Many people have a nagging sense that journalism awards are about journalists’ vanity. No doubt, they have a point. The profession, after all, presents itself as being about the public interest, and yet every spring puts on a spectacle of self-congratulation and false modesty.
But in this age of interminable metrics, it’s worth remembering that there is no real measure of the actual journalism itself. Quantity is easier to define–page views, unique visitors, shares–and those calculations seem to govern the conversation. But how do you measure the most extraordinary, the most ambitious, the all-around best? As with other subjective fields, the answer is often through peer-reviewed competitions. For decades, many of the contests shown below have become the principal force in surfacing the most defining work in journalism. And in so doing, they set the standard for what’s possible in newsrooms in years to come. Here are the winners of the top 2013 prizes.
The Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
White House Correspondents’ Association Awards
Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Awards
Journalism
Public Service
The Guardian US and
The Washington Post
Breaking News Reporting
The Boston Globe Staff
Investigative Reporting
Chris Hamby
The Center for Public Integrity,
Washington D.C.
Explanatory Writing
Eli Saslow
The Washington Post
Local Reporting
Will Hobson and Michael LaForgia
The Tampa Bay Times
National Reporting
David Philipps
The Gazette, Colorado Springs, CO
International Reporting
Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall
Reuters
Feature Writing
No Award
Commentary
Stephen Henderson
The Detroit Free Press
Criticism
Inga Saffron
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Editorial Writing
The Editorial Staff
The Oregonian, Portland
Editorial Cartooning
Kevin Siers
The Charlotte Observer
Breaking News Photography
Tyler Hicks
The New York Times
Feature Photography
Josh Haner
The New York Times
Books, Drama, and Music
Fiction
The Goldfinch (Little, Brown)
Donna Tartt
Drama
The Flick
Annie Baker
History
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (W.W. Norton)
Alan Taylor
Biography
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Megan Marshall
Poetry
3 Sections (Graywolf Press)
Vijay Seshadri
General Nonfiction
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation (Bantam Books)
Dan Fagin
Music
Become Ocean (Taiga Press/Theodore Front Musical Literature)
John Luther Adams
General Excellence
General Interest
New York
Adam Moss, Editor-in-Chief
Service and Lifestyle
Sunset
Peggy Northrop, Editor-in-Chief
Style and Design
Bon Appétit
Adam Rapoport, Editor-in-Chief
Active Interest
Field & Stream
Anthony Licata, Editor-in-Chief
Special Interest
Inc.
Eric Schurenberg, President and Editor
Literature, Science and Politics
Poetry
Christian Wiman, Editor
Don Share, Editor
Design
New York
Adam Moss, Editor-in-Chief
Thomas Alberty, Design Director
Photography
Bon Appétit
Adam Rapoport, Editor-in-Chief
Alex Grossman, Creative Director
Alex Pollack, Photo Director
Single-Topic Issue
Bloomberg Businessweek
Josh Tyrangiel, Editor
“Five Years From the Brink”
Magazine Section
Modern Farmer
Ann Marie Gardner, Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief
“Modern Farmer Handbook”
Personal Service
Cosmopolitan
Joanna Coles, Editor-in-Chief
“Your Cosmo Guide to Contraception”
Leisure Interests
O, The Oprah Magazine
Oprah Winfrey, Founder and Editorial Director
Lucy Kaylin, Editor-in-Chief
“Hair Extravaganza!”
