2022 Salute to Excellence Newspaper Nominees
NABJ Announces 2022 Hall of Fame Inductees and Special Honors Awards Recipients
07/15/2022
NABJ Announces 2022 Salute to Excellence Nominees
07/17/2022
NEWSPAPER
Newspaper – National: Business
The ‘Whitewashing’ of Black Wall Street
Tracy Jan
The Washington Post, Silver Spring, MD
Newspaper – National: Feature: Single Story
Are We There Yet? Corporate America Renews Commitment to Diversity
Sheree Curry
USA TODAY Network / Studio Gannett
“Black Mothers are the Real Experts on Gun Violence”
Arionne Nettles, Akoto Ofori-Atta
The Trace, New York Times Opinion, Flint Beat, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, The Oaklandside
Coach Kevin – A Slain Boy, His Grieving Teammates and a Football Coach’s Rush to Save Them
Metro Staff
The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Newspaper – National: Investigative
Racism in the Ranks
Aaron Morrison, Kat Stafford, Helen Wieffering, James LaPorta, Noreen Nasir
The Associated Press, New York, NY
Newspaper – National: News: Series
Corporate Racial Justice Promises
Tracy Jan, Jena McGregor, Meghan Hoyer
The Washington Post
Newspaper – National: News: Single Story
2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated After Decades
Ashley Southall, Jonah Bromwich
The New York Times, New York, NY
The County Where Black Women Hold Power — A Few Miles from the White House
Metro Staff
The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Harris Steps into High-Wire Act on Voting Rights as Pressure Builds on Election Bills
Deborah Berry, Courtney Subramanian
USA TODAY, Washington, D.C.
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 50 & Below: Business
‘Small’ Businesses Outpace ‘Minority-Owned’ Firms in NGA Project Spending
Karen Robinson-Jacobs
St. Louis American, St. Louis, MO
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 50 & Below: Commentary
Gruden’s Emails Reflect a Bigoted Corporate; When Actions Speak Louder than Helmet Signs; and Black in Green
Christopher Scott Murray
Philadelphia Sunday Sun, Philadelphia, PA
A Toast with Strawberry Soda: What My Southern Grandparents Taught Me about Juneteenth Traditions
James Causey
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, WI
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 50 & Below: Feature: Single Story
More Than Most Qualified
Eva D. Coleman
I Messenger Media LLC, Texas Metro News, Garland Journal, Dallas, Texas
How Black Music History of Asbury Park’s West Side is Being Rediscovered
Chris Jordan
Asbury Park Press
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 50 & Below: News: Series
‘We Don’t Take That:’ Why Illegal Discrimination Toward Section 8 Tenants Goes Unchecked in NJ
Kayla Canne
Asbury Park Press
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 50 & Below: Sports
Too Much Magic: While the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games Might Have Its Share of Black Girl Magic, It’s Also Got a Level of Black Girl Scrutinization.
Christopher Scott Murray
Philadelphia Sunday Sun, Philadelphia, PA
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 51-100: Business
In Kankakee County’s Pembroke Township, Race, Poverty, Farming and a Proposed Nicor Gas Pipeline Converge
Brett Chase
Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL
Couple Struggles to Hold on to Eatery — Their Story, That of Small Business America One Year Into COVID-19
Maudlyne Ihejirika
Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 51-100: Commentary
The Idea of Reparations is Not Controversial Until the Conversation Turns to Black People
James Causey
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee is a Terrible City for People of Color
James Causey
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, WI
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 51-100: Feature: Series
Justice for Jelani Day
John W. Fountain
Chicago Sun-Times
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 51-100: Feature: Single Story
Timuel Black, Historian, Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 102
Maudlyne Ihejirika
Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago,IL
‘True Love’ Finally Triumphs
Stefano Esposito
Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago,IL
A Year After the Jacob Blake Shooting in Kenosha, Black Residents are Being Heard, but Little Concrete Action has Been Taken
James Causey
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, WI
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 51-100: News: Series
The Costly Toll of Dead-End Drug Arrests
Frank Main, Casey Toner, Jared Rutecki
Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, Illinois; Better Government Association, Chicago, Illinois
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 51-100: News: Single Story
Black Chicagoans Flock to Bisa Butler, Obama Portrait Exhibits as Museums Rise to Racial Reckoning
Maudlyne Ihejirika
Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago,IL
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 101-200: Feature: Single Story
Zoom Bombings That Target Marginalized People Spark Demands for Legal Protections
Melissa Hellmann, Jenn Smith
The Seattle Times, Seattle, WA
Policing on LI: Inside Her Final Months: ‘She Really Felt Like She Was Going to Die’
Sandra Peddie
Newsday, Melville, NY
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 101-200: Investigative
Haiti’s President Assassination
Jacqueline Charles
The Miami Herald, Miami, FL
Poisoned
Corey G. Johnson, Eli Murray, Rebecca Woolington
Tampa Bay Times with Support from PBS Frontline
St. Petersburg, FL
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 101-200: News: Single Story
Policing on LI: Police Hiring
Jim Baumbach
Newsday, Melville, NY
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 101-200: News: Specialty
Black Snow: Big Sugar’s Burning Problem
Lulu Ramadan, Maya Miller, Ash Ngu, Nadia Sussman
The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 201 and Above: Sports
Rocky and Remarkable: Celtics Great Paul Pierce’s Unbelievable Road to the Basketball Hall of Fame
Gary Michael Washburn
Boston Globe
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 201 and Above: News: Single Story
How a Racist Rant in Mount Laurel Sparked Neighbors to Fight Back and a Community to Press for Change
Melanie Burney
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 201 and Above: News: Series
‘This is Environmental Racism’: Three Stories from a Larger Series about Environmental Injustice in the United States
Brady Dennis, John Muyskens
The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 201 and Above: Investigative
Unsettled: Cashing in on Accident Victims
Jeffrey Meitrodt, Nicole Michele Norfleet
Star Tribune
Losing Conviction
Samantha Melamed
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 201 and Above: Feature: Single Story
Choosing Blackness
Elizabeth Wellington
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Forced to Grieve in the Spotlight
Matt McKinney, Kim Tribune Hyatt, Jerry Holt
Star Tribune
Apps and Maps Bring the Underground Railroad to Life for Students in this South Jersey Town
Melanie Burney
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Newspaper Newsroom Staff 201 and Above: Commentary
Wildest Dreams: An Anthology of Black Inheritance – Essays
Elizabeth Wellington, Melanie Burney, Dain Saint
The Philadelphia Inquirer
A Sampling of Columns that Draw on Reporting at the Grassroots Level and in the Corridors of Power
Helen Ubiñas
The Philadelphia Inquirer
An Examination of How the Country Sees Black People – Especially Women – and How We See Ourselves
Elizabeth Wellington
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Corrections will be received from nominees/submitters until Monday, July 18 at 2 p.m. ET. Any corrections received after this time will be reflected online only and not in published listings. To submit a correction email awards@nabj.org.
