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 2025 Hall of Fame and Dateline Awards dinner applauds journalism excellence in the D.C. region, celebrates distinguished honorees

 Published Date: June 11, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Washington, D.C., Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists held its annual Hall of Fame and Dateline Awards dinner at the National Press Club on Tuesday, June 10, inducting three journalists into its Hall of Fame, honoring its Distinguished Service Award recipient, and announcing the recipients of its 2025 Dateline Awards for journalism excellence. Kojo Nnamdi, host of Public Radio’s Politics Hour, presided as the night’s master of ceremonies. 

The SPJ-DC Chapter also announced the full list of winners and finalists in the Dateline Awards across 69 categories, and honored its Hall of Fame inductees Voice of America Director Michael Abramowitz, newsroom diversity advocate Richard Prince, and longtime owner and publisher of The Washington Informer, Denise Rolark Barnes. The Distinguished Service Award, recognizing a journalists’ commitment to the pursuit of excellence in the profession, went to Stephenie Overman, SPJ Region 2 Coordinator, successful freelance writer, and longtime supporter of SPJ’s freelance community. 

“This has been a challenging year for all of us. But tonight we celebrate. We are honoring D.C.’s best and brightest, the people who exemplify a profession that strives to be diverse, inclusive and independent,” said SPJ-DC board president Celia Wexler.

Wexler added that the quality of this year’s entries proves that “journalism in the DMV is thriving, despite the political and financial headwinds that buffet our industry.”

A special award – the Robert D.G. Lewis Watchdog Award – is presented each year to an entry – in any category – that best exemplifies journalism aimed at protecting the public from abuses by those who would betray the public trust. The award comes with a prize of $1,000. The award is named in honor of the late Robert D.G. Lewis of Newhouse Newspapers, who was an SPJ national president as well as chairman of its Freedom of Information Committee.

The Watchdog award this year went to Caresse Jackman, Daniela Molina and Owen Hornstein. Their entry, “Lead Out: Investigating the Removal of America’s Lead Pipes” for InvestigateTV/Gray Media, is a thorough investigation into the nation’s water system. 

The judges praised “how this story took a look at individual states’ progress on replacing lead pipes” and its “excellent use of public record requests to find out how states are handling or resisting those efforts.” 

 A complete list of the Dateline winners and finalists follows by category.

Robert D.G. Lewis Watchdog Award

Winner: Caresse Jackman, Daniela Molina, Owen Hornstein; InvestigateTV/Gray Media, “Lead Out: Investigating the Removal of America’s Lead Pipes” 

Finalist: Scott Maucione, WYPR, “Poorly regulated foreign vessels could cause a repeat of Baltimore bridge collapse in other U.S. ports” 

Finalist: Abigail Higgins, Colleen Grablick; The 51st, “Opioids are killing older Black men in D.C. at some of the highest rates in the country” 

Correspondent Award 

Winner: Ashley Murray, States Newsroom, “Real people, real stories: Washington reporting for the states” 

Finalist: Angie Moreschi, The National News Desk & multiple local TV stations, “Angie Moreschi – Spotlight on America Correspondent” 

Finalist: Jennifer Shutt, States Newsroom, “Explaining Washington to readers in the states” 

All Divisions/Electronic, Blog/site

Winner: Molly McCluskey, Diplomatica Global Media, “Reporting on diplomatic properties in Washington”

Finalist: Karen Feld, Substack, “Karen Feld’s Capital Connections®”

Finalist: Celia Wexler, celiawexler.com, “The reinvention of Antonietta Zangrilli”   

Finalist: Celia Wexler, celiawexler.com, “The country I knew has disappeared; what do I do now?”

Daily Newspaper, Non-Breaking News

Winner: Michael Brice-Saddler, The Washington Post, “D.C. sent $10,800 to dozens of new moms. Here’s how it changed their lives.”

Finalist: Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post, “A 12-year-old girl was hit by a car. It had $19,770 in unpaid tickets.”

Finalist: Staff, The Washington Post, “Coverage of Trayon White’s arrest and indictment”

Finalist: Ariel Wittenberg, Chelsea Harvey, Tom Frank; POLITICO’s E&E News, “Why extreme heat gets away with murder”

Daily Newspaper, Breaking News

Winner: Staff, The Washington Post, “Day one coverage of the Baltimore bridge collapse”

Finalist: Emily Davies, The Washington Post, “She spent 23 years asking who killed her mom. Then her phone rang.”

