WRITING, PHOTO & DESIGN

ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLES

First Place: “Art Space”/ Amy Wang / The Oregonian/OregonLive

Runner Up: “Billy Rancher” / Doug Perry / The Oregonian/OregonLive

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING

First Place: "South Lake Union crane collapse kills 4" / Staff / The Seattle Times

Runner Up: “Spokane climber Jess Roskelley missing and presumed killed by avalanche in Canadian Rockies; David Lama, Hansjorg Auer also presumed dead” / Eli Francovich / The Spokesman-Review

BUSINESS REPORTING

First Place: “Polluted By Money”

Rob Davis / The Oregonian/OregonLive

Runner Up: “Amazon Squeezes Merchants” / Spencer Soper, Ben Brody / Bloomberg News

COLUMN

First Place: Shawn Vestal / The Spokesman-Review / Column 1, Column 2, Column 3 

Runner Up: Naomi Ishisaka / The Seattle Times /  Column 1, Column 2, Column 3 

COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE

First Place: “No Mercy”: Noelle Crombie, Kale Williams, Beth Nakamura, Dave Killen/ The Oregonian/OregonLive

Runner Up: “Homelessness” / Molly Harbarger / The Oregonian/OregonLive

CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTING

First Place: “Fleeing Justice”/ Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / The Oregonian/OregonLive

Runner Up: “Prison Doctor and Deaths” / Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times

DIVERSITY REPORTING

First Place: “Leaving her mark: Native high schooler uses state track meet to raise awareness for missing and murdered women” / Megan Rowe / The Spokesman-Review

Runner Up: “Immigration policy” / Naomi Ishisaka / The Seattle Times

EDUCATION REPORTING

First Place: “UW finds star athlete’s sexual assault allegation credible, but athletic executive quietly moved on” / Asia Fields / The Seattle Times

Runner Up: “Reading Instruction in Washington State” /Katherine Long / The Seattle Times

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL DISASTER REPORTING

First Place: “Polluted By Money” / Rob Davis / The Oregonian/OregonLive

Runner Up: “A Western Alaska village, long threatened by erosion and flooding, begins to relocate” / Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “A Tiger With a Toothache” / Alan Berner / Seattle Times

Runner Up: “On Parade” / Kathy Plonka / Spokesman Review 

FEATURE, HARD NEWS

First Place: “No Return: the Final Voyage of the Destination” / Hal Bernton / Seattle Times

Runner Up: “Multiple Women Recall Sexual Misconduct and Perceived Retaliation by Gordon Sondland“ / Julia Silverman, Fiona McCann, Portland Monthly staff / ProPublica staff

FEATURE, SOFT NEWS

First Place: “30 years after the Paddle to Seattle, Tribal Canoe Journeys represent healing and revival” / Crystal Paul / Seattle Times

Runner Up: “Seattle’s last buffalo soldier, 98, doesn’t want black regiments’ history to ‘fade out’” / Crystal Paul / Seattle Times

GENERAL NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Boeing 737 Max” / Lindsey Wasson / Reuters

Runner Up: “Bridge Bandit” / Greg Gilbert / Seattle Times

GRAPHICS & ILLUSTRATION

First Place: “The Moon Landing: 50 Years Later / Mark Nowlin, Jennifer Luxton / Seattle Times

Runner Up: Gabriel Campanario’s illustration portfolio / Seattle Times

HEALTH AND SCIENCE REPORTING

First Place: “Homeless with HIV” / Molly Harbarger / The Oregonian/ Oregon Live

Runner Up: “It’s Alive” / Sandi Doughton / Seattle Times

HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS REPORTING

First Place: “Cancer Cloud” / Brad Schmidt / The Oregonian/ Oregon Live

Runner Up: “Project Homeless” / Vianna Davila, Sydney Brownstone, Scott Greenstone, Jonathan Martin / Seattle Times

