Chris Woods, Alice Ross and Jack Serle, Covert Drone War: Tracking CIA drone strikes and other US covert actions in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 18 February 2011 to the present (18 April 2014). John Pilger: “This [is] extraordinary work on Barack Obama’s lawless use of drones in a campaign of assassination across south Asia. Woods, Ross and Serle stripped away the façade of the secret drone ‘war’, including how it is reported and not reported in the United States: how civilian casualties are covered-up and how rescuers and funerals are targeted.”
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for journalism in 2013. “The prize honours Martha Gellhorn, a renowned war reporter and humanitarian. She was one of the first reporters in Vietnam to reveal what she called ‘a new kind of war against civilians’. Her long career included reporting on the rise of Fascism in Europe and accompanying the first American troops into Dachau concentration camp during the Second World War, as well as filing dispatches from Panama, South Vietnam, Nicaragua and Brazil.”