2023

General Excellence in Online Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

107,622 died of drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2021.

The Washington Post

Finalists:

The Globe and Mail
The New York Times

Medium Newsroom winner

Who’s Really Cycling In and Out of Cleveland’s Courts?

The Marshall Project

Finalists:

KFF Health News
ProPublica
The Verge

Micro Newsroom winner

The Pudding

Finalists:

Civil Eats
Undark

Small Newsroom winner

Honolulu Civil Beat

Finalists:

Center for Public Integrity
The Markup

Knight Award for Public Service

winner

Where are they? What happened to the 5000 missing women that the State does not know how to look for?

LA NACION

finalist

Family members of Angel Ramos protest in the streets of Vallejo following his killing by police on January 23, 2017. In 2019, Vallejo claimed it did not possess audiovisual records of the shooting, but later disclosed body camera footage.

Senior officials ordered destruction of Vallejo police shooting evidence

Open Vallejo

finalist

he U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers Are Paying the Price. by Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi, photography by Ric

Toxic Burden: How American Chemical Regulations Failed the Public

ProPublica

3M Truth in Science Award

Large Newsroom winner

Lia, a gray wolf at the Minnesota Zoo. Video courtesy of Voyageurs Wolf Project.

State of Wolves

Star Tribune

Finalists:

Science-based nutrition and personal health coverage
The Washington Post
The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers Are Paying the Price.
NPR, ProPublica

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Village Chief Jiba Masandouno sprinkles rice seed

Roots of an Outbreak

ProPublica

Finalists:

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making
ProPublica
“God, No, Not Another Case.” COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen.
ProPublica
Texas Women’s Health
The Texas Tribune

Breaking News

Large Newsroom winner

Nury Martinez resigned as L.A. City Council president after audio of her making racist statements and disparaging other politicians was leaked.

Leaked Racist Tape Upends L.A. Politics

Los Angeles Times

Finalists:

Al Jazeera English Breaking Coverage of the Turkey/Syria Earthquake
Al Jazeera English
The Oslo Shooting: 13 Minutes of Horror
Verdens Gang (VG)

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Abortion rights activists attend a rally in front of the Supreme Court building On May 5, 2022 in Washington, D.C.

Unpacking the impact of Dobbs

The 19th

Finalists:

Elon Musk takes over Twitter
Platformer, The Verge
Former Square CTO Bob Lee Stabbed to Death in Downtown San Francisco
The San Francisco Standard

Digital Video Storytelling

Long Form, Large Newsroom winner

Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum (Salmon People): A Native Fishing Family’s Fight to Preserve a Way of Life

Oregon Public Broadcasting, ProPublica

Finalists:

Exploited for decades, female bodybuilders speak out
The Washington Post
One day in Hebron
AJ+
Queer Egypt Under Attack
BBC World Service Investigations

Long Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

What New Zealand Can Teach us About Reparations

Vox Media

Finalists:

The Mother Trap
Mother Jones

Medium Form, Large Newsroom winner

How Russia is Smuggling Ukrainian Grain to Pay for Putin’s War

Associated Press, FRONTLINE

Finalists:

Buffalo: Healing from Hate — One Year Later
ABC News
‘I Cry Quietly:’ A Soldier Describes the Toll of Russia’s War
The New York Times

Medium Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey and former officer Kruythoff Forrester.

Videos Show NYPD Chiefs Intervened Before Voiding of Ex-Cop’s Gun Arrest

THE CITY

Finalists:

Meet the Woman Fighting for the Rights of Voters Who Can’t Read
ProPublica
To heal a forest: The fight for salmon parks
The Seattle Times

Series, Large Newsroom winner

Entire families in Pakistan work dangerous jobs at brick kilns to pay off snowballing debts to kiln owners.

Risky Business

Inc., Insider

Finalists:

Series, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making: John Boomer song

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Video Series

ProPublica

Finalists:

The Emancipator Video Commentary Series
The Emancipator

Short Form, Large Newsroom winner

Firefighters pulling bodies from the fire

‘I Heard Them Screaming:’ Witness Says Migrants Were Left to Die in Mexico Fire

The New York Times

Short Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

The Young People Who “Ran” out of China, Are Their Dreams Coming True?