Website
New York
Adam Moss, Editor-in-Chief
Ben Williams, Editorial Director, nymag.com
Tablet Magazine
National Geographic
Chris Johns, Editor-in-Chief
Multimedia
National Geographic
Chris Johns, Editor-in-Chief
“The Last Chase,” by Robert Draper
Video
Glamour
Cynthia Leive, Editor-in-Chief
“Confronting Cancer: BRCA1 & BRCA2 Gene Mutations,” “Recovery: Meds. And Love,” and “Life Post-Surgery: Back on Stage,” from “Screw You Cancer” series
Public Interest
TIME
Rick Stengel, Managing Editor
“Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us,” by Steven Brill
Reporting
The New York Times Magazine
Hugo Lindgren, Editor-in-Chief
“The Dream Boat,” by Luke Mogelson
Photographs by Joel van Houdt
Feature Writing
The New Yorker
David Remnick, Editor
Pamela Maffei McCarthy, Deputy Editor
“A Loaded Gun,” by Patrick Radden Keefe
Feature Photography
W
Stefano Tonchi, Editor-in-Chief
“Stranger Than Paradise,” photographs by Tim Walker
Essays and Criticism
The New Yorker
David Remnick, Editor
Pamela Maffei McCarthy, Deputy Editor
“Thanksgiving in Mongolia,” by Ariel Levy
Columns and Commentary
The New Yorker
David Remnick, Editor
Pamela Maffei McCarthy, Deputy Editor
Three columns by Emily Nussbaum: “Shark Week,” “Difficult Women,” and “Private Practice,”
Fiction
The New Yorker
David Remnick, Editor
Pamela Maffei McCarthy, Deputy Editor
“The Embassy of Cambodia,” by Zadie Smith
Magazine of the Year
Fast Company
Robert Safian, Editor
Florian Bachleda, Creative Director
Noah Robischon, Executive Director of Digital
The 2014 Alfred l. duPont-Columbia University Award Winners
American Documentary–POV
Gail Dolgin & Robin Fryday
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
on PBS
CBS News
Newtown Tragedy Coverage
Center for Investigative Reporting
Broken Shield
ESPN
Outside the Lines: “Youth Football Concerns”
KMGH-TV
Denver & Keli Rabon
Colorado Rape Victims: Evidence Ignored, Justice Denied
KSHB 41 Action News, Kansas City
“Tragedy on the Plaza”
NBC News
“Devastation in Oklahoma”
Scott Thurman & Silver Lining Film Group, Magic Hour Entertainment, Naked Edge Films
The Revisionaries on Independent Lens
U.C. Berkeley IRP, CIR, FRONTLINE & UNIVISION
Rape in the Fields/Violación de un Sueño
WBEZ Chicago
This American Life: “Harper High School Parts 1 and 2”
WBZ-TV, Boston
Boston Marathon Bombings Coverage
WFAA-TV, Dallas & Byron Harris
“Denticaid: Medicaid Dental Abuse in Texas”
WVUE-TV, New Orleans & Lee Zurik
Body of Evidence
WYPR, Baltimore
The Lines Between Us
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink (Crown Publishers)
Mark Lynton History Prize
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore (Alfred A. Knopf)
J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award
When Yellow Was Black: The untold story of the first fight for desegregation in Southern schools by Adrienne Berard (Beacon Press)
The Mike Berger Award
Julia O’Malley, Anchorage Daily News
The Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award
Susan Ferriss, The Center for Public Integrity
“Grace Through Grief: A Shattered Family Recovers”
The Las Vegas Sun
“Harper High School: Parts I and II”
This American Life
2014 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself
(Liveright/W.W. Norton & Co.)
2014 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism
Digby, a.k.a. Heather Parton
Hullabaloo
2014 Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism
Pat Beall, “Private Prisons: Profit, Politics, Pain”
The Palm Beach Post
2014 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism
Jonathan Cohn, “The Hell of American Daycare”
The New Republic
2014 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Bud Bultman, Roni Selig, Melissa Dunst Lipman, Carl Graf, Saundra Young
“Weed: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports”
CNN
2014 Hillman Prize for Web Journalism
Craig Welch & Steve Ringman
“Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn”
The Seattle Times and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
2014 Sol Stein Award for Labor History
Leon Fink, University of Illinois
IRE Medals
“The NSA Files,” Guardian US
Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, James Ball, Spencer Ackerman, Dominic Rushe, Julian Borger, and the Guardian US staff
Tom Renner Award
“Collapse into chaos,” AP Honduras,
Alberto Arce
FOI Award
“The Prescribers,” ProPublica
Tracy Weber, Charles Orenstein, Jennifer LaFleur, Jeff Larson, and Lena Groeger
Print/Online-Small
“Breaking the Banks,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Anthony Cormier and Michael Braga
Print/Online-Medium
“Backfire,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