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

First Place: “Lawless” / Kyle Hopkins / Anchorage Daily News

Runner Up: “No Mercy” / Noelle Crombie, Kale Williams, Beth Nakamura, Dave Killen / The Oregonian/Oregon Live

MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING

First Place: “Beyond the Border” / Corinne Chin, Erika Schultz, Nina Shapiro, Tyrone Beason / Seattle Times

Runner Up: “Her Story: Our Story” / Seattle Times staff / Seattle Times

PHOTO ESSAY

First Place: “Life After a Hate Crime: the Recovery of DaShawn Horne” / Megan Farmer / KUOW

Runner Up: “The Highline Bears” / Alan Berner / Seattle Times

PHOTO PORTFOLIO

First Place: “Beyond the Border” / Erika Schultz / Seattle Times

Runner Up: Megan Farmer / KUOW

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT REPORTING

First Place: “Polluted By Money” / Rob Davis / The Oregonian/Oregon Live

Runner Up: “Fight for Legislative Records” / Rachel La Corte / Associated Press

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Armed and Ready” / Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review

Runner Up: “Curator of Birds” / Alan Berner / Seattle Times

PRINT PAGE DESIGN

First Place: “Hostile Waters: Orcas in Perile” / Frank Mina / Seattle Times

Runner Up: “The Shot”/ Ralph Water / The Spokesman-Review

REPORTING SERIES

First Place: “Polluted By Money” / Rob Davis / The Oregonian/Oregon Live

Runner Up: “How Cost Cutting Brought Boeing to the Brink and Cost 346 Lives” / Peter Robinson, Julie Johnson / Bloomberg/Bloomberg Businessweek

SPORTS ACTION PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Gobbled Up” / Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review

Runner Up: “Bouncing Back” / Dan Pelle / The Spokesman Review

SPORTS COLUMN

First Place: John Canzano / The Oregonian/Oregon Live / Column 1, Column 2, Column 3

Runner Up: John Blanchette / The Spokesman-Review / Column 1, Column 2, Column 3

SPORTS FEATURE

First Place: “Faatui Tuitele Left Home But It Never Left Him” / Mike Vorel

Runner Up: “The Shot” / John Blanchette / The Spokesman-Review 

SPORT FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Eyes of a Swimmer” / Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times

Runner Up: “Joshua Bessex -sports feature” / Joshua Bessex / The News Tribune

SPORTS REPORTING

First Place: “Adidas” / Brad Schmidt, Jeff Manning / The Oregonian/ Oregon Live

Runner Up: “The Rise and Fall of a King (The Complicated Legacy of Felix Hernandez” / Corey Brock / The Athletic

SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Crane Collapse” / Lindsey Wasson / Reuters

Runner Up: “Standing in Honor” / Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review

TECHNOLOGY REPORTING

First Place: “Convoy, the ‘Uber’ for Trucking Tries to Navigate Some Uber-Scale Problems” / Dina Bass / Bloomberg News

Runner Up: “Amazon Squeezes Merchants”/ Spencer Soper, Ben Brody / Bloomberg News

GENERAL EXCELLENCE

First Place: The Daily Herald of Everett

Runner Up: The Columbian

ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLES REPORTING

First Place: “Life for Dead Poets: Bend Painter Addresses Suicide in New Exhbit” /  David Jasper / The Bulletin

Runner Up: “Revolution is a Marathon” / Shannon Gormely / Willamette Week

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING

First Place: “1 dead, 2 wounded in shooting: Trauma specialists’ training put to test; Shooting timeline” / Jessica Prokop, Calley Hair, Kaitlin Gillespie, Jack Heffernan / The Columbian 

Runner Up: “WA Rep. Matt Shea engaged in ‘domestic terrorism,’ helped plan Matheus standoff, investigation finds” / Melissa Santos / Crosscut

BUSINESS REPORTING

First Place: “Coffee roasters ‘piece of history’ in Yacolt” / Will Campbell / The Columbian

