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Digital Media – Commentary/Weblog
White Privilege Was Prevalent in Sports Throughout 2019
Carron Phillips
Company Credit: The Shadow League, Atlanta, GA
Digital Media – Interactive: Feature
Company Credit: AJ Contrast, Al Jazeera Digital
Digital Media – Interactive: News
Terron Moore, Coco Romack, Dometi Pongo, Adam Murphy, Kelsey McLaughlin
Company Credit: MTV News, New York
Digital Media – Online Project: Feature
ESPN Staff
Company Credit: ESPN, Bristol, CT
Digital Media – Online Project: News
Wendi Thomas
Company Credit: MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, Memphis, TN
Digital Media – Single Story: Feature
Black Farmers Embrace Practices of Climate Resiliency
Leah Penniman
Company Credit: YES! Media, Seattle, WA
Digital Media – Single Story: News
VICE News: The Next Generation of Black Farmers
Milena Mikael Debass, Brittany Ross, Courtney Brooks, Kathleen Caulderwood, Srdjan Stojiljkovic
Company Credit: VICE News, Brooklyn, NY
Digital Media – Sports
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement – Navigating the Pressures of a Warrior
Lisa Melillo, Ebonne Ruffins
Company Credit: Comcast NBCUniversal, Philadelphia, PA
Digital Media – Graduate – Best Use of Multimedia – Special Project
400 Years After the Slave Trade Began, Tracing the Roots of Jambalaya to Jollof
Kayla Stewart
Company Credit: Civil Eats and America’s Test Kitchen – Proof
Digital Media – Graduate – Online Sports Reporting
Becoming Kyler Murray: Cardinals quarterback refined skills in heart of football country
Alex Simon
Company Credit: Cronkite News at ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix, AZ
Digital Media – Undergraduate – Online Feature Reporting
Caylin Newton: Building His Own Legacy
Brianna Nargiso
Company Credit: Howard University, Washington, DC
Digital Media – Undergraduate – Online News Reporting
2020 Census: Middle Easterners and North Africans Don’t Fit the Box
Farah Eltohamy
Company Credit: Cronkite News at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix, AZ
Digital Media – Undergraduate – Online Sports Reporting
More Than a Name: Son of a Hall of Famer, Hamilton’s Brenden Rice Hopes to Forge Own Path
Stephen Perez
Company Credit: Cronkite News at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix, AZ
Magazine – Over 1 Million – General Reporting
The ‘Clotilda,’ the Last Known Slave Ship to Arrive in the U.S., Is Found
Allison Keyes – CBS News Radio, Washington, DC
Company Credit: Smithsonian Magazine
Magazine – Over 1 Million – Investigative
Lizzie Presser
Company Credit: ProPublica, New York, NY, Co-published with The New Yorker
Magazine – Over 1 Million – Specialty
Andrew Lawrence
Company Credit: Men’s Health
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Business
Wealthy Black Executives Take on Racial Inequality
Jordyn Holman
Company Credit: Bloomberg News
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Commentary/Essay
Toni Morrison: The Revolutionary
Marcia Davis
Company Credit: The Crisis Magazine, Washington, DC
Magazine – Under 1 Million – General Reporting
Sheila Banks
Company Credit: The Crisis Magazine, St. Louis, MO
Magazine – Under 1 Million – International
Jamaica’s Ann-Marie Vaz on Her Historic Political Win
Erica Ayisi
Company Credit: ESSENCE
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Investigative
The Collective Healing That is Owed
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield
Company Credit: YES! Media, Seattle, WA
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Single-Topic Series
400 Years: Black Resistance and Resilience
Freelancers Phillip Agnew, Feminista Jones, Charlene Carruthers, Clint Smith, Fatima Goss Graves, Alicia Garza
Company Credit: The Crisis Magazine, Washington, DC
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Specialty
By Reconnecting with Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves
Leah Penniman
Company Credit: YES! Media, Seattle, WA
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Sports
Jarrett Bell
Company Credit: The Crisis Magazine, Washington, DC
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Business
‘Why Tearing Down Englewood to Save it Hasn’t Worked,’ Manny Ramos, Chicago Sun-times
Manny Ramos
Company Credit: Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Commentary
A Collection of Columns by Suzette Hackney
Suzette Hackney
Company Credit: The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, IN
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Feature: Series
The Schools That Bear the Names of Segregationists
Corey Mitchell, Andrew Ujifusa, Maya Riser-Kositsky & Holly Peele
Company Credit: Education Week, Bethesda, MD
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Feature: Single Story
Life After Death: Parents Who Lost Their Children to Homicide in DC Grapple with the Aftermath.
