POY78 Winners List

POY was virtually judged Feb. 16 to March 10, 2021, from Smith Forum in the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. We are honored to announce the winners. The credits appear as they were submitted. Please review the list to make sure the credit and affiliation appears as you wish.

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NEWS DIVISION | SPORTS DIVISION | REPORTAGE DIVISION | DOCUMENTARY & EDITING DIVISION

NEWS DIVISION

Category	Winners
IMPACT 2020: ELECTION SEASON
First Place	Emily Elconin, Independent, “Detroit Protest”
First Place (2 of 2)	Patrick T. Fallon, Freelance for Bloomberg, “Dr. Jill Biden”
Second Place	Saul Loeb, Agence France-Presse, “Lightning in Chief”
Third Place	Pete Souza, Independent, Untitled
Third Place (2 of 2)	Gabrielle Lurie, San Francisco Chronicle, “Lights, Camera, Selfie”
Award of Excellence	Carlos Barria, Reuters, “Re-election”
Award of Excellence	Drew Angerer, Getty Images, “The President’s Attorney”
Award of Excellence	Kathleen Flynn, Independent, “Charlotte Airport 10/30/2020”
Award of Excellence	Erica Lansner, Independent, “Biden-Harris Victory Celebration”
Award of Excellence	Miranda Alam, Independent, “Biden Caucus”
Award of Excellence	Brian Snyder, Reuters, “Reflection”
Award of Excellence	Madalyn McGarvey, Independent, “Biden BBQ”
Award of Excellence	Kriston Jae Bethel, Independent, “Obama Speaks to Biden-Harris Drive-In Rally”
Award of Excellence	Win McNamee, Getty Images, Untitled
Award of Excellence	Robert Cohen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Historic Win for Cori Bush, Sets Sights on Washington”
IMPACT 2020: PROTESTS AND MOVEMENTS
First Place	Roberto Schmidt, Agence France-Presse, “George Floyd/Black Lives Matter Protests”
Second Place	Alexander Lourie, Independent, “Unrest in the USA”
Third Place	John Minchillo, Associated Press, “George Floyd: Unrest in Minneapolis”
Award of Excellence	Deanne Fitzmaurice, Independent, “Brianna Noble: Urban Cowgirl”
Award of Excellence	Diego Ibarra Sánchez, Independent, “THAWRA: Lebanese Revolution”
Award of Excellence	Joel Marklund, Bildbyrån, “Death of George Floyd Protests”
GENERAL NEWS
First Place	Evelyn Hockstein, Independent, “Lincoln Emancipation Statue Fury”
Second Place	Matt McClain, The Washington Post, “Racial Reckoning”
Third Place	Al Bello, Getty Images, “Covid-19 Pandemic Hug”
Award of Excellence	Mario Tama, Getty Images, “Maria and Isaias”
Award of Excellence	Lauren DeCicca, Independent, “Social Distancing in Thai Schools”
Award of Excellence	Lawrence Bryant, Independent, “Minneapolis-Police/Protests in St. Louis”
Award of Excellence	Dave Killen, The Oregonian, “Portland George Floyd Protests May 29”
Award of Excellence	Barry Chin, Boston Globe, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”
Award of Excellence	Heidi Levine, Independent, Untitled
Award of Excellence	John Minchillo, Associated Press, “George Floyd Minneapolis”
SPOT NEWS
First Place	Hector Retamal, Agence France-Presse, “China-Health-Virus”
Second Place	Hassan Ammar, Associated Press, “Lebanon Explosion”
Third Place	Noah Berger, Associated Press, “Saving his Home”
Award of Excellence	Vichan Poti, Zuma Press, “Just Another Brick in the Wall”
Award of Excellence	Danish Siddiqui, Reuters, “A Mob Out for Blood”
Award of Excellence	Dylan Martinez, Reuters, “Patrick Hutchinson”
Award of Excellence	John Moore, Getty Images, “Frontline Medics”
Award of Excellence	Angelos Tzortzinis, Agence France-Presse, “The end of Moria”
Award of Excellence	Amanda M. Perobelli, Independent, “A Protest against the Death of a Black Man”
Award of Excellence	Rodrigo Cabrita, Independent, “Life in a Tear”
Award of Excellence	Julio Cortez, Associated Press, “Racial Unrest: America Turned Upside Down”
Award of Excellence	Jonathan Ernst, Reuters, “Smoke”
Award of Excellence	Helen Richardson, The Denver Post, “Heated Confrontation Leads to Deadly Consequences”
DAILY LIFE
First Place	Brais Lorenzo, Independent, “Birthday”
Second Place	Christopher Hopkins, Independent, “I want to Hold her Hand”
Third Place	Mads Nissen, Politken, “Hold Me Close - First Hug in Five Months”
Award of Excellence	Anas Alkharboutli, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, “Eid in Syria”
Award of Excellence	Jonah Haviland-Markowitz, Independent, Untitled
Award of Excellence	Janet Jarman, Independent, “Covid Twins”
DAILY LIFE PICTURE STORY
First Place	Hiroko Masuike, The New York Times, “A Funeral Worker Burying His Father”
Second Place	Wu Fang, Chinese Photographers Association, “Truck driver Takes His Son on Long Distance”
Third Place	Olmo Calvo, Independent, “Waiting for Iria”
Award of Excellence	Jay Janner, Austin American-Statesman, “Night to Shine”
Award of Excellence	Alex Kormann, Star Tribune, “The Fighter”
Award of Excellence	Jane Tyska, East Bay Times, “Pandemic Emptiness”
Award of Excellence	Jérémy Lempin, Independent, “Doctor Peyo and Mister Hassen”
COVID-19 NEWS PICTURE STORY
First Place	Tyler Hicks, The New York Times, “The Amazon, Giver of Life, Unleashes the Pandemic”
Second Place	Sedat Suna, European Pressphoto Agency, “Outbreak Diaries in Turkey”
Third Place	Emilio Morenatti, Associated Press, “Loneliness in the Pandemic”
Award of Excellence	John Moore, Getty Images, “Frontline Medics”
Award of Excellence	Misha Friedman, Independent, “The Residency: Managing Grief in the Time of COVID”
LOCAL TEAM PICTURE STORY
First Place	Newsday, “Justice for George Floyd”
Finalist	Reuters, “New York’s COVID-19 Hell”
Finalist	Anadolu Agency, “An Open Door to Europe”
Finalist	Boston Globe, “Life and Death during a Pandemic”
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR, LOCAL
First Place	Gabrielle Lurie, San Francisco Chronicle
Finalist	Brais Lorenzo, Independent
Finalist	Joshua Bickel, The Columbus Dispatch
Finalist	Luis Antonio Rojas, Independent
Finalist	Robert Cohen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SPORTS DIVISION

