ASNE annually recognizes excellence in journalism
The ASNE Awards, which encompass nine different categories, honor the best in print, online and mobile content. Inspired by former ASNE President Eugene Patterson and started in 1979, the contest is open to all newspapers, news services and news websites in the United States, including those without an ASNE member on staff. A call for entries goes out in late fall with the deadline of Jan. 20.
There are no circulation divisions. News organizations of all sizes compete head-to-head in the contest’s nine categories.
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Winning entries by category
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BATTEN MEDAL
 | A collection of stories spotlighting the cruelties, hopes and fears of the people of Zimbabwe. |
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 | A collection of columns on local people facing adversity. |
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 | Her five stories eloquently explored the subtle effects of the Iraq War on a range of Americans. |
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COMMENTARY/COLUMN
 | A compilation of columns including pieces on the historic election of President Barack Obama. |
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 | A compilation of columns including those on the death of NFL star Sean Taylor, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Jena controversy. |
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 | Columns about the Miami community, including how a local festival to celebrate Cuban history had grown into a marketing ploy. |
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 | What's to Be Done About Darfur? Plenty Never Again, Again? Mr. Bush, This Is Pro-Life? A Policy Of Rape When Rapists Walk Free What's to Be Done Abou... |
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 | Columns on baseball, bathing suits and bosom buddies. |
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 | "The most uncommon auto columnist in the country. ... He delivers great leads, allows no fall off in the writing as he delivers little treasures throughout and yet always rewards the reader at the en... |
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 | Courageous columns about a horrific crime -- the abduction and rape of his daughter. |
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 | Columns from Roger Clinton’s difficulties with a breathalyzer test to the terrorist attacks of September 11, and a San Francisco editor’s adventures with a Komodo dragon. |
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 | Unpredictable, principled columns about everything from the confederate flag, to individuality to reparations |
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 | Columns that include tough commentary on Jesse Jackson visiting Belgrade, the family of Martin Luther King Jr. allying itself with a politician of questionable honesty, and the minority set-aside pro... |
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COMMUNITY SERVICE PHOTOJOURNALISM
 | Photos from At the Edge of Life, dying patients at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas reveal their experiences at the end. |
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 | Photos depicting the various faces of poverty in Texas. |
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 | A collection of photos capturing the colorful fabric of the Boston community. |
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 | The life of John Thomas, a young man facing difficult life choices during a tumultuous year at Washington’s Ballou High School. |
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 | Stark and powerful photos about murder victims and those left behind. |
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 | An intimate face on the humanity of school testing introduced to meet federal mandates. |
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 | Photos that illustrated the effects of urban sprawl and posed questions about its direction and solution. |
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 | Beale won the inaugural photojournalism award for a collage of stunning images showing the importance and diversity of religious faith in the Pittsburgh area. |
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COVERING THE WORLD
 | A series of first-person stories on what Cuba has become. This award recognizes work that helps readers understand international developments that affect and change their communities and lives. Ojito... |
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CRITICISM
 | Davidson was cited for his writing as Newsday’s classical music critic. |
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 | Film reviews. |
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DEADLINE NEWS REPORTING
 | Coverage of a deadly tornado that claimed the lives of four Boy Scouts. |
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| | Stories on a summer fire at a sofa store that claimed the lives of nine city firefighters. |
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 | Various stories including a Memorial Day feature about families paying homage to their loved ones killed in Iraq. |
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 | Detailed accounts of an American medic’s treatment of a member of his platoon in Iraq who was critically wounded by a sniper. |
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| | For coverage of a factory explosion at a complex in Milwaukee’s industrial valley that killed three workers and injured 46. |
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 | Watching Williams Die By John Simerman Contra Costa Times SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON -- Stanley "Tookie" Williams walked in chains and cuffs through th... |
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| | Los Angeles Times (Megan Garvey, Erika Hayasaki, Mitchell Landsberg, Jill Leovy, David Pierson and Richard Winton) |
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| | Coverage of the tsunami disaster in South Asia |
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 | Coverage of urban warfare in Falluja, Iraq |
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| | Empathetic coverage of the Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 and maimed scores. |
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DIVERSITY
 | Stories on the impending loss of the state’s five Native American languages. |
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 | A three-part series providing a close-up look at a new wave of Pentecostalism in the city. |
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 | A three-part series, “An Imam in America,” penetrating the inner life of a mosque in Brooklyn and its dynamic imam. |
