Each year, the Dateline Awards honor excellence in journalism across the D.C. Metro Region and celebrate winners at a Hall of Fame and Dateline Awards dinner
May 12, 2025
For Immediate Release
Contact: datelinecoordinator@gmail.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Washington, D.C., Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has announced the finalists for its 2025 Dateline Awards, recognizing excellence in local journalism. Winners will be honored at the chapter’s annual Hall of Fame and Dateline Awards dinner at the National Press Club on Tuesday, June 10, alongside the 2025 Hall of Fame inductees and Distinguished Service Award recipients.
The Dateline Awards celebrate outstanding journalism from across the D.C. region, including Northern Virginia and Maryland. The competition spans a range of media—online, magazine, radio, and more—with dozens of categories highlighting the depth and diversity of local reporting, from investigative work to photojournalism.
Dateline Awards finalists by category are as follows.
Correspondent Award
Angie Moreschi, The National News Desk & multiple local TV stations nationwide, “Angie Moreschi – Spotlight on America Correspondent”
Ashley Murray, States Newsroom, “Real people, real stories: Washington reporting for the states”
Jennifer Shutt, States Newsroom, “Explaining Washington to readers in the states”
All Divisions/Electronic, Blog/site
Karen Feld, Substack, “Karen Feld’s Capital Connections®”
Molly McCluskey, Diplomatica Global Media, “Reporting on diplomatic properties in Washington”
Celia Wexler, celiawexler.com, “The reinvention of Antonietta Zangrilli”
Celia Wexler, celiawexler.com, “The country I knew has disappeared; what do I do now?”
Daily Newspaper, Non-Breaking News
Michael Brice-Saddler, The Washington Post, “D.C. sent $10,800 to dozens of new moms. Here’s how it changed their lives.”
Staff, The Washington Post, “Coverage of Trayon White’s arrest and indictment”
Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post, “A 12-year-old girl was hit by a car. It had $19,770 in unpaid tickets.”
Ariel Wittenberg, Chelsea Harvey, Tom Frank; POLITICO’s E&E News, “Why extreme heat gets away with murder”
Daily Newspaper, Breaking News
Emily Davies, The Washington Post, “She spent 23 years asking who killed her mom. Then her phone rang.”
Emily Davies, Peter Hermann, Dan Lamothe; The Washington Post, “Airman who set self on fire grew up on religious compound, had anarchist past”
Staff, The Washington Post, “Day one coverage of the Baltimore bridge collapse”
Daily Newspaper, Features
Deborah Berry, Riley Beggin; USA Today, “Black women candidates are vying to make history in the US Senate”
Emily Davies, The Washington Post, “He’s 14. He’s been to five funerals. Can he avoid his own?”
Brittany Shammas, The Washington Post, “A new generation embraces living off the land — with or without the land”
Daily Newspaper, Sports
Michael Errigo, The Washington Post, “As Pat Behan’s ALS fight continues, St. John’s basketball turns a page”
Daily Newspaper, Editorial/Opinion Writing
Rachel Manteuffel, The Washington Post, “Electing to Suffer”
Staff, Washington Times, “The District’s education success story”
Staff, Washington Times, “The District’s tough talk on crime”
Staff, Washington Times, “Most Americans don’t want to live in our nation’s capital”
Daily Newspaper, Business
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
Katie Mettler, The Washington Post, “How a ‘climate of chaos’ went unchecked at Maryland’s max-security psych hospital”
Steve Thompson, The Washington Post, “The mysterious Virginia mansion allegedly bought with stolen Nigerian money”
Staff, The Washington Post, “They left Maryland for Mecca. They didn’t all make it home.”
