Best News Feature (BNF)

The Best News Feature (BNF) award honors exceptional news features reported worldwide. Submissions to this category should be fact-based stories — whether local, national, or international — created to uncover and interpret a current event or pressing issues, often on a tight deadline. Enterprising work that brings underreported stories to light is encouraged. News Features may also include journalistic formats beyond traditional documentary, including the two-way, essay, and other forms used in radio and podcasts.

There is one award in this category.

The 2022 Call for Entries will open in Fall 2022.

See the 2022 Third Coast/RHDF Competition page for more information. To read about other categories, click here.

Pandemic Diaries: One Couple's Story of Isolation and Love in a Nursing Home

2021 / 13:52

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Diary of a HomeSchooler

2020 / 11:00

Sarah Alli-Brown is sixteen-years-old. She’s a high school junior whose school has been shuttered for months because of the coronavirus.
Death in Illinois Prisons: He Didn't Have a Death Sentence, But That's What He Got

2019 / 06:50

For the last year, Shannon Heffernan has been trying to figure out how and why people in Illinois prisons are dying.
Overnight in the E.R.

2018 / 09:10

For most of the past decade, if a child or teenager got shot in Miami–Dade County, they would be taken to one place: the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.