Yearly Awards
AWARDS
We in the LGBTQ+ community have our own heroes: LGBTQ+ journalists who have shown courage and resolve by telling the truth, including their own personal truths, whatever the cost and whatever the difficulties. NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists continually seeks to recognize those heroes in our midst. Since its inception, NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists has recognized the work of hundreds of journalists.
Randy Shilts Award for LGBTQ+ Coverage
The Randy Shilts Award for LGBTQ+ Coverage is an award designed to honor journalists who consistently bring stories of the LGBTQ+ community to life in mainstream media outlets. The award honors individual journalists and news organizations who go the extra mile to ensure that all Americans are aware of the diversity within the LGBTQ+ community, as well as the unique struggles LGBTQ+ people face in the United States and around the world.
Jeanne Córdova Award
The Jeanne Córdova Award recognizes the achievement of an LGBTQ woman for a current body of work in journalism and/or opinion, with an emphasis on but not exclusively coverage of issues of importance to the LGBTQ community, in any medium and on any platform.
Lisa Ben Award for Achievement in Features Coverage
The Lisa Ben Award for Achievement in Features Coverage is designed to honor a journalist whose body of work is distinguished by insight and impact through engaging features on LGBTQ+ individuals, the LGBTQ+ community or LGBTQ+ issues.
Leadership Award
The NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists Leadership Award, sponsored by Randy Lovely and the Gannett Foundation, recognizes individuals who have made a positive impact on their newsrooms by increasing diversity and improving coverage of the LGBTQ community.
Legacy Award
The NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists Legacy Award was created to recognize an outlet, publication or news organization that has exhibited innovative, high-quality and sustained news coverage of the LGBTQ+ community over an extended period of time.
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