Review the names of the winning contributors.
Audio; All News Organizations
Winner – Indianapolis Business Journal: The IBJ podcast
Honorable Mention – The Wall Street Journal: The next battlefield
Banking/Finance; Large
Winner – Bloomberg: Sign here to lose everything
Honorable Mention – Los Angeles Times: The hidden costs of high-interest rate installment lending
Banking/Finance; Medium
Winner – The Charlotte Observer: Wells Fargo’s controversies continue
Banking/Finance; Small
Winner – American Banker: Bank CEO’s fire-and-rehire maneuver reaps windfall at taxpayer expense
Honorable Mention – Sacramento Business Journal: After a decade, banks returning to Sacramento
Honorable Mention – Financial Planning: Keep quiet
Breaking News; Large
Winner – Los Angeles Times: Toyota held accountable for a defect in its Prius
Breaking News; Medium
Winner – Forbes.com: The inside story of Papa John’s toxic culture
Honorable Mention – Bloomberg Law: Ben Penn tip sharing rule
Breaking News; Small
Winner – American Banker: Comerica scrambles to address fraud in prepaid benefits program
Honorable Mention – Nashville Business Journal: AllianceBernstein’s move to Nashville
Commentary/Opinion; Large
Winner – Financial Times: Tech and policies
Commentary/Opinion; Medium
Winner – The Detroit News: Daniel Howes opinion/commentary
Honorable Mention – The Boston Globe: Shirley Leung opinion/commentary
Commentary/Opinion; Small
Winner – Fast Company: Rick Wartzman opinion/commentary
Honorable Mention – STAT: Adam Feuerstein biotech industry commentary
Honorable Mention – Crain’s Chicago Business: 2018 editorial board
Economics; Large
Winner – The New York Times: The trade equation
Economics; Medium
Winner – Mother Jones: Frozen assets
Honorable Mention – Quartz: Remaking economics series
Economics; Small
Winner – Indianapolis Business Journal: One city, worlds apart
Energy/Natural Resources; Large
Winner – Reuters: Ocean shock
Honorable Mention – A collaboration of The Center for Public Integrity, The Texas Tribune, The Associated Press and Newsy: Blowout
Energy/Natural Resources; Medium
Winner – CNN: Dirty energy
Honorable Mention – The Dallas Morning News: Atmos Energy
Energy/Natural Resources; Small
Winner – Providence Business News: Rising waters
Honorable Mention – Debtwire: Appalachia’s coal comeback collides with grim opioid reality
Explanatory; Large
Winner – Reuters: Ocean shock
Honorable Mention – Bloomberg: Immigration, Inc.
Honorable Mention – The New York Times: Pregnancy discrimination
Explanatory; Medium
Winner – Fortune: What the hell happened at GE?
Honorable Mention – Houston Chronicle: The miracle molecule
Honorable Mention – Minneapolis Star Tribune: Aging parents, stressed families
Explanatory; Small
Winner – InsideClimate News: Harvesting peril
Winner – Project on Government Oversight: Drilling down series
Honorable Mention – The Desert Sun: Poisoned cities, deadly border
Honorable Mention – McClatchy DC Bureau: Ancestry DNA: Privacy for sale
Feature; Large
Winner – The New York Times: The itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie, very litigious bikini
Honorable Mention – Businessweek: Two Towns Forged an Unlikely Bond. Now, ICE Is Severing the Connection.
Feature; Medium
Winner – Minneapolis Star Tribune: Legal war engulfs 3M device
Honorable Mention – Forbes.com: Wilbur Ross series
Feature; Small
Winner – Nashville Business Journal: Mapping the new Nashville
Honorable Mention – The New Food Economy: Kansas is dying
Honorable Mention – Debtwire Investigations: How Burger King fed storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, and made a killing
General Excellence; Industry/Topic-Specific Publications
Winner – American Banker
General Excellence; Large
Winner – Financial Times
General Excellence; Medium
Winner – The Dallas Morning News
Honorable Mention – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
General Excellence; Small
Winner – Nashville Business Journal
Honorable Mention – Triangle Business Journal
Government; Large
Winner – Reuters: Ambushed at home
Government; Medium
Winner – Politico: Investigation of Ryan Zinke
Honorable Mention – The Plain Dealer: Do wage theft laws in Ohio harm or help workers?