John Diedrich and Raquel Rutledge
Print/Online-Large (TIE)
“The Child Exchange,” Reuters
Megan Twohey, Ryan McNeill, Janet Roberts, Robin Respaut, Charlie Szymanski, Matthew Weber, Maryanne Murray, Zachary Goelman, Jim Bourg, Troy Dunkley and Blake Morrison
“The NSA Files,” Guardian US
Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, James Ball, Spencer Ackerman, Dominic Rushe, Julian Borger and the Guardian US staff
Multiplatform-Small
“Money, Power and Transit,” inewsource
Brad Racino, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Lorie Hearn
Multiplatform-Medium
“Deadly Delays,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ellen Gabler, Mark Johnson, John Fauber, Allan James Vestal and Kristyna Wentz-Graff
Multiplatform–Large
“Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze,” International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Gerard Ryle, Marina Walker Guevara, Michael Hudson, Djordje Padejski, Kimberley Porteous, David Donald, Nicky Hager, Mar Cabra, Duncan Campbell, Stefan Candea, Rigoberto Carvajal, Matthew Caruana Galizia, Giannina Segnini, Matthew Fowler, Sebastian Mondial, James Ball, François Pilet, Leslie Wayne, Frédéric Zalac, Harvey Cashore, Alex Shprintsen, Nicole Reinert and Zach Dubinsky
Broadcast/Video–Small
“Body of Evidence,” WVUE-New Orleans
Lee Zurik, Donny Pearce, Jon Turnipseed, Mikel Schaefer, Greg Phillips, Wes Cook and Tom Wright
Broadcast/Video–Medium
“In Harm’s Way,” KNBC-Los Angeles
Joel Grover, Chris Henao, Ernesto Torres, Phil Drechsler, Keith Esparros, Kris Li and Bobbi Eng
Broadcast/Video–Large
“Rehab Racket,” CNN and The Center for Investigative Reporting
At CNN: Scott Zamost, Drew Griffin, Richard T. Griffiths, Patricia DiCarlo and Charlie Moore.
At CIR: Christina Jewett, Will Evans, Amy Pyle, Mark Katches and Susanne Reber.
Radio/Audio
“The Girl Who Got Tied Down,” Swedish Radio
Daniel Velasco with Ylva Lindgren
Student (TIE)
“A Center and Its Director,” The Butler Collegian
Ryan Lovelace, Butler University
“Spotlight on Shaken-Baby Syndrome,” The Medill Justice Project
Christina Assi, Anna Bisaro, Rebecca Cohen, Anika Dutta, Stephanie Fuerte, Alex Hampl, Sarah Husain, McKenzie Maxson, Lauryn Schroeder, Megan Thielking and Diana Tsai
Investigations Triggered By Breaking News
“Hazard in the Heartland,” WFAA-Dallas/Fort Worth
Brett Shipp, Jason Trahan and Billy Bryant
Book
Going Clear, Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Lawrence Wright
Gannett Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism
“Spotlight on the Texas Legislature,” The Texas Tribune
Texas Tribune Staff
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
“Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine”
The Center for Public Integrity: Chris Hamby, Ronnie Greene, Jim Morris, and Chris Zubak-Skees
ABC News: Matthew Mosk, Brian Ross, and Rhonda Schwartz
George Polk Award for National Security Reporting
Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras from the Guardian and Barton Gellman of the Washington Post
George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting
James Yardley of the New York Times
George Polk Award for National Reporting
Eli Saslow of The Washington Post
George Polk Award for State Reporting
Shawn Boburg of The Record of Northern New Jersey
George Polk Award for Local Reporting
Andrea Elliott of The New York Times
George Polk Award for Medical Reporting
Meg Kissinger of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Cynthia Hubert and Phillip Reese of the Sacramento Bee
George Polk Award for Justice Reporting
Frances Robles, Sharon Otterman, Michael Powell and N. R. Kleinfield of The New York Times
George Polk Award for Sports Reporting
Tim Elfrink of the Miami New Times
George Polk Award for Business Reporting
Alison Fitzgerald, Daniel Wagner, Lauren Kyger and John Dunbar of The Center for Public Integrity
George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting
Matthieu Aikins, a freelance journalist
George Polk Award for Network Television Reporting
Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore, Mike Wiser, Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada, PBS “Frontline”
George Polk Award for Local Television Reporting
Noah Pransky of WTSP
George Polk Career Award
Pete Hamill
“180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School” (PBS) National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS
“The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” (PBS)
Thirteen, Inkwell Films, Kunhardt McGee Productions in association with Ark Media
“Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown,” CNN, Zero Point Zero Production, Inc.
