InSight Crime Receives Special Citation by the Maria Moors Cabot Prize Jury
Steven Dudley and Jeremy McDermott at the Maria Moors Cabot Prize ceremony.

InSight Crime Receives Special Citation by the Maria Moors Cabot Prize Jury

This week, InSight Crime received a special citation from Columbia University’s prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for outstanding contribution to reporting on the Americas. For us, this award was recognition of 15 years of hard work and dedication to a very specific mission – to deepen and inform the debate about one of the biggest threats to stability in the Americas: organized crime.?

InSight Crime was founded in 2009 by two veteran journalists, Steven Dudley and Jeremy McDermott, who had a big idea and a small amount of seed money. Since launching with a team of just five people, InSight Crime has since expanded into one of the most far-reaching and respected voices in the region. Today, its 50-strong multinational, multilingual team works across the Americas. Publishing in both English and Spanish, we have produced over 20,000 news and analysis articles and profiles of criminal actors, and 80 special investigation series. This work has established the organization as the leading voice on organized crime in the Americas, providing information and analysis for readers across the region and acting as a critical resource for journalists, academics, analysts, security and justice officials, and policymakers.

InSight Crime’s international character and perspective have allowed us to emerge as one of the few media organizations with the capacity to connect the dots between issues as diverse as climate change, migration, gender, and democracy. In doing so, our objective has been to foster a greater understanding of the interconnectedness of the region and the importance of a coordinated multilateral response that takes into account both the macro of multilateral security policies and interventions and the micro of the daily impact on the lives of affected communities.

Steven Dudley, Alex Papadovassilakis, James Bargent, María Elena Ortegón and Jeremy McDermott at the Maria Moors Cabot Prize ceremony.

Our successes, recognized with this citation, came despite the challenges of working in two of the most inhospitable environments for a media organization: reporting from the ground on dangerous criminal organizations, and trying to develop a sustainable model for investigative journalism in the world of new media. We were able to meet these challenges in part thanks to the regional need for a strong, independent voice providing objective analysis and investigation on organized crime that is based on thorough research directly from the region’s far-flung and dangerous corners. But mostly because of the hard work and dedication of what has now been several generations of investigators and analysts that have passed through the organization. And because of the backing of our readers, donors, and supporters.

Congratulations! My go-to source to understand the organized crime ecosystem in my region. That your analyses are also available in Spanish is a big plus too.

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Joy Olson

Analyst, Advocate and Organizational Problem Solver - Consulting on Program Develop and Facilitation/Organizational Management and Change

1 个月

So well deserved!

Sylvie Isabelle Figueiredo

Organised Crime and Terrorism Teacher | Intelligence and Security Specialist | Former Intelligence Officer | Writer

1 个月

Congratulations! Your work is precious for everyone and often the only source of information about some subjects.

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