ZENGER PRIZE
WINNERS
A winning story or podcast has ground-level reporting and lucid writing. It's also successful in at least one of these three ways: Helping us to see the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. Showing us the lives of those who lack position and power (such as the unborn, the unhoused, the uneducated, or the unemployed) and helping us to care about them. Illuminating the hope that the Bible provides.
In an age of opinion-slinging, ground-level reporting of rugged reality is worthy of double honor. Zenger Prize winners published in 2024 described desperate immigrants and despairing homeless men and women. They covered the courage of Hurricane Helena flood victim rescuers and an 11-year-old who drove his younger siblings to school. They portrayed doctors amid Sudan's civil war who saved hundreds of orphans, a midwife in India who rescued one newborn, and many others worth meeting.
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2024 Zenger Prizes recognized authors of stories about the challenges of drug rehabilitation, a corrupt Louisiana appeals courts, and trends in evangelicalism, among others.
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Stories about capital punishment, homelessness, Boston’s elderly poor, and hard lives in Haiti and Afghanistan are among the 10 winners of 2023 Zenger Prizes.
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2022 Zenger Prizes recognized authors of stories about the problems of evangelicalism, the struggles of Christians in China, the skepticism of African Americans about election reform, and the man who served the longest-known wrongful prison sentence in American history, among others.
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