“Best Kept Secret” (PBS) American Documentary / POV, BKS Films, LLC
“Borgen” (DR1, Denmark) DR Fiktion
“Breaking Bad” (AMC) Sony Pictures Television
“The Bridge” Shine America and FX Productions
“Broadchurch” (BBC America) A Kudos and Imaginary Friends Co-Production
“Burka Avenger” (Geo Tez) Unicorn Black
“The Central Park Five” (PBS) Florentine Films, WETA
“A Chef’s Life” (PBS) Markay Media in association with South Carolina ETV (SCETV)
Coverage of Boston Marathon Bombings, WBZ-TV, WBZ Newsradio 1030
Coverage of Supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan) (GMA Network Inc., Philippines) GMA Networks, Inc.
“Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera” Al Jazeera America
“Fault Lines: Made in Bangladesh” Al Jazeera America
“FRONTLINE: League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis” (PBS) FRONTLINE, Kirk Documentary Group
“Great Performances: Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy” (PBS) B’WAY Films LLC, Ghost Light Films, Albert M. Tapper and THIRTEEN for WNET.
“Hanford’s Dirty Secrets” (KING-TV, Seattle) KING 5 Television
“Harper High School” (WBEZ Chicago 91.5) WBEZ Chicago’s This American Life
“Hollow” Hollow Interactive, LLC
“House of Cards” (Netflix) Donen/Fincher/Roth, Trigger Street Productions, Inc., Media Rights Capital, Netflix
“In Plain Sight: Poverty in America” NBC News
“Independent Lens: How to Survive a Plague” (PBS) How to Survive a Plague LLC, Public Square Films, Impact Partners, Little Punk
“Independent Lens: The House I Live In” (PBS) Charlotte Street Films, Independent Television Service (ITVS), BBC, ZDF/ARTE, NHK Japan
“Independent Lens: The Invisible War” (PBS) Chain Camera Productions, Independent Television Service (ITVS), Girls Club Entertainment, RISE films, Fork Films, Cuomo Cole Productions, Canal Plus
“Inside Syria’s War” BBC World News America
“Key & Peele” (Comedy Central) Central Productions
“Latino Americans” (PBS) WETA, LPB (Latino Public Broadcasting), Bosch & Company, ITVS
“The Law in These Parts” (PBS) American Documentary / POV
“Life According to Sam” (HBO) HBO Documentary Films and Fine Films LLC
“Louisiana Purchased” (WVUE-TV, New Orleans, and NOLA.com) WVUE-TV & NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune
“Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God” (HBO) Jigsaw Productions, HBO Documentary Films, Wider Film Projects and Below the Radar Films
“A Needed Response” (YouTube/Samantha Stendal) Samantha Stendal, Aaron Blanton
“NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Questions of Influence” WTVF-TV, Nashville
“One-on-One with Assad” (CBS) CBS This Morning, CBS News
“Orange Is the New Black” (Netflix) Lionsgate Television, Netflix
“Orphan Black” (BBC America) Temple Street Productions in association with BBC America and SPACE
“Outside the Lines: NFL at a Crossroads: Investigating a Health Crisis” (ESPN) ESPN
“The Race Card Project, The Race Card Project” NPR News, NPR’s Morning Edition
“Reveal: The VA’s Opiate Overload” (Public Radio) The Center for Investigative Reporting, Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
“The Returned” (Les Revenants) (Sundance Channel) Haut et Court TV, Canal +, Jimmy, Cine +, Backup Films
“Scandal” ABC Studios
“A Short History of the Highrise” The New York Times, The National Film Board of Canada
“Six by Sondheim” HBO Documentary Films and Sabella Entertainment
“TCM: The Story of Film” TCM
Tom Brokaw: Personal Award
White House Correspondents’ Association Journalism Awards
The Aldo Beckman Memorial Award
Two Awards: Glenn Thrush of Politico and Brianna Keilar of CNN
The Merriman Smith Memorial Award
Print
“Obama Seeks Approval by Congress for Strike in Syria”
Peter Baker, The New York Times
Broadcast
“Sequestration”
Peter Maer, CBS News