Finalist: Emily Davies, Peter Hermann, Dan Lamothe; The Washington Post, “Airman who set self on fire grew up on religious compound, had anarchist past”

Daily Newspaper, Features

Winner: Emily Davies, The Washington Post, “He’s 14. He’s been to five funerals. Can he avoid his own?”

Finalist: Deborah Berry, Riley Beggin; USA Today, “Black women candidates are vying to make history in the US Senate”

Finalist: Brittany Shammas, The Washington Post, “A new generation embraces living off the land — with or without the land”

Daily Newspaper, Sports

Winner: Michael Errigo, The Washington Post, “As Pat Behan’s ALS fight continues, St. John’s basketball turns a page”

Daily Newspaper, Editorial/Opinion Writing 

Winner: Rachel Manteuffel, The Washington Post, “Electing to Suffer”

Finalist: Staff, Washington Times, “Most Americans don’t want to live in our nation’s capital”

Finalist: Staff, Washington Times, “The District’s education success story”

Finalist: Staff, Washington Times, “The District’s tough talk on crime”

Daily Newspaper, Business                 

Winner: Susan Ferrechio, The Washington Times, “How to blow up a Pipeline’; Biden is coming after your light bulbs – again; Biden’s stalled rural internet program ignites debate about exclusion of Musk’s Starlink; Green energy law to crack down on HVAC units” 

Daily Newspaper, Investigative Journalism

Winner: Katie Mettler, The Washington Post, “How a ‘climate of chaos’ went unchecked at Maryland’s max-security psych hospital”  

Finalist: Steve Thompson, The Washington Post, “The mysterious Virginia mansion allegedly bought with stolen Nigerian money” 

Finalist: Staff, The Washington Post, “They left Maryland for Mecca. They didn’t all make it home.”

Daily Newspaper, Art/Photo Illustration

Winner: Greg Groesch, The Washington Times, “How liberals killed Earth Day; Today’s college students are being educated into imbecility; Parents have the power to fix higher education” 

Finalist: Alexander Hunter, The Washington Times, “Ending veteran homelessness; Trump’s real challenge; GOP House majority thin” 

Daily Newspaper, Column 

Winner: Michael McKenna, The Washington Times, “DEI is not what Jefferson hoped for when he wrote ‘all men are created equal’; Why we haven’t won a shooting war since WWII; Musk’s ability to game the system may pay off for Trump’s efficiency panel”

Finalist: Thom Loverro, The Washington Times, “Qatar cash undercuts Leonsis; Washington baseball spotlighted in MLB’s overdue inclusion of Negro League records; Honoring the legacy of a hometown coach and the lives he changed” 

Finalist: Charles Hurt, The Washington Times, “Trump stars in ‘Law & Order: Zero Victims Unit’; Bluto’s ‘Animal House’ philosophy beats Biden’s pro-Hamas doctrine; Orange revolution rumbles in on Trump garbage truck”

Daily Newspaper, Series

Winner: Francesca Chambers, USA Today, “Campaign Whisperers”

Finalist: Jenny Gathright, The Washington Post, “D.C. 911 center coverage” 

Finalist: Dan Morse, The Washington Post, “Gold bar scam coverage”

Finalist: Lindsey McPherson, The Washington Times, “Secret Service failures in Trump assassination attempt in Butler County”

Daily Newspaper, Beat Reporting

Winner: Emily Davies, The Washington Post, “Emily Davies coverage of public safety issues in the D.C. area”

Finalist: Dan Morse, The Washington Post, “Dan Morse’s coverage of Montgomery County”

Finalist: Karina Elwood, The Washington Post, “Karina Elwood’s education beat coverage”

Finalist: Kerry Picket, The Washington Times, “FBI internal investigators question employees about co-worker’s political beliefs; New scrutiny of FBI official; James Comey had FBI ‘honey pot’ spies; FBI brass ‘stunned’ and ‘shell-shocked’; Justice Department kept FBI employees in the dark”

Weekly Newspaper, Non-Breaking News

Winner: Samantha Monteiro, Street Sense Media, “The District is ready to start pulling back its migrant services — but migrants are still struggling to find homes in D.C.”

