen af hårde data, interviews og fortællinger kan være.
Herunder kan du læse deres egen introduktion til oplægget samt deres biografier og omtalen af de to non-profit medier, de kommer fra.
“Missing in Chicago” (chicagomissingpersons.com) is a seven-part investigation that traces the stories of searching families, showcasing how police have mishandled or delayed cases, and how faulty police data makes systemic solutions to the crisis harder to find. Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Sarah Conway’s investigation weaves interviews and data science to illustrate the depths of the issue.
In this keynote, you will learn about our cross-newsroom collaboration on this project, the use of AI, community engagement, and our publishing model. Reynolds-Tyler and Conway won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for “Missing in Chicago.”
The investigation grew out of Beneath The Surface, a groundbreaking data journalism project led by Reynolds-Tyler at the Invisible Institute, where she led a team of 200 volunteers to review thousands of official police complaint narratives and train an algorithm to parse through 30,000 police complaint records for buried descriptions of misconduct, including instances where police officers neglected to provide help. One pattern that emerged was police neglect when Black families reported a loved one missing.
In 2021, Reynolds-Tyler, the Data Director and a journalist at the Invisible Institute partnered with Conway, a Senior Reporter at City Bureau to investigate how police respond to missing person cases. Conway and Reynolds-Tyler’s work together over the past two years has led them to interview more than 40 sources, review public records requests, and validate data with stakeholders' narratives.
About Trina Reynolds-Tyler
Twitter: @trinattrill
Instagram: @trinattrill
Trina Reynolds-Tyler is the Data Director at the Invisible Institute, a journalist, and a native of Chicago’s South Side. She leads Beneath the Surface, a data science project employing machine learning to investigate the intersections of gender-based violence and policing.
Reynolds-Tyler works to document how communities are forced to create safety and accountability amid systemic shortcomings from the Chicago Police Department.
As a data scientist, she centers the practice of narrative justice in her inquiries.
About Sarah Conway
Twitter: @sarahanneconway
Instagram: @sarahconway
Sarah Conway is the Senior Reporter at City Bureau, a nonprofit journalism lab where she writes intimate narrative stories rooted in investigative and community engagement reporting. Conway covers the beat of survival, examining how Chicagoans navigate and steward their lives in a complex American city still grappling with decades of segregation and a limited social safety net.
In this work, she investigates how the workings of local government and public health crises often collide in issues of inaccessible mental health services, police misconduct, and gender-based violence.
About Invisible Institute
Twitter: @invinst
Instagram: @invisibleinstitute
The Invisible Institute is a nonprofit journalism production company on the South Side of Chicago. We work to enhance the capacity of citizens to hold public institutions accountable. As we address the racial inequities that deform our society, we also work to alter the asymmetrical power dynamic within journalism by creating the conditions for people to drive their own narratives, putting our craft at the service of their experience. Our work is organized around a central principle: we have co-responsibility with the government for maintaining respect for human rights and, when abuses occur, for demanding redress.
invisible.institute/introduction
About City Bureau
Twitter: @city_bureau
Instagram: @city_bureau
City Bureau is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism lab reimagining local media: how we make it, who can make it, and how it can better reflect people’s priorities and needs. We do this by equipping people with skills and resources, engaging in critical public conversations, and producing information that directly addresses people’s needs. Our programs equip people with skills, resources, and connections, creating pathways for a more participatory democracy. Drawing from our work in Chicago, we aim to equip every community with the tools it needs to eliminate information inequity to further liberation, justice, and self-determination.
