2024 Dao Prize – Honorable Mention

Anna Giaritelli is a runner-up to the 2024 Dao Grand Prize and received $10,000 for her on-the-ground reporting on the immigration crisis at the US-Mexico border for the Washington Examiner. 

Anna Giaritelli joined the Washington Examiner in 2015 and focuses on homeland security, immigration, and border issues. Anna has traveled to the border on more than 40 occasions since 2018 and has covered human smuggling, the evolution of the war on drugs, domestic terrorism, and migration trends.

Here are her reports:

Illegal immigration shifts away from Texas after Abbott locks down border: Data, February 12, 2024

Biden’s border sees nearly half a million immigrant children arrive without a parent, April 13, 2024

Top Border Patrol officials say Biden appointees silenced them for years, May 10, 2024

The Biden effect? Border Patrol has lost a quarter of workforce since 2020 election, May 23, 2024

Border agents told to release migrants into US despite Biden asylum ban, June 7, 2024