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
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
Short Form Documentary
Karishma Vyas, Al Jazeera English
“The War on Afghan Women”
LOCAL REPORTING
MAGAZINES
Feature
Cynthia Koons, Bloomberg Businessweek
Examining the Mental Health Crisis:
“The 50-Year-Old Drug That Could Solve America's Suicide Crisis”
“As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health”
“Latest Suicide Data Show the Depth of U.S. Mental Health Crisis”
“Who Will Be Able to Take the Breakthrough Drug for Postpartum Depression?”
Interview
Allison P. Davis, The Cut
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
Beat Reporting
Eliza Shapiro, The New York Times
“Segregation Has Been the Story of New York City’s Schools for 50 Years”
“Facing Segregated Schools, Parents Took Integration Into Their Own Hands. It’s Working.”
”Only 7 Black Students Got Into Stuyvesant, N.Y.’s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 Spots”
“How the Few Black and Hispanic Students at Stuyvesant High School Feel”
“Desegregation Plan: Eliminate All Gifted Programs in New York”
Feature
Amisha Padnani and Veronica Chambers, The New York Times
"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
Blogs
Helaine Olen, Washington Post
In-Depth Reporting
Tess Owen, VICE News
“How Parkland Created a Rush to Arm Teachers and School Staff Across the Country”
Multimedia News Package
Jillian Kitchener, Sarah Slobin, Elizabeth Culliford, Audrey Anderson, Reuters
PHOTOGRAPHY
BEST FRONT PAGE PHOTO: Stephanie Keith and Sandy Ciric, Getty Images “Jeffrey Epstein faces abuse charges”
FEATURE: Krisanne Johnson and Collier Schorr, TIME “‘Change Is Closer Than We Think.' Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Unlikely Rise”
BREAKING NEWS: Alejandra Villa Loarca, Newsday “Medal Day”
SPORTS - Kathy Willens, Associated Press “Futile Leap”
PODCAST
Feature
Colleen DeBaise, Sue Williams, Victoria Wong, Nusha Balyan and Christina Kelly, The Story Exchange
News
Jamilah King, The Mother Jones
In-Depth
Catherine Saint Louis, Huffington Post
“Shut Out: A three-part podcast about the fight to vote in America.”
RADIO
In-Depth
Rebecca Jarvis, Victoria Thompson and Taylor Dunn, ABC News
Feature
Carole Zimmer, Stephanie Hou and Rafaella Gunz, WSHU Public Radio
SPECIALIZED REPORTING
Business
Janell Ross, NBC News Digital
Fashion
Connie Wang, Refinery29
“The Real Story Behind H&M's Racist Monkey Sweatshirt”
Medicine/Health/Fitness
Apoorva Mandavilli, Undark
“When Measles Arrives: Breaking Down the Anatomy of Containment”
Science
Daniela Hernandez, Wall Street Journal
Exploring Antarctica's Mysteries:
Editorial Writing
Chandra Bozelko, Creator's Syndicate
Opinion/Criticism
Amanda Hess, The New York Times
Culture Critic at Large
Mary Pilon, Fortune
TELEVISION
Feature
Karishma Vyas, Al Jazeera English
“Afghanistan: The Healers”
Special Programming (Public Affairs or Editorial)
Jessica Le Masurier and Celine Bruneau, France 24
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
Interview
Hannah Thomas-Peter, Emily Upton, Emily Purser Brown and Jenni Wetters, Sky News
WIRES
In-Depth Reporting
Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg News
Defending Harvard:
“Harvard’s Fight With Conservatives Over Admissions Could Reach Kavanaugh”
“Defending Harvard in Asian-American Bias Case: Asian-Americans”
“Harvard's Not-So-Secret Admissions Factor: Donors Get a Boost”
“The Future of College Admissions: Experts Weigh the Harvard Case”
Spot News
Gabriella Borter, Reuters
“New York officer fired, but tensions still high where Eric Garner died”
Beat Reporting
Deena Shanker, Bloomberg News
The Popularity of Plant-based foods:
“The Hottest Thing in Food Is Made of Peas, Soy, and Mung Beans”
“Impossible Burger Shortages Hit White Castle and Red Robin”
“The Mighty Pea Is Everybody’s New Favorite Plant-Based Protein”
Feature
Toni Reinhold, Reuters