Finalist: Caitlin Flanagan of The Atlantic
For luminous columns that expertly explore the intersection of gender and politics with a personal, yet keenly analytical, point of view.
Nominated Work
January 19, 2018
May 3, 2018
September 17, 2018
December 21, 2018
June 1, 2018
September 25, 2018
January 29, 2018
November 29, 2018
January 14, 2018
August 9, 2018
Biography
Caitlin Flanagan is a contributing editor at The Atlantic. She is the author of Girl Land and To Hell With All That.
Winners
Prize Winner in Commentary in 2019:
Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For bold columns that exposed the malfeasance and injustice of forcing poor rural Missourians charged with misdemeanor crimes to pay unaffordable fines or be sent to jail.
Commentary
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Commentary in 2019:
Melinda Henneberger of The Kansas City Star
For examining, in spare and courageous writing, institutional sexism and misogyny within her hometown NFL team, her former governor’s office and the Catholic Church.
The Jury
The Jury
Katti Gray(Chair)
freelance journalist, Monticello, N.Y./Little Rock, Ark.
Mike Fannin
Vice President/Editor, The Kansas City Star; Central Regional Editor, McClatchy
Carlos Lozada*
Associate Editor/Nonfiction Book Critic
Lyle Muller
Executive Director/Editor
Rene Sanchez
Editor
David Von Drehle
Columnist
Amanda Zamora
Chief Audience Officer
Winners in Commentary
John Archibald of Alabama Media Group
For lyrical and courageous commentary that is rooted in Alabama but has a national resonance in scrutinizing corrupt politicians, championing the rights of women and calling out hypocrisy.
Peggy Noonan
For rising to the moment with beautifully rendered columns that connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the nation’s most divisive political campaigns.
Farah Stockman
For extensively reported columns that probe the legacy of busing in Boston and its effect on education in the city with a clear eye on ongoing racial contradictions.
Lisa Falkenberg
For vividly-written, groundbreaking columns about grand jury abuses that led to a wrongful conviction and uncovered other egregious problems in the legal and immigration systems.
2019 Prize Winners
South Florida Sun Sentinel
For exposing failings by school and law enforcement officials before and after the deadly shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times
For an exhaustive 18-month investigation of President Donald Trump’s finances that debunked his claims of self-made wealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting category, where it was also entered.)
Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times
For consequential reporting on a University of Southern California gynecologist accused of violating hundreds of young women for more than a quarter-century.
Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post
For trenchant and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience.