by Mark Washburn | Apr 29, 2026
Atlantic City, N.J. — The National Headliner Awards, one of the nation’s oldest and most venerable journalism competitions, has issued a special citation to Julie K. Brown of The Miami Herald for her 2018 investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case, saying...
by Mark Washburn | Aug 8, 2025
The National Headliner Awards have been identifying clever commentary at the point of a brush since our early days. Among the up-and-coming editorial cartoonists we’ve discovered was one Herbert L. Block of the Newspaper Enterprise Association in 1940. He would go on...
by Mark Washburn | Oct 17, 2024
Jim Haught of The Charleston Gazette in West Virginia was honored in 1971 for investigative reporting. “I only wish there was a cash prize attached to this because this week I inherited the major pitfall of investigative reporting,” he said in accepting his prize. “I...
by Mark Washburn | Oct 16, 2024
In an industry dominated by men, it took Headliners nearly a decade to honor a woman. She was Helen Hiett, who demonstrated that shoe leather comes on dancing shoes, too. To get a story for NBC in 1940 about how British troops were enduring a Nazi siege at Gibraltar,...
by Mark Washburn | Oct 16, 2024
The 90th National Headliner Award winners honoring the best journalism in the United States in 2023 were announced today. The awards were founded in 1934 by the Press Club of Atlantic City. The annual contest is one of the oldest and largest in the country that...