Finalist: Michael Lavers, Washington Blade, “LGBTQ Israelis struggle with Oct. 7 aftermath”

Finalist: Andrea Ho, Street Sense Media, “In the aftermath of shooting, a youth drop-in center navigates grief and hope”

Finalist: Suzanne Pollak, Braden Hamelin, Zoe Bell; Washington Jewish Week, “Antisemitism in Montgomery County Public Schools”

Weekly Newspaper, Breaking News

Winner: Zoe Bell, Washington Jewish Week, “Jewish Man Attacked in Northwest D.C. in Alleged Hate Crime”

Finalist: Franziska Wild, Street Sense Media, “MLK Library bans sleeping outside building, threatening a refuge for people experiencing homelessness”

Weekly Newspaper, Features

Winner: Aaron Troodler, Washington Jewish Week, “‘He Was Just a Good Boy’”

Finalist: Judy Kurtz, The Hill, “A century of Jimmy Carter: Longest-living former president turns 100”

Finalist: Caitlyn Meisner, Alexandria Times, “Achsah Nesmith, former Carter Speechwriter, dies at 84”

Finalist: Zoe Bell, Washington Jewish Week, “Jewish Soldier Laid to Rest 80 Years After His Death”

Weekly Newspaper, Editorial/Opinion Writing

Winner: Staff, Washington Jewish Week, “House Editorials”

Finalist: Michael Lavers, Washington Blade, “World ‘isn’t much different today’”

Weekly Newspaper, Business

Winner: Nora Scully, Franziska Wild, Tierra Cunningham; Street Sense Media, “Unionization in homeless services”

Weekly Newspaper, Photojournalism

Winner: Madi Koesler, Street Sense Media, “Photos from NoMa encampment closed after fire”

Weekly Newspaper, Investigative Journalism

Winner: Alexander Fernandez, Denise Dunbar; Alexandria Journalism Project for the Alexandria Times, “Former Mayor Euille was subject of FBI probe”

Finalist: Alexander Fernandez, Alexandria Journalism Project for the Alexandria Times, “Low-income renters describe chronic crime, health hazards at West End Complex”

Weekly Newspaper, Front-Page Design

Winner: Meaghan Juba, Washington Blade, “Washington Blade Front Cover”

Weekly Newspaper, Series

Winner: Andrea Ho, Franziska Wild; Street Sense Media, “The fight to save affordable housing in Chinatown”

Weekly Newspaper, Beat Reporting

Winner: Margaret Hartigan, Franziska Wild, Street Sense Staff; Street Sense Media, “Tracking D.C.’s homeless encampments”

Magazine, Features

Winner: Nancy Scola, Washingtonian Magazine, “Tom Blanton Wants to Know Our Secrets”

Finalist: Adrienne Wichard-Edds, Jenny Sullivan, Greg Hamilton; Arlington Magazine, “Estrogen Falling”

Finalist: Tamara Lytle, Jenny Sullivan, Greg Hamilton; Arlington Magazine, “Running on Empty”

Finalist: Sophie St Amand, The Georgetown Voice, “D.C.’s independent bookstores are sites of local history, community, and culture”

Magazine, Commentary & Criticism

Winner: Xanthe Scharff, Foreign Policy, “Men Alone Cannot Build a Durable Peace in the Middle East”

Magazine, Front-Page Design

Winner: Albert Ting, Alecia Rodriguez, Claire Goode; Arlington Magazine, “Arlington Magazine covers”

Television, Non-Breaking News

Winner: Staff, ABC News Live, “January 6th: The Fight to Rewrite History”

Finalist: Angie Moreschi, Andrea Nejman, Nathan Aaron; The National News Desk, “Broken Birth Control”

Finalist: Scott Taylor, Kevin Roach, Jacob Fisher; WJLA TV 7 News, “Punched 8 Times In The Face By A Cop”

Finalist: Jeronimo Mura, Univision Washington D.C., “Climate Migrants: Exile in the wake of natural disasters”

Television, Breaking News

Winner: Staff, ABC News, “The Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump”

Finalist: Staff, ABC News, “President Biden Stands Down”

Television, Features

Winner: Staff, Inside Your World Investigates, “The Human Cost of EVs”

Finalist: Staff, ABC News, “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis – 10 Million Names: Slavery’s Dark Past”

Finalist: Jacob Gardenswartz, Megan-Elizabeth Smith; Scripps News, “In Pennsylvania, Ukrainian-Americans grapple with overseas war and how to vote”

Finalist: Mark Hyman, Larry Deal; Inside Your World Investigates, “Alarming Shortage”

Television, Business

Winner: Elizabeth Schulze, ABC News Live, “Generation Swipe”

Finalist: Staff, Inside Your World Investigates, “The Road Ahead for EVs”

Finalist: Angie Moreschi, Nathan Aaron, Larry Deal; The National News Desk, “Why does it take a child to die before a product is recalled?”

