The Washington Post and the American Nurses Association (ANA) announced the winners of the 2020 Star Nurses Awards, recognizing registered nurses in the Washington, D.C. area with the Nightingale Award for excellence in their field.
Awards
Dicker, who has spearheaded ad innovation at The Post through R.E.D. and Zeus, is was selected by his peers in the ad industry as a top young thought leader making a significant impact on the industry.
The Washington Post was awarded the first-place award for Outstanding Explanatory Reporting by the Society of Environmental Journalists for its “2°C: Beyond the Limit” series. The Post’s “2°C: Beyond the Limit” series was recognized in the Outstanding Explanatory Reporting (Large Newsroom or Circulation) category for the Reporting on the Environment competition.
The annual awards “honor outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy's concerns, including human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world.”
The Post won in the single-issue category for the “Prison” issue.
The Post won in the investigative reporting category and in the personal essay (short form) category.
For the fourth consecutive year, The Post was awarded the top honor – best news website or mobile service – at the WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Awards.
The Post won first place for its series on Japan’s uneasy relationship with whales and dolphins, and for its reporting on changing views of gender.
The Post won in the investigative feature writing category for its reporting on the action of Hong Kong police during months-long demonstrations.
Shih receives this top honor for his coverage of China.
“2°C: Beyond the Limit” pioneered the use of temperature data, demonstrating that extreme climate change is already a life-altering reality across 10 percent of the Earth’s surface. In addition, The Post was named a finalist in the categories of Breaking News for coverage of back-to-back mass shootings in Dayton, OH and El Paso, TX, Public Service for its investigation into the opioid crisis, and Commentary for pieces written by Sports columnist Sally Jenkins.
The Post's groundbreaking investigations into the nation's opioid epidemic and the rise of fentanyl received the O'Brien Fellowship Award for Impact in Public Service Journalism. Photographer Michael Robinson Chavez was a finalist for the Visual Journalism Award for his work photographing the desperation and violence of Venezuela in chaos.
Altamont, Post Reports and Moonrise podcasts received awards.
Craig Whitlock’s project “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War” has won the Investigative Reporters & Editors' FOI Award, which recognizes The Post's nearly three-year fight to pry loose records from the federal government.
The judges cited Stubbs's “topic selection, depth of reporting and writing skill” for stories that took readers inside the lives of students overcoming external challenges presented by their surroundings.
The Randy Shilts Award for LGBTQ Coverage honors journalists who consistently bring stories of the LGBTQ community to life in mainstream media outlets.
The Post was also recognized as a finalist in four award categories.
The Post has eight writing, video and multimedia finalists in the annual Associated Press Sports Editors contest.
