"Maddow accepted the award and called the protest movement against Trump's rising authoritarianism the most important story of our age. I really believethe story of our democracy right nowis not a Washington story. And it is not easy to cover. But right now, it is the most important story in the world, she added while thanking her team and the local journalists whose reports added to her team's coverage."
"I want to acknowledge Aisha Williams and Holly Klopchin and Johanna Izzo, who are video producers and producers on this show, and I want to single them out specifically because they developed something newa very labor-intensive system to try to do footage like this, not just on that day, but throughout this whole year that we've been on the air, for every day of the first hundred days and every Monday since."
The 2025 Cronkite Award recognized a deep-dive segment titled Everyone, Everywhere, All at Once covering nationwide anti-Trump protests framed as a response to rising authoritarianism. The reporting framed the protest movement as the most important story of the age and noted that it is not primarily a Washington story and is difficult to cover. The team thanked local journalists whose reports bolstered coverage. A labor-intensive production system was used, combining user-generated and social media content verification with systematic scanning of local newspapers and TV, outreach to local newsrooms for unpublished footage or recorded livestreams, and commitments to credit contributors.
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