Category	Winners
PORTRAIT SERIES
First Place	David Goldman, Associated Press, “At Veterans’ Home, The Legacies of Lives Lost”
Second Place	Taylor Baucom, The Players’ Tribune, “The Hard Part Out Loud”
Third Place	Valery Sharifulin, TASS News Agency, “After Shift”
Award of Excellence	Leonel de Castro, Independent,”Spoils of War”
Award of Excellence	Sergei Stroitelev, Independent, “Am I Not Scared Anymore?”
SPORTS ACTION
First Place	Sergei Bobylev, TASS News Agency via Zuma Press, “Russian Figure Skating Championships”
Second Place	Dan Mullan, Getty Images, “Falling at the Last”
Third Place	Patrick Smith, Getty Images, “Duck Dive”
Award of Excellence	Darrian Traynor, Independent, “Zverev”
SPORTS LIFE AND RECREATIONAL SPORTS
First Place	Jordi Cohen, Independent, Untitled
Second Place	Étienne Laurent, European Pressphoto Agency, “USA Dodgers Baseball World Series”
Third Place	Maddie Meyer, Getty Images, “Walk to the Locker Room”
Award of Excellence	Maja Hitij, Getty images, “Fans Gone”
Award of Excellence	Ebrahim Alipoor, Independent, “Athletic Clubs in COVID-19”
SPORTS PICTURE STORY
First Place	Roman Vondrous, Czech News Agency, “Loyal Fans in Covid Era”
Second Place	Jack Mikrut, Dagens Industri, “Racing Pigeons”
Third Place	Wally Skalij, Los Angeles Times, “Death of Kobe Bryant”
Award of Excellence	Alain Schroeder, Independent, “Dead Goat Polo”
Award of Excellence	Jessica Christian, San Francisco Chronicle, “A Wrestler Breaks Free”
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
First Place	Ezra Shaw, Getty Images
Finalist	Scott Barbour, Australian Associated Press

