NABJ Announces Salute to Excellence Winners
NABJ Announces 2019 Salute to Excellence Winners
08/12/2019
Dear NABJ: Working Together for the Future
08/13/2019
________________________________________________ Radio – Top 15 Markets
Radio – Top 15 Markets – Feature American Anthem: This Little Light of Mine Eric Charles Deggans – St. Petersburg, FL WNYC, New York, N.Y.
Radio – Top 15 Markets – News: Series Chicago’s Black Communities Hit Hardest in Opioid Overdoses Lakeidra D. Chavis, Robert Wildeboer WBEZ Chicago Public Media
Special Series: Black Infant Mortality KPCC, Southern California Public Radio, Pasadena, KPCC-FM, LAist
Radio – Top 15 Markets – Investigative Where’s Granny?: Exposing the Cracks in Pennsylvania’s Guardianship System KYW News Radio, Philadelphia, PA
Radio – Top 15 Markets – Public Affairs: Segment The Florida Roundup: How Racism Persists In Latin American Communities Jessica Bakeman, Nadege Green, Brenda Medina, Bridget O’Brien
“No One Feels Safe:” How Gun Violence Affects Local Students Ingalisa Schrobsdorff, Jeremy Bernfeld, The Kojo Nnamdi Show WAMU 88.5 FM, Washington, D.C.
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Investigative Barbara Laker, Wendy Ruderman, Dylan Purcell The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA
Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Specialty The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Sports To Those Who Knew Reggie Lewis Best, Fond Memories are Always Front and Center Boston Globe, Boston, MA
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Single Story Residents Around Detroit’s ‘Red Zone’ Want Better for Community Nicquel Terry Ellis The Detroit News
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – News: Series A RE:Race Project Studying the Health of the Country’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, GA
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Special Project Detroit’s Demolition Program Under Fire for Lack Of Diversity Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Business Newsday, Melville, NY
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Commentary Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Feature: Single Story Bringing a Dark Chapter to Light: Maryland Confronts its Lynching Legacy Jonathan M. Pitts The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – International The Miami Herald/ Pulitzer Center, Miami, FL
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Copy Editing Headlines by Janet Graham, Detroit Free Press Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Feature: Series Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA
Television Top 15 Markets
Television Top 15 Markets – Sports Lesli Foster, Sarah Gahagan, James Hash, Darlene Dyer, Skye Beitler WUSA9, Washington, D.C.
Television Top 15 Markets – Public Affairs Program Boston’s Black History: Inspiring our Future Boston 25 WFXT, Dedlham, MA
Television Top 15 Markets – Specialty From Prison to Purpose: A Mother’s Path to Redemption KARE TV, Minneapolis, MN
Television Top 15 Markets – Public Affairs: Segment Fresh Food, Health Needs Meet in Mattapan Tina Martin, Stephanie Leydon, Howard Powell WGBH News, Boston, MA
Television Top 15 Markets – Investigative Exclusive: Alleged Coverup by Public Housing Staff WCBS-TV, New York, N.Y.
Television Top 15 Markets – Public Affairs Interview/Discussion Bounce Detroit – Spotlight on the News: Inside Michigan’s African American Vote Pravin Sitaraman, Wesley Heath, Mike Batey, Chuck Stokes WXYZ/Channel 7, Southfield, MI
Television Top 15 Markets – General Assignment News: Long From Emerald Sierra Morrow, Gene Yagle, Marcus Grayson, Jim Glynn, Eric Bungay WTSP-TV (CBS), St. Petersburg, FL
Television Top 15 Markets – General Assignment News: Short From Atlanta Remembers Aretha Franklin WAGA-TV, Atlanta, GA
Television Top 15 Markets – Feature: Short Form Through a Glass Darkly: 1001 Black Men KPIX 5, San Francisco, CA
Television Top 15 Markets – Feature: Long Form Ms. Tibbs: The Journey for Food WUSA 9-TV, Alexandria, VA
Television Top 15 Markets – Documentary Jeremy Campbell, Erin Peterson, Matt Livingston, Ciara Frisbie, Donesha Aldridge WXIA 11Alive News, Atlanta, GA
Radio – Network
Radio – Network – News: Series Memorializing the Queen of Soul – Aretha Franklin Pink Cadillacs Line up for Aretha Franklin’s Funeral- Correspondent Cheryl Corley Cheryl Corley, Debbie Elliott, Denice Rios NPR, Chicago, IL, Orange Beach, AL, Culver City, CA
Radio – Network – Documentary Debbie Elliott, Vickie Walton-James, Walter Ray Watson, Laura Smitherman NPR, Washington, D.C.