Runner Up: “Vigor Selects Vancouver/ Series / Alan Brettman / The Columbian 

COLUMN

First Place: “Race & Place” / Glenn Nelson, Crosscut

Runner Up: “Working in Clark County column” / Lyndsey Hewitt / The Columbian

COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE

First Place: “On the Margins” / David Kroman / Crosscut

Runner Up: “Love and rage” / Christian Hill / The Register-Guard

CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTING

First Place: “The trial of William Talbot II” / Caleb Hutton / The Daily Herald of Everett

Runner Up: “Living with a label” / Chelsea Deffenbacher / The Register-Guard

DIVERSITY REPORTING

First Place: “Historic Black Panther newspapers find a home in the Central District” / Margo Vansynghel / Crosscut

Runner Up: “VPS Student Discipline Series” / Kaitlin Gillespie / The Columbian

EDITORIAL & COMMENTARY

First Place: “Race and Equity” / Glenn Nelson / Crosscut

Runner Up: “Editorials” / Gary Nelson / Medford Mail Tribune 

EDUCATION REPORTING

First Place: “Face cuts, Seattle school librarians fight to save their budget” / Liz Brazile, Matt M. McKnight / Crosscut

Runner Up: “It gives us hope: Why Yakima County families choose homeschooling / and what it looks like” / Janelle Retka / Yakima Herald-Republic

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL DISASTER REPORTING

First Place: “Chronicling the last years of a North Cascades glacier” / Zachariah Bryan / The Daily Herald of Everett

Runner Up: “Challenging the ‘new normal’ in the wildfire-ravaged Methow Valley” / Manola Secaira / Crosscut

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Razor Clamming” / Dorothy Edwards / Crosscut

Runner Up: “A family in costume” / Olivia Vanni / The Daily Herald of Everett

FEATURE WRITING, HARD NEWS

First Place: “For Vancouver man, every day is a chance to make a difference” / Wyatt Stayner / The Columbian

Runner Up: “The Road to Ruin” / Kaylee Tornay / Medford Mail Tribune

FEATURE WRITING, SOFT NEWS

First Place: “The monks of white salmon” / Patty Hastings / The Columbian

Runner Up: “The Unlikely Style Icon Teaching Older Women to be Fashion Rebels” / Celeste Hamilton Dennis / Narratively

GENERAL NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “River Walk”/  Amanda Ray / Yakima Herald-Republic

Runner Up: “Delivering in the Snow” / Matt McKnight / Crosscut

GRAPHICS & ILLUSTRATION

First Place: Romana Wood / The Columbian

Runner Up: Rick Vodicka / Willamette Week

HEADLINE

First Place: “Headline Writing Brandon Sawyer” / Brandon Sawyer / Portland Business Journal

Runner Up: “Top Headlines” / Robert Galvin / Medford Mail Tribune

HEALTH AND SCIENCE REPORTING

First Place: “There are effective HIV Treatments: Why are people still dying of AIDS?” / Markian Hawryluk / Bend Bulletin

Runner Up: “Alt-Vaxx” / Rachel Monahan / Willamette Week

HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS REPORTING

First Place: “‘Heartbreaking’: Seattle’s homeless are getting sicker and shelters are struggling to keep up” / David Kroman / Crosscut

Runner Up: “Recent evictions, police activity could end decades of homeless camps in Wallace Marine Park” / Connor Radnovich, Jonathan Bach / Statesman Journal

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

First Place: “Troubled kids, troubled system” / Lucy Thompkins, Seaborn Larson, Cameron Evans, Gwen Florio / Missoulian 

Runner Up: “Serial rapists targeted women on Aurora, this woman got justice” / Kate Walters, Isolde Rafferty / KUOW

MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING

First Place: “Running with the dogs” / Mark Freeman, Ryan Pfeil / Medford Mail Tribune

