THE 2019 FRONT PAGE AWARDS

The 82nd annual awards honor exceptional newswomen from national and local outlets in the New York metropolitan area. This year’s winners have reported on segregation in New York City public schools, Native American women who face disproportionately high rates of sexual violence and domestic abuse, black Americans who have fought to make our founding democracy’s ideals a reality, a queer Latina who managed an upset victory in the primary for Queens district attorney, and a struggling, rural Mississippi town that has become a banking desert. 

These stories and dozens of other reported pieces share a common thread that begs the question: Who--and what--gets left out? This question, reflected in these published works, drive this year’s theme: Speaking Truth to Power: Restoring the Narrative. In the past year, there has been an explosion of hidden narratives that have been ignored or distorted. The notion of what is to be American is changing and these stories are now being told, illuminating the vanished or forgotten voices that reflect the truth. 

This year we celebrate the women who broke big stories and changed history with their reporting, bringing to light voices and perspectives that historically have been crowded out.


The Front Page Award for Lifetime Achievement

The Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year

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THE MARIE COLVIN FRONT PAGE AWARD FOR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE

THE MARTHA COMAN FRONT PAGE AWARD FOR BEST NEW JOURNALIST


DOCUMENTARY


Long Form Documentary

Jeanmarie Condon, Fatima Curry, Erica Baumgart, Melia Patria, Cynthia Readdean and Ashlee Romain, ABC News

“1969: The FBI and The Panther”

Short Form Documentary

Karishma Vyas, Al Jazeera English
“The War on Afghan Women”


LOCAL REPORTING


Feature

Amisha Padnani, The New York Times

“A Subway to Staten Island? How a Transit Dream Died”


MAGAZINES


Essay

Stephanie Zacharek, TIME

“Why I'm Glad I Didn't Have Kids”

In-Depth Reporting

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times

“America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One”

News

Arriana Mclymore, Fast Company

“These Black women gamers teamed up to take on the worst online trolls”


NEWSPAPERS


Feature

Amisha Padnani and Veronica Chambers, The New York Times

"Overlooked"

"A Year Into the Overlooked Project, Widening the Lens"

                                               

In-Depth Reporting

Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner, The Hechinger Report in collaboration with The New York Times

“A $21,000 Cosmetology School Debt, and a $9-an-Hour Job”


Spot News

Toni Reinhold and Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News

“It won’t be prison jumpers: El Chapo’s new company will peddle fashion with clothing line”


The Nellie Bly Award for Best Bylined Front Page Story

Pam Belluck, The New York Times
“4 Women With Lives Scarred by Genital Cutting: Could a Surgeon Heal Them?”


ONLINE


Digital Video

Melanie Bencosme and Christine Nguyen, NBC

“The Last Doctors”

Blogs

Helaine Olen, Washington Post

Multimedia News Package

 Jillian Kitchener, Sarah Slobin, Elizabeth Culliford, Audrey Anderson, Reuters

“Ocean Shock: The great lobster rush”

Feature

Casey Parks, The New Yorker

“A College Degree, Fifteen Years in the Making”

Social Media Video

Lucy Ha, Bloomberg's TicToc 

“The Cannabis Bankers”


PHOTOGRAPHY


BEST FRONT PAGE PHOTO: Stephanie Keith and Sandy Ciric, Getty Images “Jeffrey Epstein faces abuse charges”

BEST FRONT PAGE PHOTO: Stephanie Keith and Sandy Ciric, Getty Images “Jeffrey Epstein faces abuse charges”

BREAKING NEWS: Alejandra Villa Loarca, Newsday “Medal Day”

BREAKING NEWS: Alejandra Villa Loarca, Newsday “Medal Day”

SPORTS - Kathy Willens, Associated Press “Futile Leap”

SPORTS - Kathy Willens, Associated Press “Futile Leap”


PODCAST


Feature

Colleen DeBaise, Sue Williams, Victoria Wong, Nusha Balyan and Christina Kelly, The Story Exchange

“Helping Native Women Heal”

News

Jamilah King, The Mother Jones

“El Paso’s Nightmare Is America’s New Normal”

In-Depth

Catherine Saint Louis, Huffington Post

“Shut Out: A three-part podcast about the fight to vote in America.”


RADIO


Breaking News

Sonia Rincon, 1010 WINS

“Fatal Elevator Accident in Kips Bay”

In-Depth

Rebecca Jarvis, Victoria Thompson and Taylor Dunn, ABC News

“The Dropout”

Feature

Carole Zimmer, Stephanie Hou and Rafaella Gunz, WSHU Public Radio

"The Impossible Dream Comes True"


SPECIALIZED REPORTING



TELEVISION


Feature

Karishma Vyas, Al Jazeera English
“Afghanistan: The Healers”

Special Programming (Public Affairs or Editorial)

Jessica Le Masurier and Celine Bruneau, France 24

“The price of insulin is killing Americans”

Breaking News

Madeleine Haeringer, Antonia Hylton, Rita Chan, Ani Ucar and Patricia Guerra, VICE News

Divided: Puerto Rico’s Political Crisis:

Special Reporting (Investigative or Enterprise Reporting)

Jeanmarie Condon, Erica Baumgart, Melia Patria, Fatima Curry, Meryl Gitter Michon and Cara Scaturo, ABC News

“The Girl in the Car”

Interview

Hannah Thomas-Peter, Emily Upton, Emily Purser Brown and Jenni Wetters, Sky News

“Weinstein on Camera: The Melissa Thompson Tape”


WIRES