Television, Investigative Journalism

Winner: Caresse Jackman, Daniela Molina, Owen Hornstein; InvestigateTV/Gray Media, “Lead Out: Investigating the Removal of America’s Lead Pipes”

Finalist: Mark Hyman, Larry Deal; Inside Your World Investigates, “USS Sioux City Boondoggle”

Finalist: Scott Taylor, Jacob Fisher, Kevin Roach; WJLA TV 7 News, “Exposed: US Senate candidate owes $47,000 in back taxes in DC”

Television, Commentary & Criticism

Winner: Steven Goodman, Brandon Hamber, Catherine Ferrin; UDC-TV, “Higher Education Today – Peace and Conflict Studies”

Finalist: Steven Goodman, Neil Levesque, Joel Bowman; UDC-TV, “Higher Education Today – New Hampshire Primary and U.S. Democracy”

Television, Series

Winner: Scott Taylor, Jacob Fisher, Kevin Roach; WJLA TV 7 News, “DC Mayor traveling all over the world. Who’s paying for it?”

Finalist: Debra Alfarone, Arielle Hawkins, Timothy Knapp; Local News Live, “The Good Side: Solutions Based Journalism That Uplifts”

Television, Beat Reporting

Winner: Devin Dwyer, ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis, WJLA TV 7 News, “High Stakes at the Supreme Court”

Radio, Non-Breaking News

Winner: Devin Dwyer, ABC News, “ABC Audio Start Here  – Protecting Your Vote: Deep Fakes”

Finalist: John Lee, WYPR, “$40 million is on the table for a Hart-Miller Island dredging deal”

Radio, Features

Winner: Scott Maucione, WYPR, “Baltimore museum brings summer camp experience to kids on the spectrum”

Finalist: Dina Temple-Raston, Sean Powers; Click Here podcast from Recorded Future News and The World, “Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines”

Finalist: Emily Hofstaedter, WYPR, “As workers toil in high heat, Maryland poised to pass new labor standards”

Finalist: Bri Hatch, WYPR, “Baltimore nonprofit aims to disrupt poverty cycles by helping single moms through college”

Radio, Sports

Winner: Scott Maucione, WYPR, “Baltimore Ravens prep to host NFL playoff game”

Radio, Investigative Journalism

Winner: Scott Maucione, WYPR, “Poorly regulated foreign vessels could cause a repeat of Baltimore bridge collapse in other U.S. ports”

Finalist: Rachel Baye, Jennifer Lu, Claire Keenan-Kurgan; Baltimore Public Media and APM Reports, “Judging Juveniles”

Radio, Beat Reporting

Winner: John Lee, WYPR, “Beat Reporter – Covering Baltimore County.”

Finalist: Scott Maucione, WYPR, “Maryland was primed to pass a medical aid in dying bill this year. What happened?”

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Non-Breaking News

Winner: Roxana Tiron, Billy House; Bloomberg Industry Group and Bloomberg.com, “America’s War Machine Can’t Make Basic Artillery Fast Enough”

Finalist: Suzanne Monyak, Ben Penn, Jacqueline Thomsen; Bloomberg Industry Group, “Alaska Judge Harassment Scandal”

Finalist: Erin Schilling, Bloomberg Industry Group, “Rich People Buy Tribal Tax Credits Treasury Says Don’t Exist”

Finalist: Martin Matishak, The Record by Recorded Future News, “A high-level election security group is back. NSA and Cyber Command want to keep it under the radar.”

