Cassels Award for Excellence in Religion Reporting at Small-Sized Newspapers

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

Cornell Award for Excellence in Religion Reporting at Mid-Sized Newspapers

First Place: Tim Funk and Ames Alexander, The Charlotte Observer
Second Place: Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News
Third Place: Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune

Excellence in Religion Reporting at Metropolitan Newspapers

First Place: Mark Mueller, The Star Ledger
Second Place: Melissa Binder for work done at The Oregonian

Excellence in Religion Reporting at Large Newspapers & Wire Services

First Place: Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times
Second Place: David Gibson, Religion News Service
Third Place: Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post
Honorable Mention: Michael Paulson, The New York Times

Supple Award for Excellence in Religion Feature Writing

First Place: Daniel Burke, CNN
Second Place: Michael Paulson, The New York Times
Third Place: Dave Schechter, freelance
Honorable Mention: Emma Green, The Atlantic

Gerald A. Renner Award for Excellence in Enterprise Religion Reporting

First Place: Will Carless, Jimmy Chalk, David Chase, Rob Harris and Lizzy Tomei, Global Post
Second Place: Kira Kay, Maggy Donaldson, Zoe Lake, Jason Maloney, Thalia Beaty, Kristopher Brant, Siyi Chen, Kelsey Doyle and Madeline Gressel, NYU GlobalBeat & PBS NewsHour
Third Place: John Blake, CNN

Excellence in Religion Commentary

First Place: Haroon Moghul, Religion Dispatches
Second Place: Margery Eagan, Cruz/The Boston Globe
Third Place: David P. Gushee for work done at Religion News Service

Excellence in Religion News Analysis

First Place: Daniel Burke, CNN
Second Place: Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post
Third Place: Mohamad Bazzi, Reuters

Excellence in Short Religion Video

JP Keenan, Sojourners

Excellence in Online Religion Section

CNN Belief

Excellence in Magazine News Religion Reporting

First Place: Yardena Schwartz, freelance
Second Place: Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and Yochi Dreazen, Foreign Policy Magazine and the International Reporting Project
Third Place: Brian Roewe, National Catholic Reporter
Honorable Mention: Bob Smietana for work done at Christianity Today

Excellence in Magazine Overall Religion Coverage

KidSpirit Online

Excellence in Television News Magazine Religion Reporting

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

Excellence in Television Local News Religion Reporting

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

Excellence in Television National Network/Cable News Religion Reporting

Walter Ratliff and Rodrique Ngowi, Associated Press

Excellence in Religion Documentary

“EVERY WORD HAS POWER: The Poetry of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel” by Debra Gonsher Vinik

Excellence in Radio or Podcast Religion Reporting

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

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”