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'''The Marshall Project''' is a [[Non-profit journalism|nonprofit]] [[Journalism|news]] organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the [[Incarceration in the United States|U.S. criminal justice system]]. The Marshall Project has been described as an advocacy group by some,{{Citation needed|date=September 2023|reason=More citations from reliable sources needed in body of article that describe the organization as an "advocacy group" in order to state this in Wikivoice}} and they work to impact the system through journalism, rendering it more fair, effective, transparent and humane.
'''The Marshall Project''' is a [[Non-profit journalism|nonprofit]] [[Journalism|news]] organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about inequities within the [[Incarceration in the United States|U.S. criminal justice system]]. The Marshall Project has been described as an advocacy group by some,{{Citation needed|date=September 2023|reason=More citations from reliable sources needed in body of article that describe the organization as an "advocacy group" in order to state this in Wikivoice}} and works to impact the system through journalism.


It was founded by former [[hedge fund]] manager and [[Prison abolition movement|prison abolitionist]] [[Neil Barsky]] with former ''[[New York Times]]'' executive editor [[Bill Keller]] as its first editor-in-chief.<ref name="about">{{cite web|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/about|title = Mission Statement|publisher = The Marshall Project|access-date = May 8, 2015}}</ref><ref name="nieman">{{cite web|url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/02/bill-keller-the-marshall-project-and-making-single-focus-nonprofit-news-sites-work/|title = Bill Keller, The Marshall Project, and making single-focus nonprofit news sites work. The former New York Times executive editor explains why he's jumping to a nonprofit news organization focused on criminal justice issues.|last = Ellis|first = Justin|date = February 10, 2014|access-date = May 7, 2015|publisher = Nieman Lab}}</ref><ref name="huffpo">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/16/the-marshall-project-barsky-keller_n_6163504.html|title = The Marshall Project Aims Spotlight On 'Abysmal Status' Of Criminal Justice|last = Calderone|first = Michael|date = November 16, 2014|access-date = May 7, 2015|work = [[The Huffington Post]]}}</ref><ref name="nyt">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/business/media/marshall-project-kicks-off-with-look-at-legal-delays.html |title = Marshall Project Kicks Off With Look at Legal Delays|date = November 16, 2014|access-date = May 7, 2015|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref name="newsonomics">{{cite web|url=http://newsonomics.com/newsonomics-bill-kellers-marshall-project-finds-its-legs/|title = Newsonomics: Bill Keller's Marshall Project finds its legs covering criminal justice. The Marshall Project is trying to get beyond the narrow newsroom focus on "cops and courts" and tackle the bigger systemic issues.|last = Doctor|first = Ken|date = February 12, 2015|access-date = May 7, 2015|publisher = Newsonomics}}</ref> Its website states that it aims to "create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system."<ref name="about" /> Susan Chira has been editor-in-chief since 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hsu|first=Tiffany|date=2019-03-25|title=Susan Chira, Veteran New York Times Editor, Will Lead The Marshall Project|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/business/chira-new-york-times-marshall-project.html |access-date=2021-08-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It has won the Pulitzer Prize twice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/t-christian-miller-propublica-and-ken-armstrong-marshall-project|access-date=2021-08-09 |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Sneddon|first=Ross|date=2021-06-11|title=The Marshall Project Wins The Pulitzer Prize|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/06/11/the-marshall-project-wins-the-pulitzer-prize|access-date=2021-08-09 |publisher=The Marshall Project}}</ref>
It was founded by former [[hedge fund]] manager and [[Prison abolition movement|prison abolitionist]] [[Neil Barsky]] with former ''[[New York Times]]'' executive editor [[Bill Keller]] as its first editor-in-chief.<ref name="about">{{cite web|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/about|title = Mission Statement|publisher = The Marshall Project|access-date = May 8, 2015}}</ref><ref name="nieman">{{cite web|url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/02/bill-keller-the-marshall-project-and-making-single-focus-nonprofit-news-sites-work/|title = Bill Keller, The Marshall Project, and making single-focus nonprofit news sites work. The former New York Times executive editor explains why he's jumping to a nonprofit news organization focused on criminal justice issues.|last = Ellis|first = Justin|date = February 10, 2014|access-date = May 7, 2015|publisher = Nieman Lab}}</ref><ref name="huffpo">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/16/the-marshall-project-barsky-keller_n_6163504.html|title = The Marshall Project Aims Spotlight On 'Abysmal Status' Of Criminal Justice|last = Calderone|first = Michael|date = November 16, 2014|access-date = May 7, 2015|work = [[The Huffington Post]]}}</ref><ref name="nyt">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/business/media/marshall-project-kicks-off-with-look-at-legal-delays.html |title = Marshall Project Kicks Off With Look at Legal Delays|date = November 16, 2014|access-date = May 7, 2015|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref name="newsonomics">{{cite web|url=http://newsonomics.com/newsonomics-bill-kellers-marshall-project-finds-its-legs/|title = Newsonomics: Bill Keller's Marshall Project finds its legs covering criminal justice. The Marshall Project is trying to get beyond the narrow newsroom focus on "cops and courts" and tackle the bigger systemic issues.|last = Doctor|first = Ken|date = February 12, 2015|access-date = May 7, 2015|publisher = Newsonomics}}</ref> It has won the Pulitzer Prize twice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/t-christian-miller-propublica-and-ken-armstrong-marshall-project|access-date=2021-08-09 |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Sneddon|first=Ross|date=2021-06-11|title=The Marshall Project Wins The Pulitzer Prize|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/06/11/the-marshall-project-wins-the-pulitzer-prize|access-date=2021-08-09 |publisher=The Marshall Project}}</ref>