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Breaking News

Winner: Claire Marie Porter, The Cancer Letter, “Climate change exacerbates cancer disparities”

Finalist: Paul Goldberg, The Cancer Letter, “Leadership turnover at the American Cancer Society”

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Features

Winner: Patrick Boyle, Laura Zelaya, Editorial and Digital staff; Association of American Medical Colleges, “Never the Same”

Finalist: Alexandria Carolan, The Cancer Letter, “An oncologist navigates terminal sarcoma, insurmountable debt, and ‘a legacy of grief’”

Finalist: Courtney Rozen, Bloomberg Industry Group, “Women Harmed by Doctors, Then Failed by US Civil Rights Watchdog”

Finalist: Erin Schilling, Bloomberg Industry Group, “Rich People Freeze Themselves, and Fortunes, for Future Revival”

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Business

Winner: Nicola White, Bloomberg Industry Group, “From SPAC Dreams to Riviera Mirage: How Lottery.com Imploded”

Finalist: Angélica Serrano-Román, Bloomberg Industry Group, “How a Bad Bunny Beer Ad Got Puerto Rico Tax Money to Shoot in LA”

Finalist: Andrew Satter, Laura Mahoney, Josh Block; Bloomberg Industry Group, “Best Buy, Apple, Others Make Millions From California Tax Deals” 

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Investigative Journalism

Winner: Jacquelyn Cobb, The Cancer Letter, “Multi-cancer detection tests fall short of their promises”

Finalist: Emily Siegel, John Holland; Bloomberg Industry Group, “Putin’s Billionaires Dodge Sanctions by Financing Lawsuits”

Finalist: Staff, Tax Notes, “Inside How Private Placement Life Insurance Slips Through the Cracks”

Finalist: James Nani, Ronnie Greene, Umar Farooq; Bloomberg Industry Group, “A Star Bankruptcy Judge’s Downfall: Bloomberg Law Investigation”

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Commentary & Criticism

Winner: Alexandra Bowman, DC Theater Arts, “Reviews in the Style of Critical Essays For DC Theater Arts”

Finalist: Paul Goldberg, The Cancer Letter, “As Trump’s second term nears, Republican support for NIH is at a low point”

Finalist: Kayla Morin, Washington Lawyer, “D.C.’s New Sexual Harassment Policy Is a Step in the Right Direction”

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Photography Story

Winner: Paul Goldberg, The Cancer Letter, “A view from the BMT unit on the day a Russian cruise missile hit Kyiv’s Ohmatdyt hospital”

Finalist: Chris Gordon, Air & Space Forces Magazine, “Airdrops to Gaza: The Art and Science of One of the Largest Aid Missions Since the Berlin Airlift”

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Art/Photo Illustration

Winner: Katie Goldberg, The Cancer Letter, “Illustrating oncology in 2024”

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Front-Page Design

Winner: Brian Taylor, National Defense Magazine, “National Defense cover designs – January, June & July 2024”

Finalist: Jacqueline Ong, Katie Goldberg, Cyrus Finegan; The Cancer Letter, “Cancer research section covers”

Finalist: Jodi Bloom, Fleur Harris, Susannah Buell; Washington Lawyer, “January/February, September/October, and November/December 2024 covers”

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Column

Winner: Sean Carberry, National Defense Magazine, “‘Budget Matters’ Column”

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Series

Winner: Matthew Schwartz, Bloomberg Industry Group, “AI and the Law, Explained: UnCommon Law’s 6-Episode Podcast Series”

Finalist: Lauren Loricchio, Caitlin Mullaney; Tax Notes, “Scarce Resources Leave Navajo Nation With Few Tax Options”

Finalist: Jacquelyn Cobb, The Cancer Letter, “Impact factor mania and publish-or-perish may have contributed to Dana-Farber retractions, experts say”

Finalist: Kaustuv Basu, Jack Fitzpatrick, Rebecca Klar; Bloomberg Industry Group, “The Age of AI Challenges Government”

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Editorial Cartoon

Winner: Alexandra Bowman, Counterpoint, “Political Cartoons for Counterpoint”

Newsletter/Trade Publication, Beat Reporting

Winner: Zach Cohen, Bloomberg Industry Group, “Covering the Race for Senate Republican Leader”

Finalist: Sean Carberry, National Defense Magazine, “Defense technology reporting”

Finalist: Oma Seddiq, Kellie Lunney, Ellen M. Gilmer; Bloomberg Industry Group, “SHUTDOWN AVERTED”

Online, Non-Breaking News

Winner: Abigail Higgins, Colleen Grablick; The 51st, “Opioids are killing older Black men in D.C. at some of the highest rates in the country”

Finalist: Lisa Held, Civil Eats, “The Last Front in the Battle to Save the ‘Most Important Fish’ in the Atlantic”

Finalist: Dan McCue, The Well News, “Federal, State Agency Collaboration Speeds Recovery from Baltimore’s Key Bridge Collapse”

Finalist: The 51st (staff), Ethiopique (Henok Mengistu); The 51st, “Worried about your immigration status amid Trump’s ‘mass deportation’ agenda?”

