Finalists

Best Single Article/Story

Irin Carmon

• "What Was the Washington Post Afraid Of?"

  New York Magazine

Joshua Hammer

• "The Journalist vs. the President, With Life on the Line"

  The New York Times Magazine

Jane Mayer

• "Trump TV"

  The New Yorker

Best Profile

Ryan Bell

• "Stalking wildfires to capture the horrible beauty of climate change"

  Columbia Journalism Review

David Freedlander

• "‘I Want Him on Everything’: Meet the Woman Behind the Buttigieg Media Frenzy"

  Politico

Molly Langmuir

• "What's Next For New Yorker Reporter Jane Mayer?"

  Elle

Best Commentary

Andrew Marantz

• "Facebook and the ‘Free Speech’ Excuse"

  The New Yorker

• "Mark Zuckerberg Still Doesn’t Get It"

  The New Yorker

• "The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism"

  The New Yorker

Jenni Monet

• "The crisis in covering Indian Country"

  Columbia Journalism Review and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Rebecca Traister

• "Can You Spot the Fake?"

  The Cut

• "How I Learned to (Try to) Stop Asking Female Candidates About Sexism"

  The Cut

• "Politics Is Changing; Why Aren’t the Pundits Who Cover It?"

  The Cut

David Zurawik

• "Fix the corruption (and crime and schools and blight) and Baltimore’s image will follow"

  The Baltimore Sun

• "Brian Williams is making ‘The 11th Hour’ the most important hour of the cable news night"

  The Baltimore Sun

• "As anti-Semitism rises, a ‘numbness’ to hate in our media and society"

  The Baltimore Sun

John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting

Sean Gregory

Paul Moakley

• "One Year After Surviving a Mass Shooting, the Capital Gazette Journalists Refuse to Be Silenced"

  Time

Mark Hertsgaard

Kyle Pope

• "The Media Are Complacent While the World Burns"

  The Nation, in partnership with Columbia Journalism Review

• "Has Climate News Coverage Finally Turned a Corner?"

  The Nation, in partnership with Columbia Journalism Review

• "A New Beginning for Climate Reporting"

  The Nation, in partnership with Columbia Journalism Review

• "Covering Climate Change in a 1.5-Degree World"

  The Nation, in partnership with Columbia Journalism Review

Molly Webster

Bethel Habte

• "Right to be Forgotten"

  Radiolab/WNYC Studios

Best Story on Media Coverage of the Trump Impeachment

Jon Allsop

• "Has the impeachment story stalled?"

  Columbia Journalism Review

Margaret Sullivan

• "The two big flaws of the media’s impeachment coverage — and what went right"

  The Washington Post

Joan Walsh

• "Stop Comparing the Trump Impeachment Probe to Watergate"

  The Nation

Best Story on the Future of Journalism

Brent Cunningham

• "Losing the News"

  Pacific Standard

Jon Marcus

• "‘When you see me on the news, you’ll know who I am’"

  Nieman Reports

Lauren Smiley

• "As You Like It"

  Columbia Journalism Review