Newspaper – National
Newspaper – National – Feature: Series New York Times Staff The New York Times, New York, N.Y.
Newspaper – National – Photo Story Wayne Lawrence, Allison Pasek, Elissa Curtis, Lucy Gilmour The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.
Newspaper – National – Special Project Wesley Lowery, Kimbriell Kelly, Steven Rich, Ted Mellnik The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Newspaper – National – Investigative “The Gatekeeper:” Manager for Black Actresses Accused of Sexual Harassment The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Newspaper – National – Business The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Newspaper – National – Commentary Carron J. Phillips – Atlanta, GA New York Daily News
Newspaper – National – Feature: Single Story How Doctors Deal With Racist Patients The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
Newspaper – National – News: Single Story Black Women Candidates for Congress Say They’re Reclaiming their Time USA Today, Washington, D.C.
Television Network
Television Network – Specialty Jenn Suozzo, Katie Boyle, Lester Holt, Eric Salzman, Elissa Candiotti NBC Nightly News, New York, N.Y.
Television Network – Sports Matt Sullivan, Carmelo Anthony, Pace Bowden, Rachel Roderman, Eric Yeboah Bleacher Report, New York, N.Y.
Television Network – Investigative Undercover with Nigeria’s Pushermen Nima Elbagir, Lillian Leposo, Dominique Van Heerden, Hassan John, Nick Migwi CNN, Atlanta, GA
Television Network – Public Affairs: Segment The Legacy of Lynching (Password – museum) Oprah Winfrey, Denise Schrier Cetta, Megan Kelty, Terry Manning CBS News 60 Minutes, New York, N.Y.
Television Network – Public Affairs: Program BET News Presents: Angela Rye’s Midterm Election Special: Our Vote. Our Power. Angela Rye, Mikael Moore, Jason Samuels , Steve Ramey, Angela Chambers BET News, New York, N.Y.
Television Network – Feature: Short Form CBS Evening News – On The Road: Four-year-old Superhero has the Power to Feed the Homeless Steve Hartman, Mosheh Oinounou, Jeff Glor, Katie Brennan CBS Evening News, New York, N.Y.
Television Network – Feature: Long Form Becoming Michelle: A First Lady’s Journey with Robin Roberts ABC News, New York, N.Y.
Television Network – General Assignment News: Long Form ABC News, Atlanta, GA
Television Network – General Assignment News: Short Form Nearly 750 Charter Schools are Whiter than the Nearby District Schools NBC Nightly News, The Hechinger Report, Type Investigations, New York, N.Y.
Television Network – International Kathleen Toner, Jimmy Mazzullo, Michelle Genece Patterson, Christie O’Reilly, Mark Doctrow CNN, New York, N.Y.
Television Network – Documentary ESPN Features
Photojournalism Photojournalism: Videography Jarrad Henderson USA Today, McLean, VA
Photojournalism: Single Image Into the Blue Newsday, Melville, N.Y.
Photojournalism: Multiple Images The Women’s Final Newsday, Melville, N.Y.
Podcast Podcast – Lifestyle Christopher Johnson, Christopher Werth WNYC News, New York, N.Y. Mary Harris Slate, Brooklyn, N.Y. New York, N.Y.
Podcast – Commentary and Discussion Scroll Down: Where’s Grandma?: Exposing Cracks in Pennsylvania’s Guardianship System KYW News Radio, Philadelphia, PA
Podcast – Arts and Culture Brian Palmer, Seth Freed Wessler, Esther Kaplan Type Investigations, New York, N.Y. Stan Alcorn, Fernanda Camarena Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, Emeryville, CA, PRX
PR & Marketing Campaigns
PR & Marketing Campaigns – Government D.C. Housing Finance Agency, Washington, D.C
PR & Marketing Campaigns – Cause Related-Business-Product Lincoln Partners with Superstar NE-YO 1 Voice Communications, Macomb, MI Lincoln Motor Company
PR & Marketing Campaigns – Business Services NIKE Chicago’s Summer of Basketball Campaign Flowers Communications Group and Nike
PR & Marketing Campaigns – Online Media Fashionomics Africa Masterclass by African Development Bank Jennifer Blanke , Vanessa Moungar, Victor Oladokun, Emanuela Gregorio, Alphonso Van Marsh
PR & Marketing Campaigns – TV TV One Silver Spring, MD
Magazine – Under 1 Million
Magazine – Under 1 Million – General Reporting Dining While Black: Race and the Philly Food Scene Ernest Owens Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia, PA
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Business Why Co-ops and Community Farms Can’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap YES! Magazine, Bainbridge Island, WA
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Commentary/Essay Racism and the Trump Administration The Atlantic, San Antonio, TX
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Specialty YES! Magazine, Bainbridge Island, WA
Magazine – Under 1 Million – International Fortune, New York, N.Y.