Online, Breaking News

Winner: Emily Venezky, Eater DC, “&pizza’s Marion Barry-Themed Pizza Knots Inspire Protest Rally, Call for Boycott” 

Finalist: Dan McCue, The Well News, “Presidential Primary Coverage” 

Finalist: Dan McCue, The Well News, “Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine”

Online, Features

Winner: Dan McCue, The Well News, “Ghosts of the Delta Still Walk the Halls of Chess Records”

Finalist: Dan McCue, The Well News, “David Schechter Brings Climate Change Home for Views of CBS News” 

Finalist: Karen Feld, The Georgetowner, “Washington Playwright Ken Ludwig Reawakens ‘Death on the Nile’” 

Finalist: Karen Feld, The Georgetowner, “‘I’ll Have What She’s Having’: Culture, Not Just Corned Beef” 

Online, Sports

Winner: Deron Snyder, TheGrio, “HBCU Sports by Deron Snyder” 

Online, Editorial/Opinion Writing

Winner: Brigid Schulte, Yuliya Panfil; CNN Opinion, “Opinion: The true victims of the US evictions crisis”

Finalist: Deron Snyder, TheGrio, “Editorial/Opinion Writing by Deron Snyder”

Finalist: Brian Karem, Salon, “Brian Karem’s weekly Washington column”

Online, Business

Winner: Corbin Hiar, Chelsea Harvey, Blanca Begert; POLITICO, “How billionaires, executives and operatives seek to shape U.S. climate policy”

Finalist: Emily Venezky, Tierney Plumb; Eater DC, “The Keith Lee Effect: D.C. Area Restaurants Sell Out After TikTok Critic’s Visits”

Finalist: Dan McCue, The Well News, “At Hydrogen Summit Euphoria Gives Way to the Practical”

Online, Investigative Journalism

Winner: Abigail Higgins, Colleen Grablick; The 51st, “Opioids are killing older Black men in D.C. at some of the highest rates in the country”

Finalist: Jodi Enda, The Fuller Project, “The Global Cost of the American Anti-Abortion Movement” 

Finalist: Matt Cohen, Democracy Docket, “Hundreds of Election Deniers Are on the Ballot in Seven Swing States”

Online, Commentary & Criticism

Winner: Erika Filter, National Journal, “Harris doesn’t play the woman card”

Finalist: D. Watkins, Salon, “Essays by D. Watkins”

Finalist: Zac Weisz, National Journal, “The forgotten political bases of Georgia”

Finalist: Dave Levinthal, Raw Story, “I saw a man strangling a woman. I called 911. Why did it take two minutes to connect?”

Online, Column

Winner: Mary C. Curtis, Roll Call, “A collection of columns by Mary C. Curtis”

Finalist: Kirk Bado, National Journal, “Kirk Bado’s Columns” 

Finalist: Christina Sturdivant Sani, The 51st, “Ask A D.C. Native”

Finalist: Deron Snyder, TheGrio, “Columns by Deron Snyder”

Online, Series

Winner: Stephen Borelli, USA Today, “‘Ask Coach Steve’ Sports parenting column/series”

Finalist: Staff, The 51st, “D.C. Explained”

Finalist: Matt Cohen, Democracy Docket, “Project 2025 Reporting”

Finalist: Colleen Grablick, The 51st, “Wilson Building Bulletin”

Online, Beat Reporting 

Winner: Dan McCue, The Well News, “Coverage of the 2024 presidential primaries”

Finalist: Suzanne Smalley, The Record by Recorded Future News, “Suzanne Smalley on the digital privacy beat”

Finalist: Pete Schroeder, Michelle Price; Reuters, “Wall Street banks’ capital fight”

Finalist: Clare Fieseler, Brian Dabbs; POLITICO’s E&E News, “The perils of ‘clean’ hydrogen”

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