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Stacy Kranitz and Kavitha Surana

The full list of honorees for the 2025 RFK Journalism Awards can be found below.

High School Journalism
High school journalists are fighting back against censorship
PrismReports
Marium Zahra

College Journalism
Failure to Comply
Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, Cronkite School of Journalism, Arizona State University 
Mia Berry, Chad Bradley, Sam Ellefson, Aspen Ford, Christopher Lomahquahu, Madison Perales, Reagan Priest, and Eshaan Sarup

Non-traditional Media
Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust
Long Lead, The Trace, Campside Media, and PRX
John Patrick Pullen and Garrett Graff with Emily Martinez and Jennifer Mascia

Domestic Print
Steward Health Care investigation
The Boston Globe Spotlight team

Domestic Photography and Grand Prize Winner
The Year After A Denied Abortion
ProPublica
Stacy Kranitz and Kavitha Surana

Domestic Television 
The Sing Sing Chronicles
NBC News Studios and Trilogy Films
Dan Slepian, Dawn Porter, and Kimberley Ferdinando

International Print
South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning
FRONTLINE PBS and The Associated Press
Kim Tong-Hyung, Claire Galofaro, and Lora Moftah

International Photography and John Seigenthaler Courage in Journalism Award
Children of Gaza: Surrounded by War
Associated Press
Abdel Kareem Hana

International Television
A Year of War: Israelis and Palestinians
FRONTLINE (PBS)

Radio
Inheriting
Emily Kwong along with James Chow, Anjuli Sastry Krbechek, Catherine Mailhouse, Minju Park and Sara Sarasohn
LAist Studios

Reporting on Incarceration and Criminalization
How a largely debunked diagnosis keeps innocent parents in prison — and lives on in the courts today under a new name, tearing children apart from their families.
ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine
Pamela Colloff

Cartoon
Work of Lalo Alcaraz
Andrews McMeel Syndication