Daily Newspaper, Art/Photo Illustration
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”
Alexander Hunter, The Washington Times, “Ending veteran homelessness; Trump’s real challenge; GOP House majority thin”
Daily Newspaper, Column
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”
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”
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”
Daily Newspaper, Series
Francesca Chambers, USA Today, “Campaign Whisperers”
Jenny Gathright, The Washington Post, “D.C. 911 center coverage”
Lindsey McPherson, The Washington Times, “Secret Service failures in Trump assassination attempt in Butler County”
Dan Morse, The Washington Post, “Gold bar scam coverage”
Daily Newspaper, Beat Reporting
Emily Davies, The Washington Post, “Emily Davies coverage of public safety issues in the D.C. area”
Karina Elwood, The Washington Post, “Karina Elwood’s education beat coverage”
Dan Morse, The Washington Post, “Dan Morse’s coverage of Montgomery County”
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
Andrea Ho, Street Sense Media, “In the aftermath of shooting, a youth drop-in center navigates grief and hope”
Michael Lavers, Washington Blade, “LGBTQ Israelis struggle with Oct. 7 aftermath”
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.”
Suzanne Pollak, Braden Hamelin, Zoe Bell; Washington Jewish Week, “Antisemitism in Montgomery County Public Schools”
Weekly Newspaper, Breaking News
Zoe Bell, Washington Jewish Week, “Jewish Man Attacked in Northwest D.C. in Alleged Hate Crime”
Franziska Wild, Street Sense Media, “MLK Library bans sleeping outside building, threatening a refuge for people experiencing homelessness”
Weekly Newspaper, Features
Zoe Bell, Washington Jewish Week, “Jewish Soldier Laid to Rest 80 Years After His Death”
Judy Kurtz, The Hill, “A century of Jimmy Carter: Longest-living former president turns 100”
Caitlyn Meisner, Alexandria Times, “Achsah Nesmith, former Carter Speechwriter, dies at 84”
Aaron Troodler, Washington Jewish Week, “‘He Was Just a Good Boy’”
Weekly Newspaper, Editorial/Opinion Writing
Michael Lavers, Washington Blade, “World ‘isn’t much different today’”
Staff, Washington Jewish Week, “House Editorials”
Weekly Newspaper, Business
Nora Scully, Franziska Wild, Tierra Cunningham; Street Sense Media, “Unionization in homeless services”
Weekly Newspaper, Photojournalism
Madi Koesler, Street Sense Media, “Photos from NoMa encampment closed after fire”
Weekly Newspaper, Investigative Journalism
Alexander Fernandez, Denise Dunbar; Alexandria Journalism Project for the Alexandria Times, “Former Mayor Euille was subject of FBI probe”
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
Meaghan Juba, Washington Blade, “Washington Blade Front Cover”
Weekly Newspaper, Series
Andrea Ho, Franziska Wild; Street Sense Media, “The fight to save affordable housing in Chinatown”
Weekly Newspaper, Beat Reporting
Margaret Hartigan, Franziska Wild, Street Sense Staff; Street Sense Media, “Tracking D.C.’s homeless encampments”
Magazine, Features
Tamara Lytle, Jenny Sullivan, Greg Hamilton; Arlington Magazine, “Running on Empty”
Nancy Scola, Washingtonian Magazine, “Tom Blanton Wants to Know Our Secrets”
Sophie St Amand, The Georgetown Voice, “D.C.’s independent bookstores are sites of local history, community, and culture”
Adrienne Wichard-Edds, Jenny Sullivan, Greg Hamilton; Arlington Magazine, “Estrogen Falling”
Magazine, Commentary & Criticism
Xanthe Scharff, Foreign Policy, “Men Alone Cannot Build a Durable Peace in the Middle East”
Magazine, Front-Page Design
Albert Ting, Alecia Rodriguez, Claire Goode; Arlington Magazine, “Arlington Magazine covers”
Television, Non-Breaking News
Angie Moreschi, Andrea Nejman, Nathan Aaron; The National News Desk, “Broken Birth Control”
Jeronimo Mura, Univision Washington D.C., “Climate Migrants: Exile in the wake of natural disasters”
Scott Taylor, Kevin Roach, Jacob Fisher; WJLA TV 7 News, “Punched 8 Times In The Face By A Cop”
Staff, ABC News Live, “January 6th: The Fight to Rewrite History”
Television, Breaking News
Staff, ABC News, “The Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump”
Staff, ABC News, “President Biden Stands Down”
Television, Features
Jacob Gardenswartz, Megan-Elizabeth Smith; Scripps News, “In Pennsylvania, Ukrainian-Americans grapple with overseas war and how to vote”
Mark Hyman, Larry Deal; Inside Your World Investigates, “Alarming Shortage”
Staff, ABC News, “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis – 10 Million Names: Slavery’s Dark Past”
Staff, Inside Your World Investigates, “The Human Cost of EVs”
Television, Business
Angie Moreschi, Nathan Aaron, Larry Deal; The National News Desk, “Why does it take a child to die before a product is recalled?”