Runner Up: “WA farmers and laborers are struggling under the H-2A guest worker program / and it may get worse” / Lilly Fowler, Jen Dev / Crosscut

PHOTO ESSAY

First Place: “Still Fighting” / Tommy Martino / Missoulian

Runner Up: “A day in the life of Maya Reddy, 16-year-old competitive archer” / Dana Sparks / The Register-Guard

PHOTO PORTFOLIO

First Place: Nathan Howard / The Columbian

Runner Up: Joshua Bessex / The News Tribune

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT REPORTING

First Place: “WA foster kids sent to out-of-state group homes with checkered records” / Allegra Abramo / InvestigateWest

Runner Up: “County's public records policy ‘invites potential abuse,’ state advocate says” / Shaun Hall / Grants Pass Daily Courier

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Miss Montana Pilot” / Sara Diggins / Missoulian

Runner Up: “Tom Hansen” / Dorothy Edwards / Crosscut

PRINT PAGE DESIGN

First Place: Jacie Landeros / The Daily Herald of Everett

Runner Up: Jessica Abell / Missoulian

REPORTING SERIES

First Place: “Education and the path to prosperity” / Keila Szpaller, Cameron Evans / Missoulian

Runner Up: “Flores Family Series” / Jessica Prokop / The Columbian

SPORTS ACTION PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Seahawks vs. Rams” / Evan Abell / Yakima Herald-Republic

Runner Up: “Zillah-Granger” / Evan Abell / Yakima Herald-Republic

SPORTS COLUMN

First Place: “Sports & Culture” / Glenn Nelson / Crosscut

Runner Up: “Bill Speltz's sports columns” / Bill Speltz / Missoulian

SPORTS FEATURE

First Place: “Rally from Despair” / Meg Wochnick / The Columbian

Runner Up: “South Salem runner helps special needs teammate finish his first cross country race” / Pete Martini, Anna Reed / Statesman Journal

SPORTS REPORTING

First Place: “The growing trend of sport specialization: Is it worth it?” / Cameron Van Til / The Daily Herald of Everett

Runner Up: “An 18-year-old's path to announcing pro baseball” / Cameron Van Til / The Daily Herald of Everett

SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Scene of a Shooting” / Matt McKnight / Crosscut

Runner Up: “Fire line” / Jamie Lusch / Medford Mail Tribune

TECHNOLOGY REPORTING

First Place: “Inside Portland's Use of Controversial Mobile Location Tech from Google Sibling” / Kate Kaye / Geekwire and RedTail

Runner Up: “The world’s first commercial electric aircraft could take off in the PNW” / Beatriz Costa Lima, Jen Dev, Sarah Hoffman / Crosscut

GENERAL EXCELLENCE

First Place : “The B-Town (Burien) Blog” / Scott Schaefer, Michael Brunk, Shane Griffiths, Theresa Schaefer / South King Media

Runner Up: News-Times

ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLES REPORTING

First Place: “Don't Fear the Reaper” / Rick Levin / Eugene Weekly

Runner Up: “Women in Music section” / Samantha Wohlfeil, Nathan Weinbender, Dan Nailen / The Inlander

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING

First Place: "Sunnyland principal murdered, remembered" / Denver Pratt / The Bellingham Herald

Runner Up: “Salem's economy takes a jolt as 1,000 jobs disappear with NORPAC collapse” / Staff / Salem Reporter

BUSINESS REPORTING

First Place: “Nike's Global Tax Paradise” / Matthew Kish / Portland Business Journal

Runner Up: “Unions: Growing gap between 'haves' and 'have nots' driving strike activity” / Mallory Gruben / The Daily News

COLUMN

First Place: “Director's Desk” / Kaia Sand / Street Roots

Runner Up: “Racial Justice Collection” / Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3 / Zenobia Jeffries Warfield / YES! Media

COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE

First Place / “Port of Astoria reboots” / Edward Stratton / The Astorian

Runner Up: “Oregon Foster Care Crisis Coverage” / Libby Dowsett-Freelance, Joanne Zuhl - Street Roots

CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTING

First Place: “Driving While Indian” / Jason Buch, Joy Borkholder / InvestigateWest

Runner Up: “The Broken System” / Gina Scalpone, Emily Goodykoontz / Eugene Weekly

DIVERSITY REPORTING

First Place: “Finding space in the "whitest city" in America” / Malia Spencer / Portland Business Journal

Runner Up: “Alaska Native language groups convene to translate census materials” / Tripp Crouse / KNBA

EDITORIAL AND COMMENTARY

First Place: “Editorial Writing” / Street Roots Editorial Board / Street Roots

Runner Up: “3 Stories in Data” / Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz, Lornet Turnbull, Erin Sagen, Miles Schneiderman / YES! Magazine

EDUCATION REPORTING

First Place: “Salem-Keizer teachers face repeated injuries at the hands of students, documents show” / Rachel Alexander / Salem Reporter

Runner Up: “20 Feet Away: He wasn't the next school shooter but what if he had been?” / Caitlyn May / Albany Democrat-Herald

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL DISASTER REPORTING

First Place: “National Bison Range Investigation” / Patrick Reilly / Missoulian

Runner Up: “Coming Down the Pipe: Saving Washington’s Salmon May Require Replacing Tens of Thousands of Culverts, and Nobody Knows Where the Money Will Come From” / Alex Brown / The Chronicle

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Dragland Empire” / Young Kwak / The Inlander

Runner Up: “Fall on the Road to Mount Rainier” / Jared Wenzelburger / The Chronicle

FEATURE WRITING, HARD NEWS

First Place: “Homeless outreach program REACH asks to change its relationship with the city's Navigation Team” / Ashley Archibald / Real Change

Runner Up: “Family reunites, offers hope for others battling addiction” / Laura Guido / Whidbey News-Times

FEATURE WRITING, SOFT NEWS

First Place: “One valley too far:' How 110 soldiers survived the Mount St. Helens eruption” / Alex Bruell / The Daily News

Runner Up: “We're still here: Art exhibit shows creativity flourishes in those living with dementia” / Lisa Edge / Real Change

GENERAL NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Hundreds 'Back the Blue' at R.A. Long Park for DeRosier family” / Courtney Talak / The Daily News

Runner Up: “Welcome Home Daddy” / Meegan M. Reid / Kitsap Sun

GRAPHICS AND ILLUSTRATION

First Place: Enkhbayar Munkh-Erdene / Entry 1, Entry 2 / YES! Magazine

Runner Up: Jon Williams / Real Change

HEALTH AND SCIENCE REPORTING

First Place: “Century after Spanish flu 'nightmare,' pandemic remains concern” / Kyle Odegard / Albany Democrat-Herald

Runner Up: “The Core Elements” / Chey Scott / The Inlander

HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS REPORTING

First Place: “Homeless Solutions Series” / Taylor Perse, Morgan Theophil / Eugene Weekly

Runner Up: “Portland Street Response” / Emily Green / Street Roots

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

First Place: “Pierce County Medical Examiner” / Kari Plog, Will James / KNKX

Runner Up: “Smith builds moneyed empire” / Les Zaitz, Pat Caldwell, Kristine de Leon / Malheur Enterprise

MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING

First Place: “Making sense of the 2019 Montana Legislature with data visualization and news apps” / Eric Dietrich / Montana Free Press

Runner Up: “I Am a Future Ancestor: An Indigenous Perspective on Healing” / Josue Rivas, Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz / YES! Magazine

PHOTO ESSAY

First Place: “Pearl Harbor U.S. Navy Musician Francis E. Dick returns home, honored with funeral” / Courtney Talak / The Daily News

Runner Up: “Life, Death and Dignity” / Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3 / Wes Sauer / Real Change

