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Washington Post’s Singletary wins NABJ award

Michelle Singletary

Washington Post business editor Lori Montgomery and executive local editor Jamie Stockwell sent out the following:

We are delighted to announce that two Washington Post journalists were honored with Salute to Excellence awards by the National Association of Black Journalists at its annual conference last weekend.

Personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary took first place in the commentary/essay category for large newsrooms for two of her insightful nationally syndicated “Color of Money” columns: “Our kids don’t want our paid-off house — or our ashes” and “Crypto is not the key to Black generational wealth.” The columns are vintage Michelle – wise, plainspoken and empathetic. Just last year, NABJ presented Michelle with its Legacy Award, which honors Black journalists of extraordinary accomplishment. And the year before, Michelle was recognized with a Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award.

Metro reporter Jasmine Hilton won in the single feature category for large newsrooms for a group of mothers who channeled their grief over losing their sons to gun violence into a play. The story, which built on Jasmine’s years of dogged beat reporting on Prince George’s County law enforcement, offered a sensitive and intimate portrait of the mothers as they sought to keep their sons’ names alive and find purpose amid their unshakeable sadness. Jasmine said it was her first professional journalism award. We’re sure it won’t be her last.

In addition, Metro’s oral history of the March on Washington, a moving look at an important piece of D.C. and American history anchored by reporter Clarence Williams, was recognized as a nominee in the Special Project categoryAnd former NABJ president Vanessa Williams, who recently retired after 27 years as a reporter and editor at The Post, was inducted into the NABJ Hall of Fame in recognition of her outstanding contributions to American journalism.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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