Elizabeth Schulze, ABC News Live, “Generation Swipe”
Staff, Inside Your World Investigates, “The Road Ahead for EVs”
Television, Investigative Journalism
Mark Hyman, Larry Deal; Inside Your World Investigates, “USS Sioux City Boondoggle”
Caresse Jackman, Daniela Molina, Owen Hornstein; InvestigateTV/Gray Media, “Lead Out: Investigating the Removal of America’s Lead Pipes”
Scott Taylor, Jacob Fisher, Kevin Roach; WJLA TV 7 News, “Exposed: U S Senate candidate owes $47,000 in back taxes in DC”
Television, Commentary & Criticism
Steven Goodman, Brandon Hamber, Catherine Ferrin; UDC-TV, “Higher Education Today – Peace and Conflict Studies”
Steven Goodman, Neil Levesque, Joel Bowman; UDC-TV, “Higher Education Today – New Hampshire Primary and U.S. Democracy”
Television, Series
Debra Alfarone, Arielle Hawkins, Timothy Knapp; Local News Live, “The Good Side: Solutions Based Journalism That Uplifts”
Scott Taylor, Jacob Fisher, Kevin Roach; WJLA TV 7 News, “DC Mayor traveling all over the world. Who’s paying for it?”
Television, Beat Reporting
Devin Dwyer, ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis, WJLA TV 7 News, “High Stakes at the Supreme Court”
Radio, Non-Breaking News
Devin Dwyer, ABC News, “ABC Audio Start Here – Protecting Your Vote: Deep Fakes”
John Lee, WYPR, “$40 million is on the table for a Hart-Miller Island dredging deal”
Radio, Features
Bri Hatch, WYPR, “Baltimore nonprofit aims to disrupt poverty cycles by helping single moms through college”
Emily Hofstaedter, WYPR, “As workers toil in high heat, Maryland poised to pass new labor standards”
Scott Maucione, WYPR, “Baltimore museum brings summer camp experience to kids on the spectrum”
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”
Radio, Sports
Scott Maucione, WYPR, “Baltimore Ravens prep to host NFL playoff game”
Radio, Investigative Journalism
Rachel Baye, Jennifer Lu, Claire Keenan-Kurgan; Baltimore Public Media and APM Reports, “Judging Juveniles”
Scott Maucione, WYPR, “Poorly regulated foreign vessels could cause a repeat of Baltimore bridge collapse in other U.S. ports”
Radio, Beat Reporting
John Lee, WYPR, “Beat Reporter – Covering Baltimore County.”
Scott Maucione, WYPR, “Maryland was primed to pass a medical aid in dying bill this year. What happened?”
Newsletter/Trade Publication, Non-Breaking News
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.”
