The Deadline Club’s 2025 Awards Finalists

NEWSPAPER OR DIGITAL BEAT REPORTING

• THE CITY “New York’s Cannabis Legalization ‘Disaster’” Rosalind Adams
• The Forward “Coverage of American Jewish philanthropy in the aftermath of the Israel-Hamas war” Arno Rosenfeld
• Reuters “Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic” Joel Schectman, Chris Bing

NEWSPAPER OR DIGITAL FEATURE REPORTING

• The New York Times “An Atheist Chaplain and a Death Row Inmate’s Final Hours” Emma Goldberg
• The New York Times “The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave” Matthew Haag
• Streetsblog “Fake Chaplains, Faithless Scam” Sophia Lebowitz, Naftuli Moster, Gersh Kuntzman 

NEWSPAPER OR DIGITAL BREAKING NEWS REPORTING

• The Associated Press “Guilty: Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes” Michael Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Eric Tucker, Jill Colvin and Michelle Price
• Bloomberg “Crowdstrike Outage Explained” Amy Thomson, Shona Ghosh, Vlad Savov, Jordan Robertson and Ryan Gallagher
• The New York Times “A City in Crisis” William K. Rashbaum, Dana Rubinstein, Michael Rothfeld and the Staff of The New York Times 

NEWSPAPER OR DIGITAL ENTERPRISE REPORTING

• The Associated Press “For migrant women who land in Colorado looking for jobs, a common answer emerges: No” Bianca Vázquez Toness
• The Associated Press “As India ages, a secret shame emerges: Elders abandoned by their children” Matt Sedensky
• ProPublica “The Unbefriended” Jake Pearson

NEWSPAPER OR DIGITAL LOCAL NEWS REPORTING

• Chalkbeat “From the classroom to the cafeteria: Hard lessons at NYC public schools” Michael Elsen-Rooney
• The New York Times “The Housing Crunch” Mihir Zaveri
• WNYC-New York Public Radio “Hot spots: NYPD data shows most shootings occur on the same blocks, year after year” Brittany Kriegstein and Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

REPORTING BY NEWSPAPERS WITH A CIRCULATION UNDER 100,000

• Crain’s New York Business “New York’s nonprofit shadow government” Nick Garber, Caroline Spivack, Eddie Small, Amanda Glodowski, Anne Michaud  
• The Highlands Current “Modern Immigrants” Joey Asher 
• The Star-Ledger “Food fight: How $13 french fries became N.J. town’s line in the sand” Karin Price Mueller

REPORTING BY INDEPENDENT DIGITAL MEDIA

• Inside Climate News “Captured: How pesticide regulators place industry profits above public health” Liza Gross and Peter Aldhous 
• The Marshall Project, Reveal and Mississippi Today “Policing and Prosecution of Pregnancy” Shoshana Walter and Cary Aspinwall (The Marshall Project), Anna Wolfe (Mississippi Today) 
• The Marshall Project “Mississippi’s Forever Voting Ban” Caleb Bedillion, Daja E. Henry

MAGAZINE PERSONAL SERVICE

• Better Homes & Gardens “Mindset Resolutions” Alice Oglethorpe
• Consumer Reports “Produce Without Pesticides” Catherine Roberts, Trisha Calvo, Joel Keehn   
• Cosmopolitan “The Robots Have Come For Your Dating Life” Madeleine Frank Reeves

MAGAZINE PROFILE

• Fortune “How Big Can Robinhood Really Get?” Jeff John Roberts
• TIME “‘Putin Is My Enemy.’ The Revolution of Yulia Navalnaya” Simon Shuster
• Vanity Fair “Karen Read’s Fight” Julie Miller

MAGAZINE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

• Bloomberg Businessweek “Unsafe Online” Olivia Carville, Cecilia D’Anastasio
• Consumer Reports “Keeping Our Food Safe” Lauren F. Friedman, Lisa L. Gill, Kevin Loria, Trisha Calvo and Joel Keehn
• Vanity Fair “Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Health” Katherine Eban

MAGAZINE FEATURE REPORTING

• The Atavist “The Last Shall Be First” Brian Fairbanks
• Bloomberg Businessweek “The Egg: A Story of Extraction, Exploitation and Opportunity” Bloomberg Staff  
• The New York Times “The Deserter” Sarah Topol

ARTS REPORTING

• Artnet “The Art Detective” Katya Kazakina
• The Forward “Why did Barry Beckham, the heir apparent to Franz Kafka, vanish?” Allan Jalon
• The New York Times “Notes on the Culture” Mark Harris

BUSINESS FEATURE

• The Atlantic “The Mysterious, Meteoric Rise of Shein” Timothy McLaughlin
• The New York Times “How Cheerleading Became So Acrobatic, Dangerous and Popular” David Gauvey Herbert
• TIME “‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town” Andrew R. Chow

BUSINESS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

• Reuters “Fentanyl Express” The Reuters Team
• Reuters “OnlyFans Exposed” The Reuters Team
• The Associated Press “Prison to Plate” Margie Mason, Robin McDowell

OPINION WRITING

• The New York Times “If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t the Rest of Us?” Sarah Wildman
• Newsday “Editorials about Nassau County’s troubled public hospital” Randi Marshall
• Vanity Fair “As Tensions Continue to Flare Over the War in Gaza, the Upper East Side Is Divided” Hannah Seligson

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING

• Bloomberg Businessweek “The Nurse Will See You Now” Caleb Melby, Polly Mosendz, Noah Buhayar
• Inside Climate News “Cashing Out” Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz
• The Verge “The Cloud Under the Sea: The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat” Josh Dzieza

SPORTS REPORTING

• The Atavist Magazine “The Extra Mile” Maggie Gigandet
• Fortune “Can Cathy Engelbert Handle the Pressure?” Emma Hinchliffe
• Rolling Stone “Sportsbook Nation” David Hill

BREAKING NEWS PHOTO

• The Associated Press “Shots Fired, Butler, Pa.”, Evan Vucci
• Newsday “Coming to America” J. Conrad Williams, Jr.

FEATURE PHOTO

• The Associated Press “Casting into the Mediterranean” Hassan Ammar
• Bloomberg News “New Americans” Krisanne Johnson
• Newsday “A Mother and Daughter’s Love” Alejandra Villa Loarca

SPORTS PHOTO

• Newsday “Professional Bull Riders in New York” J. Conrad Williams, Jr.  
• Newsday “Manaea” J. Conrad Williams, Jr.  
• NJ.com/The Star-Ledger “Game-Winning Basket” Andrew Mills

MULTIMEDIA, INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION

• Bloomberg “Why Europe Is Unprepared to Defend Itself” Tom Pfeiffer, Christopher Cannon
• Reuters “The fentanyl funnel: How narcos sneak deadly chemicals through the U.S.” Daisy Chung, Laura Gottesdiener, Drazen Jorgic, Kristina Cooke
• IEEE Spectrum “Where’s My Robot?” Erico Guizzo, Randi Klett 

DIGITAL INNOVATION

• Bloomberg News “Visa Games” Bloomberg Staff
• Bloomberg News “Clandestine Shipping Hub” Serene Cheong, Clara Ferreira Marques, Weilun Soon, Krishna Karra, Yasufumi Sato  
• Cosmopolitan “Sex After 60” Rosa Heyman

RADIO OR AUDIO BREAKING NEWS REPORTING

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RADIO OR AUDIO FEATURE REPORTING

• ABC News “ABC Audio – Reclaimed: The Lifeblood of Navajo Nation” ABC Audio
• THE CITY “Hazard NYC: Coal Tar, ‘Poonamis’ and Thousands of New Apartments at the ‘Toxic Wonderland’ of the Gowanus Canal” Jordan Gass-Pooré, Samantha Maldonado, Harry Siegel
• Spectrum News NY1 “Crisis and Accomplishment : The Rise and Fall of John Lindsay” Anthony Roman, Errol Louis, Robert Hardt, James Ascuitto, Mariya Abedi

RADIO OR AUDIO INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

• ABC News “ABC Audio – Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery” ABC Audio

DIGITAL VIDEO REPORTING

• ABC News “Good Morning America Digital – Forgotten Collateral Damage: The stories you didn’t see in ‘Oppenheimer’” Good Morning America Digital
• Newsday “The Forgotten” Henry J. Salmaggi, Sandra Peddie, Shari Einhorn, Matthew Golub, Drew Singh
• Streetsblog “Streetsblog Video Reporting” Emily Lipstein, Dave Colon, David Meyer, Sophia Lebowitz

