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2021 PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL MEDIA SALUTE TO EXCELLENCE NOMINEES

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Digital Media – Commentary/Weblog

How Reparations Would Work Today

Rodney Brooks

U.S. News & World Report, Silver Spring, MD

Race in America

John Blake

CNN, Atlanta, GA

Lonnae O’Neal: Essays, Commentary

Lonnae O’Neal

The Undefeated, Washington, D.C.


Digital Media – Interactive: Feature Reporting

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Black Community

Sonny Messiah Jiles, Clyde Jiles

Houston Defender Network, Houston, TX

For(bes) The Culture: State of Black Entrepreneurship

Brianne Garrett, Rashaad Lambert, Ali Jackson-Jolley, Marc Gomes, Diane Brady, Christian Zelaya

Forbes, Jersey City, N.J.


Digital Media – Interactive: News

We Remember 

CNN Digital, New York, N.Y.

How American Police Gear Up to Respond to Protests

CNN Digital , New York, N.Y.

MTV News Need to Know

Dometi Pongo, Adam Murphy, Terron Moore, Yoonj Kim, Kelsey McLaughlin 

ViacomCBS, MTV News, New York, N.Y.


Digital Media – Online Project: Feature

Black & Blue

Dain Saint, Craig McCoy, Tommy Rowan, Valerie Russ                                                                                                                               

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA

USA TODAY: Leaders of Change

Eileen Rivers

USA TODAY, McLean, VA

Your Big Questions About Race, Answered

CNN Digital, New York, N.Y.

African Voices: How Miss Universe’s Historic Win Helped Shift the Status Quo for Beauty Standards

CNN Digital, New York, N.Y.


Digital Media – Online Project: News

Coronavirus: A National Poll of Black Opinions

Michael Fletcher, Lonnae O’Neal, Jesse Washington, Beth Stojkov 

The Undefeated, Washington, D.C.

They Said His Name

Anna Orso

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA

Mauled: When Police Dogs Are Weapons

The Marshall Project, New York, N.Y.

AL.com, Birmingham, AL

IndyStar, Indianapolis, IN

Invisible Institute, Chicago, IL

The Standoff Over D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Mural, Illustrated

Ruth Tam, Rachel Kurzius

WAMU, Washington, D.C. 


Digital Media – Single Story: Feature

After Reparations: How a Scholarship Helped – and Didn’t Help – Descendants of the 1923 Rosewood Racial Massacre

Robert Samuels

The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.

The Rich History of ‘Black Twitter’

David Dennis, Jr.  

The Undefeated

A History of Great Glory: The Consequential, Evolving Role of Black Sororities in Suffrage

Ko Bragg

The 19th, New Orleans, LA


Digital Media – Single Story: News

ABC News Prime with Linsey Davis – A Nation Divided: A Brooklyn Story

Linsey Davis, Seniboye Tienabeso, Jon Schlosberg

ABC News, New York, N.Y.

NBC Nightly News: Kids Edition – John Lewis’ Legacy

NBC Nightly News: Kids Edition Staff

NBC Nightly News: Kids Edition – Race Relations in America

NBC Nightly News: Kids Edition Staff

How COVID-19 Impacted the Lives of San Francisco’s Bayview Residents

Manjula Varghese, Gabrielle Lurie 

San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA


Digital Media – Sports

Noose Comment by Penn State Coach Points to Larger Problem

Jesse Washington

The Undefeated, Washington, D.C.

A PGA Veteran’s Callous Joke About Blackface and Tiger Woods Turned into a Lesson on Empathy

Michael Williams

The Undefeated, Washington, D.C.

Inside WNBA Legend Maya Moore’s Extraordinary Quest for Justice

Katie Barnes

ESPN, Bristol, CT


*Nominees who have questions or corrections regarding their listings may contact awards@nabj.org by Wednesday, November 3, at 5 p.m. ET. Corrections will not be made after the deadline.

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