The Chicago Headline Club congratulates all the winners of the 47th annual Peter Lisagor Awards for exemplary journalism.
The awards were handed out May 10 at a gathering of more than 200 members of the local media community. The entries were judged by an impartial Society of Professional Journalists chapter outside Illinois.
Invisible Institute received seven awards across three different journalism projects.
Missing in Chicago, our seven-part investigation into Chicago police handling of missing person cases in collaboration with City Bureau, received 4 awards for Best multimedia collaboration, Best use of feature video, Best reporting on crime and justice by a small newsroom, Best reporting on race and diversity by a small newsroom.
You Didn’t See Nothin, our audio investigative podcast revisiting the 1990s hate crime against Lenard Clark in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago in partnership with USG Audio, received two awards for Best feature reporting series by a small newsroom and Best investigative reporting by a small newsroom.
Jamie Kalven’s reporting, See No Evil: Why Does the Chicago Police Department Tolerate Abusive Racists in Its Ranks? published in The Intercept, received the Best reporting on race and diversity by a large newsroom.