Listed below are the judges for the 2025 Deadline Club Awards. The first listed judge is the chair of each respective category. Thank you to these individuals for dedicating their time, energy, and professionalism to judge the Deadline Awards.
View the full list of finalists as selected by our judges here.
Newspaper or Digital Beat Reporting
| Cadence Bambenek | Priyanka Runwal | Anabel Ross | Diana Montano |
Newspaper or Digital Feature Reporting
| David Andelman | Barry Newman | Richard Galant |
Newspaper or Digital Breaking News Reporting
| Pamela Hamilton | Kathy Feld | Naomi Spinard |
Newspaper or Digital Enterprise Reporting
| Sari Crawford | Rekha Shanmugam | Janell Crispyn | Joel Schectman |
Newspaper or Digital Local News Reporting​
| Pranav Dixit | Ankita Kumar | Beimeng Fu |
Reporting by Newspapers with a Circulation Under 100,000
| Mitchell Trinka | Christine McGrath | Lori Kie | JD Allen |
Reporting by Independent Digital Media
| Chris Maag | Mike Stahl | Dan Slotnik |
Magazine Personal Service
| Kristen Saloomey | Bill Seitzler | Andrew Blum |
Magazine Profile
| Ilya Arbit | Jason Liebman | Dominque Carson |
Magazine Investigative Reporting
| Tricia Couture | Amy Grech | Catherine Gin |
Magazine Feature Reporting
| John Carruci | Matt Caputto | Gillian Kleiman | Julie walker |
Arts Reporting
| Daniel Roberts | Ethan Mann | Ryan Hatch |
Business Feature
| Dirk Smillie | Bianca Fortis | Cindy Capitani |
Business Investigative Reporting
| Theresa Braine | Katherine Rodriguez | Kim Clark | Sandra Block |
Opinion Writing
| Steve Dunlop | Bill Schmidt | John Long | Brennan LaBrie |
Science, Technology, Medical or Environmental Reporting
| Jessica Siegal | Corryn Wetzel | Pamela Weintraub |
Sports Reporting & Sports Photo
| Michael Rizzo | Karen Yokomizo | Sara Kiernan |
Breaking News Photo
| Chris Maag | Mike Stahl | Dan Slotnik |
Feature Photo
| Andy Clayton | Lindsay Meeks | Kevin Lerner |
Multimedia, Interactive Graphics, and Animation
| James Martinez | Bernard Condon | Jane Martinez |
Digital Innovation
| John D’Amico | Olivia Empson | Kevin Hayes |
Radio or Audio Breaking News Reporting, Radio or Audio Feature Reporting & Radio or Audio Investigative Reporting
| Warren Levinson | Jerry Schwartz | Andy Katell |
Digital Video Reporting
| Terry Parris | Lia Eustachewich | Warren Cohen |
Local Television Breaking News Reporting & National Television Breaking News Reporting
| Peter Szekely | Irwin Arieff | Ellen Wulfhorst |
Local Television Feature
| Alessandra Freitas | Mariana Castro | Andy Tillett |
Local Television Series or Investigative Reporting
| Anamarie Silic | Sonya Swink | Nikola Boskovic |
National Television Feature
| Joe Radske | Kimberly Avalos | Kevin Millard |
National Television Series or Investigative Reporting
| Allan Chernoff | Tom Watkins | Eden Pontz |
The Mosaic Award
| Tannistha Sinha | Lajja Mistry |
Bulbul Rajagopal
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The Les Payne Award for Coverage of Communities of Color
| Robert Anthony | Chris Chang | Jeff Roberts |
The Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative Reporting
| Andrew Nusca | Matt Rosoff | Roger Cheng |
Public Service Award
| Nabeela Aysen | Yutao Chen | Sheryl Huggins |