歪脑 | WHYNOT by Radio Free Asia

Finalists:

Stories From The City
The San Francisco Standard

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling

Current Affairs winner

BUFFALO, NY - JULY 14: Fragrance Harris Stanfield, assistant customer service representative at the Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue, is interviewed at a "Memorial Garden" filled with flowers, photos and mementos outside the store on July 14, 2022 in Buffalo, New York. The store was the scene of a mass shooting on May 14, 2022 when accused shooter Payton Gendron killed 10 Black people and injured three others in what is believed to be a racially-motivated attack. The market will reopen to the public Friday after extensive renovations to the building. (Photo by John Normile/Getty Images)

Into America: Ongoing Current Affairs Reporting on Black America

MSNBC

Finalists:

Putin Is a Fool: Intercepted Calls Reveal Russian Army in Disarray
The New York Times
The Take
Al Jazeera

Limited Series winner

The Outlaw Ocean Podcast

The Outlaw Ocean Project

Finalists:

Bedrock, USA
Bloomberg CityLab, Bloomberg News
Into America: Street Disciples series on Politics, Power, & the Rise of Hip-Hop
MSNBC
The Kill List
CBC Podcasts

Ongoing Series winner

A brightly painted building with a car parked in front. Image has the title of the podcast on top of it.

How to LA

Southern California Public Radio

Finalists:

Breakdown: The Trump Grand Jury
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Take
Al Jazeera

Use of Audio Storytelling winner

The search for the perfect sound

The Washington Post

Finalists:

Seven personal stories about abortion
The Washington Post
The Prairies got something to say
CBC News
What did dinosaurs sound like?
Vox Media

Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships

winner

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Amplify Utah, Deseret News, FOX 13 News Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College, Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land Water & Air at Utah State University, KRCL, KSL NewsRadio, KSL-TV, KSL.com, KUER, Salt Lake Community College Community Writing Center, Salt Lake Community College Geosciences Department, Standard-Examiner, The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah Film Center, Utah Humanities, Utah Public Radio

winner

Story Killers

Armando.info, Bird, Der Spiegel, Der Standard, Die Zeit, El Espectador, El Pais, Folha de Sao Paulo, Forbidden Stories, Haaretz, Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI), Knack, Le Monde, Le Soir, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Proceso, Radio France, RTS, Tamedia, The Guardian, The Washington Post, ZDF

finalist

H2A Visa Worker Exploitation

Futuro Investigates, Latino USA, Prism

finalist

Two children on their way to school help each other over a parked train.

Railroaded

Gray Television/InvestigateTV, ProPublica

Excellence in Immersive and Emerging Technology Storytelling

winner

Side by side images of a tall brick building. One showing flames coming out of the 2nd floor, the other showing flames on the 3rd floor

The Chain of Failures That Left 17 Dead in a Bronx Apartment Fire

The New York Times

finalist

A 3D virtual rendering of Nablus on Feb. 22, as an Israeli armored vehicle with grates on its windows slows in front of a short wall and continues to shoot.

3D analysis shows how Israeli troops fired into group of civilians

The Washington Post

finalist

black and white 3D rendered image of the interior of the Notre Dame Chapel

A Cathedral of Sound

The New York Times

Excellence in Newsletters

Portfolio winner

Rescue workers gather at the site of a train derailment in Greece

Iowa Public Radio

Finalists:

MIT Technology Review
PBS NewsHour

Single Newsletter winner

Arepita

Finalists:

Closing Argument
The Marshall Project
Jacksonville Today Newsletter
WJCT Public Media / Jacksonville Today
School (in)Security
The 74
VERIFY Fast Facts
VERIFY

Excellence in Social Justice Reporting

Portfolio winner

Silhouette of a woman looking out a window

Trafficking, Inc.

GBH News

Finalists:

Coverage of Tyre Nichols’s Lethal Police Encounter
The New York Times
Documenting the Death Penalty
The Intercept
Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science
Undark

Single Story winner

Adrift

Associated Press

Finalists:

Excellence in Social Media Engagement

Large Newsroom winner

How to explain inflation to the audience (without boring them)

LA NACION

Finalists:

Al Jazeera English Twitter
Al Jazeera English
NBC News TikTok
NBC News
New York Times Migration Coverage on Social Media
The New York Times

Medium Newsroom winner

Screenshot from the TikTok video showing a view of the snow-capped Andes Mountains

National Geographic TikTok

National Geographic

Finalists:

ProPublica’s Short-Form Investigative Video
ProPublica

Small Newsroom winner

Austin’s 2023 Ice Storm

KUT

Finalists:

We need to talk about racism.
The Emancipator

Excellence in Technology Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

A crisis pregnancy center in Worcester, Massachusetts near a Planned Parenthood center.

The Post-Roe Information Crisis

Bloomberg News

Finalists:

Content Moderation
Insider, Inc.