The organization's name honors [[Thurgood Marshall]], the [[NAACP]]'s civil rights activist and attorney whose arguments won the landmark [[U.S. Supreme Court]] school desegregation case, ''[[Brown vs. Board of Education]]'', who later became the first African-American justice of that Court.<ref name=marshallname>{{cite web|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/about/thurgood-marshall|title = Why The 'Marshall' Project?|publisher = The Marshall Project|access-date = September 16, 2017}}</ref>
The organization's name honors [[Thurgood Marshall]], the [[NAACP]]'s civil rights activist and attorney whose arguments won the landmark [[U.S. Supreme Court]] school desegregation case, ''[[Brown vs. Board of Education]]'', who later became the first African-American justice of that Court.<ref name=marshallname>{{cite web|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/about/thurgood-marshall|title = Why The 'Marshall' Project?|publisher = The Marshall Project|access-date = September 16, 2017}}</ref>
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==History==
==History==


The Marshall Project began as an idea of Neil Barsky, a former hedge-fund manager, in November 2013. When writing an op-ed in ''[[The New York Times]]'', Barsky thought it might be a good opportunity to plug the idea, so he included a brief description of the project and the website URL in his byline.<ref name=deblasio>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/opinion/sunday/chill-out-1-percenters.html|title = Chill Out, 1 Percenters|last = Barsky|first = Neil|date = November 15, 2013|access-date = May 8, 2015|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref name=capital-in-depth>{{cite web|url=http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/magazine/2014/07/8548087/marshall-projects-charmed-launch|title = The Marshall Project's charmed launch|last = Pompeo|first = Joe|date = July 1, 2014|access-date = May 7, 2015 |work=[[Capital New York]]}}</ref> In February 2014, ''The New York Times'' reported that Bill Keller, who had been executive editor at ''The New York Times'' from July 2003 to September 2011, was going to work for the Marshall Project.<ref name=capital-in-depth/><ref name=keller-leaves-nyt>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/business/media/bill-keller-former-editor-of-the-times-is-leaving-for-news-nonprofit.html |title = Bill Keller, Former Editor of The Times, Is Leaving for News Nonprofit|last = Somaiya|first = Ravi|date = February 9, 2014|access-date = May 8, 2015|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
The Marshall Project began as an idea of Neil Barsky, a former hedge-fund manager, in November 2013. When writing an op-ed in ''[[The New York Times]]'', Barsky thought it might be a good opportunity to plug the idea, so he included a brief description of the project and the website URL in his byline.<ref name=deblasio>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/opinion/sunday/chill-out-1-percenters.html|title = Chill Out, 1 Percenters|last = Barsky|first = Neil|date = November 15, 2013|access-date = May 8, 2015|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref name=capital-in-depth>{{cite web|url=http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/magazine/2014/07/8548087/marshall-projects-charmed-launch|title = The Marshall Project's charmed launch|last = Pompeo|first = Joe|date = July 1, 2014|access-date = May 7, 2015 |work=[[Capital New York]]}}</ref> In February 2014, ''The New York Times'' reported that Bill Keller, who had been executive editor at ''The New York Times'' from July 2003 to September 2011, was going to work for the Marshall Project.