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“Maylia and Jack: A Story of Teens and Fentanyl”

Excellence in Narrative Human-Interest Storytelling, honoring Ernie Pyle

ProPublica, 2025

Author(s): Lizzie Presser

In “Maylia and Jack: A Story of Teens and Fentanyl,” ProPublica shows how the criminal justice, education and public health systems failed two teenagers, exposing how unprepared those institutions are to deal with minors caught up in the fentanyl trade.

Honoring Ernie Pyle
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During World War II, Ernie Pyle worked for Scripps-Howard as a journalist embedded with the troops he chronicled. Readers in America saw the war through Ernie’s eyes as he recounted in detail the dangers the soldiers experienced and the fears they felt while serving on the front line.