Edgar A. Poe Award
Two Awards:
“The Child Exchange: Inside America’s Underground Market for Adopted Children”
Megan Twohey, Reuters
“Breathless and Burdened: Dying from black lung, buried by law and medicine”
The Center for Public Integrity, in partnership with ABC News
Worth Bingham Award
“Nevada Patient Busing,” The Sacramento Bee, Cynthia Hubert and Phillip Reese and colleagues
Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting
Karen Tumulty, The Washington Post
The Hal Boyle Award
“Al Qaida’s Papers”
Rukmini Callimachi, The Associated Press
The Bob Considine Award
“Al Qaida’s Papers”
Rukmini Callimachi, The Associated Press
The Malcom Forbes Award
“Assets of the Ayatollah”
Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Yeganeh Torbati and Reuters staff, Reuters
The Madeline Dane Ross Award
“Death of a Beauty Queen”
Adriana Gomez Licon, The Associated Press
The Whitman Bassow Award
“Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn”
Craig Welch and photographer Steve Ringman, The Seattle Times
The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award
“Latin America’s New Paths”
Simon Romero, The New York Times
Best Investigative Reporting
“Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze”
Gerard Ryle, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Center for Public Integrity
Best Commentary
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Photography
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
“Attack on a Kenyan Mall”
Tyler Hicks, The New York Times
The Olivier Rebbot Award
“Afghanistan- A Distant War”
Robert Nickelsberg, Prestel
The John Faber Award
“Central African Republic Unrest”
Jerome Delay, The Associated Press
Feature Photography Award
“The Last of the Viking Whalers”
Marcus Bleasdale VII for National Geographic
TV and Radio
The Lowell Thomas Award
“Egypt: A Tumultuous Year”
Leila Fadel, National Public Radio
The David Kaplan Award
“Crackdown in Cairo”
Charlie D’Agata, Patricia Shevlin, Heather Abbott, Randall Joyce, Haithem Moussa, and Alex Ortiz, CBS Evening News
The Edward R. Murrow Award
“Tales from the Organ Trade”
Ric Esther Bienstock, Felix Golubev, Simcha Jacobovici, Sheila Nevins, Nancy Abraham, Associated Producers Ltd. for HBO Documentary Films
The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award
“Outlawed in Pakistan”
Habiba Nosheen, Hilke Schellmann, Hemal Trivedi, and Dan Sugarman WGBH – Frontline, ITVS, Pulitzer Center and H2H Films
Magazines
The Ed Cunningham Award
“The Homeless Herd: An Indian Village Battles an Elephant Invasion”
Rowan Jacobsen, Harper’s Magazine
The Morton Frank Award
“Prince of Insecurity”
Kerry Dolan, Forbes
The Joe and Laurie Dine Award
“Tech’s Hidden Price”
Cam Simpson, Bloomberg News and Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Books
The Cornelius Ryan Award
“The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster”
Jonathan Katz, Palgrave Macmillan
Cartoons
The Thomas Nast Award
Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher, The Economist and The Baltimore Sun
Multimedia
Best Multimedia News Presentation
“Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt”
Alex Blumberg, Planet Money and NPR Visuals, National Public Radio
Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Awards
Newspaper/Wire Services
Deadline Reporting (Daily Circulation of 100,001+)
“Nightmare’s End”
Staff, The Boston Globe
Deadline Reporting (Daily Circulation of 50,001-100,000)
Boston Marathon bombings and manhunt coverage
Staff, Boston Herald
Deadline Reporting (Daily Circulation of 1-50,000)
“Massacre at the Navy Yard”
Staff, The Washington Times
Deadline Reporting (Non-Daily Publication)
“Miners Risked Death in Efforts to Save Two Who Died”
Samantha Tisdel Wright, The Watch Newspaper
