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Scripps Howard Awards

The Scripps Howard Awards, presented by the Scripps Howard Fund and The E.W. Scripps Company, are one of the nation’s most prestigious American journalism competitions, offering $170,000 in prize money in 15 categories.

With a focus on high-impact reporting, the awards recognize journalism that spurs action, news organizations that go the extra mile to expose previously undisclosed or misunderstood information and journalists who embrace new tools, channels, technologies and approaches to provide more immersive experiences for their audiences.

The Scripps Howard Awards honor work from television stations, networks, radio and podcasts, visual media, online media outlets, independent producers, newspapers and print publications

Award Finalists

Excellence in Coverage of Breaking News

Photo of a news anchor inside of a plane surrounded by lots of bags

2:27

Richard Engel's Reporting on the Taliban's Takeover of Afghanistan

NBC News, 2022

Zoomed in photo of a newspaper article about the Astroworld music festival's mass casualties titled "What went wrong?"

2:29

"Astroworld"

Houston Chronicle, 2022

Photo of a town flooded with brown water

2:27

"The Floods of Waverly"

The Tennessean, 2022

Excellence in Broadcast National/International Coverage

Photo of people sitting in chairs with comes standing throughout the room

2:11

"Behind the Badge"

CBS News, 2022

Photo of a little girl sitting on a bed looking sad while a man wearing glasses leans over to look at her

2:15

"What happened to the perfect child?"

48 Hours, 2022

Photo of a radiologist looking at images from an MRI of a person's head

2:20

"Blindsided/Out of Bounds"

ABC News, 2022

Excellence in Broadcast Local Coverage

Close up image of a woman's shirt that is white with blue font that says "HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT!"

2:32

"The Moms of Magnolia Street"

NBC Bay Area (KNTV), 2022

Photo of three men and a woman wearing black shirts with red, green, and white images of a fist rising up with font that says "Gideon's Army"

1:59

"Gideon's Army"

WTVF NewsChannel 5 Nashville, 2022

Photo collage of a lot of people's photos

2:27

"Prone"

KUSA-TV, KARE-TV, 2022

Distinguished Service to the First Amendment

2:33

"On Our Watch"

NPR, KQED, 2022

Photo of a huge crowd of people holding giant red and blue Trump 2020 campaign flags

2:10

"Democracy in Doubt"

The Arizona Republic, 2022

Photo of a disabled child being cared for and lifted up by women wearing surgical masks in a living room

2:36

"Birth & Betrayal"

Miami Herald, ProPublica, 2022

Excellence in Business/Financial Reporting

Photo of people holding up a hand-painted sign that says "2 YEARS LATER WE ARE HURTING. FIX IT, RE-GROUND IT, OR BRING THEM BACK. BOEING 737 MAX 34C LOVED ONES."

2:31

"Boeing’s Fatal Flaw"

FRONTLINE PBS, The New York Times, 2022

Photo of a horse trailer on fire in a field with a fire truck driving down the road

2:31

"Bankrupt"

The California Newsroom, KQED, KRCB, 2022

Photo of the United States Internal Revenue Service Building with an American flag on a flag pole in front of it

2:32

"The Secret IRS Files"

ProPublica, 2022

Excellence in Environmental Reporting

Photo of a woman sitting in a chair outside on a porch with a fan blowing on her

2:33

"Extreme Heat's Deadly Toll"

Los Angeles Times, 2022

Photo of a dry creek in the forest with dead trees surrounding it

2:20

"Draining the Forests"

The Coloradoan, The Arizona Republic, The Desert Sun, The Spectrum, 2022

Photo of a run down neighborhood right beside a factory emitting pollution and toxic chemicals into the air

2:16

"Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution"

ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, Mountain State Spotlight, 2022

Excellence in Human Interest Storytelling

Photo of an old ship bunkbed with dust on it and toilet paper rolls and old papers on the bed

2:39

"Abandoned at Sea"

The Wall Street Journal, 2022

Photo of a healthcare worker in a yellow gown with white gloves holding the hand of a sick person in a hospital bed

2:36

"Disease, Inequity and Resilience in South L.A."

