2023 Front Page Awards
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 22, 2023
Press Contact: Caitlin Nolan and Lillian Rizzo
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Newswomen’s Club of New York Announces 2023 Front Page Award Winners
The Front Page Awards, presented since 1937 by the Newswomen’s Club of New York, recognizes journalistic excellence among women.
In a year where news developed at a breakneck speed, New York City's newswomen strove to highlight the human stories behind the headlines. They succeeded in doing so, sharing the stories of the people affected by war, migration crises, gun violence and climate change. Newswomen investigated the consequences of cuts and consolidations to the city's healthcare systems, exposed the cracks New York's school children are falling through and continued the ongoing fight against misinformation.
Our winning women stopped at nothing to get to the truth of matters both big and small, knowing that to those affected by matters that some would consider the latter, it’s anything but.
The 86th annual Front Page Awards pay tribute to these exceptional newswomen at local, regional and national outlets across the New York metropolitan area.
The Front Page Awards will be presented at the New York Athletic Club on Feb. 6, 2024. Those wishing to attend, can purchase tickets to the event: here. Those interested in purchasing a table of tickets - as well as sponsorship opportunities - should contact Sasha Padbidri at newswomen@newswomensclubnewyork.com. Connect with Newswomen’s Club of New York on X at @NYNewswomen, Instagram at @nynewswomenclub and with our LinkedIn Group to find out more about this year’s winners and their work.
The Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year goes to Gwynne Hogan of The City for her exemplary coverage of the migrant crisis in New York City. She broke news about the locations of new shelters, exposed the conditions inside of them, including instances of sexual harassment, and revealed multiple instances of mismanagement, waste and abuse of authority.
The Marie Colvin Award for Foreign Correspondence goes to Carlotta Gall of The New York Times. Her expert and courageous coverage of the war in Ukraine documented the struggle to identify the dead in Russian-occupied Bucha put a human face on the conflict by profiling the lives of three women who were victims of atrocities, and exposed alleged war crimes at a civilian detention center.
The Ida B. Wells Award Honoring Exceptional Coverage of Communities of Color will go to S. Mitra Kalita, a columnist for Time/Charter, for her insightful and accessible weekly columns on the future of work. Kalita’s work provided timely, concrete examples of how workplaces might do better in regard to diversity, equity and inclusion.
The Martha Coman Front Page Award for Best New Journalist will go to Jennah Haque, data visualization reporter for Bloomberg News. Her work covered the FIFA Women’s World Cup TV rights dispute, pay equity for WNBA players, and the devotion of Taylor Swift’s far-traveling fans.
The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Michelle V. Agins, a 34-year staff photographer for The New York Times, who has not only amassed a significant body of work but, as a pioneering Black woman photojournalist, has nurtured and encouraged a generation of photojournalists.
When Agins began her tenure at The Times in 1989, she was the newsroom’s second Black female photographer. Prior to that, she had been a staff photographer for The Charlotte Observer since 1987. Agins faced many challenges while creating her own path in the industry, and those experiences inspired her to make mentoring other women of color in the field an important focus of her life’s work.
Agins’ photographs have been widely exhibited and recognized by many professional organizations. She is a two-time Pulitzer nominee and was part of The Times team that won the Pulitzer in 2001 for the series “How Race is Lived in America.” Agins has been awarded an honorary degree from Dominican University, from which she graduated. In 2019, she was awarded the National Press Photographers Association’s highest honor, the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, for her “commitment to the craft of visual journalism and to education that advances the profession.” In 2022, she was inducted into the NABJ Hall of Fame and was the Lucie Honoree for Achievement in Photojournalism.
FULL LIST OF FRONT PAGE AWARD WINNERS
AUDIO
Feature: Annie Minoff, Gimlet Media, Spotify and The Wall Street Journal, “How to Build a Metaverse”
Investigative Reporting: Katya Rogers, Katie Thornton and Jennifer Munson, WNYC’s On the Media, “The Divided Dial”
DOCUMENTARY
Documentary: Janice Johnston, Cindy Galli, Denise Martinez-Ramundo, Elissa Stohler, Jenny Wagnon-Courts, Megan Hundahl Streete, Stephanie Mendez, Erin Murtha, MaryEllen Schwisow, Jeannine Brown, Gina Caruana, Andrea Acosta, Natalie Cardenas, Kate Holland, Olivia Osteen, Hannah Prince and Jocelyn Rogalo, “20/20 It Happened Here: A Year in Uvalde”
LOCAL REPORTING
Breaking News: Maya Kaufman, Politico New York, “NYC patient found dead in stairwell to health clinic. She’d been there for days.”
Feature: Tracey Porpora, Jessica Jones-Gorman and Giavanni Alves, Staten Island Advance, “Rebuilding Sandy Ground: Who will step up in fight to save our nation’s oldest free Black settlement?”
Investigative Reporting: Gabrielle Fonrouge, New York Post, “Blue Shield: NYPD Officers Keep Jobs After Arrests”
MAGAZINES
Art: Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, “Michelle Philips Is Ready to Talk About It”
Essay: Lori Sokol, Newsweek, “Mom's Nurse Called. It Was My Birthday. I Knew.”
