Lisa Sorg, an adjunct professor in the journalism department and a staff writer at the national media outlet Inside Climate News, won a top prize from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.

SABEW is a business journalism organization that sponsors the annual Best in Business Awards. All told, 181 news organizations of all sizes submitted 1,100 entries this year.

“Gaslighting,” reported in partnership with The Assembly, won the feature category in the small division. 

“The eye-opening series paints a vivid portrait of a state grappling with an alarmingly rapid expansion of natural gas infrastructure,” judges said. “Drawing upon reporting from six months embedded in communities across North Carolina, Sorg chronicles the environmental and human toll of building ‘a liquified natural gas processing facility, four natural gas plants, multiple compressor stations and a clutter of pipelines’ across the state.” 

Overall it’s a powerful package that shows in striking detail not just the power and money stacked in the fossil fuel industry, but also the determination and strategic brilliance of the broad activist movement pushing back against the rapid expansion.”