Los Angeles Times, 2022

Illustration of a gun sitting on a brown chair inside of a run down room with old kids' toys

2:29

"Under the Wheel'

The Boston Globe, 2022

Excellence in Innovation

Photo of vehicles driving down a two-lane road as smoke rises in the sky from a building by the road

2:41

"Black Snow: Big Sugar’s Burning Problem"

The Palm Beach Post, ProPublica, 2022

Blue graphic with icons representing computer users with coding behind them

2:32

"Citizen Browser"

The Markup, 2022

Photo of a man wearing headphones raising his hands to clap with red and blue graphics showing sections of a song with fishermen sounds and clapping sounds

2:30

"The Outlaw Ocean Music Project"

The Outlaw Ocean Project, 2022

Excellence in Local/Regional Investigative Reporting

Photo of the top of a fence covered in barbed wire

2:33

"Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge"

Nashville Public Radio's WPLN News, ProPublica, 2022

Photo of workers setting up a voting area in the center of an empty arena

2:10

"Democracy in Doubt"

The Arizona Republic, 2022

Photo of construction workers standing on a huge pile of rubble by a crane

2:33

"House of Cards"

Miami Herald, 2022

Excellence in Multimedia Journalism

Photo of health workers administering vaccines and checking people's health

2:18

"The Vaccine Rollout"

Bloomberg News, 2022

White graphic map of the capitol building that shows where the police line and barricades were during the capitol riot

2:30

"Inside the Capitol Riot"

The New York Times, 2022

Photo of two people pointing and looking at large memorial displays

2:22

"Un(re)solved"

FRONTLINE (PBS), 2022

Excellence in National/International Investigative Reporting

Photo of a man in black clothing standing on a roof as black smoke rises all around him in Afghanistan

2:47

"Airstrikes Gone Wrong"

The New York Times, 2022

Photo of a man's hand resting on a laptop track pad with a Facebook Events window pulled up on the laptop

2:44

"The Facebook Files"

The Wall Street Journal, 2022

Graphic with slim red box illustrations and black and white images of various political figures

2:30

"Pandora Papers"

The Washington Post, ICIJ, Media partners, 2022

Excellence in Opinion Writing

Photo of a woman looking off to the side as she talks to a man sitting by a laptop

2:06

Columnist Jeneé Osterheldt

The Boston Globe, 2022

Photo of a woman with red hair wearing black glasses, a black shirt, a black blazer, and blue jeans talking with another woman whose back is turned from the camera

2:23

Opinion Writing by Nancy Kaffer

Detroit Free Press, 2022

Photo of a blonde woman wearing sunglasses listening to someone talk while writing down notes

2:14

City Hall Columnist Heather Knight

San Francisco Chronicle, 2022

Excellence in Radio/Podcast Coverage

Photo of an article with an image of police holding guns toward a door to protect a building from protestors and an image of protestors outside of a building

2:15

"Four Hours of Insurrection"

The Washington Post, 2022

Photo of a Police ICE worker grabbing the arm of a man and pulling him

2:40

"Mississippi Rising"

Latino USA, 2022

Image of a woman talking to a crowd of elderly people with white text overlaid on it about Southlake, Texas school board information

2:28

"Southlake"

NBC News, 2022

Excellence in Visual Journalism

Photo of a woman walking by a recently filled grave in a graveyard

1:56

"DISTANCED: Pandemic Stories of Black Life in the Rural South"

STAT , 2022

Photo of an exhausted Afghan family walking together outdoors

2:00

"Sorrow and Defiance: Under Taliban Rule, Afghan Women Navigate a Landscape of Loss"

Los Angeles Times, 2022

Photo of buildings collapsing during a bombing

2:22

"The Cost of War"

The Associated Press, SITU Research, 2022

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