As outlets look back on the past year of journalism, they have one thing in common: The Washington Post. Our reporting is consistently recognized in various ‘best of the year’ lists, so as 2023 concludes, look at which lists highlight Post reporting:
- A special edition of The Poynter Report looked back at the year in media, naming The Washington Post (along with The New York Times) as the “best newspaper” that “remain the absolute best at what they do… they are consistently and reliably outstanding every single day.”
- Terror on Repeat
- Poynter also recognized National’s “Terror on Repeat” as the “most powerful presentation”: “In November, The Washington Post took the rare and extreme measure of showing how a mass shooting really looks and sounds. Going further than any mainstream news organization had ever gone before…”
- Marketplace’s “Make Me Smart” newsletter spotlights what the Marketplace team is reading this holiday season, including a call out to National’s “Terror on Repeat.” Kimberly Adams, Marketplace’s senior Washington correspondent and co-host of Marketplace’s “Make Me Smart” podcast, shared, “I have to point to the Washington Post’s important, but very hard to read coverage of mass shootings in America. A very powerful series.”
- Climate
- Unearthed highlights Rachel Chason’s Big Oil reporting in their “the best environmental journalism of 2023” list
- The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) published a new report with a deep dive into the winners of its annual Digital Media Worldwide competition, including Climate Coach, which had been named “best newsletter” in June.
- Style and Well +Being
- Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2023 Jealousy List features the “excellent investigation” by Well+Being’s Anahad O’Connor, Caitlin Gilbert and Sasha Chavkin on the food industry’s relationship with influencers; and Style’s Maura Judkis “brilliant” story on animal actors.
- LongReads published its “Best of 2023: The Audience Awards,” highlighting editor picks that stood out to its readers, including Richard Sima’s reporting on how a catatonic woman awakened after 20 years and how her story may change psychiatry.
- Bloomberg also featured Richard’s reporting in their ‘Why Didn’t I Write That?’: A List of the Year’s Best Health Reporting
- The Financial Times ‘Best of Further Reading 2023′ list calls Robert Kagan’s Opinion essay on the risk of a Trump dictatorship “the most important article of the year.”
- Australia’s Daily Telegraph features Post photography in its list of best photos of the year.
- Field Trip
- The New York Times’s Climate Forward newsletter reviews “the year in climate” and highlights the music, podcasts and exhibits that tackled the subject, featuring the “Field Trip” podcast: “This Washington Post series on America’s national parks goes beyond the postcards to reveal a precious natural landscape being threatened by fires, floods, drought and pollution.”
- HuffPost also named “Field Trip” to its “10 Best Podcasts We Listened to This Year” list.
- International
- Rest of World highlighted two Washington Post articles in their list, “The best articles we didn’t publish in 2023”: “Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in digital sweatshops” by Rebecca Tan and Regine Cabato and “When Ukraine goes dark” by Ruby Mellen, Zoeann Murphy, Kostiantyn Khudov, Yutao Chen, and Kasia Strek
- Tech and Business
- McKnight’s Senior Living includes Memory Inc. in its “Big Senior Living Stories of 2023.”
- KERA Dallas/Fort Worth’s “The Best of Think 2023” features Gerrit De Vynck’s interview with host Krys Boyd on his reporting, “Microsoft’s AI chatbot is going off the rails”
- Sports
- Marketing Brew’s favorite reads of 2023 included Ben Strauss’s reporting on the tension between players and media in the WNBA
- Bloomberg also featured Sally Jenkins “beautifully turned” deep read on on Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova’s tennis rivalry and friendship
- Michelle Boorstein shared her favorite reporting from the year on Catholic groups tracking gay priests for Get Religion and Religion Unplugged’s “Best of Religion Journalism of 2023”
