![]() ![]() The team, including former database reporter Spencer Norris, won for their “Innocence Sold” series and podcast about sex trafficking in Florida. ![]() ![]() South Florida Sun Sentinel Senior Editor David Schutz, Investigative Reporter David Fleshler and Investigations Editor Brittany Wallman are shown after winning first place in the 2023 Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Miami. Knight Foundation, “recognizes some of South Florida’s most impactful investigative stories and has become an honored tradition in the local journalism scene,” the Knight Foundation’s website says. The awards, sponsored by the Esserman Family Fund for Investigative Journalism in partnership with the John S. ![]() The team’s project also highlighted how victims are often treated as criminals. Investigations Editor Brittany Wallman, Senior Editor David Schutz and reporters David Fleshler and Spencer Norris’ four-part series uncovered how state failures contribute to child sex trafficking, how hotels have gotten away with thousands of violations of an anti-trafficking law, and how the state’s foster care system gives sex traffickers access to vulnerable children. The South Florida Sun Sentinel’s investigations team won the top prize in the fourth annual Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards for its Innocence Sold series. ![]()
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