Made in America, Watched Worldwide Wins Prestigious Award
I am thrilled to announce that a project I contributed to has won a prestigious Overseas Press Club award.
Made in America, Watched Worldwide won the Malcolm Forbes and Morton Frank Award for best international business news reporting.
In the project, we exposed how the Chinese government has enlisted American technology companies, including IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, to build what the judges described as “arguably the world’s most repressive technology-based system of citizen surveillance.” The judges pointed out that systems similar to those we identified in our reporting are now operating in Gaza, Lebanon, Nepal, and even the United States.
It was an honor to work with Dake Kang, an investigative reporter and video journalist at AP, and with independent investigative researcher Myf Ma. So many others contributed to this project, including on stories I didn’t report on: Michael Biesecker, Rebecca Blackwell, Garance Burke, Felipe Dana, Aaron Favila, Larry Fenn, Aniruddha Ghosal, David Goldman, Han Guan Ng, Sam Mednick, Dario Lopez-Mills, Mary Rajkumar, Marshall Ritzel, Serginho Roosblad, Niranjan Shrestha, Manish Swarup, Byron Tau, Andy Wong, and countless AP editors and staffers and others behind the scenes.
In the project, we exposed how the Chinese government has enlisted American technology companies, including IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, to build what the judges described as “arguably the world’s most repressive technology-based system of citizen surveillance.”
Nicole Meir, The Associated Press
DAKE KANG, YAEL GRAUER
OPC of America