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Still Loading

The Markup

Finalists:

Elon Musk takes over Twitter
Platformer, The Verge
How Google uses secrecy, market dominance, and connections to rule tech
ProPublica
Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming
ProPublica

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling

Large Newsroom winner

AR-15: The Blast Effect

The Washington Post

Finalists:

Medium Newsroom winner

The Banality of Brutality: 33 days under siege in Block 17, Bucha, Ukraine

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Finalists:

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making
ProPublica
BURNED
KUSA-TV
Made in Miami: The assassination of Haiti’s Jovenel Moise
Miami Herald

Small Newsroom winner

The Pudding’s Portfolio

The Pudding

Finalists:

Welcome to the Ambaniverse
Rest of World
What Do 355 Chinese and Foreign War Films Tell Us?
歪脑 | WHYNOT by Radio Free Asia

Explanatory Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

FILE - Firearms training unit Det. Barbara J. Mattson, of the Connecticut State Police, holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the December 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting, during a hearing of a legislative subcommittee in Hartford, Conn., on Jan. 28, 2013. Citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year, gun rights groups and firearms owners filed a new lawsuit Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in federal court in another attempt to overturn Connecticut's ban on certain semiautomatic rifles that was enacted in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

American Icon

The Washington Post

Finalists:

Repowering the West
Los Angeles Times

Medium Newsroom winner

Renderings based on interviews, police reports, phone records and court documents.

Made in Miami: The assassination of Haiti’s Jovenel Moise

Miami Herald

Finalists:

Small Newsroom winner

Deforestation Inc.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Finalists:

The country of massacres (El país de las masacres)
Vorágine
The People vs. Rubber Bullets
Long Lead
UXO: Lethal Legacy
Honolulu Civil Beat

Feature

Large Newsroom winner

Kate Price remembers something terrible

The Boston Globe

Finalists:

Adrift
Associated Press
Healing through drums
The Globe and Mail
The neighborhood that got it right
Boston Globe Opinion

Medium Newsroom winner

The Mercy Workers

The Marshall Project

Finalists:

Deadliest Road in America
Vox Media
Death on a Dairy Farm
ProPublica
The Rise and Fall of the Jersey Seagull
NJ Advance Media

Small Newsroom winner

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 18, 2022: Inside her Grandmothers cold Culver City garage, Sarah Fay, 28, settles into bed with her pet dogs. She is alone tonight because her Mother, who has lived in the garage for 13 years, is in hospital with Covid. Sarah is grieving the death of her “Grandpa” and worried about her Mother who is in hospital with Covid. Sarah’s housing problem is that she can’t find a place she can afford with a landlord that will take her even though she has a full-time job. She earns nearly $4K per month, but after years living between her car, at hotels, her mother’s place, and Grandmothers garage she doesn’t seem to be the ideal tenant to landlords and lives a life of housing insecurity at 28 years old. (Photo by Barbara Davidson)

No Way to Live

Capital & Main

Finalists:

Broken Borough
Spotlight PA
Police killed his son. Prosecutors charged the teen’s friends with his murder.
The Appeal
Worlds Away: Covid Care in Three Global Outposts
Scientific American, Undark

Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism

Overall Excellence, Medium/Large Newsroom winner

Lottie Sam, front right, and other women prepare salmon in Toppenish, Washington, before a ceremony held by the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation.

ProPublica Portfolio: Collecting the Receipts Communities Can Use

NBC News, Oregon Public Broadcasting, ProPublica

Finalists:

Inside Story
The Marshall Project, VICE News
LAist
Southern California Public Radio
Uvalde school shooting and its aftermath
The Texas Tribune

Overall Excellence, Micro/Small Newsroom winner

How Borderless used field canvassers to reach Spanish speakers

Borderless Magazine

Finalists:

Black elders saved this couple’s Mississippi farm. Now they’re harvesting ancestral techniques—and tomatoes
Scalawag
Covering New York’s Response to Asylum Seekers
Documented

Online Commentary

Package of Columns winner

Columnist Jeneé Osterheldt

The Boston Globe

Finalists:

Columnist Soleil Ho
San Francisco Chronicle
We The Users
The Washington Post

Personal Narrative winner

Top Row (Left to Right) Connie Wang, Connie Koh, Connie Yang, Connie Tang Middle Row (Left to Right) Connie Jang, Connie Chung, Connie Boy Bottom Row (Left to Right) Connie Huang, Connie Kwok, Connie Chang, Connie Sun A group of Connie’s sit together with Connie Chung for a portrait at the New York Times Photo Studio in New York, NY on April 23, 2023.

