| ID Number |
YR given |
Rank | Recipient | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1163 | 2026 | Winner | Rodika Tollefson | From Art 2 Zen (Substack pieces) |
| 1139 | 2026 | Winner | Alex Brown | The Fish That Climbed a Mountain |
| 1161 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Michael Franklin | The Young Republicans Chat Echoes the Citizens Councils of the 1950s and 60s |
| 1160 | 2026 | Winner | Derrick Z. Jackson | EPA Staff Stand Firm as Administration Lobs Cuts... (and related series) |
| 1157 | 2026 | Winner | Christopher Klein | Hitchcock's 'The Birds' Was Partly Inspired by a Real-Life Event |
| 1156 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Emily P.G. Erickson | What RFK Jr. Gets Wrong About Autism |
| 1153 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Jen Reeder | How to support pet pantries -- and why it's so important right now |
| 1150 | 2026 | Winner | Rachel E. Gross | Sex Hormones Are Brain Hormones. What Does That Mean for Treating Brain Diseases? |
| 1149 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Tara Haelle | Cutting back on ultra-processed foods sounds easy. The truth is much more complicated. |
| 1148 | 2026 | Winner | Andrea Cooper | At This Harlem Chef's Table, the Rosh Hashana Menu is Full of Ethiopian Spices |
| 1146 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Rachel Drucker | Men Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back |
| 1145 | 2026 | Winner | Hannah Engler Harvey | Beloved Bother |
| 1143 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Taylor Knopf | Holly Hill Under Scrutiny Again & Despite Years of Safety Violations, Holly Hill Hospital Looks to Treat More Patients |
| 1140 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Cari Shane | Can Mussels Save Philadelphia's Waterways? |
| 1151 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Amber Dance | We Are All Genetic Mosaics |
| 1138 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Spencer Norris | How Hotels, Once a Last Resort, Became New York's Answer to Homelessness |
| 1136 | 2026 | Winner | Hanif Abdurraqib | 20 Years Later: Little Brother; 30 Years Later: Groove Theory; 40 Years Later: Sade |
| 1135 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Ann Larson | Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought |
| 1134 | 2026 | Winner | Andrea Cooper | Inside the Ludwig Drums Factory |
| 1129 | 2026 | Winner | JoAnn Greco | Chasing Every Cure |
| 1137 | 2026 | Winner | Ottavia Spaggiari | Nowhere to Go: Inside the Texas Board Home System, Where Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation Are Widespread |
| 1162 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Nicole Carr | The school board was the testing ground for the fall of democracy |
| 1159 | 2026 | Winner | Jordan Blumetti | The Machine in the Garden |
| 1158 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | John Hanc | With 500 Species, Long Island Is a Birders' Paradise |
| 1154 | 2026 | Winner | Amber Dance | How cancer cells travel to new tissues and take hold |
| 1144 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Steven Yoder | A School District Singled Out By Trump Says It Teaches 'Whole Truth History' |
| 1132 | 2026 | Winner | Christina Hernandez Sherwood | Prioritizing Women's Health |
| 1131 | 2026 | Winner | Adrienne Samuels Gibbs | Hope and History in Verse |
| 1130 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Dan Friedman | AI and Judaism series |
| 1128 | 2026 | Winner | Kate Nelson | The Native-Led Forensics Lab Dedicated to Solving Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Cases |
| 1133 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Daliah Singer | Craft Whiskey Comes Home to the Rockies |
| 1147 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Tod Goldberg | At the Knee |
| 1152 | 2026 | Winner | Kimberly Lankford | Your Disaster Preparation Toolkit |
| 1142 | 2026 | Winner | Kevin Maurer | Is This the Hardest Physical Contest in the World? |
| 1141 | 2026 | Winner | Drew Philp | There Will Be No Mercy |
| 1155 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Conor Kelley | What's behind the gilded doors of Aegis senior living? |
| 1164 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Gwen Moran | Bloom Anywhere (Kit.com pieces) |
| 1165 | 2026 | Winner | Christa Hillstrom | 14,445 and Counting |
| 1166 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Tom Hallman Jr. | Get Me to the Church on Time |
| 1167 | 2026 | Winner | Michelle Polizzi | Will Cuts in Rural Programs Leave the Same Lasting Wounds as the 2008 Financial Crisis? |
| 1168 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Asha Dore | My daughter's health was a mystery. The answer was on the other side of the world |
| 1169 | 2026 | Winner | Fletcher Reveley | Grave Mistakes: The History and Future of Chile's 'Disappeared' |
| 1170 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Rachel Nuwer | Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It's Slowing Down. |
| 1171 | 2026 | Winner | Elaine Appleton Grant | Who will feed Americans after Trump's cuts? This food pantry is stepping up |
| 1172 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Jeff Oloizia | Return to sender: The censorship battle playing out in Wisconsin prisons |
| 1173 | 2026 | Winner | Benjamin Charles Germain Lee | Uncanny Testimony |
| 1174 | 2026 | Winner | Tara Haelle | Symptom Invalidation in Clinically Uncertain Diagnoses Can Leave Lasting Mental Health Harms |
| 1175 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Rita Colorito | Truth, Noise, and Nonsense in Medicine |
| 1176 | 2026 | Winner | Blane Bachelor | Final destinations: What happens when the dead go traveling |
| 1177 | 2026 | Winner | Wendy Helfenbaum | Traveling Solo? Pair Up With an International Greeter |
| 1178 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Robin Catalano | Indigenous tourism is thriving in Canada -- here's why |
| 1179 | 2026 | Winner | Sharael Kolberg | In Quebec, Ice Canoeing Turns Frozen Rivers Into Adventure Playgrounds |
| 1180 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Robin Catalano | In Belize, Maya Descendants Are Reviving an Ancient, Sacred Ballgame |
| 1181 | 2026 | Winner | Sean Sherman with Kate Nelson and Kristin Donnelly | Turtle Island |
| 1182 | 2026 | Winner | Jack El-Hai | Face in the Mirror |
| 1183 | 2026 | Winner | Sarah Weinman | Without Consent |
| 1184 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Keir Graff | Chicago's Fine Arts Building |
| 1185 | 2026 | Winner | Melanie D.G. Kaplan | Lab Dog |
| 1186 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Jens Heycke | Death, Taxes, and Turduckens |
| 1187 | 2026 | Winner | Artis Henderson | No Ordinary Bird |
| 1188 | 2026 | Winner | John J. Lennon | The Tragedy of True Crime |
| 1189 | 2026 | Winner | Jen Tota McGivney | Finding Your Walden |
| 1190 | 2026 | Honorable Mention | Melinda Wenner Moyer | Hello, Cruel World! |