BuzzFeed - I sent this email to BuzzFeed's employees today. I'm very, very proud to share with you all that BuzzFeed News's Greg Johnsen, John Stanton, and Kate Nocera have been awarded the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress this year. The National Press Foundation, which gives the award, cited Greg's "magisterial account of a 60-word congressional resolution that authorized military action against those responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. BuzzFeed captures the historic drama of that moment and all that has happened since. The details are unforgettable." Greg's story, written while he was our Michael Hastings fellow, was all of those things. Original, stunning, and incredibly troubling. It benefited from the powerful platform you all have built and the resources you've earned us. It benefited in particular from strong and thoughtful editing by Steve Kandell and Miriam Elder. But this wasn't just a single, gorgeous piece of work. It was a series of stori
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