Olivia Carville wins Georg Polk Award

Catherine Cartier interviewing the Dubai Airport CEO.

Olivia Carville, OPC Foundation Roy Rowan Scholarship winner in 2018, and her colleague Cecilia D’Anastasio have won the 2025 George Polk Award for technology reporting for their Bloomberg Businessweek stories about child safety online. Their reporting revealed how predators have used the Roblox gaming platform to groom and exploit children, how “sextortion” scammers blackmailed teens via Instagram and how drug dealers sold fentanyl to kids using Snapchat.

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