2022 Excellence in Religion Reporting Awards

Religion Story of the Year

First Place: Tom Gjelten for work at Moment magazine
Second Place: Julia Duin for work at Politico
Third Place: Emily Kaplan for work at The Washington Post magazine

Excellence in Religion Reporting at Large Newspapers & Wire Services

First Place: Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service
Second Place: Kwasi Asideu, The Associated Press
Third Place: Bob Smietana, Religion News Service

Excellence in Religion Reporting at Small and Mid-Sized Newspapers

Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune

Excellence in Religion Reporting at Online-Only News Outlets

First Place: Julia Duin for work at National Geographic, Politico and Newsweek
Second Place: Kimberly Winston for work at FiveThirtyEight and Religion Unplugged
Third Place: Bob Smietana, Religion News Service

Supple Award for Excellence in Religion Feature Writing

First Place: PJ Grisar, The Forward
Second Place: Julia Duin for work at Newsweek, National Geographic and Politico
Third Place: Ruth Graham, The New York Times

Gerald A. Renner Award for Excellence in Enterprise Religion Reporting

First Place: Erika Lantz for work at Rococo Punch and iHeartRadio
Second Place: Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham, The New York Times
Third Place: Dawn Araujo-Hawkins for work at Global Sisters Report

Excellence in Religion Commentary

First Place: Jodi Rudoren for work at The Forward
Second Place: Paul Moses for work at Commonweal
Third Place: Michael O’Loughlin for work at The Washington Post and The New York Times

Excellence in Religion News Analysis

First Place: Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post
Second Place: Jules Gill-Peterson, Jewish Currents
Third Place: Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News

Excellence in Magazine and Non-Daily Newspaper Religion Reporting

First Place: Eetta Prince-Gibson, Moment magazine
Second Place: Bobby Ross Jr., The Christian Chronicle
Third Place: Tom Gjelten for work at Moment magazine

Excellence in Overall Magazine Religion Coverage

Sojourners magazine

Outstanding Religion News Story in a Radio Broadcast

First Place: Shaina Shealy, Cheryl Devall, Tarek Fouda and Judy Silber, KALW’s The Spiritual Edge
Second Place: Heidi Shin, Cheryl Devall, Tarek Fouda and Judy Silber, KALW’s The Spiritual Edge
Third Place: Esther Yoon-Ji Kang and Susie An, WBEZ Chicago

Outstanding Religion Podcast

First Place: Hana Baba, Jeb Sharp, Tarek Fouda and Judy Silber, KALW’s The Spiritual Edge
Second Place: Erika Lantz for work at Rococo Punch and iHeartRadio
Third Place: Hana Baba, Jahd Khalil, Jeb Sharp, Tarek Fouda and Judy Silber, KALW’s The Spiritual Edge

Excellence in Nonfiction Religion Books

First Place: Ken Chitwood, “The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean”
Second Place: Marshall Weiss, “Stories of Jewish Dayton”