Government; Small
Winner – InsideClimate News: Dangers without borders
Honorable Mention – Capital & Main: Battery blood: How California health agencies failed Exide workers
Honorable Mention – New Haven Independent: ‘Scoops & tosses’ $160M in old debt
Health/Science; Large
Winner – A collaboration of ICIJ, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and partners: The implant files
Honorable Mention – Financial Times: Opioid crisis and the Sackler family
Health/Science; Medium
Winner – ProPublica: Health Insurance Hustle
Honorable Mention – ProPublica: Black Patients Miss Out On Promising Cancer Drugs
Health/Science; Small
Winner – Kaiser Health News: Drug price shenanigans
Honorable Mention – InsideClimate News: Surrounded by oil fields, an Alaska village fears for its health
Innovation; Large
Winner – The New York Times: Visual narratives
Innovation; Medium
Winner – GateHouse Media: Failure to deliver
Innovation; Small
Honorable Mention – Crain’s Chicago Business: Chicago’s opioid crisis series
International Reporting; Large
Winner – The Associated Press: China’s internment camps
Honorable Mention – Businessweek: Brexit’s big short
International Reporting; Medium
Winner – A collaboration of ProPublica and Time Magazine: Unprotected
International Reporting; Small
Winner – A collaboration of ICIJ, Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) and 11 media partners from West Africa: West Africa Leaks
Investigative; Large
Winner – The Wall Street Journal: The fall of Steve Wynn
Honorable Mention – The New York Times and The Guardian/The Observer of London: Facebook, disinformation and privacy
Investigative; Medium
Winner – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Bad medicine
Winner – The Dallas Morning News: Pain & profit
Honorable Mention – Forbes.com: Wilbur Ross series
Investigative; Small
Winner – A collaboration of The New Republic and The Investigative Fund: Political corruption and the art of the deal
Honorable Mention – A collaboration of The Intercept and The Investigative Fund: FINRA’s black hole
Honorable Mention – A collaboration of ProPublica Illinois and WBEZ: Driven into debt
Markets; Large
Winner – The New York Times: Explaining the financial markets
Markets; Medium
Winner – Bloomberg Law: SEC Wall Street cops see staff drop since Trump election
Markets; Small
Winner – RTO Insider: The GreenHat Energy story: Doubling down — with other people’s money
Media/Entertainment; Large
Winner – The New York Times: Moonves and CBS exposed
Media/Entertainment; Medium
Winner – Fortune: Tronc chairman sexual harassment
Media/Entertainment; Small
Winner – The Center for Public Integrity: The NBA and MLB quietly hustle for a cut of the sports betting jackpot
Newsletter; Large
Winner – Financial Times: Due Diligence
Newsletter; Medium
Winner – Barron’s: Review & Preview
Newsletter; Small
Winner – Communications Daily on 911
Personal Finance; Large
Winner – Financial Times: Click to donate
Personal Finance; Medium
Winner – The Chronicle of Higher Education: Drew Cloud is a well-known expert on student loans. One problem: He isn’t real.
Personal Finance; Small
Winner – The Marshall Project: Petty charges, princely profit
Honorable Mention – McClatchy DC Bureau: Non-bank lending targets weakest borrowers
Real Estate; Large
Winner – The New York Times: Trump taxes
Real Estate; Medium
Winner – The Globe and Mail: Inside the fall of Fortress
Honorable Mention – Houston Chronicle: Real estate in the aftermath of Harvey
Real Estate; Small
Winner – Nashville Business Journal: Project Stella and Why Tony Giarratana gets a Metro park (and you don’t)
Honorable Mention – Realtor.com: Life in the flood zone
Retail; Large
Winner – The New York Times: The human side of the retail shakeout
Retail; Medium
Winner – Fortune: Michelle Gass is cracking the code at Kohl’s
Honorable Mention – Chicago Tribune: Sears’ demise
Retail; Small
Winner – Capital & Main: The ‘Amazon Tax’ Ruling: Disrupting the Disruptors?
Honorable Mention – The New Food Economy: Foreign beef can legally be labeled “Product of U.S.A.”
Small Business/Management/Career; Large
Winner – The Wall Street Journal: Burned out
Honorable Mention – Bloomberg: In Trump’s America, bosses are accused of weaponizing the ICE crackdown
Small Business/Management/Career; Medium
Winner – Fortune: Second to none, but still number two
Small Business/Management/Career; Small
Winner – McClatchy DC Bureau: Merchant cash death spiral
Student Journalism; Projects and Collaborations
Winner – Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) and Dollars & Sense of Maine
Student Journalism; Stories Written for Professional Publications
Winner – Washington and Lee University published in the Tampa Bay Times: SunPass investigation
Honorable Mention – UNC Chapel Hill published in the Triangle Business Journal: Where every penny is earned
Student Journalism; Stories produced for Student News Organizations
Winner – Cronkite News by ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication: Hurricane provides opportunity for Puerto Rico’s battered tourism industry
Technology; Large
Winner – The Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk
Technology; Medium
Winner – Politico: The least connected people in America
Honorable Mention – Forbes: WhatsApp
Technology; Small
Winner – The Weekly Standard: Telemarketers, ahoy
Honorable Mention – The New Food Economy: Silicon Valley wants to give us eggs without chickens. Do we want that?
Travel/Transportation; Large
Winner – The Wall Street Journal: The middle seat
Travel/Transportation; Medium
Winner CNN Business: Uber sexual assault investigation
Honorable Mention – The Seattle Times: Stolen Horizon passenger jet crashes outside Seattle
Travel/Transportation; Small
Winner – The Information: The self-driving car industry
Video; Large
Winner – Bloomberg: The drone delivery operator in Rwanda
Honorable Mention – Financial Times: Argentina: A life of boom and bust
Video; Medium and Small
Winner – The Story Exchange: A Sandy Hook mom’s nonprofit hopes to stop school shootings
