Commentary (Multi-Media)
David Gibson, Religion News Service
Tom Heneghen, Reuters
Jamie Manson, National Catholic Reporter
Naomi Schaefer Riley, Wall Street Journal
Christine Scheller, UrbanFaith.com
H. David Sessions, Daily Beast / Newsweek
Robert Sibley, Ottawa Citizen
Peter Smith, Louisville Courier-Journal
Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun
Jim Wallis, Sojourners
Cornell (Mid-Sized Newspaper)
Michelle Bearden, The Tampa Tribune
Doug Erickson, Wisconsin State Journal
Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune
G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Religion News Service
Dana Massing, Erie Times-News
Steve Maynard, The News Tribune
Jeff Sheler, The Virginian-Pilot
Bill Sherman, Tulsa World
Robert Sibley, The Ottawa Citizen
Peter Smith, The Courier-Journal
Renner Enterprise (Multi-Media)
Tony Carnes, A Journey through NYC religions
Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune
Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jaweed Kaleem, The Huffington Post
Arnold Labaton, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Robert Sibley, The Ottawa Citizen
Bob Smietana, The Tennessean
Tiffany Stanley, Religion & Politics
Douglas Todd, The Vancouver Sun
Sandy Villarreal, Sojourners
Large Newspaper
Adelle Banks, Religion News Service
Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post
Daniel Burke, Religion News Service
Julia Duin, The Washington Post
David Gibson, Religion News Service
Tom Heneghan, Reuters
Betsy Hiel, Pittsburgh Review Tribune
Sharon Otterman, The New York Times
Rachel Zoll, The Associated Press
Supple (Multi-Media)
Adelle Banks, Religion News Service
Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post
Daniel Burke, Religion News Service
Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune
David Gibson, Religion News Service
Jaweed Kaleem, The Huffington Post
Joshua McElwee, National Catholic Reporter
Bobby Ross, The Christian Chronicle
Bob Smietana, The Tennessean
Peter Smith, The Courier-Journal
Broadcast: Radio or Podcast
Adam Cotterell, Boise State Public Radio
Tony Ganzer, World Radio Switzerland
Amanda Greene, Wilmington Faith & Values
Deena Prichep, NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday
Sarah Richards, BBC World Service
Taki Telonidis, Western Folklife Center
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 10 pm Sept. 28, 2013
Contact: Debra L. Mason, executive director, RNA
573-882-9257
RNA Honors Best in Religion Reporting
AUSTIN — Religion reporters from across the country won top
honors Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Religion Newswriters Association’s 2013
awards competition.
Adon Taft was presented with the William A. Reed Lifetime
Achievement Award. Taft was a long-time religion reporter for The Miami Herald
and a leader within RNA.
Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post won first place in
the Religion Reporter of the Year contest for large newspapers and wire
services. Rachel Zoll of The Associated Press won second place and Daniel Burke
won third for stories written for Religion News Service.
First place in the Religion Reporter of the Year contest for
metropolitan newspapers went to Tim Townsend for work done at the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. Second place was awarded to Richard Dujardin of The Providence
Journal, and third place went to Carla Hinton of The Oklahoman.
G. Jeffrey MacDonald, writing for The Christian Science
Monitor, won the Cornell Religion Reporter of the Year Award for mid-sized
newspapers. Jeff Sheler of The Virginian-Pilot and Peggy Fletcher Stack of The
Salt Lake Tribune tied for second. Robert Sibley of The Ottawa Citizen received
an honorable mention.
In the Cassels Religion Reporter of the Year contest for
small newspapers, first place went to Matthew Miller of the Lansing State
Journal, with Mary Garrigan of The Rapid City Journal in second place and
Jennifer Preyss of the Victoria Advocate coming in third. Catherine Godbey of
The Decatur Daily and Marshall Weiss of The Dayton Jewish Observer both
received honorable mention.
Jaweed Kaleem of The Huffington Post won first place in the
Supple Religion Feature Writer of the Year Award. David Gibson of Religion News
Service placed second, and Peggy Fletcher Stack of The Salt Lake Tribune won
third.
The Gerald A. Renner Enterprise Religion Report of the Year
Award went to Tiffany Stanley of Religion & Politics, followed by Jaweed
Kaleem of The Huffington Post in second and a team led by Arnold Labaton of
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly in third.
First place in the Religion Commentary of the Year Award
went to David Gibson of the Religion News Service. Second place went to
Christine Scheller of urbanfaith.com and Naomi Schaefer Riley of The Wall
Street Journal placed third. Jamie Mason of the National Catholic Reporter
received an honorable mention.
The Schachern Award for Online Religion Section of the Year
went to Reuters, with second place going to CNN and third place to Spokane.
Bobby Ross Jr. of The Christian Chronicle placed first for Magazine News Religion
Report of the Year Award. Jaweed Kaleem of The Huffington Post Magazine placed
second and Joshua McElwee of the National Catholic Reporter took third.
The Magazine of the Year Award went to Harvard Divinity
Bulletin. Moment Magazine placed second and Sojourners came in third.
First place in the Radio or Podcast Religion Report of the
Year contest went to Taki Telonidis of Western Folklife Center. Second place
went to Tony Ganzer of World Radio Switzerland. Third place was awarded to
Sarah Richards. An honorable mention was awarded to Amanda Greene of Wilmington
Faith & Values.
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly swept the Television News
Magazine Religion Report of the Year awards. Bob Faw placed first, Betty Rollin placed second, Judy Valente came in third and Kim Lawton received honorable mention.
The National Network/Cable News Religion Report of the Year Award
went to Jerome Socolovsky with Voice of America. Second place was awarded to
Eric Marrapodi of CNN and third went to Michael O’Sullivan, also with Voice of
America.
The first place award for the Television Local News Religion
Report of the Year contest went to Ben Winslow of KSTU Fox 13.
The Nonfiction Religion Book of the Year contest resulted in
a tie for first. Winning first was Don Lattin for "Distilled Spirits” and T.H.
Luhrman for "When God Talks Back.” Matti Friedman’s "The Aleppo Codex” placed
second.
Finally, Rebecca Nakashima of Biola University won first
place in the Chandler Award for Student Religion Reporter of the Year. In
second place was Catherine Knarr of the University of Missouri. April Burbank
of Wheaton College won third place. The
Chandler Award for Student Religion Reporter of the Year was presented by
Russell and M.L. Chandler, who fund the award.
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