<ref name=capital-in-depth/><ref name=keller-leaves-nyt>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/business/media/bill-keller-former-editor-of-the-times-is-leaving-for-news-nonprofit.html |title = Bill Keller, Former Editor of The Times, Is Leaving for News Nonprofit|last = Somaiya|first = Ravi|date = February 9, 2014|access-date = May 8, 2015|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Barsky continued to work for The Marshall Project for seven years, and announced in October of 2021 that he would step down as chairman of the organization.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grynbaum |first1=Michael M. |title=Marshall Project Founder Neil Barsky Is Stepping Down |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/business/media/marshall-project-neil-barsky.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=22 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714133814/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/business/media/marshall-project-neil-barsky.html |archive-date=14 July 2022 |date=7 October 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Edmonds |first1=Rick |title=Mission accomplished at the Marshall Project? Why founder Neil Barsky is moving on after 7 years |url=https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2021/mission-accomplished-at-the-marshall-project-why-founder-neil-barsky-is-moving-on-after-7-years/ |website=[[Poynter Institute|Poynter]] |publisher=Poynter Institute for Media Studies |access-date=22 September 2023 |date=7 December 2021}}</ref>


The Marshall Project publishes journalistic and opinion pieces on its own website, and also collaborates with news organizations and magazines to publish investigations. Its first two investigations were published in August 2014 (on its own website and in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' together) and in October 2014 (on its own website and in ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'').<ref name=newsonomics/><ref name=capital-launch>{{cite web|url=http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/10/8555216/marshall-project-launch-november|title = The Marshall Project to launch in November|date = October 23, 2014|access-date = May 7, 2015|work = [[Capital New York]]}}</ref> It also publishes a weekly feature called "Life Inside," where people who work or live in the criminal justice system tell their stories in first-person essays.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/tag/life-inside|title=Life Inside|website=The Marshall Project|access-date=Jul 18, 2019}}</ref> Until October 2018, Life Inside was co-published with [[Vice Media|VICE]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/topic/life-inside|title=Life Inside|website=Vice|access-date=Jul 18, 2019}}</ref>
The Marshall Project publishes journalistic and opinion pieces on its own website, and also collaborates with news organizations and magazines to publish investigations. Its first two investigations were published in August 2014 (on its own website and in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' together) and in October 2014 (on its own website and in ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'').<ref name=newsonomics/><ref name=capital-launch>{{cite web|url=http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/10/8555216/marshall-project-launch-november|title = The Marshall Project to launch in November|date = October 23, 2014|access-date = May 7, 2015|work = [[Capital New York]]}}</ref> It also publishes a weekly feature called "Life Inside," where people who work or live in the criminal justice system tell their stories in first-person essays.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/tag/life-inside|title=Life Inside|website=The Marshall Project|access-date=Jul 18, 2019}}</ref> Until October 2018, Life Inside was co-published with [[Vice Media|VICE]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/topic/life-inside|title=Life Inside|website=Vice|access-date=Jul 18, 2019}}</ref>


