• Press Release: 2016 Contest Winners
• 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Cecile Holmes
• Finalists List: 2016 Contest Finalists

 
Newspaper Awards

EXCELLENCE IN RELIGION REPORTING – SMALL-SIZED NEWSPAPERS (CASSELS AWARD)

• First Place: Robert Chaney, Missoulian Newspaper, with support from the International Reporting Project; Articles
• Second Place: Larry Cohler-Esses, Forward; Article 1
• Third Place (tie): Dan Morris-Young, National Catholic Reporter; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3
• Third Place (tie): Robert Marquand, for work done at The Christian Science Monitor; Article 1

EXCELLENCE IN RELIGION REPORTING – MID-SIZED NEWSPAPERS (CORNELL AWARD)

• First Place: Tim Funk & Ames Alexander, The Charlotte Observer; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3       
  
• Second Place: Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News; Articles
• Third Place: Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune; Articles

EXCELLENCE IN RELIGION REPORTING – METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPERS

• First Place: Mark Mueller, The Star Ledger; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3           
  
• Second Place: Melissa Binder, for work done at The Oregonian; Article 1

EXCELLENCE IN RELIGION REPORTING – LARGE NEWSPAPERS & WIRE SERVICES

• First Place: Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3             
• Second Place: David Gibson, Religion News Service; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3           
• Third Place: Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3        
  
• Honorable Mention: Michael Paulson, The New York Times; Articles

 

Multiple Media Awards

EXCELLENCE IN RELIGION FEATURE WRITING (SUPPLE AWARD)

• First Place: Daniel Burke, CNN; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3     
• Second Place: Michael Paulson, The New York Times; Articles
• Third Place: Dave Schechter, Freelance; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3       
• Honorable Mention: Emma Green, The Atlantic; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3        
  

EXCELLENCE IN ENTERPRISE RELIGION REPORTING (GERALD A. RENNER AWARD)

• First Place: Will Carless, Jimmy Chalk, David Case, Rob Harris and Lizzy Tomei of GlobalPost; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3, Article 4, Article 5, Article 6, Article 7, Article 8, Article 9                         
• Second Place: Kira Kay, Maggy Donaldson, Zoe Lake, Jason Maloney, Thalia Beaty, Kristopher Brant, Siyi Chen, Kelsey Doyle and Madeline Gressel of NYU GlobalBeat & PBS NewsHour; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3, Article 4         
• Third Place: John Blake, CNN; Article 1

 

EXCELLENCE IN RELIGION COMMENTARY

• First Place: Haroon Moghul, Religion Dispatches; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3  
• Second Place: Margery Eagan, Crux/The Boston Globe; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3     
  
• Third Place: David P. Gushee, for work done at Religion News Service; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3            
  

EXCELLENCE IN RELIGION NEWS ANALYSIS

• First Place: Daniel Burke, CNN; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3         
• Second Place: Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 
  
• Third Place: Mohamad Bazzi, Reuters; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3     
  

 

EXCELLENCE IN SHORT RELIGION VIDEO

• First Place: JP Keenan, Sojourners; Video           
  

 

EXCELLENCE IN ONLINE RELIGION SECTION (SCHACHERN AWARD)

• First Place: CNN Belief; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3     
  

 

Magazine Awards

EXCELLENCE IN MAGAZINE NEWS RELIGION REPORTING

• First Place: Yardena Schwartz, Freelance; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3        
• Second Place: Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and Yochi Dreazen, Foreign Policy Magazine and International Reporting Project; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3    
• Third Place: Brian Roewe, National Catholic Reporter; Articles
• Honorable Mention: Bob Smietana, for work done at Christianity Today; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 

 

EXCELLENCE IN MAGAZINE OVERALL RELIGION COVERAGE

• First Place: KidSpirit Online; Read

 
Broadcast Awards

 
EXCELLENCE IN TELEVISION NEWS MAGAZINE RELIGION REPORTING

• First Place: Lucky Severson and Trent Harris, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly; Story 1
• Second Place: Bob Faw & Marcia Henning, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly; Story 1
• Third Place: Fred de Sam Lazaro, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly; Story 1
• Honorable Mention: Lucky Severson & David Tereschuk, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly; Story 1

  

EXCELLENCE IN TELEVISION LOCAL NEWS RELIGION REPORTING

• First Place: Morgan Adsit and Luke Rollins, WBFF-TV; Story 1
• Second Place: Jim Rosenfield, Karen Araiza, Manny Noguera and Mike Hurst, WCAU; Story 1

  

EXCELLENCE IN TELEVISION NATIONAL NETWORK/CABLE NEWS RELIGION REPORTING

• First Place: Walter Ratliff and Rodrique Ngowi, The Associated Press; Story 1, Story 2

 

EXCELLENCE IN RELIGION DOCUMENTARY

• First Place: Debra Gonsher Vinik, “EVERY WORD HAS POWER: The Poetry of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel”

EXCELLENCE IN RADIO OR PODCAST RELIGION REPORTING

• First Place: Ruth Morris, Jocelyn Frank, Jonathan Miller, Maureen Fiedler, and Laura Kwerel, Interfaith Voices; Story 1 
• Second Place: Things Not Seen Radio
• Third Place: Laura Spencer, KCUR 89.3; Story 1

 

Nonfiction Book Award

 

EXCELLENCE FOR NONFICTION RELIGION BOOK

• First Place: Diana Butler Bass, “Grounded: Finding God in the World—A Spiritual Revolution”
• Second Place: Linda K. Wertheimer, “Faith Ed: Teaching About Religion in an Age of Tolerance”
• Third Place: Lauren F. Winner, “Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God”
• Honorable Mention: Jon M. Sweeney, “Phyllis Tickle: Essential Spiritual Writings”

 

Student Award

EXCELLENCE IN STUDENT RELIGION REPORTING (CHANDLER AWARD)

• First Place: Jacob Steimer, University of Missouri
• Second Place: Jack Cahn, University of Pennsylvania; Article 1
• Third Place: Kaitlyn Chamberlin and Alexis Daily, Indiana University; Article

 

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