LOCAL TELEVISION BREAKING NEWS REPORTING

• Spectrum News NY1 “Mayor Eric Adams is Indicted” Spectrum News NY1
• Spectrum News NY1 “Protests Erupt at Columbia University” Spectrum News NY1

LOCAL TELEVISION FEATURE

• News 12 Connecticut “Tango Flight” Jim Mennino, Marissa Alter 
• News 12 “Cannabis Contest: The Great Licensing Adventure” Tara Rosenblum, Audrey Gruber, Jean Salzarulo, Alan Flamenhaft, Scott McGee
• Spectrum News NY1 “SNL Choreographers: The women behind some of the show’s memorable moments” Spectrum News NY1

LOCAL TV SERIES OR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

• News 12 New Jersey “Victims of the System” Walt Kane, Karin  Attonito, Anthony Cocco, Jessica Lee, Audrey Gruber
• Spectrum News NY1 “A Call for Help: When a Mental Health Crisis Turns Deadly” Spectrum News NY1

NATIONAL TV BREAKING NEWS REPORTING

• ABC News “ABC News – The Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump” ABC News
• ABC News “ABC News–Inside Syria: Assad Overthrown” ABC News
• NBC News “Richard Engel Reports: Fall of Assad in Syria” Richard Engel, Engel Unit Staff, NBC News Staff

NATIONAL TV FEATURE

• ABC News “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis – 10 Million Names: Slavery’s Dark Past (ABC News Live)” ABC News
• CBS News “60 Minutes: Children of War” Scott Pelley, Aaron Weisz, Ian Flickinger, Warren Lustig, Michelle Karim
• Scripps News “In the Shadows with Jason Bellini: The Moses Videos” Jason Bellini, Linda Pattillo, Vadym Adamov, Steve Turnham, Matt Simon and Scripps News Staff

NATIONAL TV SERIES OR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

• 48 Hours/CBS News “The Assassination of Jeff German” Peter Van Sant, Liza Finley, Gabriella Demirdjian, Cindy Cesare
• CBS News “60 Minutes: Targeting Americans” Scott Pellley, Michael Rey, Oriana Zill de Granados, Emily Gordon, Jaime Woods  
• Spectrum News “In US we trust: a crisis of confidence” Josh Robin, Spectrum News Staff

THE MOSAIC AWARD

• The Associated Press “Prison to Plate” Margie Mason, Robin McDowell
• Bloomberg News “Courting Injustice” Monte Reel, Sinduja Rangarajan, Michael Riley
• Scripps News “Sex, Lies & Deepfakes” Liz Landers, Cameron Couvillion, Nick Refuerzo, Linda Pattillo, Matt Simon, Steve Turnham

THE LES PAYNE AWARD FOR COVERAGE ON COMMUNITIES OF COLOR

• The Associated Press “Prison to Plate” Margie Mason, Robin McDowell
• NBC Nightly News and Today “Women sue companies that make hair relaxers, claiming cancer risks” Zinhle Essamuah, Yasmine Salam, Alexandra Turcios Cruz, Micki Fahner, Michelle Melnick
• Retro Report / KFF Health News / WORLD “Beyond the Battlefield: Double V and Black Americans’ Fight for Equality” Jill Rosenbaum, Brian Kamerzel, Cara Anthony, Kyra Darnton, Chris Buck

THE DANIEL PEARL AWARD FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

• Reuters “OnlyFans Exposed” Linda So, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Jason Szep, The Reuters Team  
• Reuters “Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic”  Joel Schectman, Chris Bing 
• The Wall Street Journal “Exposing Putin’s Police State–From Inside a ppRussian Prison and Beyond” Staff of The Wall Street Journal

PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD

• The Associated Press “Lethal Restraint” Staffs of the AP, PBS Frontline and the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism
• News 12 New Jersey “Victims of the System” Walt Kane, Karin Attonito, Anthony Cocco, Jessica Lee, Audrey Gruber
• The Wall Street Journal “The Secret Schemes Insurers Use to Pocket Billions From Medicare” Christopher Weaver, Anna Wilde Mathews, Mark Maremont, Tom McGinty, Andrew Mollica