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 | Washing Their Hands Of the Last Frontier In the Kitchens of Many Immigrants, Dishwasher Is a Permanent Turnoff Vietnam Buffs Bring Jungle to Va. Reen... |
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 | Stories about arranged marriages in modern America. The main characters include a mid-20s daughter ready for matrimony and parents hoping she will yield to rituals cast thousands of years ago in thei... |
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 | An account of the changes in a town brought by an influx of immigrants. |
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 | Stories about visits to many of the more than 500 Martin Luther King Avenues in communities across America. |
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 | A variety of stories, including the gentrification of an urban area and the post-Sept. 11 struggles of Muslims in Paterson, N.J. |
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 | A personal examination of Sacramento’s Hmong community, which has a tortured history and an uncertain future. These are stories of those struggling to assimilate while clinging to the past: a family ... |
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 | The series “Race and Sports in High School” examines how sports — some of which are still identified as “black” or “white” — can help ethnically and racially diverse players form close friendships, y... |
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EDITORIAL
 | A collection of editorials, including one on permits for students to carry concealed handguns on campus. |
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 | A collection of editorials including one on local librarians banning a children’s book. |
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 | Five-part series of editorials called, “Florida’s Shame,” on how the laws and policies in Florida for managing growth were a sham. |
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 | The Manchurian Televangelist Ernest Wayne Dallas Jr.: Two pictures, one life Bye Bye, American Pie; Hello Whipped Topping The Governor Closes the Bor... |
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 | Editorials about highway deaths, the South and Osama bin Laden. |
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 | He gets quickly to the point, exhibits humor when appropriate and shows a broad range. Most important, he never leaves his point-of-view or suggested remedies in doubt. |
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| | Editorials that broke the rules. "David Barham wrote long, used big quotes and seemed to totally enjoy what he was doing. It worked: His editorials were compelling, had personality, impact, character... |
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 | Editorials that are graceful, clever, evocative, humorous. |
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 | Commentary on topics including Sept. 11 and the war sacrifices that would be cheapened by efforts to sell the naming rights to a renovated Soldier Field. “In a classic editorial writing style, McCorm... |
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 | Editorials about privatizing public schools, a death penalty case filled with doubt, and a call to Baltimore residents to speak out about crime. |
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LOCAL ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING
 | For a series of stories revealing how officials in the poultry industry ignored and threatened injured workers. |
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| | Stories exposing the deep and widespread problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. |
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| | Ken Armstrong, Justin Mayo, and Steve Miletich, for a series of stories, “Your Courts, Their Secrets,” that revealed how judges in the state’s largest county had llegally sealed hundreds of civil cas... |
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| | Taft must decide if doubts justify reprieve for Spirko Unresolved issues, undisclosed evidence cited in Spirko case Give me polygraph in Spirko case ... |
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NONDEADLINE
 | For stories of her rape 20 years ago and her search to find the man who did it. |
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 | A collection of feature stories including one on daredevil Evel Knievel and his fears of growing old. |
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 | For a series of stories chronicling the final five months of hospice care of a retired insurance executive at a nursing home on Chicago’s North Shore. |
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 | Final Salute April 24, 2006 By Jim Sheeler Rocky Mountain News To our readers: Almost everyone has heard of “the knock at the door”—the knock that al... |
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 | The kidnapping on an 88-year-old grandmother in a small town in Wisconsin. |
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 | An account of a 13-year-old girl’s fateful venture into the Internet chat room culture |
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 | Stories exploring five of the biggest unanswered questions of science. |
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 | Teenage boys plucked from Sudan and placed in suburban homes and high schools. |
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 | A story exploring the journey of a horribly deformed youngster who risked everything in a dangerous surgery he hoped would make him look more normal. |
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 | A series documenting one family’s emotional, medical and moral journey with genetic testing, and the birth, and first birthday of a Down syndrome child. |
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OBITUARY
 | “A Life Story,” a series of longer obits that feature a church housekeeper, a rabbit farmer, and a NASA scientist who also taught African dance. |
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PASSION FOR JOURNALISM
 | Smith took the passion for journalism competition, this year’s designated special category. The judges said his editor’s column is "an impressive example of a classic small town editor facing numerou... |
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PROFILE
 | Powerful narratives that resist the push to be maudlin, the writer displays a great gift for showing subjects through a variety of lenses. |
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SHORT WRITING
 | A story about a photo found inside the wreckage of the World Trade Center. |
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