Candace Montague – Ellicott City, MD
Company Credit: Edited by the Editors of Washington City Paper, Washington, DC
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Investigative
Andrew Ford
Company Credit: Asbury Park Press
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – News: Series
CRACK VS. HEROIN: An Unfair System Arrested Millions of Blacks, Urged Compassion for Whites
Staff
Company Credit: Asbury Park Press, Neptune, NJ
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – News: Single Story
Detroit Rape Victim: Wrong Man May Be In Prison for My Assault
Elisha Anderson
Company Credit: Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Specialty
In Flint, Schools Overwhelmed by Special Ed. Needs in Aftermath of Lead Crisis
Corey Mitchell
Company Credit: Education Week, Bethesda, MD
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000 – Sports
Almont-Denby and the Quest to Find Out What Really Happened
Jeff Seidel
Company Credit: Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI
Newspaper – National – Business
The White-Male Mentorship Premium
Rebecca Greenfield
Company Credit: Bloomberg
Newspaper – National – Feature: Single Story
This Isn’t Another Horror Story About Black Motherhood
Helena Andrews-Dyer
Company Credit: The Washington Post, Washington, DC
Newspaper – National – Investigative
Nick Penzenstadler – USA TODAY, McLean, VA
Jeff Lowenstein – Grand Valley State University
Company Credit: USA TODAY, McLean VA
Newspaper – National – News: Series
Joshua Jamerson
Company Credit: The Wall Street Journal, Washington, DC
Newspaper – National – News: Single Story
Art So White: Black Artists Want Representation in the Met, National Gallery
Nicquel Ellis – Atlanta, GA
Company Credit: USA TODAY
Newspaper – National – Photo Story
Jarrad Henderson
Company Credit: USA TODAY, Alexandria, VA
Newspaper – National – Special Project
USA TODAY Black History Month 2019 Special Edition – Exodus: How Black Migrations Changed our Nation
Nichelle Smith
Company Credit: USA TODAY Network, McLean, VA
Newspaper – National – Sports
Tyler Blint-Welsh, Tom McGinty, Alexa St. John
Company Credit: The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Commentary
Being a Black Woman in Modern America
Elizabeth Wellington
Company Credit: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Feature: Series
After Decades, a Just Discharge for 95-year-old Veteran
Melanie Burney
Company Credit: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Feature: Single Story
A Century of Progress But Still an Invisible Divide
Mary Mitchell
Company Credit: Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Investigative
Newsday Staff
Company Credit: Newsday, Melville, NY
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – News: Series
Samantha Melamed, Dylan Purcell, Chris Williams
Company Credit: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – News: Single Story
Rev. Leon Finney, Jr.’s Free Fall
Carlos Ballesteros, Tom Schuba, Jon Seidel, Rachel Hinton
Company Credit: Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000 – Sports
Aaron Carter
Company Credit: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA
Newspaper – Graduate – General News Reporting
Ta-Nehisi Coates Joins ‘Power of the Pen’ at Howard
Daja Henry, Ahmari Anthony, Bryce Newby
Company Credit: The Hilltop, Howard University & NewsVision, Washington, DC
Newspaper – Undergraduate – Feature Reporting
Chase Hunter B.
