Scripps News on Wednesday won the prestigious DuPont Columbia Award for its investigation into the October 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine.
National investigative correspondent Lori Jane Griha, investigative producer Brittany Freeman, and the Scripps News investigative team spent more than a year uncovering information about the shooter, an Army Reserve member.
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Scripps News reported that at least 26 law enforcement officers in New York and Maine were aware that the gunman’s mental health deteriorated and he acquired a gun in the months or weeks before the shooting. It said no one had invoked the state’s red or yellow flag laws, which are meant to prevent large-scale incidents. Shooting.
Scripps News was one of two companies to receive the DuPont Columbia Award for the first time on Wednesday. The Outlaw Ocean Project also won its first award for the investigative series “China: Seafood Superpower.”
For more than 80 years, the DuPont Columbia Awards have recognized journalists for their extraordinary accomplishments.