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT REPORTING

First Place: “Smith builds moneyed empire” / Les Zaitz, Pat Caldwell, Kristine de Leon / Malheur Enterprise

Runner Up: “Oregon cannabis tax: Aiming low” / Pete Danko / Portland Business Journal

PRINT PAGE DESIGN

First Place: Briana Finney / Portland Business Journal

Runner Up: Derek Harrison / The Inlander

REPORTING SERIES

First Place: “NINE INTO SIX: In one place, Salem Reporter's 5-part series on challenges of local schools” / Rachel Alexander / Salem Reporter

Runner Up: “Life, Death and Dignity”

Ashley Archibald / Real Change

SPORTS ACTION PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Carson Littlepage is stripped of the ball by Thackery” / Ellen Morris Bishop / Wallowa County Chieftain

Runner Up: “Max Borghi: Houston, we have lift off” / Whittney Thornton / Cougfan.com

SPORTS COLUMN

First Place: “The Lobster Dives Deep on WSU” / Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3 / Marshall Lobbestael / Cougfan.com

Runner Up: “Inside Coug Nation with Barry Bolton” / Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3 / Barry Bolton / Cougfan.com 

SPORTS FEATURE

First Place: “Can the People Wanting to Bring Major League Baseball to Portland Succeed Where Others Have Failed?” / Sports Feature / Robert Ham

Runner Up: “Heart and soul: Strength coach Tyson Brown is WSU's secret weapon” / Barry Bolton / Cougfan.com

SPORTS REPORTING

First Place: “Participation numbers falling for many schools in Oregon” / Jarrid Denney / Corvallis Gazette-Times

Runner Up: "Emotions flow after monumental SK win" / Jeff Graham / Kitsap Sun

SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Fatal Centralia House Fire” / Jared Wenzelburger / The Chronicle

Runner Up: “Family loses Warrenton home to fire” / Hailey Hoffman / The Astorian

TECHNOLOGY REPORTING

First Place: “Beach may be best way to prepare for the worst” / Cindy Yingst, Peggy Yingst - The Columbia Press

Runner Up: “Drones could help farmers inspect crops from above” / Jacqueline Allison / Skagit Valley Herald

MAGAZINES

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING

First Place: “The Secrets of Mount Rainier” / Allison Williams / Seattle Met

Runner Up: “Winter Fun” / Allison Williams / Seattle Met

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS REPORTING

First Place: “The Battle of Seattle” / Tony Dear & Brian Beaky / Cascade Golfer magazine

Runner Up: “Checking Out: Amazon, Microsoft, and the Future of Automated Grocery” / Stefan Milne / Seattle Met

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL DISASTER REPORTING

First Place: “Losing Lake Coeur d'Alene” / Emily Benson / High Country News

Runner Up: “The Octopus from Outer Space” / James Ross Gardner / Seattle Met

FOOD AND RESTAURANTS REPORTING

First Place: “Chef of the Year” / Andi Prewitt / Willamette Week

Runner Up: “Seattle's New Restaurant Rush” / Allecia Vermillion, Rosin Saez / Seattle Met

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

First Place: “Women Erased” / Hayat Norimine / Seattle Met

Runner Up: “To Fix Its Housing Crunch, One U.S. City Takes Aim at the Single-Family Home” / Noah Buhayar / Bloomberg Businessweek

PERSONAL PROFILE

First Place: “Women to Watch” / Shelby Rowe Moyer / South Sound Magazine

Runner Up: “Tell Us Something Storytelling Event: Marc Moss” / Reilly Neill / Montana Press Monthly

PHOTOGRAPHY

First Place: “Sun's Out, Suds Out” / Brian Breneman, Michael Novak / Portland Monthly

Runner Up: “Krushing It” / Holly Andres, Eden Dawn / Portland Monthly

PRINT PAGE DESIGN 

First Place / “Climate Change in Glacier Park” / Reilly Neill / Montana Press Monthly