Company Credit: State Press Magazine at Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
Newspaper – Undergraduate – General News Reporting
#HowardWontMove Responds to Gentrification, Campus Policy
Sidney Johnson
Company Credit: The Hilltop, Howard University, Washington, DC
Newspaper – Undergraduate – Sports Reporting
Football Head Coach on Administrative Leave Amidst Verbal Abuse Allegations, 1-8 Start
Kira Grant
Company Credit: The Hilltop, Howard University, Washington, DC
Photojournalism – Photography: Multiple Images
Nadine Ijewere, – CLM Agency, London, Greater London
Gabriella Karefa-Johnson – GARAGE Magazine, New York, NY
Tonne Goodman – Vogue, New York, NY
Company Credit: GARAGE Magazine – Vice Media Group
Photojournalism – Photography: Single Image
Angela Peterson
Company Credit: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Photojournalism – Videography
Smith’s Illness was Taking a Toll on Her Husband; Then He Found Another Love
Ashleigh Joplin
Company Credit: The Washington Post, Washington, DC
Podcast – Arts and Culture
The Stoop Podcast: Gullah Geechee
Leila Day
Company Credit: The Stoop Podcast, San Francisco, CA
Podcast – Commentary and Discussion
Kamala Harris and the Power of Howard University
Robin Givhan, Martine Powers, Linah Mohammad & Madhulika Sikka
Company Credit: Post Reports, The Washington Post
Podcast – Lifestyle
The Power of Black Motherhood: Finding Joy Beyond the Numbers on Maternal Mortality
Helena Andrews-Dyer, Jordan-Marie Smith, Martine Powers, Madhulika Sikka
Company Credit: Post Reports, The Washington Post, Washington, DC
Podcast – Sports
Ramona Shelburne, Julia Lowrie Henderson, Raina Kelley, Erin Leyden, Jody Avirgan
Company Credit: ESPN and ESPN Films, New York, NY
PR & Marketing Campaigns – Cause-Related- Business – Services
Dovingall Music Gives Back to the Community and Hosts VIP Launch Event
Randy Jones, APR
Company Credit: Dovingall Music LLC, 1 Voice Communications, Macomb, MI
PR & Marketing Campaigns – Government
The Reverse Mortgage Insurance & Tax Payment Program (ReMIT)
Yolanda McCutchen
Company Credit: DC Housing Finance Agency, Washington, DC
PR & Marketing Campaigns – Online Media
Fashionomics Africa Digital Marketplace and Mobile App launch
Company Credit: Staff of African Development Bank
PR & Marketing Campaigns – Print
ZooLights, Integrated Marketing Campaign
Company Credit: SRB Communications, Washington, DC
PR & Marketing Campaigns – TV
FredAnthony Smith
Company Credit: NFL Media, Culver City, CA
Radio – Market 16 And Below – News: Series
Can Birth Workers of Color Lower Milwaukee’s Black Infant Mortality Rate?
Company Credit: WUWM 89.7 FM – NPR, Milwaukee, WI
Radio – Market 16 and Below – Public Affairs: Segment
Another View Round Table: Colorism
Barbara Hamm Lee, Lisa Godley, Todd Washburn
Company Credit: WHRO Public Media, Norfolk, VA
Radio – Network – Feature
American Anthem: “We’re a Winner” Married Black Pride to an Irresistible Beat
Eric Deggans, Ted Robbins, Walter Watson, Ellen Silva
Company Credit: National Public Radio
Radio – Top 15 Markets – Commentary
The Betrayal Of Jay-Z’s Deal with the NFL
Callie Crossley
Company Credit: WGBH Radio, Boston, MA
Radio – Top 15 Markets – Documentary
Ida B. Wells’ Lasting Impact on Chicago Politics and Power
Arionne Nettles, Jessica Pupovac, Jesse Dukes, Katherine Nagasawa
Company Credit: WBEZ – WBEZ, Chicago Public Media, Chicago, IL
Radio – Top 15 Markets – Feature
Washington’s Ties to the Underground Railroad: A Look at Where the Enslaved Once Stood
Sasha-Ann Simons, Jeffrey Katz
Company Credit: WAMU, Washington, DC
Radio – Top 15 Markets – Investigative
Sarah Karp, Kate Grossman
Company Credit: WBEZ 91.5 FM / Chicago Public Media, Chicago, IL
Radio – Top 15 Markets – News: Series
Desegregation in Chicago Public Schools
Sarah Karp, Adriana Cardona-Maguigad, Paula Friedrich, Kate Grossman
Company Credit: WBEZ 91.5 FM / Chicago Public Media, Chicago, IL
Radio – Top 15 Markets – Public Affairs: Segment
Counter Stories: Missing and Murdered Transgender Women
