The second-place $5,000 award went to Eulimar Nuñez and team at Noticias Telemeundo for “Salud de Alquiler,” or Health for Hire, a series about clinical trial participants. The Sun Sentinel’s series had a companion six-part Felonious Florida podcast, which revealed the systemic failures through the tragic stories of vulnerable girls who lured into the hands of sex traffickers. The first-place Esserman-Knight award comes with a $10,000 prize. Listen to the new season of the Felonious Florida podcast: Innocence Soldīroadcast journalist Kerry Sanders, who worked for NBC News from 1991 to 2023, was the 2023 Excellence in Journalism Honoree, also honored on Tuesday. Legislators on both sides of the aisle expressed concerns about the issues uncovered by the team’s reporting and vowed to make changes. Ron DeSantis and legislators to reform state laws.
(Julie Anderson/South Florida Sun Sentinel)Īfter the investigation was published in late 2022, Florida’s Democratic Congress members cited the team’s work and urged Gov. The team, including former database reporter Spencer Norris, won for their “Innocence Sold” series and podcast about sex trafficking in Florida. South Florida Sun Sentinel Senior Editor David Schutz, Investigative Reporter David Fleshler and Investigations Editor Brittany Wallman are shown after winning first place in the 2023 Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Miami. Knight Foundation, “recognizes some of South Florida’s most impactful investigative stories and has become an honored tradition in the local journalism scene,” the Knight Foundation’s website says. The awards, sponsored by the Esserman Family Fund for Investigative Journalism in partnership with the John S. The team’s project also highlighted how victims are often treated as criminals. Investigations Editor Brittany Wallman, Senior Editor David Schutz and reporters David Fleshler and Spencer Norris’ four-part series uncovered how state failures contribute to child sex trafficking, how hotels have gotten away with thousands of violations of an anti-trafficking law, and how the state’s foster care system gives sex traffickers access to vulnerable children.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel’s investigations team won the top prize in the fourth annual Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards for its Innocence Sold series.
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