Runner Up: “The Secrets of Mount Rainier, Seattle's New Restaurant Rush, Summer by Boat” / Jane Sherman / Seattle Met

TECHNOLOGY REPORTING

First Place: “The Most Valuable Company (for Now) Is Having a Nadellaissance” / Austin Carr, Dina Bass / Bloomberg Businessweek

Runner Up: “Checking Out: Amazon, Microsoft, and the Future of Automated Grocery” / Stefan Milne / Seattle Met

AUDIO

LARGE NEWSROOMS

CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTING

First Place: “She called 911 and said she was suicidal. Then she was charged with a crime” / Patricia Murphy, Liz Jones / KUOW

Runner Up: “Urge to Kill” / Ashley Korslien, Zachary Carver, Mila Mimica, Destiny Johnson / KGW

DIVERSITY REPORTING

First Place: “Abrupt retirement of African American captain highlights lack of diversity in state patrol” / Austin Jenkins / Northwest News Network

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL DISASTER REPORTING

First Place: “Got time? You can avoid 'flygskam' (Swedish for flight shame)”  / John Ryan, Liz Jones / KUOW 

Runner Up: “Seattle is really good at recycling. Maybe a little too good” / Anna Boiko-Weyrauch, Gil Aegerter / KUOW 

FEATURE REPORTING, HARD NEWS

First Place: “The Roots Of An Oregon Farm Bankruptcy” / Kate Davidson / Oregon Public Broadcasting

Runner Up: “As Amazon Gets Bigger, Sellers Feel the Squeeze”/ Spencer Soper, Brad Stone / Bloomberg News

FEATURE REPORTING, SOFT NEWS

First Place: “Chasing Horses” / Emily Cureton / Oregon Public Broadcasting

Runner Up: “It’s carpool karaoke (and free Tylenol) with this Seattle night driver” / Casey Martin, Liz Jones / KUOW

GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS REPORTING

First Place: “A toilet is your face.' Seattle ponders the perfect public pissoir” / Anna Boiko-Weyrauch, Gil Aegerter / KUOW

Runner Up : “Pop In Your Headphones, Oregon Lawmakers Have Discovered Podcasting” / Dirk VanderHart / Oregon Public Broadcasting

HEATH AND SCIENCE REPORTING

First Place: “Lasting Impact” / Sergio Olmos, Emily Harris, Lee van der Voo, Investigate West, Pamplin Media Group, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting

Runner Up: “Russian social media fuels vaccine anxiety as measles spreads in Washington state” / David Hyde, Gil Aegerter / KUOW

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

First Place: “Booked And Buried: Pacific Northwest's Mounting Jail Death Toll” / Conrad Wilson, Austin Jenkins, Tony Schick, Ryan Haas / Oregon Public Broadcasting

Runner Up: “White kids usually get the most recess in Seattle. Black kids, the least” / Ann Dornfeld, Liz Jones / KUOW

REPORTING SERIES

First Place: “Urge to Kill” / Ashley Korslien, Zachary Carver, Mila Mimica, Destiny Johnson / KGW

Runner Up: “Bundyville: The Remnant” / Leah Sottile, Ryan Haas / Oregon Public Broadcasting

DIVERSITY REPORTING

First Place: “We Out Here: From Chicago to Sumpter, Oregon with Portia Mittons” / Tiara Darnell / Independent Producer

Runner Up: “Oppressed By Wildfire” / April Ehrlich / Jefferson Public Radio

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL DISASTER REPORTING

First Place: “In rural Alaska, school districts deal with a legacy of unaddressed contamination”

Rashah McChesney / KTOO

Runner Up: “The McKenzie: A Resilient River” / Rachael McDonald / KLCC

FEATURE REPORTING, HARD NEWS

First Place: “Oregon Lawmakers Consider Expansion of Oregon's Death with Dignity Law” / Chris Lehman / KLCC

