The best in journalism will be recognized during the 71st Scripps Howard Awards, hosted by Scripps News’ very own Christian Bryant. Here’s how to watch:

From international conflicts to environmental concerns and issues that touch everyone’s life, journalists are there for it all. They are tasked with telling people’s stories and holding those in power accountable.

This year, the best in journalism will be recognized during the 71st Scripps Howard Awards, hosted by Scripps News’ very own Christian Bryant.

The journalism produced by this years finalists exposed wrongdoing, held the powerful accountable, shaped policies and helped correct historical records, said Meredith Delaney, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Fund. The 71st Scripps Howard Journalism Awards will shine a light on the responsibility these journalists have to tell their communitys stories and serve as democracys watchdog.

Veteran journalists and media professionals are tasked with picking the winners in 14 different categories, including excellence in breaking news and excellence in innovation.

The 71st Scripps Howard Journalism Awards finalists are:

Excellence in Audio Storytelling, honoring Jack R. Howard

Rococo Punch and iHeart Podcasts The Turning: Room of Mirrors Serial Productions and The New York Times The Retrievals The Boston Globe in association with HBO Documentary Films Murder in Boston

Excellence in Breaking News

The Associated Press Deadly Maui Wildfires Lookout Santa Cruz Santa Cruz County Storms Los Angeles Times A Massacre in Monterey Park

Excellence in Business/Financial Reporting

KFF Health News Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash ProPublica and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in collaboration with the Medill Investigative Lab With Every Breath: Millions of Breathing Machines. One Dangerous Defect The New York Times Alone and Exploited

Excellence in Environmental Reporting, honoring Edward W. Ted Scripps II

San Francisco Chronicle Firefighters are Being Poisoned by Wildfire Smoke. Were Doing Little to Protect Their Health The New York Times Uncharted Waters The Washington Post The Human Limit

Distinguished Service to the First Amendment, honoring Edward Willis Scripps

Hearst Connecticut Media Group Transparency Failures Sow Distrust in City Marred by Corruption Open Vallejo No Responsive Records: How Vallejo Hid Killings by Police The Kansas City Star and The Wichita Eagle Marion Record Raid

Excellence in Innovation, honoring Roy W. Howard

ProPublica Roots of an Outbreak ProPublica and The Desert Sun Thirsty Valley The Washington Post 3D Analyses of Violence in the West Bank

Excellence in Local/Regional Investigative Reporting

City Bureau and Invisible Institute Missing in Chicago Miami Herald The Foreclosure Franchise The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Columbus Dispatch, Akron Beacon Journal, Canton Repository Chaos in Ohios Youth Lockups

Excellence in Local Video Storytelling, honoring Jack. R. Howard

KARE-TV Minneapolis KARE 11 Investigates: Broken Promises KUSA-TV Denver and WTSP-TV UNDETERMINED New York Amsterdam News Be-Loved”

Excellence in Multimedia Journalism

The Associated Press Adrift Reuters The Bat Lands The Boston Globe Nightmare in Mission Hill

Excellence in Narrative Human-Interest Storytelling, honoring Ernie Pyle

NPR Ukraine Kindergarten The Boston Globe Nightmare in Mission Hill The Texas Tribune She Was Told Her Twin Sons Wouldnt Survive. Texas Law Made Her Give Birth Anyway.

Excellence in National/International Investigative Reporting, the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize

ProPublica Friends of the Court Reuters The Musk Industrial Complex The New York Times Alone and Exploited

Excellence in National/International Video Storytelling, honoring Jack R. Howard

FRONTLINE (PBS) Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court FRONTLINE (PBS) and The Associated Press 20 Days in Mariupol The Center for Investigative Reporting, Motto Pictures and Netflix Victim/Suspect

Excellence in Opinion Writing

Coda Story and Ukrainska Pravda Fallout: Tracking the Global Impacts of Russias War in Ukraine Los Angeles Times Inside Out: Normalizing Incarceration to Increase Public Safety The Washington Post Men are lost. Heres a map out of the wilderness

Excellence in Visual Human-Interest Storytelling

El Paso Times Dreams, despair & death A migrants journey. A year of covering the Immigration crisis The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The South Got Something To Say MSNBC On Assignment with Richard Engel: Ukraines Secret Resistance

The Scripps Howard Fund, in partnership with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, has also announced the winners and finalists for its two journalism education awards:

Teacher of the Year

Winner: Nicole Kraft, The Ohio State University

Finalist: Leon Alligood, Middle Tennessee State University

Administrator of the Year

Winner: Ann Brill, University of Kansas

Finalist: Laura Lindenfeld, Stony Brook University

How to Watch

The Scripps Howard Awards will air on Scripps News on Sunday, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. Eastern. It will also be streamed on the Scripps News YouTube channel.

The Scripps Howard Fund is the philanthropic arm of the E.W. Scripps Company, the parent company of Scripps News.  …Read More

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