Don Eubanks, Anthony Galloway, Luz Frais, Hlee Lee, Jo Erikson
Company Credit: Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) National Public Radio (NPR), St. Paul, MN
Television – Market 16 And Below – Documentary
The Historic Attucks Theatre: The Apollo of the South
Lisa Godley, Neil Grochmal, Brandon Nance, Robert Pitman
Company Credit: WHRO Public Media, Norfolk, VA
Television – Market 16 And Below – Feature: Long Form
Lisa Godley, Neil Grochmal
Company Credit: WHRO Public Media, Norfolk, VA
Miss Marcella Feeds Her East Durham Neighborhood
Tim Pulliam, Shawn Repogle, Jeremy Baker
Company Credit: WTVD, ABC 11 Eyewitness News
Television – Market 16 And Below – Feature: Short Form
Roll, Bounce, Skate: Black Skating Culture is on its Way back to Cleveland
Amanda VanAllen
Company Credit: WEWS News 5 Cleveland, OH
Television – Market 16 and Below – General Assignment News: Long Form
Black Nouveau: Leading Men Fellowship
Alexandria Mason, Erica Drehfal, Jeff Mlagan, Jeff Moorbeck
Company Credit: Milwaukee PBS, Milwaukee, WI
Television – Market 16 and Below – General Assignment News: Short Form
Justin Hinton, Sean Braswell
Company Credit: WLOS, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Asheville, NC
Television – Market 16 And Below – Investigative
Revealing an Unsolved Lynching
Steve Crump
Company Credit: WBTV, Charlotte, NC
Television – Market 16 And Below – Public Affairs: Interview/Discussion
The Conversation to End Gun Violence
Company Credit: WDAF-TV, Kansas City, MO
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Television – Market 16 And Below – Public Affairs: Program
CommUNITY – Black Women: Rise & Never Give Up!
Claudine Ewing, Dave Harrington, Scott May, Pete Gallivan, Denisha Thomas
Company Credit: WGRZ-TV, Buffalo, NY
Television – Market 16 And Below – Public Affairs: Segment
Chandi Chapman
Company Credit: WTAE-TV, Monroeville, PA
Television – Network – Documentary
Company Credit: ABC News Lincoln Square Productions
Television – Network – Feature: Long Form
CBS Sunday Morning: The Real Green Book
Martha Teichner, Robbyn McFadden, Carol Ross, Rand Morrison
Company Credit: CBS Sunday Morning, New York, NY
Television – Network – Feature: Short Form
CBS Evening News, On the Road with Steve Hartman: Bus Driver Gives More Than a Ride
Kimberly Godwin, Steve Hartman, Roxanne Feitel
Company Credit: CBS Evening News, New York, NY
Television – Network – General Assignment News: Long Form
Company Credit: ABC News Nightline
Television – Network – General Assignment News: Short Form
Shocking Number of American Women Die from Pregnancy-Related Complications Each Year
Kristen Welker, Leah Smith, Jane Derenowsk, Terry Tousey
Company Credit: NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt., New York, NY
Television – Network – International
Zone Rouge: An Army of Children Toils in African Mines
Cynthia McFadden, Christine Romo, Lisa Cavazuti, William Angelucci
Company Credit: NBC News and NBC News Investigations, New York, NY
Television – Network – Investigative
The CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell: Chicago Wrong Raids
Kimberly Godwin, Michael Rey, Dave Savini, Rodney Comrie, Michele Youngerman
Company Credit: CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell, New York, NY
Television – Network – Public Affairs: Segment
Nightline: Am I Next? Trans and Targeted
Company Credit: ABC News Nightline
Television – Network – Specialty
CNN Special Projects: Turning Points with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Kim Bui, Jennifer Grubb, Tamara Wilson, Ryan Bergeron, Bethany Hines
Company Credit: CNN, New York, NY
Television – Network – Sports
Henry Proegler, Lebron James, Maverick Carter, Devin Johnson, Vicky Bramley
Company Credit: ESPN+ and Uninterrupted, New York, NY
Television – Network – Spot News
Nightline: Race and Redemption
Company Credit: ABC News Nightline
Television – Top 15 Markets – Documentary
WILLIE, How the Descendent of Escaped Slaves Changed Hockey Forever
Bryant McBride – Willie Doc LLC, Lexington, MA
Company Credit: ESPN
Television – Top 15 Markets – Feature: Long Form
