News Story
First Place - NPR: "They Are The Body Collectors: A Perilous Job In The Time Of Ebola"
Nurith Aizenman
Nicole Beemsterboer
Ben de la Cruz
Joe Neel
Vikki Valentine
Anne Gudenkauf
Second Place - The Washington Post: "Michael Brown's Mother Expresses Outrage On Grand Jury Decision"
Third Place - The Washington Post: "Amid Little Earth’s Poverty And Pain, A Protest Culture Aimed At Redskins’ Name"
Award of Excellence - The Washington Post: "Will Brain Chip Give Paralyzed Man A Hand?"
Issue Reporting
First Place - National Geographic: "A Sky Full of Cameras"
Janna Dotschkal
Second Place - The Washington Post: "In Alaska Native Villages, Little Protection Leaves Residents at Risk"
Third Place - The Washington Post: "Justice is Slow to Arrive for Native Women"
Award of Excellence - NPR: "How Will You Die?"
Steve Cutts
Vikki Valentine
Ben de la Cruz
Anne Gudenkauf
Award of Excellence - The Washington Post: "In Turkey, Syrian Refugees Find a Home of Their Own"
Feature Story
First Place - NPR: "The Mystery of the Missing Martins"
Maggie Starbard
Alison Richards
Ben de la Cruz
Second Place - The Washington Post: "From Clubfoot To Climbing: Double Amputee Life Of Adventure"
Third Place - NPR: "The Blind Woman Who Saw Rain"
Lulu Miller
Ben de la Cruz
Award of Excellence - The Washington Post: "Pinball Passion Becomes Man’s Obsession"
Award of Excellence - The Washington Post: "What Can Babies Teach Students?"
Sports
First Place - The Washington Post: "Former NFL Player Battles ALS"
Second Place - The Washington Post: "Beer Man Dreams Of Beltway World Series"
Third Place - NPR: "Buzkashi"
Sean Carberry
Sultan Faizy
Jeremy Bowers
Becky Lettenberger
Wes Lindamood
Claire O’Neill
Award of Excellence - The Washington Post: "Up In The Air: The Life Of Speedy Peterson"
Award of Excellence - The Washington Post: "Deaf Player Seeks To Become First Gallaudet Grad In NFL"
Documentary
First Place - The Washington Post: "One Family, Two Sacrifices"
Second Place - The Washington Post: "Romanian Orphan Tries To Close The Chapter On His Troubled Past"
Sohail Al-Jamea
Sandi Moynihan
Third Place - The Washington Post: "Congolese Refugees Cry Out For Justice"
Award of Excellence - The Washington Post: "Your Property Is Guilty Until Proven Innocent"
Award of Excellence - The Washington Post: "Refugees For Nearly 40 Years Consider Return To Conflict"
Best Multimedia Package
First Place - The Washington Post: "The N-Word Project"
Second Place - NPR: "Borderland"
Kainaz Amaria
Jeremy Bowers
Danny DeBelius
Tyler Fisher
Chris Groskopf
Becky Lettenberger
Wes Lindamood
Claire O’Neill
Matt Stiles
Andy Becker/The Center for Investigative Reporting
Michael Corey/The Center for Investigative Reporting
Tia Ghose/The Center for Investigative Reporting
Third Place - Military Times: "Arlington at 150: Celebrating America's Heroes"
Angy Peterson
Issa Chan
Amy Ng
Peter Shatzer
John Bretschneider
Jennifer Milbrett
Nancy Donaldson Gauss
Nancy Donaldson Gauss is the deputy editor for video at The New York Times. In this role she works with a team of over fifty to report and produce pieces, develop new series and to coordinate large-scale projects across the newsroom. Previously, she worked as a supervising producer at CNN where her team focused on long-form documentary projects for CNN Digital, CNN and CNN International. She also worked at The Washington Post as a senior multimedia journalist.
She has served as adjunct faculty for the International Center of Photography. She has also served as an educator for international and national journalism conferences on storytelling subjects including conceptualizing narratives, photography and techniques in video editing.
Her work has received distinction from the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, the duPont Awards, World Press Photographer, the Peabody Awards, the Online News Association, the Scripps Howard Foundation, Pictures of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association.
She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Katie Falkenberg
Katie Falkenberg is a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times where she works as a photo and video journalist, producing both short and long-form multimedia stories. Prior to joining the Times, she was a staff photographer at The Washington Times, where she began to focus on documenting contemporary issues in America.
Katie was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy award for Domestic Photography, the Hillman Prize in Photojournalism, and the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for Short Form Video in 2012 for her work documenting three southern California families struggling from the lasting effects of the recession. Pictures of the Year International, the White House News Photographers Association, and the National Press Photographers Association have also recognized her photography and multimedia work. Her short film, “Uninsured in the Mississippi Delta,” won the Human Rights award at the Media That Matters film festival.
Ross Taylor
Ross is a Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, he was the inaugural fellow in the Multimedia, Photography and Design Department at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University.
His master’s project was a series of films in the local burn unit.
His professional recognitions include National Photographer of the Year, Northern Photographer of the Year, New England Photographer of the Year, Virginia Photographer of the Year and North Carolina Photographer of the Year (twice). His coverage of an Afghanistan trauma hospital garnered numerous international and national awards, and his work has also appeared twice on the cover of the Best of Photojournalism Magazine.
He is co-creator of The Image, Deconstructed.