2024 Excellence in Religion Reporting Awards


Religion Story of the Year

First Place: The Forward
Second Place: Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post
Third Place: Ruth Graham, The New York Times

Excellence in Religion Reporting at Large Newspapers & Wire Services

First Place: Ruth Graham, The New York Times
Second Place: Daniel Miller, The Los Angeles Times
Third Place: Maria Teresa Hernández, The Associated Press
Honorable Mention: Thomas Curwen, The Los Angeles Times

Excellence in Religion Reporting at Small and Mid-Sized Newspapers

First Place: Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune
Second Place (Tie): Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star
Second Place (Tie): Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor

Excellence in Religion Reporting at Online-Only News Outlets

First Place: Jodi Rudoren, The Forward
Second Place: Jasmine Vaughn-Hall and Jessica Gallagher, The Baltimore Banner
Third Place: Arno Rosenfeld, The Forward
Honorable Mention: Bob Smietana, Religion News Service

Supple Award for Excellence in Religion Feature Writing

First Place: Bobby Ross Jr., for Religion Unplugged, The Christian Chronicle and The Associated Press
Second Place: Jodi Rudoren, The Forward
Third Place: Ruth Graham, The New York Times

Gerald A. Renner Award for Excellence in Enterprise Religion Reporting

First Place: Peter Smith, Giovana Dell’Orto, Luis Andres Henao, Natacha Pisarenko, Chinedu Asadu, Jessie Wardarski, Deepa Bharath, Mariam Fam, Ilan Ben Zion, Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press
Second Place: Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service
Third Place: Chris Herlinger, Doreen Ajiambo, Patrick Egwu, Rhina Guidos, Thomas Scaria, Tawanda Karombo, Global Sisters Report

Excellence in Religion Commentary or Blog

First Place: Amy Schwartz, Moment magazine
Second Place: Celia Viggo Wexler, CNN
Third Place: Jodi Rudoren, The Forward

Excellence in Religion News Analysis

First Place: Sandi Villareal, Texas Monthly
Second Place: Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News
Third Place: Matthew D. Taylor and Bradley Onishi, Rolling Stone/Religion Dispatches

Excellence in Magazine and Non-Daily Newspaper Religion Reporting

First Place: Linda Wertheimer, The Hechinger Report
Second Place: Mari Cohen, Jewish Currents
Third Place: Brian Roewe, National Catholic Reporter

Excellence in Overall Magazine Religion Coverage

Moment magazine

Outstanding Religion News Story in a Radio Broadcast

First Place: Doug Fabrizio, Benjamin Bombard, Timothy Slover and Keri Watson, RadioWest KUER
Second Place: Judy Silber, Lyla June Johnston, Jeb Sharp, Loretta Williams, Tarek Fouda, Chris Egusa, Tom Levy, Lindsay Meyers-Humlie, KALW Spiritual Edge

Outstanding Religion Podcast

First Place: Sojourners
Second Place: Interfaith Voices
Third Place: KALW Spiritual Edge

Best Documentary

David Washburn and Razi Jafri, PBS Independent Lens

Photography: Gallery

Tom Levy, KALW Spiritual Edge

Excellence in Nonfiction Religion Books

First Place: Stephanie Saldaña, “What We Remember Will Be Saved”