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The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association Announces their Winners in Journalism

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The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) has announced the recipients of its Excellence in Journalism Awards and salutes their exemplary work. NLGJA is made up of journalists, media professionals, educators and students working from within the news industry to foster fair and accurate coverage of LGBT issues. The organisations objective is to opposes all forms of workplace bias and provides professional development to its members.

The Excellence in Journalism Awards were established in 1993 to foster, recognise and reward excellence in journalism on issues related to the LGBT community. In addition to special recognition awards, awards will be presented for excellence in news writing, feature writing, opinion writing, blogging, local television, network television, radio, online, HIV/AIDS coverage and student journalism.

The 2014 NLGJA Journalist of the Year is Chris Geidner, senior legal and political reporter for BuzzFeed.

“Geidner wrote pieces that soared above policy and law, bringing us Edie and Thea, and how their story wove into a decades-long civil rights struggle. He added context from a dual profile of Evan Wolfson and Andrew Sullivan.”

The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association

Geidner was awarded the Sarah Pettit LGBT Journalist of the Year Award in 2012, he was runner up for the 2013 NLGJA Journalist of the Year and his 2011 series on the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell won for Excellence in News Writing.

This year’s Sarah Pettit LGBT Journalist of the Year Award goes to Lila Shapiro, reporter for the Huffington Post. This is the second year in a row Shapiro has won this award.

A judge praised:

“This is a beautifully executed body of work. In the case of the conversion therapy and the gay bar stories, this contestant shows us how social and governmental power brokers work to undermine our community.”

The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association

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