The project officially launched in November 2014.<ref name=huffpo/><ref name=nyt/><ref name=capital-launch/> Its first editor-in-chief was former ''[[New York Times]]'' executive editor [[Bill Keller]].<ref name=nieman/><ref name=nyt/> The outlet's reporting in its first five years garnered it a [[Pulitzer Prize]] and other journalism awards, with reporting focused on various issues, including prison abuse and rape, [[Private prison|privatized prisons]], and the treatment of incarcerated youth and mentally ill people.<ref name=KellerExitCJR>Zainab Sultan, [https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/exit-interview-bill-keller-marshall-project.php Exit Interview: Bill Keller on his time at The Marshall Project], ''Columbia Journalism Review'' (April 1, 2019).</ref> Keller retired in 2019 and was succeeded as editor-in-chief by [[Susan Chira]].<ref name=KellerExitCJR/><ref>[https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/11/01/bill-keller-to-retire-from-the-marshall-project Bill Keller to retire from The Marshall Project], The Marshall Project (November 1, 2018).</ref>
The project officially launched in November 2014.<ref name=huffpo/><ref name=nyt/><ref name=capital-launch/> Its first editor-in-chief was former ''[[New York Times]]'' executive editor [[Bill Keller]].<ref name=nieman/><ref name=nyt/> The outlet's reporting in its first five years garnered it a [[Pulitzer Prize]] and other journalism awards, with reporting focused on various issues, including prison abuse and rape, [[Private prison|privatized prisons]], and the treatment of incarcerated youth and mentally ill people.<ref name=KellerExitCJR>Zainab Sultan, [https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/exit-interview-bill-keller-marshall-project.php Exit Interview: Bill Keller on his time at The Marshall Project], ''Columbia Journalism Review'' (April 1, 2019).</ref> Keller retired in 2019 and was succeeded as editor-in-chief by [[Susan Chira]].<ref name=KellerExitCJR/><ref>[https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/11/01/bill-keller-to-retire-from-the-marshall-project Bill Keller to retire from The Marshall Project], The Marshall Project (November 1, 2018).</ref>

On February 29, 2024, The Marshal Project newsroom staff announced publicly that it was unionizing under the NewsGuild of New York.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bellware |first=Kim |date=2024-02-29 |title=The Marshall Project, Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom, to unionize |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/02/29/marshall-project-newsroom-unionizing/ |access-date=2024-03-01 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>


==Organization and funding==
==Organization and funding==
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The Marshall Project has also been praised for its timely launch given current bipartisan interest in [[criminal justice reform in the United States]].<ref name=newsonomics/>
The Marshall Project has also been praised for its timely launch given current bipartisan interest in [[criminal justice reform in the United States]].<ref name=newsonomics/>


The Marshall Project has been compared with the [[Innocence Project]], but distinguishes itself because its focus is not merely on innocent people ensnared by the criminal justice system but also on guilty people whose rights to due process, fair trial, and proportionate punishment are violated,<ref name=huffpo/> and is considered an advocacy group by some.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ph.D |first=Peter N. Novalis, M. D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HDuVEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PR21&pg=PR21#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Psychotherapy in Corrections: A Supportive Approach |last2=DNP |first2=Virginia Singer |last3=M.A |first3=Carol M. Novalis |date=2022-09-13 |publisher=American Psychiatric Pub |isbn=978-1-61537-332-1 |language=en |quote="we have adopted the practice of the advocacy group The Marshall Project of continuing to use the word prisoner but attempting to eliminate the term inmate (Solomon 2021)"}}</ref>
The Marshall Project has been compared with the [[Innocence Project]], but distinguishes itself because its focus is not merely on innocent people ensnared by the criminal justice system but also on guilty people whose rights to due process, fair trial, and proportionate punishment are violated,<ref name=huffpo/> and is considered an advocacy group by some.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ph.D |first1=Peter N. Novalis, M. D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HDuVEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR21 |title=Psychotherapy in Corrections: A Supportive Approach |last2=DNP |first2=Virginia Singer |last3=M.A |first3=Carol M. Novalis |date=2022-09-13 |publisher=American Psychiatric Pub |isbn=978-1-61537-332-1 |language=en |quote="we have adopted the practice of the advocacy group The Marshall Project of continuing to use the word prisoner but attempting to eliminate the term inmate (Solomon 2021)"}}</ref>