Non-Deadline Reporting (Daily Circulation of 100,001+)
“Testing the Tests”
Heather Vogell, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Non-Deadline Reporting (Daily Circulation 50,001-100,000)
“txt + drvng = risk”
Nate Rau, Jessica Bliss, and staff, The Tennessean
Non-Deadline Reporting (Daily Circulation 1-50,000)
“Ghost Town”
Jim Steinberg, Rachel Luna, and Paul Penzella, San Bernardino Sun
Non-Deadline Reporting (Non-Daily Publication)
“Champ”
Michael E. Miller, Miami New Times
Investigative Reporting (Daily Circulation 100,001+)
“Gaming the Capital”
Staff, The Wall Street Journal
Investigative Reporting (Daily Circulation 50,001-100,000)
“Other than Honorable”
Dave Philipps, Colorado Springs Gazette
Investigative Reporting (Daily Circulation 1-50,000)
Concussions in college football
Nathan Fenno, The Washington Times
Investigative Reporting (Non-Daily Publication)
Coverage of Nizah Morris case
Timothy Cwiek, Philadelphia Gay News
Feature Reporting (Daily Circulation 100,001+)
“Invisible Child”
Andrea Elliott, The New York Times
Feature Reporting (Daily Circulation 50,001-100,000)
“Six:01”
Marc Perrusquia, The Commercial Appeal
Feature Reporting (Daily Circulation 1-50,000)
“Silence of the Wolves”
Louise Knott Ahern, Dave Wasinger and Rod Sanford, Lansing State Journal
Feature Reporting (Non-Daily Publication)
“The Lifers Book Club”
Alan Prendergast, Westword
Editorial Writing (Daily Circulation 100,001+)
“Reform our marijuana laws”
Bruce Ramsey and Jonathan Martin, The Seattle Times
Editorial Writing (Daily Circulation 1-100,000/Non-Daily Publication)
“Beyond Bankruptcy”
Jessica Keating, San Bernardino Sun
Washington Correspondence
Washington lawmakers
David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post
Foreign Correspondence
Bangladesh
Staff, The Wall Street Journal
General Column Writing (Daily Circulation 100,001+)
Matthew Tully, The Indianapolis Star
General Column Writing (Daily Circulation 1-100,000/Non-Daily Publication)
Mark D. Harmon, Knoxville News Sentinel
Sports Column Writing (Daily Circulation 100,001+)
Tom Archdeacon, Cox Media Group Ohio
Sports Column Writing (Daily Circulation 1-100,000/Non-Daily Publication)
Les East, The Advocate
Public Service Journalism (Daily Circulation 100,001+)
“Idaho Prisons”
Rebecca Boone, Associated Press
Public Service Journalism (Daily Circulation 50,001-100,000)
“Morir por la belleza / Deadly plastic surgery”
María Pérez, El Nuevo Herald
Public Service Journalism (Daily Circulation 1-50,000)
“South Dakota takes hands-off approach to uranium mining”
Joe O’Sullivan and Daniel Simmons-Ritchie, Rapid City Journal
Public Service Journalism (Non-Daily Publication)
“Out of the Shadows: A top-flight school district’s dysfunctional response to bullying”
Terri Lobdell, Jocelyn Dong, and Chris Kenrick, Palo Alto Weekly
Magazines
Magazine Investigative Reporting (National Circulation)
“Unmasking the NRA’s Inner Circle”
Frank Smyth, Mother Jones
Magazine Investigative Reporting (Regional/Local Circulation)
“Getting Away with Murder”
Noah Isackson and David Bernstein, Chicago magazine
Magazine Writing (National Circulation)
“Drowning Kiribati”
Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg Businessweek
Magazine Writing (Regional/Local Circulation)
“Greetings From Gun Valley”
Neil Swidey, The Boston Globe
Public Service in Magazine Journalism (National Circulation)
“Tungsten’s Tainted Trail”
Michael Smith, Alex Webb, and Tim Culpan, Bloomberg Markets
Public Service in Magazine Journalism (Regional/Local Circulation)
“The State of Family Homelessness in Pierce County”
Jeff Burlingame, Lauren Foster, and Danielle Meeker, South Sound magazine
Art/Graphics
Breaking News Photography (Newspaper Circulation 100,001+, Affiliated Website, National Magazine)