REPORTAGE DIVISION

Category	Winners
SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY SINGLES
First Place	Luis Tato, Independent, “Locust Invasion in East Africa”
Second Place	Şebnem Coşkun, Anadolu Agency, “New Danger to Life Below Water ‘Covid-19 Wastes’”
Third Place	Lotta Härdelin, Dagens Nyheter, “Victim of Bushfires”
Award of Excellence	Neil Aldridge, Independent, “Flight of the Night Hunter”
Award of Excellence	Lance McMillan, Independent, “A Caring Hand”
Award of Excellence	Adam Dean, Independent, Untitled
Award of Excellence	Ezra Acayan, Independent, “Taal Volcano Eruption”
SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY PICTURE STORY
First Place	Jasper Doest, Independent, “Sacred No More”
Second Place	Adam Dean, Independent, “The Virus Hunters”
Third Place	Jasper Doest, Independent, “Pandemic Pigeons”
Award of Excellence	Ezra Acayan, Independent, “Taal Volcano Eruption”
Award of Excellence	Brendan Hoffman, Independent, “Saving the Indus River”
ENVIRONMENTAL VISION AWARD
First Place	Mustafa Bilge Satkın, Independent, “Drowned History”
Finalist	John Stanmeyer, Independent, “Water Everywhere, And Nowhere - India”
COVID-19 PERSONAL EXPRESSION
First Place	Elisabetta Zavoli, Independent, “And in Darkness You Find Colors”
Runner-Up	Sarah Pabst, Independent, “Morning Song”
Finalist	Rosem Morton, Independent, “Donning and Doffing”
Finalist	Barbara Zanon, Independent, “Filling the void”
Finalist	Tamara Merino, Independent, “Quarantine Diary”
Finalist	Maryam Saeedpoor, Independent, “In Quarantine”
Finalist	Haruka Sakaguchi, Independent, “Asian Americans Reflect on Seeing Themselves, Race, and the Pandemic”
Finalist	Bethany Mollenkof, Independent, “Giving Birth in a Time of Death: a Love Letter to My Daughter”
Semi-Finalist	Lasse Bak Mejlvang, Independent, “Mio min Mio”
Semi-Finalist	Leah Nash and Christopher Onstott, “Population Isolation”
Semi-Finalist	Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, Independent, “Covid 19: A Tragic Glance”
Semi-Finalist	Dina Litovsky, Independent, “Dark City”
Semi-Finalist	Amy Sacka, Independent, “Every Breath”
Semi-Finalist	Giovanni Capriotti, Independent, “Stolen Spring”
Semi-Finalist	Alessandro Penso, Independent, “Stay Home”
Director’s Choice	Elizabeth Dalziel, Independent, “Homeschooling”
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS PICTURE STORY
First Place	Onur Çoban, Independent, “A Short-lived Exodus from Turkey to Europe”
Second Place	Amru Salahuddien, Independent, “The Fight for the Capital”
Third Place	Gökhan Balci, Anadolu Agency, “The European Dream”
Award of Excellence	John Taggart, Independent, “The #MeToo Trial of the Decade”
Award of Excellence	Hassan Ammar, Associated Press, “Explosion Chaos in Beirut”
LOCAL NEWS PICTURE STORY
First Place	Gabrielle Lurie, San Francisco Chronicle, “Theo: Homeless at 7”
Second Place	Laurie Skrivan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Working to Keep the Lights on - the Impossible Choice of Working or Staying Home to School Children”
Third Place	Helen Richardson, The Denver Post, “Deadly Shooting at Dueling Rallies”
Award of Excellence	Jessica Phelps, Newark Advocate, “Life Locked Up in the County Jail”
Award of Excellence	Brais Lorenzo, Independent, “The Pandemic in Ourense”
Award of Excellence	Yehyun Kim, CT Mirror, “Night to Shine”
ISSUE REPORTING PICTURE STORY
First Place	John Moore, Getty Images, “Pandemic Evictions”
Second Place	Nikos Pilos, Independent, “The Reguge_55 Square Meters”
Third Place	Robert Cohen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Gun Violence in St. Louis: ‘There’s no War Going on...but You Might Think There Was’”
Award of Excellence	Valentina Sinis, Independent, “Broken Princess”
COMMUNITY AWARENESS AWARD
First Place	Johis Alarcón, Independent, “I am, Still”
Finalist	Todd Heisler, The New York Times, “The New York City of Our Imagination”
Finalist	Sara Naomi Lewkowics, The Marshall Project and National Geographic, “The Cheer Team Caught Between Two Worlds”
Finalist	Address Latif, Reuters, “Centro Penal de la Esperanza, Honduras”
Finalist	Gonçalo Fonseca, Independent, “New Lisbon”
WORLD UNDERSTANDING AWARD
First Place	Jalal Shamsazaran, Independent, “The Agony of Remembering”
Finalist	Loren Elliott, Reuters, “Migrant Asylum during the Trump Years”
Finalist	Alessandro Penso, Independent, “European Dream”
Finalist	Santi Palacios, Independent, “On the Edge”
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR, INTERNATIONAL
First Place	Salwan Georges, The Washington Post
Finalist	Lynsey Addario, Independent
Finalist	David Guttenfelder, Independent
Finalist	Rodrigo Abd, Associated Press
Finalist	Philip Montgomery, Independent
Finalist	John Moore, Getty Images

