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AP receives 5 awards from Deadline Club

We were pleased to receive five awards on Tuesday evening from the Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

More than 100 news organizations submitted a total of 623 entries for consideration by the judges in the annual journalistic competition.

AP’s five winners, as tweeted by the Deadline Club during the dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, were as follows:

Multimedia, Interactive Graphics & Animation: winner is the @AP for ‘Mexico: The Other Disappeared’ #deadlineawards
— The Deadline Club (@deadlineclub) May 11, 2016

The interactive can be found here.

Photography sports photo: the winner is the @AP for ‘Double Hit Drop’ #deadlineawards
— The Deadline Club (@deadlineclub) May 11, 2016

Chicago White Sox right fielder Trayce Thompson loses the ball on a double hit by Oakland Athletics’ Brett Lawrie on Sept. 14, 2015, in Chicago. The photo was taken by Andrew Nelles, who was then a freelancer and now works for The Tennessean. (AP Photo/Andrew Nelles).

Photography spot news photo: the winner is @AP for ‘Fear at the Border’ #deadlineawards
— The Deadline Club (@deadlineclub) May 11, 2016

Business investigative reporting: the winner is @AP for ‘Seafood from Slaves’ #deadlineawards
— The Deadline Club (@deadlineclub) May 11, 2016

Daniel Pearl Award for investigative reporting: the winner is @AP. #deadlineawards
— The Deadline Club (@deadlineclub) May 11, 2016

The “Seafood from Slaves” investigation can be found here.

The full list of Deadline Club award winners can be found here.

By Nicole Meir,
The Associated Press

MAY 11, 2016

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