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"Reuters Honored with Polk Award for Elon Musk Business Coverage"

Reuters staff has been awarded the George Polk Award for their investigative reporting on Elon Musk's business empire, including SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink. The coverage revealed worker injuries and mistreatment of animals at Musk's companies, as well as dangerous defects in Tesla cars and invasion of drivers' privacy. The reports led to investigations, calls for action from lawmakers, and class-action lawsuits, with federal prosecutors launching a probe into Tesla's driving-range estimates.