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

Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot/TimesOC

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

First Place: Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune
Second Place: Tim Funk, The Charlotte Observer

Excellence in Religion Reporting at Large Newspapers & Wire Services

First Place: Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service
Second Place: Gerry Shih, Associated Press
Third Place: Peter Smith, Pittsburg Post-Gazette

Excellence in Religion Reporting at Online-Only News Outlets

First Place: Hannah Allam, BuzzFeed News
Second Place: Jack Jenkins for work at ThinkProgress
Third Place: Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans for work at Global Sisters Report
Honorable Mention: Krithika Varagur, Voice of America

Supple Award for Excellence in Religion Feature Writing

First Place: Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post
Second Place: Kathy Gannon, Associated Press
Third Place: John Blake, CNN

Gerald A. Renner Award for Excellence in Enterprise Religion Reporting

First Place: Aymann Ismail, Slate
Second Place: Gerry Shih, Associated Press
Third Place: Maria Panaritis, Philadelphia Inquirer

Excellence in Religion Commentary

First Place: Amy Sullivan, The New York Times and Yahoo News
Second Place: Thomas Reese, Religion News Service
Third Place: Brian Kaylor, Word & Way
Honorable Mention: Jeff Chu, freelance

Excellence in Religion News Analysis

First Place: Emma Green, The Atlantic
Second Place: Tom Verde, freelance
Third Place: Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post
Honorable Mention: Krithika Varagur, freelance

Excellence in Religion Short Video

First Place: JP Keenan with Jenna Barnett and Betsy Shirley, Sojourners
Second Place: Courtney Hergesheimer, The Columbus Dispatch

Schachern Award for Excellence in Online Religion Section

Peter Smith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Excellence in Photography: Single Image

First Place: Kit Doyle, Religion News Service
Second Place: Nuccio DiNuzzo, Chicago Tribune

Excellence in Photography: Gallery

First Place: KC McGinnis, freelance
Second Place: Alexandra Radu, Religion News Service
Honorable Mention: Kit Doyle, Religion News Service
Honorable Mention: Nate Guidry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Excellence in Magazine & Non-Daily Newspaper Religion Reporting

First Place: Tom Roberts, National Catholic Reporter
Second Place: Elizabeth Dias for work at TIME
Third Place: Bob Smietana, Christianity Today/Facts&Trends

Excellence in Magazine Overall Religion Coverage

Mark Galli, Ted Olsen, Andy Olsen, Alecia Sharp, Sarah Gordon, Jeremy Weber, Christianity Today

Excellence in Television News Magazine Religion Reporting

First Place: Scott Pelley, Oriana Zill, Michael Rey, Dina Zingaro, Jorge Garcia, CBS 60 Minutes
Honorable Mention: Catie Beck, Matthew Vann, Sarah Talent, Hannah Van Winkle, Molly Paul, NBC Sunday

Excellence in Television Local News Religion Reporting

Josh Robin, NY1 News

Excellence in Television National Network/Cable Network Reporting

Walter Ratliff, Associated Press

Excellence in Radio or Podcast Religion Reporting

First Place: Anita Hofschneider, Jessica Terrell, Emily Dugdale and April Estrellon, Civil Beat
Second Place: Michael Conforti, Rashed Mian, Jed Money, Christopher Twarowski, News Beat
Third Place: Stella M. Chavez, KERA News

Excellence for Nonfiction Religion Book

First Place: Andrew Johnson, “If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro”
Second Place: Richard Elliot Friedman, “The Exodus”
Third Place: R. Marie Griffith, “Mortal Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics”