EWTN's Winning Entries at 2024 Catholic Media Awards
2024-06-25
The following are EWTN and EWTN News, Inc.’s winning submissions at the 2024 Catholic Media Awards followed by the winning submissions for the 2024 Gabriel Television/Digital Awards
2024 Catholic Media Awards:
First Place Winners:
- Best Front Page – National Newspaper - National Catholic Register
- Writer of the Year: Jonathan Leidl, National Catholic Register
- Best Regular Column – Culture, the Arts and Leisure: Are You There, Beauty?; Risk Everything; Breaking Its Own Rules - Barbara Nicolosi, National Catholic Register
- Best Regular Column – General Commentary: Creative Fireworks; The Church in Africa is a Blessing; Trapped Armenians – Michael Warsaw, National Catholic Register
- Best Coverage, Papal Trips: Papal Trips: A Culture of Encounter, Colm Flynn, National Catholic Register
- Best Coverage – Religious Liberty Issues: FBI Memo on Investigation of Traditional Catholics, Tyler Arnold, Joe Bukuras and Daniel Payne, Catholic News Agency
- Best Coverage – Pro-life Issues: “Moms on Campus" Series, Lauretta Brown, National Catholic Register
- Best News Writing Series – National Event: Coverage of Exhumed Body of Sister Wilhemina, Shannon Mullen, Joe Bukuras, and Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency
- Best Personality Profile – National newspaper or Wire Service: Fighting Euthanasia in Canada: Amanda Achtman is a Millennial on a Mission, Zoe Romanowsky, Catholic News Agency
- Best Reporting on Priesthood, Religious Life or Diaconate - Series: Vocations, Seminaries, and Religious Communities, Kevin J. Jones, Daniel Payne and Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency
- Best Use of Video on Social Media - News Organization: Actor Shia LaBeouf Says He's in RCIA Preparing for Confirmation in the Catholic Church, Jacqueline Burkepile, EWTN News Inc.
- Best Video – The Clergy, Television Stations, and Film Companies: How a Tragic Loss Led a Top-level Executive to Become a Catholic Priest, Colm Flynn and Patrick Leonard, EWTN News Inc.
Second Place:
- Best Podcast - Topical News: Register Radio, Jeanette De Melo, National Catholic Register
- Best Blog - Expression of Faith: Lorraine Murray Blog, Lorraine Murray, National Catholic Register
- Best Coverage, Political Issue: Abortion Politics in Lead Up to 2024 Election, Tyler Arnold, Daniel Payne, and Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency
- Best Coverage - Papal Trips: World Youth Day 2023, Shannon Mullen, Jonah McKeown, Joe Bukuras, and Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency
- Best Coverage – Religious Liberty Issues: Church Under Persecution in Nicaragua, Lauretta Brown, Joan Frawley Desmond and Michael Warsaw, National Catholic Register
- Book Award - Pilgrimages/Catholic Travel: Twenty Extraordinary Experiences Along the Way to the Grotto - Everyday Miracles of Lourdes, Marlene Watkins, EWTN Publishing, Inc.
Third Place:
- Best Newspaper - National/Wire Service: National Catholic Register
- Best Analysis/Background/Round-Up News Writing – The Gerard E. Sherry Award – National Newspaper or Wire Service: Germany’s Synodal Way, Jonathan Liedl, National Catholic Register
- Best Coverage, Political issues: Parents’ Rights, Joan Frawley Desmond and Matt McDonald, National Catholic Register
- Best Coverage – Religious Liberty Issues: State, National and International Religious Liberty Coverage, Tyler Arnold and Joe Bukuras, Catholic News Agency
- Best Editorial on a National or International Issue – National newspaper or Wire Service: A True Shepherd, Shannon Mullen, National Catholic Register
- Best Use of Social Media for Breaking News: EWTN News Social Media Coverage of WYD Lisbon 2023, Claudette Jerez, Giulio Capece, Nuria Chicchon, and Ursula Murua, EWTN News Inc.
Honorable Mentions:
- Best Coverage – Disaster or Crises: Maui Fires, Kevin Jones, Daniel Payne, and Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency
- Best Reporting on a Special Age-Group – Young adults (18-40): Millennials on a Mission, Joe Bukuras, Daniel Payne and Zoe Romanowsky, Catholic News Agency
- Best Reporting of Social Justice Issues – Solidarity: Missionary Priest Builds Up Haiti One Student, One Classroom at a Time, Zoe Romanowsky, Catholic News Agency
- Best Personality Profile – National newspaper or Wire Service: Slain LA ‘Bishop Dave’ Remembered as a Humble Man of Action Who Wanted People to Encounter Christ’s Healing Love, Joan Desmond and Lauretta Brown, National Catholic Register
- Best Coverage on Catholic Education: What’s Working in Catholic Education, Joe Bukuras, Jonah McKeown and Francesca Pollio Fenton, Catholic News Agency
- Best News Writing Series – International Event: The Plight of Armenian Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh, Peter Pinedo, Catholic News Agency
- Best Video – Feature, Radio, Television Stations, and Film Companies: The Dying Teenager That Inspired Ireland, Colm Flynn and Patrick Leonard, EWTN News Inc.
- Best Multimedia Package Series: World Youth Day 2023, Francesca Pollio, Courtney Mares, Hannah Brockhaus, Daniel Payne, and Daniel Ibañez, EWTN News Inc.
- Best Use of Live Video in Social Media: LIVE from WYD Lisbon 2023: Pilgrims Share Their Testimonies After the WYD Vigil Presided Over by Pope Francis, Ursula Murua, Claudette Jerez, Giulio Capece, and Nuria Chicchon, EWTN News Inc.
2024 Gabriel Awards:
First Place Winners:
- Feature Film: Faith of Our Fathers, co-written and directed by EWTN’s Campbell Miller, with EWTN President & COO Doug Keck and Aidan Gallagher serving as Executive Producers, and John Elson, Director of Acquisitions & Co-Productions, serving as Producer.
- Best Video: James the Less: Season 1, an EWTN Original Web Series, written by EWTN Producers Greg Handrick and Michael Masny and directed by EWTN Director of Studio Operations Stephen Beaumont
- Short Documentary: Alive in Christ – The Eucharistic Martyrs, written and directed by Vic Planinc, produced by Sean Brown and Casey Renda, with John Elson, Peter Gagnon, and Doug Keck as Executive Producers
- Special Event Coverage: World Youth Day 2023, coordinated by Executive Producer Peter Gagnon, EWTN’s Vice President of Programming and Production, and co-hosted by EWTN News Correspondent Colm Flynn, Father Mark Mary, Cristina, M.F.V.A., and Eleonora Vescovini
- Single News Story: The Life of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, by “EWTN News In Depth” Anchor Catherine Hadro, EWTN News Editor Andrew Spangenberg and Videographer Craig Campbell
