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Declan Walsh and the staff of The New York Times have been awarded the 2024 James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for their groundbreaking coverage of Sudan’s civil war. The award, given annually by Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, recognizes an individual or team of journalists who best display moral, ethical or physical courage in the pursuit of a story or series of stories. 

Walsh and his colleagues brought global attention to a brutal conflict that has displaced millions, left hundreds of thousands at risk of starvation, and revived the horrors of the Darfur genocide. Their relentless reporting pierced the world’s indifference, revealing not only the atrocities on the ground but also the shadowy foreign powers fueling the violence from afar.

Walsh will be awarded their medal during a virtual presentation and will discuss their work.