| 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” |
