CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF WILBUR 2019 WILBUR AWARDS

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNICATING RELIGIOUS ISSUES, VALUES AND THEMES IN THE PUBLIC MEDIA

AN INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATORS FOUNDED IN 1929 RELIGIONCOMMUNICATORS.ORG Dear Wilbur Award Recipient, Congratulations to you for receiving the 2019 2019 WILBUR AWARD WINNERS Wilbur Award. This award represents the best in religion communication and reflects your efforts to create public content that advances religious literacy and promotes religious values. NEWSPAPERS I am thrilled you could join us for this 70th anniversary celebration of the Wilbur Awards. National or Top 15 Metro Markets Once again, my sincerest congratulations to you on this great “China Clamps Down” (series) achievement and I wish you all continued success in the The Associated Press future. Yanan Wang, AP reporter; Dake Kang, Sincerely, AP video journalist Jacqueline F. Fuller RCC President All Other Markets “Tree of Life Synagogue Attack” Host: Fr. James (Jim) Gardiner Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Andrew Goldstein, Alexandra Wimley, Stephanie Strasburg, Fr. James Gardiner, SA, is a Bronx-born Franciscan Friar of the Stephanie Chambers, David Shribman, Peter Smith Atonement (Graymoor) and is currently the director of special projects for the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington, D.C. Blog/Column Jim graduated from St. Pius X Seminary and the Catholic “Billy Graham, the Last Nonpartisan Evangelical?” University of America; he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1969. He has ministered in New York City, New York Times College Park (MD), Akron (OH) and twice in Jonathan Merritt, writer Garrison (NY) – first as communications director for the Friars and later as director of the Graymoor Spiritual Life Center. BOOKS

Fiction The Next Person You Meet in Heaven Harper, HarperCollins Phillips Theological Seminary, a community Mitch Albom, author of teachers and students that offers online and on-campus courses across the US and Non-Fiction abroad, is a proud Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs sponsor of the Wilbur Awards. She Writes Press Beth Ricanati, MD, author Visit their website at https://www.ptstulsa.edu/

Non-Fiction Grateful: The Transformative Power of MAGAZINES Giving Thanks HarperOne, HarperCollins National or Top 15 Metro Markets Diana Butler Bass, author “Pope Versus Pope” Vanity Fair FILMS AND VIDEO John Cornwell, writer Documentary (up to 30 min.) The Secret History of Commentary/Blog/Column Muslims in the U.S. “When Islamophobia Backfires” Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Texas Observer Smartypants Pictures & Animadocs David Brockman, writer Negin Farsad, Zeyba Rahman, Hussein Rashid, Joshua Seftel, Maria Stanisheva FILMS AND VIDEO TELEVISION AND CABLE Drama Documentary (30 min. +) “Faith Under Fire: The Antoinette Tuff Story” The Gate: Dawn of the Baha’i Faith A&E Lifetime Spring Green Films T.D. Jakes, Derrick Williams, Craig Baumgarten, Steve Sarowitz, executive producer/writer; Toni Braxton, and Judith Verno, executive Bob Hercules, director/producer/writer; producers; Larry Rapaport, producer; Vondie Edward A. Price, producer/writer; Curtis Hall, director; Laura Harrington and Adam Mondschein, producer Stephen Kay, teleplay News - Segment DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS The CBS Evening News: Sikhs in Semis CBS News Online News Stories Jim Axelrod, correspondent; Mosheh “A gunman killed his brother. Now Farris Oinounou, executive producer; Barakat is on an American journey.” Javier Guzman, senior producer; CNN Sharaf Mowjood, producer Moni Basu, writer News – Network or National Syndication (4-8 min.) Multimedia or Video Unbroken “A Gift of Dance” Pittsburgh Post Gazette CBS News Sunday Morning Shelly Bradbury, story; Andrew Rush Lesley Stahl, correspondent; Mary Lou and Steve Mellon, video; Ben Howard Teel, producer; April Wilson, editor; and Sam Underwood, design Rand Morrison, executive producer development; Lillian Thomas, editor; staff at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette News – Network or National Syndication (8 min. +) RADIO OR PODCASTS “60 Minutes: Inside the Secret Archive” Single Program CBS 60 Minutes “ ‘I’m Feeling it, too’ – Sister Helen Prejean on Bill Whitaker, correspondent Meeting Despair with Hope” Guy Campanile, producer Lucy Hatcher, associate producer CBC Radio, Toronto, Canada Craig Crawford, editor Melissa Gismondi and Arman Aghbali, Bill Owens, executive producer associate producers; Rosie Fernandez and Erin Noel, senior producers; Mary Hynes, host News Story – Local or Regional Series of Programs (two or more) “Making His Mark” “Can These Bones: A Faith and Leadership Podcast” WTWO TV, Terre Haute, IN Faith & Leadership, Durham, NC Sierra Hignite, reporter; Josh Lum, photographer Rev. Laura Everett and Rev. William H. “Bill” Lamar IV, co-hosts; Dave Odom and Kelly Ryan, Documentary (up to 30 min.) executive directors; Deconstructing My Religion Sally Hicks, executive producer; CBS Television: Religion and Culture Jessamyn Rubio, technical manager Elizabeth Kineke, producer; Elyse Kaftan, editor; Yuti Joshi, associate producer TELEVISION AND CABLE Documentary (30 min. + ) Interview Jesus: Countdown to Calvary Religion in Life RTÉ/ARTE/American Public Television Appalachian State University Hugh Bonneville, presenter; Gerry Hoban, director; Conrad (Ozzie) Ostwalt, host; Eric Luskin & Cynthia Fenneman, commissioning Jesse Jackson, guest; executives (American Public Television); Kelly Hunter, Producer: Religion in Life; Béatrice Aullen, commissioning executive (ARTE); Rob Gelber, General Manager, AppTV Roger Childs & Ray Bruce, executive producers (RTE) Since 1949, the Religion Communicators Council has annually honored examples of excellence by secular communicators in presenting religious issues, values, and themes through various media. That recognition is central to our historic mission. This year we commemorate 70 years of promoting faith perspectives in public discourse through the Wilbur Awards. Thank you for sharing your outstanding stories of faith and values to your audiences.