===Awards and honors===
===Awards and honors===
In 2016, The Marshall Project and partner [[ProPublica]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting]] for "[[An Unbelievable Story of Rape]]"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/12/16/an-unbelievable-story-of-rape|title=An Unbelievable Story of Rape|date=2015-12-16|website=The Marshall Project|access-date=2017-05-14}}</ref> described as "a startling examination and exposé of law enforcement's enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend the traumatic effects on its victims",<ref name=pulitzer>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/t-christian-miller-propublica-and-ken-armstrong-marshall-project|title = The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting|date=April 18, 2016|publisher =[[Pulitzer Prize]]}}</ref> as well as a [[George Polk Award]] for the same piece.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/02/14/the-marshall-project-wins-polk-award|title=The Marshall Project Wins Polk Award for 'An Unbelievable Story of Rape'|date=February 14, 2016|publisher=The Marshall Project}}</ref> In 2019, this piece was adapted into the [[Netflix]] series ''[[Unbelievable (miniseries)|Unbelievable]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.avclub.com/netflix-unveils-trailer-for-unbelievable-a-limited-ser-1836491788|title=Netflix unveils trailer for Unbelievable, a limited series based on Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting |last1=Colburn|first1=Randall|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=July 18, 2019}}</ref>
In 2016, The Marshall Project and partner [[ProPublica]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting]] for "[[An Unbelievable Story of Rape]]" described as "a startling examination and exposé of law enforcement's enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend the traumatic effects on its victims".<ref name=pulitzer>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/t-christian-miller-propublica-and-ken-armstrong-marshall-project|title = The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting|date=April 18, 2016|publisher =[[Pulitzer Prize]]}}</ref> In 2019, this piece was adapted into the [[Netflix]] series ''[[Unbelievable (miniseries)|Unbelievable]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.avclub.com/netflix-unveils-trailer-for-unbelievable-a-limited-ser-1836491788|title=Netflix unveils trailer for Unbelievable, a limited series based on Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting |last1=Colburn|first1=Randall|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=July 18, 2019}}</ref>

In 2017, The Marshall Project won a [[National Magazine Award]] for general excellence in the category of Literature, Science and Politics. This was the website's first National Magazine Award.<ref>"[https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/02/07/the-marshall-project-wins-a-national-magazine-award The Marshall Project Wins a National Magazine Award]", The Marshall Project (February 7, 2017).</ref>


Also in 2017, The Marshall Project was named as a collaborator (alongside [[ProPublica]]) when ''[[This American Life]]'' won a Peabody Award for "Anatomy of Doubt".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/this-american-life-anatomy-of-doubt|title=This American Life: Anatomy of Doubt|access-date=2017-05-14|language=en}}</ref>
Also in 2017, it was named as a collaborator (alongside [[ProPublica]]) when ''[[This American Life]]'' won a Peabody Award for "Anatomy of Doubt".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/this-american-life-anatomy-of-doubt|title=This American Life: Anatomy of Doubt|access-date=2017-05-14|language=en}}</ref>