Feature: Charlotte Alter, Time, “She Wasn’t Able to Get an Abortion. Now She’s a Mom. Soon She’ll Start 7th Grade”
Interview: Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, “Eight Women Say the Same Man Raped or Assaulted Them. Now They’re Out for Justice”
Investigative Reporting: Olivia Carville, Bloomberg News, “TikTok Troubles: TikTok’s Viral Challenges Keep Luring Young Kids to Their Deaths” and “TikTok’s Algorithm Keeps Pushing Suicide to Vulnerable Kids”
NEWSPAPERS
Beat Reporting: Azeen Ghorayshi, The New York Times, “The Science of Gender”
Feature: Catrin Einhorn and Lauren Leatherby, The New York Times, “Animals Are Running Out of Places to Live”
Investigative Reporting: Khadeeja Safdar and Emily Glazer, The Wall Street Journal, “Jeffrey Epstein Appeared to Threaten Bill Gates Over Microsoft Co-Founder’s Affair With Russian Bridge Player”
The Nellie Bly Award for Best Bylined Front Page Story: Jan Hoffman, The New York Times, “Tranq Dope: Animal Sedative Mixed With Fentanyl Brings Fresh Horror to U.S. Drug Zones”
ONLINE
Arts: Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, “ ‘The Idol’: How HBO’s Next ‘Euphoria’ Became Twisted ‘Torture Porn’ ”
Blogs: Rachel Premack, FreightWaves, “MODES, an email newsletter for trucking insiders and outsiders”
Feature: Sarah Todd, Insider, “The Cult of Emily Oster”
Digital Video: Caroline Kim, Arijeta Lajka, Mona El-Naggar, Caterina Clerici, Jeesoo Park and Solana Pyne, The New York Times, “ ‘I Want the World to See’: Libyan Photographer Confronts Loss in His Devastated City”
Investigative Reporting: Hannah Beckler, Insider, “Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States” and “How dogs are trained to attack US prisoners”
Medicine/Health/Fitness: EJ Dickson, Rolling Stone, “Mormon Church Sent Patients to Sex Therapist — Even After One Accused Him of Abuse”
Multimedia News Package: Anjali Singhvi, The New York Times, “Storytelling in 3D” including “Why One Upscale Apartment Building Became a Death Trap,” “See One Historic Turkish Street Before and After the Earthquakes” and “Inside Mar-a-Lago, Where Thousands Partied Near Secret Files”
Social Media Video: Maya Eaglin, NBC News Stay Tuned, “Closing The Gap - Black Home Ownership”
PHOTOGRAPHY
Feature/News: Jeenah Moon, The New York Times, “MAGA and Martinis: Is This the Future of the N.Y. Republican Party?”
Photo Editing: Heather Casey, The New York Times, “After Uvalde, a Cemetery Anchors Families of Victims”
Photo Essay: Thea Traff, The New York Times, “It’s Intoxicating’: 39 Tony-Nominated Performers on Why They Act”
SPECIALIZED REPORTING
Arts: Karishma Vyas, Hanako Montgomery and Sybilla Patrizia, Vice Media, “The Dark Side of Manga”
Business: Clare Duffy and Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, “Google was beloved as an employer for years. Then it laid off thousands by email”
Editorial Opinion/Criticism: Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times, “The Rich World Has a Shockingly High Tolerance for Cruelty,” ‘‘This Is It. This Is Our Chance.’ It’s Time for Everyone to Get Out of Haiti’s Way” and
“I Went to Syria, the Country That Remade Our World, and This Is What I Saw”
Education: Abigail Kramer, The City, “Child in Crisis: Public Schools Are NYC’s Main Youth Mental Health System. Where Kids Land Often Depends on What Their Parents Can Pay,” “NYC Schools Handcuff and Haul Away Kids in Emotional Crisis” and “Success Academy Calls 911 on Students in Mental Health Crisis, Writing Its Own Rules”
Environment: Naureen Malik, Bloomberg News, “America’s Biggest Power Source Wasn’t Built for Extreme Weather”
Medicine/Health/Fitness: Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, “Anti-vaccine misinformation,” including “The conspiracy candidate: What RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine crusade could look like in the White House,” “A fake tweet spurred an anti-vaccine harassment campaign against a doctor” and “The ‘Flu Shot Cheerleader’ is back — with a warning about the anti-vaccine movement”
Personal Service: April Xu, Documented, “What To Do if You Are a Victim of a Financial Scam”
Politics: Jane Timm, NBC News, “Hounded by baseless voter fraud allegations, an entire county's election staff quits in Virginia,” “The local toll of election denialism: Virginia county loses second registrar in 2 months” and “Voting begins in a Virginia county still recovering from election conspiracies”
Science/Technology: Lina Zeldovich, Popular Science, “The Power of Poop”
Sports: Talya Minsberg, The New York Times, “She’s Calling It: ‘That Moment’ for Women’s Soccer Is Now”
TELEVISION
Feature: Linsey Davis, Lindsey Griswold, Andrea Amiel and Penelope Lopez, ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis, “Water Warriors”
Interview: Diane Sawyer, Janice Johnston, Christina Ng, Tess Scott, Emily Kohlberg, Katie Muldowney, Erin Murtha, Acacia Nunes and Jeannine Brown, “Matthew Perry: The Diane Sawyer Interview”
Special Programming (Public Service): Eman Varoqua, Karin Weinberg, Marjorie McAfee, Deborah Roberts, Deb Kim, Lisa Zobel, Lauren DiMundo, Zoe Chevalier and Arturo Ruiz, ABC News Nightline, “Autism and Policing”
Special Reporting (Investigation): Maral Usefi, Nikki Egan, Stacey Sommer, Gianna Toboni, Nicole Bozorgmir and Victoria Lesiw, Vice News Tonight, “Families of Trans Kids are Seeking Sanctuary”
ABOUT THE NEWSWOMEN’S CLUB OF NEW YORK
The Newswomen's Club of New York, established in 1922, is the only professional organization in the New York metropolitan area dedicated to supporting newswomen. The Front Page Awards, established in 1937, exemplifies the Club’s mission to promote exceptional work by women in the news business and support the highest standards of journalism.