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This town says it’s dying of cancer. Can one doctor help them get out?
‘We’re kids, but we’re also journalists’
Addicted and left behind: the opioid epidemic killing African Americans
‘This is what they call devastation:’ Mexico Beach after Hurricane Michael
Saved by Ola Belle: A former punk rocker finds peace in his country music legacy
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Happiness, hope and anger: South Koreans weigh in on the Trump-Kim summit” link=”https://wapo.st/2JwXctS”] Joyce Sohyun Lee
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Florida school shooting survivors head to Tallahassee to demand change” link=”http://wapo.st/2GxegKt”] Alice Li, Michael Landsberg, Whitney Shefte
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”It looks like a war zone’: Search and rescue teams continue work in California fire” link=”https://wapo.st/2KaHxgR”] Jorge Ribas, Alice Li
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Issue Reporting” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Audio, texts show how two men worked to discredit one of Roy Moore’s accusers” link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldqlsuGyQV8″] Dalton Bennett, John Parks, Shawn Boburg, Reem Akkad
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”NPR” title=”Tariffs Create Tension For Factory Workers Who Supported Trump” link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX4jx9fqyQI”] Becky Harlan, David Greene, Nick Michael, Arezou Rezvani, Mito Habe-Evans, Taylor Haney, J Czys, Ben Naddaff-Hafrey, Gabriel Dunatov, Kara Frame, Becky Lettenberger, Keith Jenkins, Kenya Young
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Return to Ferguson” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/business/segments/four-years-after-riots-in-ferguson-mo-this-part-of-the-city-is-still-reeling/2018/06/21/849535d8-70be-11e8-b4d8-eaf78d4c544c_video.html?utm_term=.b84b21b3d32e”] Lee Powell
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Witness to murder: How one testimony led to the arrest of a killer.” link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoXFQ7De5b4&t=4s”] Dalton Bennett, John Parks, Wesley Lowery, Kimbriell Kelly, Steven Rich, Whitney Shefte
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Feature Story” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”McClatchy” title=”Ground Game” link=”https://www.facebook.com/GroundGameTexas/videos/304940826966761/”] Jonathan Forsythe, Ayana Morali, Jessica Koscielniak, Reshma Kirpalani, Caitlin Healy, Joe Fanelli, Sohail Al-Jamea, Sarah Whitmire, Meta Viers
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Chevy Chase: ‘I’m proud to be who I am'” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/entertainment/chevy-chase-im-proud-to-be-who-i-am/2018/09/19/3d85a1d2-bac9-11e8-adb8-01125416c102_video.html”] Erin Patrick O’Connor, Geoff Edgers
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”A mother shows what it is like to raise a baby in prison” link=”https://wapo.st/2KTl8ok”] Zoeann Murphy
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Being a clown in 2018: ‘We may be down, but we’re not out’” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/entertainment/being-a-clown-in-2018-we-may-be-down-but-were-not-out/2018/03/30/1fdbd13e-3116-11e8-b6bd-0084a1666987_video.html”] Erin Patrick O’Connor
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Sports” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Mya Fourstar” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/sports/the-hoop-dreams-of-a-15-year-old-named-fourstar/2018/01/03/0e9d89f4-e6ce-11e7-927a-e72eac1e73b6_video.html?utm_term=.795bec32fabb”] Lee Powell, Osman Malik
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Animation” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”NPR” title=”How Birds-To-Be Get Oxygen Inside Eggs” link=”https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/602860545/how-birds-to-be-get-oxygen-inside-eggs”] Adam Cole, Ryan Kellman, Murry Gans, Josh Rogosin, Alison Richards, Nicole Werbeck, Andrea Kissack, Keith Jenkins
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”NPR” title=”Bullets: A Physics Primer” link=”https://www.facebook.com/NPR/videos/vl.1615769012056717/10157166492121756/?type=1″] Meredith Rizzo, Rebecca Hersher, Alessandro Novelli
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”How ‘Respect,’ Aretha Franklin’s iconic song, came to be” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/entertainment/how-respect-aretha-franklins-iconic-song-came-to-be/2018/08/16/e16be7aa-a18a-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_video.html”] Daron Taylor, Sarah Hashemi
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Anyone can create a new emoji. Here’s an animated guide to doing it right” link=”http://wapo.st/emoji-video”] Kolin Pope, Ted Muldoon
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”One-Off” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”NPR” title=”How To Find The Summer Constellations (360° Video)” link=”https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/621935519/how-to-find-the-summer-constellations-360-video”] Adam Cole, Ryan Kellman, Andy Huether, Miles Watkins, Wes Lindamood, Nicole Werbeck, Andrea Kissack, Keith Jenkins