Why Us? Violent Murders of Transgender Women of Color
Chauncy Glover
Company Credit: ABC13 KTRK -Houston, ABC News/Disney, Houston, TX
Television – Top 15 Markets – Feature: Short Form
Demond Fernandez
Company Credit: WFAA-TV, Dallas, TX
Television – Top 15 Markets – General Assignment News: Long Form
Crystal Haynes
Company Credit: Boston 25 WFXT-TV, Dedham, MA
Television – Top 15 Markets – General Assignment News: Short Form
Grieving Mothers Share Painful Bond with Botham Jean’s Family
Demond Fernandez
Company Credit: WFAA-TV, Dallas, TX
Television – Top 15 Markets – Investigative
Black Travelers Duped by Black-Owned Travel Company
Larry Miller, Larry Sindass, Rebecca Knier
Company Credit: WUSA9-TEGNA DC, Washington, DC
Television – Top 15 Markets – Public Affairs: Interview/Discussion
Basic Black: Men of Color and Mental Health
Delores Edwards, Callie Crossley, Kavontae Smalls, Bob Judge, Rob Fagnant
Company Credit: WGBH Radio, Boston, MA
Television – Top 15 Markets – Public Affairs: Program
Project 1619: First African Landing
Sam Ford, Joshua Harrington
Company Credit: WJLA-TV Sinclair Broadcast Group, Washington, DC
Television – Top 15 Markets – Specialty
Adrienne Broaddus
Company Credit: KARE TV, Minneapolis, MN
Television – Top 15 Markets – Sports
Lori Pinson
Company Credit: WJBK-TV, Southfield, MI
Television – Graduate – Best Newscast
Jailyn Anderson
Company Credit: University of California, Berkeley, CA
Television – Undergraduate – Best Newscast
Angela Mathis, Miriam Machado-Luces, Lou Holder
Company Credit: Prince George’s Community College Television ( PGCC-TV ), Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD
Television – Undergraduate – Feature: Short Form
Boston Educator Taushawn Tinsley Launches Boston City Council Run
Elias Miller
Company Credit: BUTV10 ‘Gov’t Center,’ Boston University, Boston, MA
STE Categories with No Entries or Nominees
No Entries
Digital Media – Graduate
-Online Feature Reporting
-Online News Reporting
Digital Media – Undergraduate
– Best Use of Multimedia – Special Report
Magazine – Over 1 Million
-Art & Design: Page Design
-Business
-Commentary/Essay
-Copy Editing
-International
-Single Topic Series
-Sports
Magazine – Under 1 Million
-Art & Design: Page Design
-Copy Editing
Newspaper – Local Under 100,000
-Art & Design: Graphics
-Copy Editing
-News Photo
-Photo Story
-Special Project
Newspaper – National
-Art & Design: Graphics
-Commentary
-Copy Editing
-Feature: Series
-International
-News Photo
-Specialty
Newspaper – Regional Over 100,000
-Art & Design: Graphics
-Business
-Copy Editing
-International
-Photo Story
-Special Project
-Specialty
Newspaper – Graduate
-Feature Reporting
-Sports Reporting
Radio – Network
-Commentary
-Documentary
-Investigative
-News: Series
-Sports
-Public Affairs: Segment
Radio – Top 15 Markets
-Sports
Radio – Market 16 And Below
-Commentary
-Documentary
-Investigative
-Sports
Radio – Undergraduate
-Radio Feature Reporting
-Radio News Reporting
-Radio Sports Reporting
-Radio – Graduate
-Radio Feature Reporting
-Radio News Reporting
-Radio Sports Reporting
Television – Top 15 Markets
-International
-Public Affairs: Segment
-Spot News
Television – Graduate
-Documentary
-Feature: Long Form
-Feature: Short Form
-General Assignment News: Long Form
-General Assignment News: Short Form
-General TV News Reporting
-Sports
-Television Feature Reporting
-Television Sports Reporting
Television – Undergraduate
-Documentary
-Feature: Long Form
-General Assignment News: Long Form
-General Assignment News: Short Form
-General TV News Reporting
-Sports
-Television Feature Reporting
-Television Sports Reporting
Photography – Undergraduate
-Multiple Images
-Single Image
Podcast – Graduate
-Arts & Culture
-Commentary and Discussion
-Lifestyle
-Sports
-Podcast – Undergraduate
-Arts & Culture
-Commentary and Discussion
-Lifestyle
-Sports
No Nominees Due to Scoring Threshold
PR & Marketing Campaigns
-Business Services
Television – Market 16 & Below
–International
-Specialty
-Sports
-Spot News
Television – Network
-Public Affairs: Program