The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting took three prizes in this year’s Florida Society of News Editors Journalism Contest. FCIR competed in the contest’s division for newspapers with daily circulation under 50,000.
Trevor Aaronson’s reporting on the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation’s attempt to purchase spyware from Hacking Team won third place in breaking news.
Tristram Korten’s coverage of Florida’s “climate change” ban took third place in community leadership.
John Lantigua’s story about the underrepresentation of black police officers statewide, which included an interactive map built by Aaronson, won third place in multimedia.