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Fentanyl: The deadly drug haunting America” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/amp-stories/fentanyl-the-deadly-drug-haunting-america/”] Kolin Pope, Katie Zezima, Katie Mettler, Ted Muldoon
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Do you know how to judge figure skating?” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/sports/judging-figure-skating/?utm_term=.da8325ae71d6″] Ashleigh Joplin
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”McClatchy” title=”All We Got” link=”https://www.facebook.com/titletownTX/videos/404250303431440/”] Jessica Koscielniak, Brittany Peterson, Ali Rivzi, Ayana Morali, and Jonathan Forsythe
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Documentary” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”New York Times” title=”How a Community Was Sacrificed to Save Houston” link=”https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005431103/flooding-houston-harvey.html”] Leslye Davis, Eric Maierson, Ray Whitehouse, Maisie Crow, Aaron Byrd, Tim Wallace, Derek Watkins, Leoandro Badalotti, Meg Felling, Audra D.S. Burch, Simon Romero, Luke Mitchell, Irving Harvey, Eli Esptein, Dahlia Kozlowsky
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”This town says it’s dying of cancer. Can one doctor help them get out?” link=”https://wapo.st/2mBCqv7″] Whitney Shefte, Brady Dennis
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”McClatchy” title=”Ground Game Texas – Episode 5: On the fence” link=”https://www.facebook.com/GroundGameTexas/videos/540746453027881/”] Jonathan Forsythe and Ayana Morali, Jessica Koscielniak, Reshma Kirpalani, Caitlin Healy, Joe Fanelli, Sohail Al-Jamea, Sarah Whitmire, Meta Viers
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”McClatchy” title=”The War Within – Episode 5: ‘Best day ever!'” link=”https://www.facebook.com/WarWithinShow/videos/518080145373169/”] Jonathan Forsythe and Ayana Morali, Lauren Knapp, Brittany Peterson, Alexa Ar, Sohail Al-Jamea, Sarah Whitmire and Eric Garland
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”The Foreign Consultant: The spectacular rise and fall of Paul Manafort” link=”https://wapo.st/manafort-doc”] Jon Gerberg, Dalton Bennett, Jesse Mesner-Hage
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Explainer” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”NPR” title=”Getting Over Your Ex, With Science” link=”https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/18/646251015/this-rapper-tried-to-use-neuroscience-to-get-over-her-ex”] Adam Cole, Ryan Kellman, Bronson Arcuri, CK Vijayakumar, Nicole Werbeck, Andrea Kissack, Keith Jenkins
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”NPR” title=”Why Are Cities Still So Segregated?” link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FBJyqfoLM”] Kara Frame, Gene Demby, Marcie LaCerte, Maria Paz Gutierrez, Maia Stern, Andy Huether, Mito Habe-Evans, Nick Michael, Sami Yenigun, Becky Lettenberger, Steve Drummond, Keith Jenkins
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”How to win a trade war” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/business/segments/how-to-win-a-trade-war/2018/07/24/849a2a4c-8f5a-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_video.html”] Daron Taylor, Jhaan Elker
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”BBC” title=”Why Parkland is different – the evidence” link=”https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-43504307/gun-control-debate-why-parkland-mass-shooting-is-different-the-evidence”] Franz Strasser
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Best Multimedia Package” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Luge Yourself” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/sports/olympics-learning-to-luge/?utm_term=.35aa93545b9e”] Jorge Ribas, Sarah Laminer
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”McClatchy” title=”The War Within” link=”https://www.facebook.com/WarWithinShow/”] Jonathan Forsythe, Ayana Morali, Lauren Knapp, Brittany Peterson, Alexa Ard, Sohail Al-Jamea, Sarah Whitmire and Eric Garland
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Whitney Shefte, The Washington Post
Portfolio
[contest_text_category category=”News Story” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”The Rescuers” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/the-rescuers-finding-people-in-the-wake-of-florence/2018/09/16/7754c414-b9fd-11e8-adb8-01125416c102_video.html?utm_term=.cdeeb5f2838b”] Alice Li, Lee Powell, Zoeann Murphy
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Happiness, hope and anger: South Koreans weigh in on the Trump-Kim summit” link=”https://wapo.st/2JwXctS”] Joyce Sohyun Lee
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Florida school shooting survivors head to Tallahassee to demand change” link=”http://wapo.st/2GxegKt”] Alice Li, Michael Landsberg, Whitney Shefte
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”It looks like a war zone’: Search and rescue teams continue work in California fire” link=”https://wapo.st/2KaHxgR”] Jorge Ribas, Alice Li
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Issue Reporting” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Audio, texts show how two men worked to discredit one of Roy Moore’s accusers” link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldqlsuGyQV8″] Dalton Bennett, John Parks, Shawn Boburg, Reem Akkad