Generation Connie

The New York Times

Finalists:

Tenderness and brutality: True stories from an ICU
Boston Globe Opinion
The Night Raids
ProPublica
The Trump Tapes
The Washington Post

Sports, Health and Wellness

Large Newsroom winner

Black Out

The Washington Post

Finalists:

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Michele Crockett, mother of Max Gilpin, visits at the grave of her son. It would have been Max Gilpin's 26th birthday, and she brought balloons as she does every year. He died after becoming overheated at football practice at Pleasure Ridge Park High School in 2008. July 19, 2019

Safer Sidelines

The Courier-Journal

Finalists:

It was a secret road map for breaking the law to get an abortion. Now, ‘The List’ and its tactics are resurfacing
San Francisco Chronicle
The Talk
Scientific American, The Salt Lake Tribune
Uncovered: How the Insurance Industry Denies Coverage to Patients
ProPublica, The Capitol Forum

Student Journalism Award

Portfolio: Student winner

Surgeon Muhammad M Mohiuddin leads a team placing a genetically-modified pig heart into a storage device at the Xenotransplant lab before its transplant on David Bennett, on 7 January. Photograph: UMSOM/Reuters

Pig Human Transplants and the March to Immortality

Harvard University

Finalists:

The Long Shadow of White Supremacy at DePaul
14 East Magazine

Portfolio: Student Team winner

WATERSHED

The University of Florida

Finalists:

Dead Wrong
NYCity News Service at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
Infodemic
Newhouse School at Syracuse University
Marijuana: Good Medicine?
University of Mississippi

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

Large Newsroom winner

Fati was four months pregnant when liberated from the insurgents. Soon after, she says, soldiers medically aborted the pregnancy without telling her. And she was warned: “If you share this with anyone, you will be seriously beaten.”

Nightmare in Nigeria

Reuters

Finalists:

Cartel Rx: Fentanyl’s Deadly Surge
The Washington Post
Crime Scene: Bucha
Associated Press, FRONTLINE, SITU Research
They Lost Their Pregnancies. Then Prosecutors Sent Them to Prison.
AL.com, The Frontier, The Marshall Project, The Washington Post

Medium Newsroom winner

Logan and her sons in May 2018. Jayden, the younger son, died nearly 17 months later.

Words of Conviction: Tracing a Junk Science Through the Justice System

ProPublica

Finalists:

Buy and Bust
KFF Health News
Friends of the Court: Clarence Thomas’ Beneficial Friendship With a GOP Megadonor
ProPublica
The Prison Sell
The Arizona Republic

Small Newsroom winner

All Checks Cashed in Everett, Massachusetts, is one of nearly 150 businesses licensed by the state of Massachusetts to cash checks and sell lottery tickets. Check cashers sold nearly $36 million in lottery products from 2017 through 2020. (Garrett Adamtsev/Boston University)

Mega Billions

Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland

Finalists:

‘I had to cut off the head, bro’
Radio Free Asia
Nowhere to go
ProPublica, Searchlight New Mexico

The University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

Black Out

The Washington Post

Finalists:

In New York Prisons, Guards Who Brutalize Prisoners Rarely Get Fired
The Marshall Project, The New York Times
Overpolicing Parents: How America’s CPS Dragnet Ensnares Families
NBC News, ProPublica

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

The world’s worst Ebola outbreak started in Meliandou, Guinea

Roots of an Outbreak

ProPublica

Finalists:

Who owns the Bay Area?
San Francisco Chronicle

Topical Reporting: Climate Change

winner

After flooding, the hollowed ruins of a school in Senegal remain, a daily reminder of the sea’s power.

Climate, migration and the far-right: How the ripples of climate change are radiating outward

NPR

finalist

Atherton, one of the nation's richest communities, has California's highest concentration of electric cars

Race to Zero: California’s bumpy road to electrify cars and trucks

CalMatters

finalist

Infographic showing rainfall across the state

“The Coming California Megastorm”

The New York Times

finalist

— a key component in many electric vehicle batteries.

The dirty road to clean energy: How China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment

Rest of World

Topical Reporting: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Identity

Large Newsroom winner

The gas station where Paris Cameron, 20, met her killer, Devon Robinson, 18.

Deaths in the Family

Inc., Insider

Finalists:

Desaparecidas e Ignoradas: el peligro de ser mujer en Nuevo León
N+Focus
Overpolicing Parents: How America’s CPS Dragnet Ensnares Families
NBC News, ProPublica
The Protests That Shook Iran’s Clerical System
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Medium Newsroom winner

K-Pop Dreaming

Southern California Public Radio

Finalists:

Publishing Prejudice
Advance Local, The Oregonian / OregonLive
Racism in medicine and the dire consequences
STAT
The Repatriation Project
ProPublica

Small Newsroom winner