In 2018, The Marshall Project was awarded a national [[Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association)|Edward R. Murrow Award]] for "Overall Excellence" for a small digital newsroom.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rtdna.org/article/rtdna_announces_2018_national_edward_r_murrow_award_winners |title=RTDNA Announces 2018 National Edward R. Murrow Awards|website=rtdna.org|access-date=Jul 18, 2019}}</ref> It also won the award for General Excellence in Online Journalism from [[Online News Association]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://awards.journalists.org/winners/2018/|title=2018 Online Journalism Awards Finalists|access-date=Jul 18, 2019}}</ref> Its 2017 documentary series "We Are Witnesses"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/witnesses|title=We are Witnesses|work=The Marshall Project|access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref> was nominated for the 39th Annual [[News & Documentary Emmy Award]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cdn.emmyonline.org/news_39th_nominations_v03.pdf|title=NOMINEES FOR THE 39th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS ANNOUNCED}}</ref> Its 2019 installment of the "We Are Witnesses" series was nominated for the 41st Annual News & Documentary Emmy Award for "Outstanding New Approaches" in the documentary category.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NOMINEES ANNOUNCED FOR THE 41ST ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS – The Emmys|url=https://theemmys.tv/news-41st-nominations/|access-date=2020-08-09|website=theemmys.tv|language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2018, The Marshall Project was awarded a national [[Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association)|Edward R. Murrow Award]] for "Overall Excellence" for a small digital newsroom.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rtdna.org/article/rtdna_announces_2018_national_edward_r_murrow_award_winners |title=RTDNA Announces 2018 National Edward R. Murrow Awards|website=rtdna.org|access-date=Jul 18, 2019}}</ref> It also won the award for General Excellence in Online Journalism from [[Online News Association]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://awards.journalists.org/winners/2018/|title=2018 Online Journalism Awards Finalists|access-date=Jul 18, 2019}}</ref> Its 2017 documentary series "We Are Witnesses"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/witnesses|title=We are Witnesses|work=The Marshall Project|access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref> was nominated for the 39th Annual [[News & Documentary Emmy Award]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cdn.emmyonline.org/news_39th_nominations_v03.pdf|title=NOMINEES FOR THE 39th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS ANNOUNCED|access-date=2018-10-25|archive-date=2018-09-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916164000/http://cdn.emmyonline.org/news_39th_nominations_v03.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its 2019 installment of the "We Are Witnesses" series was nominated for the 41st Annual News & Documentary Emmy Award for "Outstanding New Approaches" in the documentary category.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NOMINEES ANNOUNCED FOR THE 41ST ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS – The Emmys|url=https://theemmys.tv/news-41st-nominations/|access-date=2020-08-09|website=theemmys.tv|date=6 August 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref>


In 2021, the Marshall Project was awarded a [[Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting]] for reporting on conditions in the Mississippi penal system.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Project|first=Juan Bernabeu for The Marshall|date=2021-04-14|title=The Marshall Project wins the Goldsmith Prize|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/04/13/the-marshall-project-wins-the-goldsmith-prize|access-date=2021-08-09|website=The Marshall Project}}</ref> The Marshall Project was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting|Pulitzer Prize]] in National Reporting in 2021 for a yearlong investigation into injuries caused by police dog bites.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sneddon|first=Ross|date=2021-06-11|title=The Marshall Project Wins The Pulitzer Prize|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/06/11/the-marshall-project-wins-the-pulitzer-prize|access-date=2021-08-09|website=The Marshall Project}}</ref> The prize was shared with AL.com, IndyStar and the Invisible Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Abbie VanSickle '11 Key Part of Team Awarded Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting|url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/abbie-vansickle-11-key-part-of-team-awarded-pulitzer-prize-in-national-reporting/|access-date=2021-08-09|website=Berkeley Law|language=en-US}}</ref>
The Marshall Project was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting|Pulitzer Prize]] in National Reporting in 2021 for a yearlong investigation into injuries caused by police dog bites. The prize was shared with AL.com, IndyStar and the Invisible Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Abbie VanSickle '11 Key Part of Team Awarded Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting|url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/abbie-vansickle-11-key-part-of-team-awarded-pulitzer-prize-in-national-reporting/|access-date=2021-08-09|website=Berkeley Law|date=11 June 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref>


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The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project
Available inEnglish
Created byNeil Barsky
EditorBill Keller (2014–2019)
Susan Chira (2019–present)
PresidentCarroll Bogert
URLwww.themarshallproject.org
RegistrationNon-profit
LaunchedNovember 2014; 9 years ago (2014-11)

The Marshall Project is a nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about inequities within the U.S. criminal justice system. The Marshall Project has been described as an advocacy group by some,[citation needed] and works to impact the system through journalism.