Runner Up: “He just wanted to be remembered.' Friends, family share memories of magnetic local boxer” / Posey Gruener / KNKX

FEATURE REPORTING, SOFT NEWS

First Place: “The Northwest's Star Wars Church” / Dyer Oxley / NW NERD Podcast

Runner Up: “Seattle man connects with his homeless neighbors, one toilet at a time” / Gabriel Spitzer / KNKX

HEALTH & SCIENCE REPORTING

First Place: “Finding Fixes: Preventing Youth Addiction” / Anna Boiko-Weyrauch, Nicolle Galteland, Alisa Barba, Finding Fixes and InvestigateWest

Runner Up: “For Rogue Valley Seniors Needing Mental Health Treatment, Medicare Offers Little Help” 

Erik Neumann / Jefferson Public Radio

REPORTING SERIES

First Place: “Finding Fixes: Season Two” / Anna Boiko-Weyrauch, Nicolle Galteland, Alisa Barba, Finding Fixes and InvestigateWest

Runner Up: “Cruise Town”/ Jennifer Pemberton & KTOO News Staff

VIDEO

FEATURE, HARD NEWS 

First Place: “‘Give me five coffins’: Seeking asylum at the border” / Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times

Runner Up: “Suffering Silently” / Beth Verge / KTU

FEATURE, SOFT NEWS

First Place: “12 brothers they never had” / Beth Verge / KTUU

Runner Up: “Coffin Cruisers” / Samantha Swindler / The Oregonian/OregonLive

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT

First Place: “A Distant Refuge: Rohingya Genocide Survivors In Portland” / Arya Surowidjojo, MacGregor Campbell, Stephani Gordon, Jan Boyd / Oregon Public Broadcasting

Runner Up: "How much is a life worth?" / Lauren Frohne / The Seattle Times

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT, WITHIN 24 HOURS

First Place: “A daughter's disappearance, a father's worst fears” / Jill Burke / KTUU

Runner Up: “Sounders Shake Video” / Megan Murnane, Amy Moreno / KING 5 TV

INVESTIGATION 

First Place: “29 Hours: A Crash, a 911 call... and the rescuers that never arrived” / Jill Burke, Eric Sowl, Kim Daehnke / KTUU

Runner Up: “An overburdened staff and Alaska's most vulnerable children” / Jill Burke, Eric Sowl, Leah Schwartz / KTUU

REPORTING SERIES

First Place: “Inside Woodlawn” / Cristin Severance, Gene Cotton, John Tierney / KGW

Runner Up: “One Year Later: The Quake, the Aftermath, the Recovery” / Staff / KTUU

SPORTS REPORTING

First Place: “Culver coach back on sidelines, thanks to transplant” / Max Goldwasser / KTVZ 

Runner Up: “Girls hockey is growing in Washington / and it isn’t dependent on boys programs anymore” / Beatriz Costa Lima / Crosscut

FEATURE, HARD NEWS

First Place: “Ending the Backlog” / Andrea Lutz, Paul Humphrey / KTVQ

Runner Up: “Deer Ridge inmates led beyond walls to forgiveness” / Max Goldwasser / KTVZ

FEATURE, SOFT NEWS 

First Place: “Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release” / Tom Layson / KBTC-TV

Runner Up: “These searchers have dogged determination” / Max Goldwasser, Tyson Beauchemin / KTVZ

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT, NO TIME LIMIT

First Place: “Deer Ridge Correctional Institution: Out of Darkness Walk” / Arielle Brumfield / KTVZ NewsChannel 21

Runner Up: "Montana's ‘state of freight’" / Andrea Lutz, Brandon Sullivan / KTVQ

REPORTING SERIES

First Place: “Urban Climate Change Adaptation Series” / Jesse Nichols / Grist

Runner Up: “Protecting Montana's Firefighters” / Margaret DeMarco / KRTV