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”NPR” title=”Tariffs Create Tension For Factory Workers Who Supported Trump” link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX4jx9fqyQI”] Becky Harlan, David Greene, Nick Michael, Arezou Rezvani, Mito Habe-Evans, Taylor Haney, J Czys, Ben Naddaff-Hafrey, Gabriel Dunatov, Kara Frame, Becky Lettenberger, Keith Jenkins, Kenya Young
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Return to Ferguson” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/business/segments/four-years-after-riots-in-ferguson-mo-this-part-of-the-city-is-still-reeling/2018/06/21/849535d8-70be-11e8-b4d8-eaf78d4c544c_video.html?utm_term=.b84b21b3d32e”] Lee Powell
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Witness to murder: How one testimony led to the arrest of a killer.” link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoXFQ7De5b4&t=4s”] Dalton Bennett, John Parks, Wesley Lowery, Kimbriell Kelly, Steven Rich, Whitney Shefte
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Feature Story” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”McClatchy” title=”Ground Game” link=”https://www.facebook.com/GroundGameTexas/videos/304940826966761/”] Jonathan Forsythe, Ayana Morali, Jessica Koscielniak, Reshma Kirpalani, Caitlin Healy, Joe Fanelli, Sohail Al-Jamea, Sarah Whitmire, Meta Viers
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Chevy Chase: ‘I’m proud to be who I am'” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/entertainment/chevy-chase-im-proud-to-be-who-i-am/2018/09/19/3d85a1d2-bac9-11e8-adb8-01125416c102_video.html”] Erin Patrick O’Connor, Geoff Edgers
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”A mother shows what it is like to raise a baby in prison” link=”https://wapo.st/2KTl8ok”] Zoeann Murphy
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Being a clown in 2018: ‘We may be down, but we’re not out’” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/entertainment/being-a-clown-in-2018-we-may-be-down-but-were-not-out/2018/03/30/1fdbd13e-3116-11e8-b6bd-0084a1666987_video.html”] Erin Patrick O’Connor
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Sports” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Mya Fourstar” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/sports/the-hoop-dreams-of-a-15-year-old-named-fourstar/2018/01/03/0e9d89f4-e6ce-11e7-927a-e72eac1e73b6_video.html?utm_term=.795bec32fabb”] Lee Powell, Osman Malik
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Animation” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”NPR” title=”How Birds-To-Be Get Oxygen Inside Eggs” link=”https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/602860545/how-birds-to-be-get-oxygen-inside-eggs”] Adam Cole, Ryan Kellman, Murry Gans, Josh Rogosin, Alison Richards, Nicole Werbeck, Andrea Kissack, Keith Jenkins
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”NPR” title=”Bullets: A Physics Primer” link=”https://www.facebook.com/NPR/videos/vl.1615769012056717/10157166492121756/?type=1″] Meredith Rizzo, Rebecca Hersher, Alessandro Novelli
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”How ‘Respect,’ Aretha Franklin’s iconic song, came to be” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/entertainment/how-respect-aretha-franklins-iconic-song-came-to-be/2018/08/16/e16be7aa-a18a-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_video.html”] Daron Taylor, Sarah Hashemi
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Anyone can create a new emoji. Here’s an animated guide to doing it right” link=”http://wapo.st/emoji-video”] Kolin Pope, Ted Muldoon
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”One-Off” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”NPR” title=”How To Find The Summer Constellations (360° Video)” link=”https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/621935519/how-to-find-the-summer-constellations-360-video”] Adam Cole, Ryan Kellman, Andy Huether, Miles Watkins, Wes Lindamood, Nicole Werbeck, Andrea Kissack, Keith Jenkins
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Fentanyl: The deadly drug haunting America” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/amp-stories/fentanyl-the-deadly-drug-haunting-america/”] Kolin Pope, Katie Zezima, Katie Mettler, Ted Muldoon
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Do you know how to judge figure skating?” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/sports/judging-figure-skating/?utm_term=.da8325ae71d6″] Ashleigh Joplin
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”McClatchy” title=”All We Got” link=”https://www.facebook.com/titletownTX/videos/404250303431440/”] Jessica Koscielniak, Brittany Peterson, Ali Rivzi, Ayana Morali, and Jonathan Forsythe
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Documentary” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”New York Times” title=”How a Community Was Sacrificed to Save Houston” link=”https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005431103/flooding-houston-harvey.html”] Leslye Davis, Eric Maierson, Ray Whitehouse, Maisie Crow, Aaron Byrd, Tim Wallace, Derek Watkins, Leoandro Badalotti, Meg Felling, Audra D.S. Burch, Simon Romero, Luke Mitchell, Irving Harvey, Eli Esptein, Dahlia Kozlowsky
