Winner – McClatchy DC Bureau: Merchant cash death spiral
- Contributor – Ben Wieder
- Judges’ Comments – “Merchant cash death spiral” investigates a little-known, unregulated world in business and finance. Journalists at McClatchy DC reviewed hundreds of court and bankruptcy cases and interviewed business owners to both get at the scope of issues arising in the industry and put human faces on them. The deep research is on display in engaging, crisply written stories that make the issues accessible without dumbing them down.