Suzanne Monyak, Ben Penn, Jacqueline Thomsen; Bloomberg Industry Group, “Alaska Judge Harassment Scandal”
Erin Schilling, Bloomberg Industry Group, “Rich People Buy Tribal Tax Credits Treasury Says Don’t Exist”
Roxana Tiron, Billy House; Bloomberg Industry Group and Bloomberg.com, “America’s War Machine Can’t Make Basic Artillery Fast Enough”
Newsletter/Trade Publication, Breaking News
Paul Goldberg, The Cancer Letter, “Leadership turnover at the American Cancer Society”
Claire Marie Porter, The Cancer Letter, “Climate change exacerbates cancer disparities”
Newsletter/Trade Publication, Features
Patrick Boyle, Laura Zelaya, Editorial and Digital staff; Association of American Medical Colleges, “Never the Same”
Alexandria Carolan, The Cancer Letter, “An oncologist navigates terminal sarcoma, insurmountable debt, and ‘a legacy of grief’”
Courtney Rozen, Bloomberg Industry Group, “Women Harmed by Doctors, Then Failed by US Civil Rights Watchdog”
Erin Schilling, Bloomberg Industry Group, “Rich People Freeze Themselves, and Fortunes, for Future Revival”
Newsletter/Trade Publication, Business
Andrew Satter, Laura Mahoney, Josh Block; Bloomberg Industry Group, “Best Buy, Apple, Others Make Millions From California Tax Deals”
Angélica Serrano-Román, Bloomberg Industry Group, “How a Bad Bunny Beer Ad Got Puerto Rico Tax Money to Shoot in LA”
Nicola White, Bloomberg Industry Group, “From SPAC Dreams to Riviera Mirage: How Lottery.com Imploded”
Newsletter/Trade Publication, Investigative Journalism
Jacquelyn Cobb, The Cancer Letter, “Multi-cancer detection tests fall short of their promises”
James Nani, Ronnie Greene, Umar Farooq; Bloomberg Industry Group, “A Star Bankruptcy Judge’s Downfall: Bloomberg Law Investigation”
Emily Siegel, John Holland; Bloomberg Industry Group, “Putin’s Billionaires Dodge Sanctions by Financing Lawsuits”
Staff, Tax Notes, “Inside How Private Placement Life Insurance Slips Through the Cracks”
Newsletter/Trade Publication, Commentary & Criticism
Alexandra Bowman, DC Theater Arts, “Reviews in the Style of Critical Essays For DC Theater Arts”
Paul Goldberg, The Cancer Letter, “As Trump’s second term nears, Republican support for NIH is at a low point”
Kayla Morin, Washington Lawyer, “D.C.’s New Sexual Harassment Policy Is a Step in the Right Direction”
Newsletter/Trade Publication, Photography Story
Paul Goldberg, The Cancer Letter, “A view from the BMT unit on the day a Russian cruise missile hit Kyiv’s Ohmatdyt hospital”
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
Katie Goldberg, The Cancer Letter, “Illustrating oncology in 2024”
Newsletter/Trade Publication, Front-Page Design
Jodi Bloom, Fleur Harris, Susannah Buell; Washington Lawyer, “January/February, September/October, and November/December 2024 covers”
Jacqueline Ong, Katie Goldberg, Cyrus Finegan; The Cancer Letter, “Cancer research section covers”
Brian Taylor, National Defense Magazine, “National Defense cover designs – January, June & July 2024”
Newsletter/Trade Publication, Column
Sean Carberry, National Defense Magazine, “‘Budget Matters’ Column”
Newsletter/Trade Publication, Series
Kaustuv Basu, Jack Fitzpatrick, Rebecca Klar; Bloomberg Industry Group, “The Age of AI Challenges Government”
Jacquelyn Cobb, The Cancer Letter, “Impact factor mania and publish-or-perish may have contributed to Dana-Farber retractions, experts say”
Lauren Loricchio, Caitlin Mullaney; Tax Notes, “Scarce Resources Leave Navajo Nation With Few Tax Options”
Matthew Schwartz, Bloomberg Industry Group, “AI and the Law, Explained: UnCommon Law’s 6-Episode Podcast Series”
Newsletter/Trade Publication, Editorial Cartoon
Alexandra Bowman, Counterpoint, “Political Cartoons for Counterpoint”
Newsletter/Trade Publication, Beat Reporting
Sean Carberry, National Defense Magazine, “Defense technology reporting”
Zach Cohen, Bloomberg Industry Group, “Covering the Race for Senate Republican Leader”
Oma Seddiq, Kellie Lunney, Ellen M. Gilmer; Bloomberg Industry Group, “SHUTDOWN AVERTED”
Online, Non-Breaking News
Lisa Held, Civil Eats, “The Last Front in the Battle to Save the ‘Most Important Fish’ in the Atlantic”
Abigail Higgins, Colleen Grablick; The 51st, “Opioids are killing older Black men in D.C. at some of the highest rates in the country”
Dan McCue, The Well News, “Federal, State Agency Collaboration Speeds Recovery from Baltimore’s Key Bridge Collapse”
The 51st (staff), Ethiopique (Henok Mengistu); The 51st, “Worried about your immigration status amid Trump’s ‘mass deportation’ agenda?”