It was founded by former hedge fund manager and prison abolitionist Neil Barsky with former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller as its first editor-in-chief.[1][2][3][4][5] It has won the Pulitzer Prize twice.[6][7]

The organization's name honors Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP's civil rights activist and attorney whose arguments won the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case, Brown vs. Board of Education, who later became the first African-American justice of that Court.[8]

History[edit]

The Marshall Project began as an idea of Neil Barsky, a former hedge-fund manager, in November 2013. When writing an op-ed in The New York Times, Barsky thought it might be a good opportunity to plug the idea, so he included a brief description of the project and the website URL in his byline.[9][10] In February 2014, The New York Times reported that Bill Keller, who had been executive editor at The New York Times from July 2003 to September 2011, was going to work for the Marshall Project.[10][11] Barsky continued to work for The Marshall Project for seven years, and announced in October of 2021 that he would step down as chairman of the organization.[12][13]

The Marshall Project publishes journalistic and opinion pieces on its own website, and also collaborates with news organizations and magazines to publish investigations. Its first two investigations were published in August 2014 (on its own website and in The Washington Post together) and in October 2014 (on its own website and in Slate).[5][14] It also publishes a weekly feature called "Life Inside," where people who work or live in the criminal justice system tell their stories in first-person essays.[15] Until October 2018, Life Inside was co-published with VICE.[16]

The project officially launched in November 2014.[3][4][14] Its first editor-in-chief was former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller.[2][4] The outlet's reporting in its first five years garnered it a Pulitzer Prize and other journalism awards, with reporting focused on various issues, including prison abuse and rape, privatized prisons, and the treatment of incarcerated youth and mentally ill people.[17] Keller retired in 2019 and was succeeded as editor-in-chief by Susan Chira.[17][18]

On February 29, 2024, The Marshal Project newsroom staff announced publicly that it was unionizing under the NewsGuild of New York.[19]

Organization and funding[edit]

As of August 2021, The Marshall Project had a staff of 48, with eight additional contributing writers, five of whom are currently incarcerated.[20]

The Marshall Project is funded by donations and grants from foundations and individuals.[21]

Critical reception[edit]

Joe Pompeo wrote of The Marshall Project that it had had a great start due to a mix of good initial publicity and association with high-profile names.[10]

The Marshall Project has also been identified as part of a new and experimental non-profit journalism format.[2][22] It has been compared with the non-profit ProPublica, the Center for Investigative Reporting, Inside Climate News, and The Texas Tribune,[5][22] and also with recent for-profit journalistic experiments such as Vox and FiveThirtyEight.[2]

The Marshall Project has also been praised for its timely launch given current bipartisan interest in criminal justice reform in the United States.[5]

The Marshall Project has been compared with the Innocence Project, but distinguishes itself because its focus is not merely on innocent people ensnared by the criminal justice system but also on guilty people whose rights to due process, fair trial, and proportionate punishment are violated,[3] and is considered an advocacy group by some.[23]

Awards and honors[edit]

In 2016, The Marshall Project and partner ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" described as "a startling examination and exposé of law enforcement's enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend the traumatic effects on its victims".[24] In 2019, this piece was adapted into the Netflix series Unbelievable.[25]

Also in 2017, it was named as a collaborator (alongside ProPublica) when This American Life won a Peabody Award for "Anatomy of Doubt".[26]

In 2018, The Marshall Project was awarded a national Edward R. Murrow Award for "Overall Excellence" for a small digital newsroom.[27] It also won the award for General Excellence in Online Journalism from Online News Association.[28] Its 2017 documentary series "We Are Witnesses"[29] was nominated for the 39th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Award.[30] Its 2019 installment of the "We Are Witnesses" series was nominated for the 41st Annual News & Documentary Emmy Award for "Outstanding New Approaches" in the documentary category.[31]

