The Marshall Project is an Emmy nominated nonprofit, online journalism organization. Its name honors Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights activist, NAACP attorney, and first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The outlet’s reporting in its first five years garnered it a Pulitzer Prize and other journalism awards.
About The Marshall Project in brief
The Marshall Project is an Emmy nominated nonprofit, online journalism organization focusing on issues related to criminal justice in the United States. Its name honors Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights activist, NAACP attorney, and first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Marshall Project publishes journalistic and opinion pieces on its own website, and also collaborates with news organizations and magazines to publish investigations. The outlet’s reporting in its first five years garnered it a Pulitzer Prize and other journalism awards. In 2019, the Marshall Project was awarded a national Edward R.
Murrow Award for general excellence in the category of Literature, Science and Politics. This was the first National Magazine Award for a digital newsroom’s first collaboration with ProPublica and VICE. It won a Peabody Award for an Explanatory Reporting for “An Unbelievable Story of Rape” in 2016. In 2017, TheMarshall Project won a national award for a small newsroom award for its website’s first collaborations with Pro publica andVICE. It has been compared with the Innocence Project, but distinguishes itself because its focus is not merely on innocent people.
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