America Media wins 55 awards from the Catholic Media Association

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America Media received 55 awards from the Catholic Media Association on July 7 for its groundbreaking coverage of events on the intersection of the church and world across print, digital, audio and video.

Recognized for each its mental content and spiritual resources, America Media received honors within the categories Best Essay, Best Feature Article, Best Website, Best Reporting of Social Justice Issues, Best Freestanding Presentation of Online Video, Best Writing (Evaluation and In-Depth) and more.

The Catholic Media Association, which has over 200 member organizations, provides skilled development and networking opportunities for journalists and media specialists committed to providing a Catholic perspective. Their annual awards honor the outstanding contributions of Catholic media organizations and individual media producers in america and Canada

The complete list of awards is presented in the July-August issue of “the Catholic Journalist,” the Catholic Media Association’s magazine.

First Place

Best Freestanding Presentation of Online Video – Explainer: “Is that this the tip of the normal Latin Mass?”

Best Video – Hot Topic – The COVID-19 Pandemic: “A non secular community loses 13 Sisters to Covid”

Best Multimedia Package – Violence in Our Communities: “How Catholic Leaders Helped Give Rise to Violence on the U.S. Capitol”

Best Multimedia Package Series: Learning to Pray with James Martin, S.J.

Best Podcast – Expression of Faith: Jesuitical: A podcast for young Catholics

Best Use of Live Video in Social Media: “The best way to make spiritual sense of the attack on the Capitol”

Best Regular Column – Pandemic: Jim McDermott, S.J., “Covid has brought two parallel worlds to L.A.: one hopeful, one overwhelmed by suffering”

Best Coverage – Religious Liberty Issues: Massimo Faggioli, “What Joe Biden (and all American Catholics) owe Jesuit John Courtney Murray”

Best Coverage – Racial Inequalities: J.D. Long-García, “The Jesuits have pledged to boost $100 million to advance racial healing. But reconciliation is about greater than money.”

Best Feature Article – National General Interest Magazines: Colleen Dulle, “Women are rising to latest heights on the Vatican. Could they alter the church ceaselessly?”

Best Original Poetry: Joe Hoover, S.J., “Advent Dawns on the Sacred Cafe”

Best Reporting on Social Justice Issues – Take care of God’s Creation: John W. Miller, “Is it time for Catholics to stop eating meat?”

Best Reporting on Social Justice Issues – Life and Dignity of the Human Person: Michael J. O’Loughlin, “How the Catholic Employee movement inspired one couple to open their doors to individuals with AIDS”

Best Book Review Section: Spring 2021 Literary Issue

Best Review: Mary Gordon, “A lover of God, surrounded by geniuses”

Best Writing – In-Depth: Eve Tushnet, “Conversion therapy continues to be happening in Catholic spaces—and its effect on L.G.B.T. people will be devastating”

Second Place

Best Website – Magazine or Newsletter

Graphic Artist/Designer of the Yr: Shawn Tripoli

Best Freestanding Presentation of Online Video – News: “Why is Pope Francis Visiting Iraq?”

Best Freestanding Presentation of Online Video – Pro-Life Activities: “How Pope Francis is changing the Vatican’s tone on LGBT people”

Best Freestanding Presentation of Online Video – Panel Discussion: “Why an 84-year-old Indian Jesuit—Fr. Stan Swamy—is in prison”

Best Multimedia Package – Pro-Life Activities: Coverage of the Communion Wars around President Biden

Best Multimedia Package – Hot Topic – The COVID-19 Pandemic: “‘We remember them’: A poem for many who died of Covid-19”

Best Use of Video on Social Media – News Organization: “Fr. Michael Trail gets his Covid vaccine in Chicago”

Best Podcast – Topical News: Contained in the Vatican

Best Podcast – Social Justice Issues: Plague: Untold Stories of Aids and the Catholic Church

Best Regular Column – Arts, Leisure, Culture and Food: James T. Keane, “Sally Rooney isn’t just the ‘Snapchat Generation’s’ Catholic novelist (but she is that).”

Best Coverage – Immigration: J.D. Long-García, “Joe Biden’s $4 billion plan to discourage Central American migration at its source”

Best Coverage – Political Issues: Michael O’Loughlin, “This nun has tweeted a prayer for Trump day by day for 4 years. It hasn’t gotten any easier.”

Best Essay – National General Interest Magazines: Kaya Oakes, “How the ladies of the Bible helped me reimagine my barrenness”

Best Feature Article – National General Interest Magazines: John Rosengren, “Meet the Millennial Nuns”

Best Reporting on Social Justice Issues – Dignity and Rights of the Employees: John W. Miller, “Pope Francis agrees: Equal pay for ladies is long (long) overdue”

Third Place

Magazine of the Yr – National General Interest Magazines

Best Multimedia Package – News: “We must share our memories of 9/11, regardless of how difficult they’re to speak”

Best Multimedia Package – Seasonal Issue: Hark! The stories behind our favourite Christmas carols

Best Multimedia Package – Hot Topic – The COVID-19 Pandemic: “Nursing homes were broken long before Covid-19”

Best Podcast – Expression of Faith: Hark! The stories behind our favourite Christmas carols

Best Use of Live Video in Social Media: “We remember them | A virtual prayer service for all who died of Covid-19”

Best Online Content Not Published in Print – News: “U.S. troops could also be gone, but Catholic Relief Services continues to assist desperate Afghans under Taliban rule”

Best Editorial: “Reverence for the Eucharist transcends politics”

Best Essay – National General Interest Magazines: Dorothy Fortenberry, “Latin Mass, women priests, celibacy? Climate change will make all of the church’s arguments pointless”

Best Original Poetry: Preeti Vangani, “Raising Moms”

Honorable Mention