“Chaos at the Finish Line”
John Tlumacki, The Boston Globe
Breaking News Photography (Newspaper Circulation 1-100,000, Regional Magazine, Non-Daily Publication or Online Independent)
“Boston Bombing: Cowboy Hat Hero”
Kelvin Ma, Bloomberg
Editorial Cartooning (Newspaper Circulation 100,001+, Affiliated Website, National Magazine)
Jen Sorensen, freelance
Editorial Cartooning (Newspaper Circulation 1-100,000, Regional Magazine, Non-Daily Publication or Online Independent)
Angelo Lopez, Philippines Today
Feature Photography (Newspaper Circulation 100,001+, Affiliated Website, National Magazine)
“Glimpsing the Distant Finish”
Bill Greene, The Boston Globe
Feature Photography (Newspaper Circulation 1-100,000, Regional Magazine, Non-Daily Publication or Online Independent)
“Shadows of What Was”
John Partipilo, The Tennessean
Informational Graphics (Newspaper Circulation 100,001+, Affiliated Website, National Magazine)
“How intelligence agencies spend $52 billion”
Todd Lindeman, Wilson Andrews, and Julie Tate, The Washington Post
Informational Graphics (Newspaper Circulation 1-100,000, Regional Magazine, Non-Daily Publication or Online Independent)
“After the Flood”
Al Shaw, Jeff Larson, and Robert Lewis (for WNYC), ProPublica
Sports Photography (Newspaper Circulation 100,001+, Affiliated Website, National Magazine)
“V for Victory”
Stan Grossfeld, The Boston Globe
Sports Photography (Newspaper Circulation 1-100,000, Regional Magazine, Non-Daily Publication or Online Independent)
“Fest ride”
Matt Stamey, The Gainesville Sun
Radio
Breaking News Reporting (1-100 Market or Network Syndication)
Moore, Okla., tornado coverage
KGOU, KOSU, StateImpact Oklahoma, Oklahoma Public Media Exchange, and Oklahoma Public Media Exchange
Breaking News Reporting (101+ Market)
“Flooding Wreaks Havoc In Colorado”
KUNC News Staff, KUNC-FM
Investigative Reporting (1-100 Market or Network Syndication)
“With No Officers To Respond To 911 Calls, Josephine Co. Considers Tax Levy”
Amelia Templeton, Eve Epstein, and Michael Clapp, Oregon Public Broadcasting
Investigative Reporting (101+ Market)
“From Birth to Death Behind Bars”
Natasha Haverty, Brian Mann, North Country Public Radio
Feature Reporting (1-100 Market or Network Syndication)
“March on Washington 50th Anniversary”
Pam Coulter, CBS News Radio
Feature Reporting (101+ Market)
“Wild Goose Church”
Robbie Harris and Connie Stevens, WVTF and Radio IQ
Documentaries (1-100 Market or Network Syndication)
“The View From Here: Autism Grows Up”
Paul Conley, Catherine Stifter, Pauline Bartolone, Ben Adler, Julia Mitric, Andrew Nixon, Alan Ray, and Joe Barr, Capital Public Radio
Documentaries (101+ Market)
“Kentucky Dam: Power for the People”
Todd Hatton and Chad Lampe, WKMS-FM
Public Service in Radio Journalism (1-100 Market or Network Syndication)
“The Black Carbon Series”
Erica Peterson, WFPL News
Public Service in Radio Journalism (101+ Market)
“Rail Freight Danger: Lac-Megantic to New York State”
Brian Mann and David Sommerstein, North Country Public Radio
Television
Breaking News Coverage (Large-Market Station, 1-50 Market)
“Asiana Flight 214 Crash and Investigative Details”
Staff, KNTV NBC Bay Area
Breaking News Coverage (Small-Market Station, 51+ Market)
“West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion”
Staff, KWTX-TV
Breaking News Coverage (Network/Syndication Service/Program Service)
“Boston Marathon Bombings”
Dwaine Scott, Zainib Naseer, Mike Gallagher, and Savannah Guthrie, NBC News Specials, NBC News
Documentaries (Large-Market Station, 1-50 Market)
“After Aurora”
Chris Vanderveen, Chris Hansen, John Kuhrt, and Blair Shiff, KUSA-TV
Documentaries (Small-Market Station, 51+ Market)
“The Climb For Closure”
Alex Rozier, Gabe Ferguson, and Jordan Caskey, KHQ Local News
