Military Reporters and Editors is excited to announce the winners of its annual journalism contest. The 2025 winners represent the best work in print, radio, television, audio and digital. Journalists from 21 different publications received awards, ranging from the Washington Post and Politico, to Stars and Stripes and The Hill.
W.J. Hennigan, with the New York Times, won the prestigious Joe Galloway Award. Hennigan is a New York Times Opinion correspondent covering the U.S. military and national security issues from Washington, D.C. His winning entry “The Warning and The Price” are in-depth, interactive stories examining two aspects of the growing nuclear threat environment and the arms race of the future.
Davis Winkie has been awarded the James Crawley Award for a series of pieces in Army Times which analyzed Army death records to learn that between 2019 and 2021, tank brigades experienced a suicide rate twice as high as the rest of the active duty force. The culprit: a high operational tempo away from home for training or deployments. Winkie is now an Atlanta- and DC-based reporter who covers the White House, nuclear threats and national security for USA TODAY.
This Military Reporters and Editors contest received a record number of entries. The awards will be presented at our annual conference on Nov. 7, in Washington, DC.
This year’s schedule includes former longtime CNN Pentagon Reporter Barbara Starr and former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. Among our panels is a discussion of press freedom in the challenging environment of new Pentagon restrictions; Efforts to stop the deportation of Afghans who worked with U.S. military; A foreign correspondent roundtable. It will also include an off the record session with public affairs officers from several branches.
A complete list of speakers will be posted on the Military Reporters and Editors website.
Again, congratulations to all of our winners.
MRE Board of Directors
Joe Galloway Award
The Warning and The Price
W.J. Hennigan, NY Times
James Crawley Award
Davis Winkie series on suicide investigation, Army Times
Breaking News Division 1
Daniel Lippman and Jack Detsch, Series on Pentagon Leaks,
POLITICO
Breaking News Division 2
Diana Stancy, Former USS Howard CO was fired after ‘racially harassing comments’,
Navy Times
Commentary | Opinion Division 1
Joslin Joseph, series of commentary, The Hill
Commentary | Opinion Division 2
Charlotte Clymer
Honorable Mention: Jennifer Barnhill
Honorable Mention: James Kitfield
Enterprise | Feature Division 1
Kelsey Baker
Enterprise | Feature Division 2
Thomas Novelly (series on exposure to toxic chemicals maintaining missiles, Military.com)
Honorable mention: Rose Thayer
Honorable mention: Gabriel Pietrorazio (piece on Navajo Nation pushing to reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, KJZZ)
Honorable mention: Charlie Clewis
Investigative Reporting Division 1
Hope Seck and Manuel Roig-Franzia
Investigative Reporting Division 2
Rene Kladzyk
Audio Documentary
Ehtesab in Afghanistan: An app’s struggle to survive under the Taliban
Sean Powers, Dina Temple-Raston, Megan Detrie, Karen Duffin, Recorded Future News
Radio News Division 1
Sean Powers, Dina Temple-Raston, Megan DetrieKaren Duffin, Recorded Future News and PRX
Radio News Division 2
Gabriel Pietrorazio (Native Heroes Erased)
TV | Video Documentary – Division 1
Doctors of Defense – Joce Sterman, InvestigativeTV/Gray Media
Honorable Mention: Graham Flanagan
TV | Video Documentary – Division 2
Thomas Brennan
TV | Video News Division 2
Pat Simon
Photojournalism
Katie Livingstone
Honorable Mention: Phillip Walter Wellman