DOCUMENTARY & EDITING DIVISION

Category	Winners
DOCUMENTARY NEWS REPORTING
First Place	Emily Rhyne, Kassie Bracken, Caroline Kim, Aaron Byrd, Jonah M. Kessel, Sameen Amin, Solana Pyne, Nancy Donaldson Gauss, The New York Times video team, “Lord Have Mercy - Inside One of New York’s Deadliest Zip Codes”
Second Place	Whitney Hurst, Christiaan Triebert, Jonah M. Kessel, Jeff Bernier, Sarah Maslin Nir, Susan C. Beachy, Meg Felling, Dahlia Kozlowsky, Solana Pyne, Nancy Donaldson Gauss, The New York Times video team, “A Racist Attack Was Caught on Camera. 45 Years Later, It Still Stings.”
Third Place	Lucas Waldron, ProPublica, “Deadly Restraint”
Award of Excellence	Brian Redondo, The New Yorker, “USA vs. Scott”
Award of Excellence	Yousur Al-Hlou, Ora Dekornfeld, Sarah Kerr, Jonah M. Kessel, Sameen Amin, Solana Pyne, Nancy Donaldson Gauss, The New York Times video team, “Coronavirus ‘Ripped a Hole’ in N.Y.C.’s Black Community. This Funeral Director Knows.”
Award of Excellence	Raishad Hardnett and Astrid Rodrigues, The Philadelphia Inquirer, “‘I took the wrong turn’: Rickia Young Recounts Violent Police Encounter for the First Time”
Award of Excellence	Andrea Patiño Contreras, Univision Noticias Digital, “United for Trump, but Split over ICE”
DOCUMENTARY DAILY LIFE
First Place	Claire H. Collins, Los Angeles Times, “Inside L.A.’s Juvenile Detention System, Art Creates a Path for Change”
Second Place	Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur, Talking Eyes Media, “Sheila & Joe”
Third Place	Shweta Gulati, National Geographic, “Class of 2020 Says Goodbye”
Award of Excellence	Brian Redondo, The New Yorker, “Yves & Variation”
Award of Excellence	Kathleen Flynn, Spencer Bakalar and Justine Simmons, Independent/Time, “Heroes of the Front Lines”
DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLER OF THE YEAR
First Place	Yousur Al-Hlou, The New York Times
Finalist	Emily Kassie, Independent
Finalist	Emily Rhyne, The New York Times
DOCUMENTARY JOURNALISM
First Place	Weixi Chen, Independent, “Wuhan on the 6th Floor”
Finalist	Emily Kassie, The Marshall Project, “Anatomy of Hate”
Finalist	Brian Redondo, The New Yorker, “Quiet No More”
NEWSPAPER PICTURE EDITING
First Place	Casper Dalhoff, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, “Coming from the Abyss”
Second Place	David Furst, The New York Times, “The Great Empty”
Third Place	Jolie Ruben, The New York Times, “Sources of Self-Regard”
Award of Excellence	Olivier Laurent, The Washington Post, “How China is Choking the Mekong”
Award of Excellence	Chloe Coleman, The Washington Post, “Love and Loneliness in the Time of the Coronavirus”
MAGAZINE PICTURE EDITING
First Place	Debbie Samuelson, The New York Times Magazine, “There Has to Be Some Dignity in This”
Second Place	Kurt Mutchler, National Geographic, “Arctic Dreaming”
Third Place	David Miller, Pacific NW, “We’re in This Together”
