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Washington Post bags three Scripps Howard Awards

The Washington Post has won three 2019 Scripps Howard Foundation Awards along with being a finalist in four award categories, reports The Post.

The Post won in the “Breaking News” category for its coverage of the August 2019 mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. In the “Human Interest” category, it won for National Reporter Eli Saslow’s coverage of the poor state of rural healthcare in America.

The Post was also the winner in the “Investigative Reporting” category for National Reporter Craig Whitlock’s reporting on the Afghanistan papers. Additionally, the publication was also named a finalist in the “Innovation” category; in the “Multimedia Journalism” category for “Gone in a Generation,”; in the “Visual Journalism” category for Photojournalist Jahi Chikwendiu’s 2019 portfolio: “From My Own Backyard,” and in the “Human Interest” category for its reporting on “Lives of Everyday Americans.”

Mariam Ahmed

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