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NEWSPAPERS: National or Top 15 Metro Markets FILMS AND VIDEO: Drama DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS: TELEVISION & CABLE: Documentary (up to 30 min.) “In The Crosshairs: Muslims in Trump’s America"; A Heart That Forgives; AHTF Films LLC; Multimedia or Video Faith on the Frontlines; CBS Television: Religion and BuzzFeed News; Hannah Allam, reporter M. Legend Brown, director; Kelly Gay, Westar on the Road: The Quest for Religious Culture; Elizabeth Kineke, producer; Elyse Kaftan, producer; Ken Jenkins, writer, executive Literacy; Butlerfilms LLC; Jeanine Butler, editor; Jennie Kamin, associate producer NEWSPAPERS: All Other Markets producer, screenwriter; TK Henderson, director/writer; Catherine Lynn Butler, “The Long Road to a Religious Freedom Victory for screenwriter produce/writer; Jamie Lee Godfrey, TELEVISION & CABLE: Documentary (30 min. +) Sikhs in the U.S. Army”; Deseret News; editor/motion graphics; Patrick Sheehan and An American Conscience: The Reinhold Neibuhr Kelsey Dallas, religion reporter FILMS AND VIDEO: Reuben Aaronson, cinematographers; James Story; Journey Films; Martin Doblmeier, Documentary (30 minutes or longer) Kasper, executive producer writer/director/producer/narrator; Nathan Dewild, MAGAZINE: National or Top 15 Metro Markets Bending the Arc; Kief Davidson and Pedro videographer/editor/producer; Anthony Bellissimo, The Rise of the Televangelist Who Advises the Kos, directors; Cori Shepherd Stern, writer; TELEVISION & CABLE: News – Network or graphics; Jen Quintana and Andrew Finstuen, White House; The Washington Post Magazine; Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern, National Syndication (up to 8 min.) producers Julia Duin, writer; Mary F. Calvert, photographer producers “A Place at the Table”; CBS Sunday Morning; Richard Buddenhagen, producer/editor; Nancy RADIO OR PODCASTS: Single Program MAGAZINE: All Other Markets DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS: Giles, correspondent; Rand Morrison, executive “Welcoming the Stranger”; Interfaith Voices; Laura “And Still We Rise”; Modern Farmer; Jeff Chu, Faith-Based Blog (3 samples) producer Kwerel, producer; Ruth Morris, guest host/producer; writer Motorcycle Diaries: Friday the 13th Bike Rally; Amber Khan, editor; Maureen Fiedler, host of Inner and Outer Harmony - Ian Miguel's TELEVISION & CABLE: News – Network or Interfaith Voices MAGAZINE: Commentary/Blog/Column Story; Interfaith Peace Resources; CryPeace; National Syndication (8 min.+) “Two North Texas Evangelicals Ask: Who Would Carole St. Laurent, blogger “Sanctuary”; CBS 60 Minutes; Scott Pelley, RADIO OR PODCASTS: Series of Programs (two or Jesus Deport?”; Texas Observer; David Brockman, correspondent; Jeff Fager, executive producer; more) writer DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS: Social media Oriana Zill de Granados, Michael Rey, Dina “See Something Say Something: Ramadan Series”; An America Without Muslims?; Institute for Zingaro, and Jorge Garcia, producers; Bill BuzzFeed News; Ahmed Ali Akbar, host; Meg BOOKS: Fiction Social Policy and Understanding; Katie Owens, executive editor Cramer, editor; Megan Detrie, producer; Agerenesh The Noel Diary; Simon & Schuster; Richard Paul Grimes, video editor; Dalia Mogahed, script Ashagre, producer; Eleanor Kagan, director of audio Evans, author writer TELEVISION & CABLE: News Story – Local or Regional RADIO OR PODCASTS: Documentary (up to 30 BOOKS: Non-Fiction DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS: “Wrongly Imprisoned Pastor Preaches min.) Being Hindu: Understanding a Peaceful Path in a Online News Stories Forgiveness”; KSHB-TV41; Patrick Fazio, reporter “An American Mosque”; Produced independently in Violent World; “How Christians Across America Are Fighting and writer; Chase Lucas, photographer and conjunction with WBEZ Broadcasting; Monique Rowman & Littlefield; Hindol Sengupta, author Trump’s Refugee Ban”; Bright Magazine editor Parsons, reporter; Deborah George, editor; Cate Laura Rena Murray, writer Cahan, WBEZ editor; Derek John, sound BOOKS: Non-Fiction designer/producer Stakes is High: Race, Faith, and Hope for America; Chalice Press; Michael W. Waters, author