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The Free Press Wins a Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism
The Free Press Wins a Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism
(Image courtesy of Young America’s Foundation / David Keith)
We are proud to be awarded the inaugural Dao Prize for our work on the Twitter Files, along with Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger.
By Nellie Bowles
11.06.23
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The Free Press Wins a Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism

We won a journalism prize last week, and I want to crow a bit about it. But first I want to take you a long way back. . . to 2020. 

Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, America’s information network—our newspapers and social media companies—were managed and censored along pretty obvious and blunt ideological lines. The rules for acceptable conversation on te…

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a reporter for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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