Ryan Williams is the recipient of the 2023 NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists Leadership Award. Williams is the Digital and Special Events Producer at the D.C. Public Library. Since joining at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ryan has successfully produced...
Erin Reed is the recipient of the 2024 Jeanne Córdova Award. Reed (she/her) is a transgender journalist based in Washington, D.C. One of her earliest data projects was a Google Map tracking the availability of informed consent clinics, locations where trans people can...
Imara Jones is the recipient of the 2023 Lisa Ben Award for Achievement in Features Coverage. Imara Jones, whose work has won Emmy and Peabody Awards, is the creator of TransLash Media, a cross-platform, non-profit journalism and narrative organization, which produces...
Judy Wieder’s career has spanned roles as a folk singer, gold-record winning songwriter, journalist and the first female editor-in-chief of The Advocate. She wrote Grammy-winning songs for artists like the 5th Dimension and Ben Vereen. In 1992, Wieder became the...
Kevin Thomas, a Los Angeles Times film critic for over 50 years, is widely regarded as the dean of American movie critics. Beginning his reviews in 1962, he became the longest-running critic for a single newspaper in U.S. history. From 1984 to 2005, he wrote the...
Jeffrey Schmalz began his career as a copy boy in 1973 and worked at The New York Times for his entire professional life, becoming a political editor and reporter on HIV and AIDS. In December 1990, he suffered a brain seizure that revealed he was living with AIDS....
The Bay Area Reporter, recipient of the 2022 Legacy Award, is the country’s oldest continuously published LGBTQ newspaper, and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021. The newspaper has long documented the queer community, from drag performances and the Imperial Court...
FOR RELEASE: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 PRESS CONTACT: Clare LefeburePress@nlgja.org or 202-588-9888 WASHINGTON, DC - Today, NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists announced the recipients of its 2023 Excellence in Journalism Awards and recognized exemplary work...
Award winning journalist David Crary is the recipient of the 2023 Randy Shilts Award for LGBTQ+ Coverage, which honors journalists who consistently bring stories of the LGBTQ+ community to life in mainstream media outlets. “David Crary has consistently produced...
Christina Kahrl is the 2023 recipient of the Jeanne Córdova Award. Kahrl has been the sports editor for The San Francisco Chronicle since 2021, where she became one of the few women ever named to lead a sports section for a major daily newspaper, and the first...