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Barry Hicks's avatar

That's journalistic reporting at it's best!

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Alan Griffin's avatar

I hope you get the award. If only to recognise the importance of calling out evil that exists in this world. So much is wrong with humanity and people with wealth and power face increasingly less scruitiny or even worse the media is owned and actively assists them in their nefarious activity. I'm glad their are people like you Lauren holding them to account. Its needed. Its necessary.

Kind regards

Al

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Lauren Wolfe's avatar

Thank you so much! Already didn’t get the award but I appreciate your kindness.

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Dave Karpowicz's avatar

Lauren, You deserve all the accolades you get. You are an outstanding journalist. D

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Lauren Wolfe's avatar

Thank you!

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Jos1463's avatar

Wow. A Pulitzer!! So well deserved and congratulations! Those stories you wrote were nail biting and horrifying and need to be widely publicized. I still think of your journalist friend, the amazing artist, who was monitoring the trials of those evil men and hope he is doing well.

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Lauren Wolfe's avatar

Yes! Yves! I should get in touch with him. It’s been a while.

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Jos1463's avatar

I’m sure I’m not the only reader who’d love to hear an update on Yves ❤️

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Gabriela's avatar

Lauren, this article changed me.

I am relatively new to writing and have just started calling myself a writer in the past few months. I write about sustainability and about how we need to embrace true and radical change in how we consume if we want our children to live on this same planet. I have been writing, however, editorial pieces, just sharing my heart. Your article really opened me up to the power of writing and how our words can actually create the change we want to see.

Thank you for this push. And, of course, congratulations on the amazing work. What a way to start my International Women's Day celebrations.

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Lauren Wolfe's avatar

Wow, thank you.

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Lauren Wolfe's avatar

Also, let me know if you want to talk journalism.

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Frank Lee's avatar

Great work! I do worry though that the motivation for good journalism turns to activism. I think there is always a need to self-correct for that as the activist pursuit would tend to corrupt the journalism pursuit. The key I think, as in everything, is self-awareness and balance. Good journalism, real investigative reporting, it has great impacts on making the world a better place just because it speaks the truth.

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Lauren Wolfe's avatar

I also believe it's not activism to write about evil in the world and hope for change. There is no "other side" to something like rape.

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Jim Tragos's avatar

I, on the other hand, worry that institutional journalism has valorized the conceit of 'objectivity' above the good of humanity and use it often as a cowardly refuge.

What you did in the Democratic Republic of Congo is beyond admirable. It was brave and heroic and in the best spirit of journalism. I salute you.

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Frank Lee's avatar

Think “hope for change” is fine. “Effect change” is a problem in my opinion. I think that it crosses the line and corrupts the professional role. This isn’t that. This is good journalism, IMO… both the journalism in the story, and the story itself.

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