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”This town says it’s dying of cancer. Can one doctor help them get out?” link=”https://wapo.st/2mBCqv7″] Whitney Shefte, Brady Dennis
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”McClatchy” title=”Ground Game Texas – Episode 5: On the fence” link=”https://www.facebook.com/GroundGameTexas/videos/540746453027881/”] Jonathan Forsythe and Ayana Morali, Jessica Koscielniak, Reshma Kirpalani, Caitlin Healy, Joe Fanelli, Sohail Al-Jamea, Sarah Whitmire, Meta Viers
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”McClatchy” title=”The War Within – Episode 5: ‘Best day ever!'” link=”https://www.facebook.com/WarWithinShow/videos/518080145373169/”] Jonathan Forsythe and Ayana Morali, Lauren Knapp, Brittany Peterson, Alexa Ar, Sohail Al-Jamea, Sarah Whitmire and Eric Garland
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”The Foreign Consultant: The spectacular rise and fall of Paul Manafort” link=”https://wapo.st/manafort-doc”] Jon Gerberg, Dalton Bennett, Jesse Mesner-Hage
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Explainer” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”NPR” title=”Getting Over Your Ex, With Science” link=”https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/18/646251015/this-rapper-tried-to-use-neuroscience-to-get-over-her-ex”] Adam Cole, Ryan Kellman, Bronson Arcuri, CK Vijayakumar, Nicole Werbeck, Andrea Kissack, Keith Jenkins
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”NPR” title=”Why Are Cities Still So Segregated?” link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FBJyqfoLM”] Kara Frame, Gene Demby, Marcie LaCerte, Maria Paz Gutierrez, Maia Stern, Andy Huether, Mito Habe-Evans, Nick Michael, Sami Yenigun, Becky Lettenberger, Steve Drummond, Keith Jenkins
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Third” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”How to win a trade war” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/business/segments/how-to-win-a-trade-war/2018/07/24/849a2a4c-8f5a-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_video.html”] Daron Taylor, Jhaan Elker
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Award of Excellence” affiliation=”BBC” title=”Why Parkland is different – the evidence” link=”https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-43504307/gun-control-debate-why-parkland-mass-shooting-is-different-the-evidence”] Franz Strasser
[/mm_contest_text_result] [contest_text_category category=”Best Multimedia Package” gallery_link=””][/contest_text_category] [mm_contest_text_result place=”First” affiliation=”The Washington Post” title=”Luge Yourself” link=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/sports/olympics-learning-to-luge/?utm_term=.35aa93545b9e”] Jorge Ribas, Sarah Laminer
[/mm_contest_text_result] [mm_contest_text_result place=”Second” affiliation=”McClatchy” title=”The War Within” link=”https://www.facebook.com/WarWithinShow/”] Jonathan Forsythe, Ayana Morali, Lauren Knapp, Brittany Peterson, Alexa Ard, Sohail Al-Jamea, Sarah Whitmire and Eric Garland
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2019 Multimedia Judges
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Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Elaine McMillion Sheldon is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. She is the director of two Netflix Original Documentaries – “Heroin(e)” and “Recovery Boys” – that explore America’s opioid crisis. “Heroin(e)” was nominated for a 2018 Academy Award and won the 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary. In 2013, she released “Hollow,” an interactive documentary that examines the future of rural America through the eyes and voices of West Virginians. Hollow received a Peabody, Emmy nomination and 3rd Prize in the World Press Photo Multimedia Awards. Sheldon has appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Anthony Bourdain’s CNN Show Parts Unknown and Meet The Press with Chuck Todd. She was recently named a 2018 USA Fellow by United States Artists, one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and one of “50 People Changing The South” by Southern Living Magazine. In 2016, Chicken & Egg Pictures awarded her with the inaugural “Breakthrough Filmmaker” award. She’s a founding member of All Y’all Southern Documentary Collective. She has been commissioned by Frontline PBS, The Center for Investigative Reporting, The New York Times Op-Docs, TEDWomen, Field of Vision, and The Bitter Southerner.
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Duy Linh Tu
Duy Linh Tu is a journalist and documentary filmmaker, focusing on education, science, and social justice. His work has appeared in print, online, on television, and in theaters. He is also the author of “Narrative Storytelling for Multimedia Journalists” (Focal Press).
Professor Tu teaches reporting and video storytelling courses at the Journalism School. He is also a graduate of the program.
Ben Werschkul
Ben Werschkul has been in the digital video game for almost 2 decades. He has covered everything from hurricanes to political primaries. Currently, he is the Washington producer for Yahoo Finance. Previously, he worked as a producer and team leader at CNN and The New York Times.
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