Award Highlights
Finalist for Pulitzer Prize, Winner of RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award
Lethal Restraint (2024)
RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award
Off the Rails (2025)
Online News Association Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award
Mega Billions (2022)
Investigative Reporters & Editors Medal
Printing Hate (2021)
Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Collaborative Journalism
Nowhere To Go - Criminalization, Encampments (2020)
National Press Foundation Innovative Storytelling Award
Code Red: Baltimore's Climate Divide (2019)
Honors By The Numbers
39
awards won
27
finalists or similar
All Howard Center Awards & Recognition
2025
Off the Rails
- Radio Television Digital News Association, Edward R. Murrow Award in Investigative Reporting — Small Digital Organization category
- Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, Best in Business Award for Student Journalism — Stories for Student Media Outlets category
- Finalist for Society of Professional Journalists' National Mark of Excellence Award, Investigative Reporting category
2024
Lethal Restraint
- Finalist for Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting
- Winner of RTDNA, Edward R. Murrow Award for News Series (Large Digital Organization)
- Winner of National Headliner Award, Digital Journalism Best in Show
- Winner of National Headliner Award, First Place in Best Online investigative reporting for digital partnerships with other news outlets
- Special Citation from USC Annenburg, Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting
- Finalist for Online News Association, Online Journalism Awards, Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling, Large Newsroom
- Finalist for Online News Association, Online Journalism Awards, Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships
- Finalist for News and Documentary Emmy Award, Outstanding Investigative News Coverage – Long Form
- Finalist for News and Documentary Emmy Award, Outstanding Research – News
- Finalist for Royal Television Society, Television Journalism Awards, Digital Journalism
- Finalist for The Deadline Club, Public Service Award
- Finalist for Webby Award, News and Politics Video and Film
- Semifinalist for The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Planes, Trains and Luxury Stays
- Investigative Reporters & Editors Award, first place in the Student - Large category
- Society of Professional Journalists' Region 2 Mark of Excellence Award, Collaborative Journalism category
- Finalist for Society of Professional Journalists' National Mark of Excellence Award, Collaborative Journalism category
2023
Gambling on Campus
- Investigative Reporters & Editors Award, first place in the Student - Large category
- Associated Press Sports Editors, first place in the 2023 contest's Division D Projects category
2022
Mega Billions: The great lottery wealth transfer
- Online News Association, Online Journalism Awards, The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Small Newsroom
- Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, Shaufler Prize in Journalism (Student category)
- Finalist for Investigative Reporters & Editors Award, Student - Large category
- Ranked the No. 5 journalism collaboration of 2022 by the Center for Cooperative Media
Unlevel Playing Fields
- Associated Press Sports Editors, First place in the 2022 contest's Division C/D Projects category
- The Drake Group, Student Journalism Prize for Investigative Reporting on Intercollegiate Athletics
- Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia Press Association, Second prize in contest's Division O (online-only) Investigative Reporting category
- Cited by the Women's Sports Foundation report, "50 Years of Title IX: We’re Not Done Yet"
2021
Printing Hate
- Investigative Reporters & Editors Medal
- Investigative Reporters & Editors Award, Student - Large category
- News Leaders Association, Punch Sulzberger Innovator of the Year Award
- Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi Award for Collaborative Journalism
- Online News Association, Online Journalism Award, Student Journalism Award for Portfolio: Student Team
- Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia Press Association, Courage in Journalism Award
- Ranked the No. 6 journalism collaboration of 2021 by the Center for Cooperative Media
2020
Nowhere To Go - Evictions
- Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi Award for Collaborative Journalism
- Society of Professional Journalists (D.C. Chapter), Dateline Award, Non-Breaking Online News category
- Society of Professional Journalists (Region 1), Mark of Excellence Award, In-Depth Reporting (Large) 10,000+ Students category
- Finalist for Investigative Reporters & Editors Award, Student - Large category
- Collaboration was the subject of a story by the Center for Cooperative Media, entitled “Inside one of the largest college journalism collaborations ever”
- Ranked the No. 7 journalism collaboration of 2020 by the Center for Cooperative Media
2019
Code Red: Baltimore's Climate Divide
- Scripps Howard Award, Topic of the Year category
- National Press Foundation, Innovative Storytelling Award
- News Leaders Association, Punch Sulzberger Award for Innovative Storytelling
- Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi Award for Collaborative Journalism
- Philip Meyer Journalism Award competition, Honorable Mention
- National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, Digital Media Award