Award of Excellence	Mallory Benedict, National Geographic, “Songs to Soothe”
Award of Excellence	Shannon Simon, The New York Times Magazine, “The Epicenter: Inside New York City’s Hospitals as They Face the Pandemic”
VISUAL EDITOR OF THE YEAR
First Place	Jeffrey Furticella, The New York Times
Finalist	Andrew Katz, TIME
Finalist	Dudley Brooks, The Washington Post
Finalist	Chloe Coleman, The Washington Post
Finalist	Olivier Laurent, The Washington Post
Finalist	Natalia Jiménez, The Washington Post
ONLINE STORYTELLING DAILY LIFE AND NEWS REPORTING
First Place	Jeffrey Furticella, The New York Times, “The New York of Our Imagination”
Second Place	David Furst, The New York Times, “We Take the Dead from Morning ‘til Night”
Third Place	Jeffrey Furticella, The New York Times, “No Papers, No Jobs: The New Street Vendors of Queens”
Finalist	Espen Rasmussen, VG Helg, “The Longest Day”
Finalist	Jolie Ruben, The New York Times, “Sources of Self-Regard”
Finalist	Espen Rasmussen, VG Helg, “The Longest Day”
Finalist	Anna Boone, Jenni Pinkley, Deb Pastner, photo/video team, Star Tribune, “One Week in Minneapolis”
Finalist	Gabrielle Lurie, Danielle Mollette-Parks, Audrey DeBruine, Guy Wathen, Nicole Frugé, San Francisco Chronicle, “Theo”
Finalist	Chloe Coleman, The Washington Post, “Love and Loneliness in the Time of the Coronavirus”
Finalist	Mallory Benedict, National Geographic, “What the Lullabies We Sing to Our Children Reveal about Us.”
Finalist	Jeffrey Furticella, The New York Times, “Transit Workers were N.Y.C.’s Pandemic Lifeline. These 3 Paid a Price.”
ONLINE STORYTELLING PROJECT OF THE YEAR
First Place	A collaboration between Talking Eyes Media, Center for Migration and the Global City at Rutgers-Newark, and VII Photo, “Newest Americans”
Finalist	Anne Raup, Anchorage Daily News, “Unheard”
Finalist	Jelle Krings, Independent, “Shield of Europe - The Human Cost of Migration Policy”
Finalist	Meaghan Looram, The New York Times, “Father Soldier Son”
Finalist	Sergey Karpov, Takie dela media, “The Life of the Man”
Finalist	Nicole Frugé, Guy Wathen, Danielle Mollette-Parks, Jessica Christian, Carlos Avila Gonzalez, Liz Hafalia, Gabrielle Lurie, Lea Suzuki, Scott Strazzante, Santiago Mejia, Manjula Varghese, Kazi Awal, Abhinanda Bhattacharyya, Tam Duong, and Daymond Gascon, San Francisco Chronicle, “Class of 2020”
ANGUS McDOUGALL EXCELLENCE IN EDITING AWARD
First Place	Meaghan Looram, The New York Times
Finalist	Photo/video team, Star Tribune
Finalist	Kathy Ryan, The New York Times Magazine
Finalist	MaryAnne Golon, The Washington Post
PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR
First Place	JoAnne McArthur and Keith Wilson, We Animals Media, “HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene”
Finalist	Valery Melnikov, “Dark Days”
Finalist	George Steinmetz, “The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene”
Finalist	Tariq Zaidi, “Sapeurs: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Congo”