Magazine – Over 1 Million
Magazine – Over 1 Million – Specialty When Racism Anchors Your Health VICE, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Magazine – Over 1 Million – Sports Most Dominant Athlete of 2018: Simone Biles ESPN The Magazine/Undefeated, Bristol, CT
Magazine – Over 1 Million – Art & Design: Page Design ESPN, Bristol, CT
Magazine – Over 1 Million – General Reporting How the Warriors Became the Wokest Team in Pro Sports ESPN the Magazine/Undefeated, Bristol, CT
Magazine – Over 1 Million – International In Senegal, Female Empowerment, Prestige and Wealth Is Measured in Glittering Gold Smithsonian Magazine, Washington, D.C.
Magazine – Over 1 Million – Commentary/Essay For NFL Players, One Daunting Question Looms ESPN the Magazine/Undefeated, Bristol, CT
Magazine – Over 1 Million – Single Topic Series Gerri Hirshey, Touré AARP The Magazine, Washington, D.C.
Magazine – Over 1 Million – Investigative Six Black Girls Were Brutally Murdered in the Early ’70s. Why Was This Case Never Solved? The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Radio – Market 16 and Below
Radio Market – Market 16 and Below – News: Series Race, Slavery, Lynching, Memory and Monuments Most People At Raleigh Public Hearing Want To Keep Confederate Monuments American Universities, Monuments And Slavery Topic Of Discussion At Duke WUNC – N.C. Public Radio, Durham, N.C.
Radio Market – Market 16 and Below – Documentary Alabama Public Radio
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Sports Can ‘Relentless’ Freshman Emoni Bates Jump Straight to NBA? The Detroit News, Detroit, MI
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Single Story A Texas-Sized Tragedy: Horrific Convict-Leasing System Exposes Dark Truths About American History Jeffrey L. Boney Forward Times Publishing Co. / Houston Forward Times
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Commentary Race in Louisiana’s Past and Not-So-Distant Past NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Specialty Rental Enforcement Lags in Detroit’s Lead Hot Spots The Detroit News, Detroit, MI
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – News Series A Broken System: Behind the Bars of Texas Prisons The Dallas Examiner, Dallas, TX
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Feature Single Story Kaleb’s Christmas Wish: A Gravestone for His Friend The Detroit News, Detroit, MI
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Art & Design: Page Design MLK50: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Karen Carter Richards, Grace Boateng Forward Times Publishing / Houston Forward Times, Houston, TX
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Business Roxbury Businesses Seek Revitalization Through Cultural District Boston Business Journal, Boston, MA
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Investigative Asbury Park Press, USA Today Network, New Jersey
Television Market 16 and Below
Television Market 16 and Below – Public Affairs: Segment (starts approx. 22:04 into program) Milwaukee Public Television, Milwaukee, WI
Television Market 16 and Below – Public Affairs: Program Stephon Clark: A Call for Change
Television Market 16 and Below – Public Affairs: Specialty “Black Nouveau: Amazing Grace Chorus” (starts approx. 7:43 into program) Milwaukee PBS, Milwaukee, WI
Hope and Healing: Fighting Fibroids WBOC-TV, Salisbury, MD
Television Market 16 and Below – General Assignment News: Long Form Valentino Dixon: Wrongfully Convicted – Finally Free 27 Years Later Claudine Ewing, Andy DeSantis, Bob Mancuso WGRZ-TV, Buffalo, N.Y.
Television Market 16 and Below – Feature: Long Form Jalen and Joanna: A Lead Paint Story WSBE-Rhode Island PBS, University of Rhode Island
WBTV, Charlotte, N.C.
