Long Island Divided
Newsday’s three-year-long investigation of housing discrimination and its impact on Long Island’s suburban towns and communities is local investigative journalism at its best. Long Island Divided marshals a team of…
Catalyst Award: ProPublica
No single act of journalism had a greater impact on politics and public policy in 2018 than ProPublica’s publishing seven minutes and 47 seconds of audio of 10 sobbing Central…
Institutional Award: Kartemquin Films
The philosopher John Dewey once said that “artists are the real purveyors of the news,” an idea that resides at the heart of Kartemquin Films. From its humble beginnings in…
The Daily
Nominee Roughly 20-minute episodes each morning put real people—a farmer, a taxi driver, an undocumented worker, a Congress member, an evangelical Christian, a Russian troll and, of course, Times reporters…
Steven Universe
The title song of Steven Universe, Rebecca Sugar’s earnest fantasy epic, reassures regular viewers that “We’re the Crystal Gems. We will always save the day. And if you think we…
74 Seconds
On July 6, 2016, the police pulled over Philando Castile for a broken taillight. Seventy-four seconds later, police officer Jeronimo Yanez fired seven shots into Castile’s car, killing him as…
Big Buses, Bigger Problems: Taxpayers Taken for a Ride
Taxpayers may take a closer look at spending in their own communities after viewing this impressive report from the investigative news team at NBC5/KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth. Reporters unraveled a…
Saturday Night Live Political Satire 2017
When real-life politics is a theater of the absurd, it’s a common misnomer to say that television comedy writes itself. But nothing can be further from the truth, as America’s…
Charity Caught on Camera
Investigative journalism at the local level takes dedicated reporters and supportive management—something of a novelty in the era of fast-food news. WTHR-TV in Indianapolis provides an excellent example of why…
Individual Award: Norman Lear
Norman Lear changed the face of television—and the faces. He revolutionized and democratized a traditionally timid, overwhelmingly white-bread medium with a collection of recognizable, risible characters whose racial and gender…