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Home » Press Releases » UW-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics: NBC News investigation of missing people buried in a pauper’s graveyard wins 2024 Anthony Shadid Award for journalism ethics
A team of three NBC News reporters has won the 2024 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics for their work exposing America’s failed death notification system. Jon Schuppe, Mike Hixenbaugh and Rich Schapiro showed how authorities in Hinds County, Mississippi, were unceremoniously burying the bodies of missing people without notifying the loved ones still searching for them. During their investi...