Online, Breaking News
Dan McCue, The Well News, “Presidential Primary Coverage”
Dan McCue, The Well News, “Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine”
Emily Venezky, Eater DC, “&pizza’s Marion Barry-Themed Pizza Knots Inspire Protest Rally, Call for Boycott”
Online, Features
Karen Feld, The Georgetowner, “‘I’ll Have What She’s Having’: Culture, Not Just Corned Beef”
Karen Feld, The Georgetowner, “Washington Playwright Ken Ludwig Reawakens ‘Death on the Nile’”
Dan McCue, The Well News, “David Schechter Brings Climate Change Home for Views of CBS News”
Dan McCue, The Well News, “Ghosts of the Delta Still Walk the Halls of Chess Records”
Online, Sports
Deron Snyder, TheGrio, “HBCU Sports by Deron Snyder”
Online, Editorial/Opinion Writing
Brian Karem, Salon, “Brian Karem’s weekly Washington column”
Brigid Schulte, Yuliya Panfil; CNN Opinion, “Opinion: The true victims of the US evictions crisis”
Dreon Snyder, TheGrio, “Editorial/Opinion Writing by Deron Snyder”
Online, Business
Corbin Hiar, Chelsea Harvey, Blanca Begert; POLITICO’s E&E News, “How billionaires, executives and operatives seek to shape U.S. climate policy”
Dan McCue, The Well News, “At Hydrogen Summit Euphoria Gives Way to the Practical”
Emily Venezky, Tierney Plumb; Eater DC, “The Keith Lee Effect: D.C. Area Restaurants Sell Out After TikTok Critic’s Visits”
Online, Investigative Journalism
Matt Cohen, Democracy Docket, “Hundreds of Election Deniers Are on the Ballot in Seven Swing States”
Jodi Enda, The Fuller Project, “The Global Cost of the American Anti-Abortion Movement”
Abigail Higgins, Colleen Grablick; The 51st, “Opioids are killing older Black men in D.C. at some of the highest rates in the country”
Online, Commentary & Criticism
Erika Filter, National Journal, “Harris doesn’t play the woman card”
Dave Levinthal, Raw Story, “I saw a man strangling a woman. I called 911. Why did it take two minutes to connect?”
D. Watkins, Salon, “Essays by D. Watkins”
Zac Weisz, National Journal, “The forgotten political bases of Georgia”
Online, Column
Kirk Bado, National Journal, “Kirk Bado’s Columns”
Mary C. Curtis, Roll Call, “A collection of columns by Mary C. Curtis”
Deron Snyder, TheGrio, “Columns by Deron Snyder”
Christina Sturdivant Sani, The 51st, “Ask A D.C. Native”
Online, Series
Stephen Borelli, USA Today, “‘Ask Coach Steve’ Sports parenting column/series”
Matt Cohen, Democracy Docket, “Project 2025 Reporting”
Colleen Grablick, The 51st, “Wilson Building Bulletin”
Staff, The 51st, “D.C. Explained”
Online, Beat Reporting
Clare Fieseler, Brian Dabbs; POLITICO’s E&E News, “The perils of ‘clean’ hydrogen”
Dan McCue, The Well News, “Coverage of the 2024 presidential primaries”
Pete Schroeder, Michelle Price; Reuters, “Wall Street banks’ capital fight”
Suzanne Smalley, The Record by Recorded Future News, “Suzanne Smalley on the digital privacy beat”
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