The 2015 MOLLY National Journalism Prize Goes to Esther Kaplan
"The depth of reporting is impressive, the breadth of vision remarkable,” commented one awards judge.
In the summer of 2014, the Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) published Esther Kaplan’s investigation “Losing Sparta: The Bitter Truth Behind the Gospel of Productivity.” The article illuminates the topic of globalization through the prism of a lighting-fixture plant in central Tennessee that was launched in 1963 and shut down by Dutch giant Philips in 2012, despite being profitable at the time and anointed by Industry Week magazine as one of North America’s ten “Best Plants.”
From the article:
The Philips lighting plant was the last union plant in the county — a loss repeated across the state, where, according to Lawrence Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute, unionization has dropped from about 25 percent in the 1970s to a mere six percent today.
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