Word&Way this month won 22 awards for work in 2020. These awards from our peers in religious journalism affirm our quality work as we provide real news with the Good News. Since 1978, we have won more than 200 awards. Here are our winning entries this year:
Associated Church Press
- Award of Excellence in magazine photo spread for Brian Kaylor’s photos of people wearing masks
- Award of Excellence in online photo spread for Kaylor’s photos of vandalism at Mount Vernon Missionary Baptist Church
- Award of Merit in podcast for “Baptist Without An Adjective”
- Award of Merit in online personal experience (short format) for Beau Underwood’s “What If No One Comes Back to Church After Coronavirus?”
- Award of Merit in magazine feature article (short format) for Kaylor’s “The First Baptist Vice President”
- Honorable Mention in humor for Kaylor’s “Treating Costco Like My Church”
Evangelical Press Association
- Second Place in humor for Kaylor’s “Treating Costco Like My Church”
- Third Place in editorial for Kaylor’s “The Trees of Auschwitz”
- Fifth Place in infographic for Satterfield’s “News by the Numbers”
Religion Communicators Council
- Category Winner in editorial series for three-part “too literal news reader” (here, here, and here)
- Category Winner in magazine feature series for Kaylor’s six-part “international faith & politics”
- Category Winner in photography series for Kaylor’s photos of vandalism at Mount Vernon Missionary Baptist Church
- Award of Excellence in magazine article for Kaylor’s piece on “The USPS is Under Attack”
- Award of Merit in podcast series for “Baptist Without An Adjective”
Baptist Communicators Association
- First Place in single long feature article for Kaylor’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” which also won the grand prize Leonard Holloway Award for Exceptional Achievement in Feature Writing
- First Place in single long news article for Kaylor’s “The USPS is Under Attack”
- First Place in overall podcast show for “Baptist Without An Adjective”
- First Place in magazine cover design for the October 2020 issue
- Second Place in editorial for Kaylor’s “The Trees of Auschwitz”
- Third Place in feature series for Kaylor’s six-part “international faith & politics”
- Third Place in feature photo series for Kaylor’s photos of vandalism at Mount Vernon Missionary Baptist Church
