Miranda Green received an honorable mention from the judges for her work published in the media outlet Floodlight. Green’s work examined how Alabama’s largest electric utility infiltrated local media by financing a news service and buying an African-American newspaper, thereby limiting critical news coverage. She also reported how oil major Chevron controlled the news in Richmond, Calif., by owning the city’s primary news source. Her work also investigated misinformation about solar panels that was being spread in a conservative Ohio community.
Judges called Green’s work “terrific reporting … timely and revelatory.”
The Stokes Award was established in spring of 1959 to honor the late Thomas L. Stokes, a columnist on national affairs who had a personal interest in energy, natural resources and the environment. It is given annually for the best reporting in those subject areas. Each year it is given for work completed in the previous calendar year.
