The Society of Environmental Journalists is pleased to announce the winners of the SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment, which honor the best articles, radio broadcasts and videos released from March 1, 2019, through February 29, 2020, and the best books on environmental topics published in 2019.
The SEJ contest is the world’s largest and most comprehensive environmental journalism competition. The number of entries in the 2020 contest peaked at 499, another all-time high for the contest. Entries were judged by independent panels of journalists and professors.
Winners were honored at the #SEJ2020 Virtual Conference on Sept. 16, 23 and 30, including the live announcement of the winner of the Nina Mason Pulliam Award and $10,000 cash prize, selected from the first-place winners in all categories.
SEJ’s 2020 Awards for Reporting on the Environment are…
- Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting (Large Newsroom or Circulation)
- Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting (Small Newsroom or Circulation)
- Outstanding Beat Reporting (Large Newsroom or Circulation)
- Outstanding Beat Reporting (Small Newsroom or Circulation)
- Outstanding Explanatory Reporting (Large Newsroom or Circulation)
- Outstanding Explanatory Reporting (Small Newsroom or Circulation)
- Outstanding Feature Story (Large Newsroom or Circulation)
- Outstanding Feature Story (Small Newsroom or Circulation)
- Outstanding Student Reporting
- Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