Documentaries (Network/Syndication Service/Program Service)
“WEED: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports”
Staff, CNN
Feature Reporting (Large-Market Station, 1-50 Market)
“Bay Area Proud”
Garvin Thomas, NBC Bay Area
Feature Reporting (Small-Market Station, 51+ Market)
“Asher’s Story”
Mary Sturgill, Patrick Owens, Vanessa Holmes, and Chase Conner, KBMT/KJAC
Feature Reporting (Network/Syndication Service/Program Service)
“Nightline: The Gift of Sight”
David Muir, Christine Romo, Almin Karamehmedovic, and Jeanmarie Condon, ABC News
Investigative Reporting (Large-Market Station, 1-50 Market)
“Incapacitated: Florida’s Guardianship Program”
Adam Walser, Fran Gilpin, Randy Wright, and Doug Iten, WFTS-TV
Investigative Reporting (Small-Market Station, 51+ Market)
“Body of Evidence”
Lee Zurik, Donny Pearce, Jon Turnipseed, and Greg Phillips, WVUE-TV
Investigative Reporting (Network/Syndication Service/Program Service)
“Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera”
Fault Lines Staff, Al Jazeera America
Public Service in Television (Large-Market Station, 1-50 Market)
“The Gift of Time: Exposing a District Attorney’s Secret Perk for his Appointees”
Jenna Susko, Julie Putnam, Jeremy Carroll, and Matt Goldberg, NBC Bay Area
Public Service in Television (Small-Market Station, 51+ Market)
“The Compassion Project”
Jennifer Livingston, Mike Thompson, and Anne Paape, News 8 News Team, WKBT-TV
Public Service in Television Journalism (Network/Syndication Service/Program Service)
“Baltimore Abandoned Buildings”
Patricia Shevlin, Jeff Pegues, Guy Campanile, Kimberly Godwin, and Alturo Rhymes, “The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley”
Newsletters
Public Service in Newsletter Journalism
Communications Daily Coverage of Government Shutdown
Staff of Communications Daily, Warren Communications News
Research
Research About Journalism
“Measuring Impact: The art, science and mystery of nonprofit news”
Charles Lewis and Hilary Niles, Investigative Reporting Workshop
Online Reporting
Deadline Reporting (Affiliated)
“Tornadoes rip through Genesee County”
Staff, The Flint Journal-MLive.com
Deadline Reporting (Independent)
“Texas Tribune: Abortion Filibuster”
Staff, Texas Tribune
Investigative Reporting (Affiliated)
“Out of Breath: The Untold Story of Big Money, Black Lung and Doctors for the Coal Companies”
Matt Mosk, Chris Hamby, Lee Ferran, and Brian Ross, ABC News and The Center for Public Integrity
Investigative Reporting (Independent)
“Civil rights group’s FCC positions reflect industry funding, critics say”
Jason McLure and John Dunbar, The Center for Public Integrity
Non-Deadline Reporting (Affiliated)
“The Lobotomy Files”
Michael M. Phillips and The Wall Street Journal Staff, The Wall Street Journal
Non-Deadline Reporting (Independent)
“After the Meltdown”
Alison Fitzgerald, Daniel Wagner, Lauren Kyger, and John Dunbar, The Center for Public Integrity
Online Column Writing (Affiliated)
“American Gulag”
Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic
Online Column Writing (Independent)
Maya Schenwar, Truthout
Digital Audio
“WBUR’s Commonhealth Podcast”
Carey Goldberg, Rachel Zimmerman, and George Hicks, WBUR
Audio Slide Show
“Boston Marathon Bombing: In Their Own Words”
Lisa Tobin and Forrest Marvez, WBUR
Digital Video
“The Ripple Effect: Putting Ashley Hardmon to Rest”
Jessica Koscielniak and Peter Holderness, Chicago Sun-Times
Public Service in Online Journalism (Affiliated)
“The Most Unequal Place in America”
John Sutter and Edythe McNamee, CNN
Public Service in Online Journalism (Independent)
“Dark Money Dealings”
Robert Maguire and Viveca Novak, OpenSecrets Blog
Specialized Journalism Site
“Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt”
Planet Money and NPR Visuals, NPR
