The Washington Post has won two National Headliner Awards brought home by Tokyo bureau chief Simon Denyer and gender reporter Samantha Schmidt and demography reporter Tara Bahrampour.
Denyer’s three-part examination of Japan’s uneasy relationship with whales and dolphins won for international news beat coverage or continuing story by an individual or team.
Schmidt and Bahrampour won in the new series category for “Beyond the Binary,” a three-part series exploring changing views on gender and the disconnect that’s created across generational and ideological lines.