The Marshall Project was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting in 2021 for a yearlong investigation into injuries caused by police dog bites. The prize was shared with AL.com, IndyStar and the Invisible Institute.[32]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Mission Statement". The Marshall Project. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d Ellis, Justin (February 10, 2014). "Bill Keller, The Marshall Project, and making single-focus nonprofit news sites work. The former New York Times executive editor explains why he's jumping to a nonprofit news organization focused on criminal justice issues". Nieman Lab. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c Calderone, Michael (November 16, 2014). "The Marshall Project Aims Spotlight On 'Abysmal Status' Of Criminal Justice". The Huffington Post. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  4. ^ a b c "Marshall Project Kicks Off With Look at Legal Delays". The New York Times. November 16, 2014. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d Doctor, Ken (February 12, 2015). "Newsonomics: Bill Keller's Marshall Project finds its legs covering criminal justice. The Marshall Project is trying to get beyond the narrow newsroom focus on "cops and courts" and tackle the bigger systemic issues". Newsonomics. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  6. ^ "T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  7. ^ Sneddon, Ross (2021-06-11). "The Marshall Project Wins The Pulitzer Prize". The Marshall Project. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  8. ^ "Why The 'Marshall' Project?". The Marshall Project. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  9. ^ Barsky, Neil (November 15, 2013). "Chill Out, 1 Percenters". The New York Times. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
  10. ^ a b c Pompeo, Joe (July 1, 2014). "The Marshall Project's charmed launch". Capital New York. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  11. ^ Somaiya, Ravi (February 9, 2014). "Bill Keller, Former Editor of The Times, Is Leaving for News Nonprofit". The New York Times. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
  12. ^ Grynbaum, Michael M. (7 October 2021). "Marshall Project Founder Neil Barsky Is Stepping Down". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  13. ^ Edmonds, Rick (7 December 2021). "Mission accomplished at the Marshall Project? Why founder Neil Barsky is moving on after 7 years". Poynter. Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  14. ^ a b "The Marshall Project to launch in November". Capital New York. October 23, 2014. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  15. ^ "Life Inside". The Marshall Project. Retrieved Jul 18, 2019.
  16. ^ "Life Inside". Vice. Retrieved Jul 18, 2019.
  17. ^ a b Zainab Sultan, Exit Interview: Bill Keller on his time at The Marshall Project, Columbia Journalism Review (April 1, 2019).
  18. ^ Bill Keller to retire from The Marshall Project, The Marshall Project (November 1, 2018).
  19. ^ Bellware, Kim (2024-02-29). "The Marshall Project, Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom, to unionize". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
  20. ^ "Our People". The Marshall Project. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  21. ^ "Funders". The Marshall Project. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
  22. ^ a b Pompeo, Joe (July 1, 2014). "Journalism's Nonprofit Surge". Capital New York. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
  23. ^ Ph.D, Peter N. Novalis, M. D.; DNP, Virginia Singer; M.A, Carol M. Novalis (2022-09-13). Psychotherapy in Corrections: A Supportive Approach. American Psychiatric Pub. ISBN 978-1-61537-332-1. we have adopted the practice of the advocacy group The Marshall Project of continuing to use the word prisoner but attempting to eliminate the term inmate (Solomon 2021){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  24. ^ "The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting". Pulitzer Prize. April 18, 2016.
  25. ^ Colburn, Randall (July 18, 2019). "Netflix unveils trailer for Unbelievable, a limited series based on Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting". The A.V. Club.
  26. ^ "This American Life: Anatomy of Doubt". Retrieved 2017-05-14.
  27. ^ "RTDNA Announces 2018 National Edward R. Murrow Awards". rtdna.org. Retrieved Jul 18, 2019.
  28. ^ "2018 Online Journalism Awards Finalists". Retrieved Jul 18, 2019.
  29. ^ "We are Witnesses". The Marshall Project. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  30. ^ "NOMINEES FOR THE 39th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS ANNOUNCED" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  31. ^ "NOMINEES ANNOUNCED FOR THE 41ST ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS – The Emmys". theemmys.tv. 6 August 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  32. ^ "Abbie VanSickle '11 Key Part of Team Awarded Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting". Berkeley Law. 11 June 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-09.

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