Television Market 16 and Below – General Assignment News: Short Form Asheville School: 50 Years Later Justin Hinton, Jordan Powell WLOS, Asheville, N.C.
Television Market 16 and Below – Documentary WBTV, Charlotte, N.C.
Television Market 16 and Below – Feature: Short Form WTVD, Durham, N.C.
COLLEGIATE AWARDS
Digital Media – Undergraduate
Digital Media Undergraduate – Online Feature Reporting University of Florida WUFT, Gainesville, FL
Digital Media – Graduate
Digital Media – Graduate – Best Use of Multimedia – Special Project Carnegie-Knight News21
Digital Media – Graduate – Online Feature Reporting We Need to Include Black Women’s Experience in the Movement Against Campus Sexual Assault The Nation and Anna Julia Cooper Center at Wake Forest University
Digital Media – Graduate – Best Use of Multimedia – Online Sports Reporting Jackson State, Alcorn State Battle in Soul Bowl for SWAC East Crown Louisiana State University HBCU Gameday
Photography – Graduate
Photography – Graduate – Multiple Images In Picture and Sound: First Annual Black Joy Parade Takes Over Downtown Oakland UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley, CA
Newspaper – Undergraduate
Newspaper – Undergraduate – Feature Reporting Financial Strain Discourages Those Who Need to Get Checked for Breast Cancer Alyssa Burr – Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Photography – Graduate
Photography – Graduate – Multiple Images In Picture and Sound: First Annual Black Joy Parade Takes Over Downtown Oakland UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley, CA
Radio – Undergraduate
Radio Undergraduate News Reporting Anti-Confederate Protesters Disrupt Independence Day Celebration in St. Augustine University of Florida WUFT, Gainesville, FL
Radio Undergraduate – Radio Feature Reporting Cemetery Restoration After Hurricane Irma Restoration Begins For Private Cemeteries Affected By Hurricane Irma Matthew Arrojas, Luke Sullivan University of Florida WUFT, Gainesville, FL
Radio Undergraduate – Radio Sports Reporting Overcoming Adversity Through Archery University of Florida WUFT, Gainesville, FL
Television – Undergraduate
Television Undergraduate – Television Sports Reporting Blind Brophy Football Player has Vision for Success Cronkite News, Phoenix, AZ
Television Undergraduate – General Assignment News: Short Form Michigan Central Train Station Gets a Makeover: “Old Train Station Heading In a New Direction” NABJ Monitor 2018
Television Undergraduate – Television Feature Reporting The Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy Makes Sure Kids Don’t Strike Out Howard University News Service
Television Undergraduate – General TV News Reporting March for Our Lives Brings Hundreds of Thousands to Nation’s Capital Howard University News Service
Television Undergraduate – Best Newscast Sommer Hill, Bria Patterson, Evan Brooks, Bre’onna Richardson Howard University News Service
Television Undergraduate – Documentary Regent University
Digital Media
Digital Media – Single Story News Chaos After Chicago Police Shoot Harith Augustus Nader Issa Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL
Digital Media – Sports How J.R. Smith Bounced Back from Game 1 The Undefeated, Washington, D.C.
An Endless Fight, A Defining Choice Sporting News, Laurel, MD
Digital Media – Online Project: News Detroit Free Press Coverage of the Death and Funeral of Aretha Franklin Staff of the Detroit Free Press
Digital Media – Online Project: Feature No Ceilings: How African American Female Athletes Use Community to Navigate Negative Images Lonnae O’Neal, Maya Jones, The Undefeated Staff The Undefeated, Washington, D.C./ Bristol, CT
Digital Media – Interactive: Feature Taryn Finley, Paul Josephson, Jennifer Kho, Marc Janks, Ivylise Simones HuffPost, New York, N.Y. Christy Havranek, Chris McGonigal
Digital Media – Interactive: News Trooper Tases Teen on ATV, Police Video Reveals What Happens Next Elisha W. Anderson, Ann Zaniewski, John Wisely, Brian Kaufman Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI
Digital Media – Commentary/Weblog Gizmodo Media Group The Root, New York, N.Y.
Digital Media – Single Story: Feature “I Don’t Want to Shoot You, Brother” ProPublica/The Frontline Dispatch, New York, N.Y.
________________________________________ Winners: Submit questions or corrections to press@nabj.org A link to the previously announced lists of finalists prior to the Convention can be found here. |
