2024 Dao Prize for Excellence in Local Journalism

Ari Sen won the 2024 Best Local Journalism Dao Prize with Lauren Caruba and Smiley Pool for The Dallas Morning News for their series exposing the critical gaps in trauma care, revealing that many lives could be saved with better access to blood transfusions in the field. They received $10,000 for their reporting.

Arijit (Ari) D. Sen, is an award-winning investigative data journalist at CBS News. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, NBC News and the Asheville Citizen-Times.

Here are their reports:

WHY SO MANY AMERICANS BLEED TO DEATH AFTER A TRAUMATIC INJURY, Lauren Caruba, November 28, 2023

‘WE WANT PEOPLE TO LIVE’: HOW SAN ANTONIO IS TRYING TO PREVENT DEATHS FROM BLOOD LOSS, Lauren Caruba, November 29, 2023

A SOUTH TEXAS MAN WAS BLEEDING OUT FROM A MAJOR ARM INJURY. WOULD HELP GET THERE IN TIME? Lauren Caruba, November 29, 2023

TRAUMA DESERTS IN RURAL AMERICA: WHERE YOU LIVE CAN DETERMINE WHETHER YOU LIVE, Lauren Caruba and Ari Sen, November 30, 2023

DALLAS-FORT WORTH LAGS BEHIND OTHER TEXAS CITIES IN EARLY BLOOD TRANSFUSION CARE. BUT THAT’S CHANGING, Lauren Caruba, December 1, 2023

A NORTH TEXAS MAN NEARLY DIED AFTER A HORRIFIC, HEAD-ON CRASH. HERE’S WHAT SAVED HIM, Lauren Caruba, December 1, 2023

HOW WE REPORTED OUR INVESTIGATION INTO STARK DISPARITIES IN TRAUMA CARE WITHIN THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, Ari Sen and Lauren Caruba, November 30, 2023

MAP: FIND YOUR NEAREST TRAUMA CENTER, Ari Sen and Lauren Caruba, December 1, 2023