2014 FRONT PAGE AWARDS


ONLINE


In-Depth Reporting

Megan McClosky, ProPublica

“Failing the Fallen” (Read the series herehereherehere and here)

 

Spot News

Amanda Levin, The Deal

“Unsolicited Bid Puts Cleco on the Block”

 

 

Digital Video

Iris Xu, Vice News

The Lake That Burned Down A Forest

 

Feature

Heather Murphy, The New York Times

Deadly Illness in Nicaragua Baffles Experts

 

 

Blogs

Tatiana Serafin, Forbes

Ukraine Series” (Read the series hereherehere and here)

 

Multimedia News Package

Sarah Ryley, Daily News

The Homicide Project

 


WIRES


In-Depth Reporting

Megan Twohey, Reuters

“The Child Exchange” (Read the series herehereherehere and here)

 

Spot News

Ellen Wulfhorst, Reuters

Reports from Ferguson, Missouri

 

Feature

Carol Hymowitz, Bloomberg

At 61 She Lives in Basement, While 87-Year-Old Dad Travels World

 

Beat Reporting

Janet Lorin, Bloomberg

“Doctor Dreams” (Read the series herehere and here)

 


NEWSPAPERS


In-Depth Reporting

Sarah Armaghan, Sarah Crichton, Candice Ruud, and Jennifer Barrios, Newsday

“Environmental Nightmare” series

 

Feature

Julie Satow, The New York Times

Living in the Mix, Affordable Housing in New York’s Luxury Buildings

 

 

 

Beat Reporting

Emily C. Dooley, Newsday

Environmental coverage

 


The Nellie Bly Award for Best Bylined Front Page Story

Sarah Ryley and Laura Bult, Daily News

Beyond Broken

 


PHOTOGRAPHY


Breaking News

Debbie Egan-Chin, Daily News

Why? Why? Why?

 

Feature

Emily Assiran, New York Observer

Woody Allen: American Master

 

 

Essay

Alejandra Villa, Newsday

“All Star Chefs”

 

Sports

Amy Newman, The Record

“Nun Having Fun”


RADIO


In-Depth

Andrea Bernstein, Nancy Solomon and Sarah Gonzalez, WNYC Radio and New Jersey Public Radio  

“Chris Christie, The Port Authority, and Abuse of Power” (Read the series herehereherehere and here)  

Feature

Sarah Abdurrahman, WNYC Radio

My Detainment Story or: How I Learned to Stop Feeling Safe in My Own Country and Hate Border Agents

 


TELEVISION


Special Reporting

Diane Sawyer, Jessica Velmans, Muriel Pearson, Teri Whitcraft, Keturah Gray, Zunaira Zaki, Jasmine Brown, Tess Scott, Evelyn Seijido, Ruth Iwano and Gina Pampinella, ABC News

“Unbreakable: One Girl Changing the World”

 

Breaking News

Tracie Strahan, NBC 4 New York

"Williston Park Fire"

 

 

Feature

Amy Burkholder, Anna Werner, and Kim Godwin, CBS News

Shock Treatment

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Interview

Diane Sawyer, Margaret Aro, Lisa Ferri, Nancy Gabriner, Keturah Gray, Susan Welsh, Jasmine Brown, Meghan Moore, Lauren Putrino, Tess Scott, Ruth Iwano, Gina Pampinella, Sarah Lang and Christina Ng, ABC News

Hillary Clinton: Public and Private One-on-One with Diane Sawyer

 


MAGAZINES


Feature

Lisa Miller, New York Magazine

Orders of Grief

 

News

Rosemarie Ward, The Economist

The Ferguson Riots: Overkill

Interview

Jennifer Senior, New York Magazine

In Conversation: Antonin Scalia

 

In-Depth Reporting

 

Marie Brenner, Vanity Fair

Danger in the Ring

 

 

Essay

Dionne Ford, More Magazine

My Family Tree – in Black and White


SPECIALIZED REPORTING


Editorial Cartoons

Isabella Bannerman, World War 3 Illustrated

“Palliative Care”

 

Editorial Writing

Jane Eisner, The Jewish Daily Forward

Series of Editorials (Read the stories herehere and here)

Fashion

Serena Solomon, DNAinfo.com New York

Plea for Help from Man Claiming to be Chinese Prisoner Found in Saks Bag

Sports

Melissa Hoppert, The New York Times

“California Chrome’s Triple Crown”

(Read the stories herehere and here)

 

Opinion/Criticism

Jill Filipovic, Al Jazeera America

Columns on Reproductive Rights (Read the stories herehere and here)

Science

Lina Zeldovich, Narrative.ly

The Magic Poop Potion

 

Medicine/Health/Fitness

Tiffany Kary, Lauren Coleman-Lochner, Lindsey Rupp, Selina Wang, Bloomberg

“Triclosan and Total: What’s In Your Toothpaste?” (Read the series herehere and here)

 

Business Reporting

Jennifer Reingold, Fortune

Squeezing Heinz

 

 

 

 

 

 


The Martha Coman Award for Best New Journalist

Tammy Kim, Al Jazeera America

Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year

Julia Angwin, ProPublica


The Marie Colvin Front Page Award for Foreign Correspondence

Rukmini Callimachi, The New York Times

The Front Page Award for Lifetime Achievement

Kimberly Dozier, CNN, The Daily Beast