For outstanding work by a first-year full-time journalist.
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For leading coverage of the fatal shooting of a corrections officer and subsequent manhunt for his killer.

For stories about a law firm that funneled campaign money through a PAC and received a city contract.

For a series of investigative reports revealing the scope of a FBI corruption investigation.

First place for stories about an FBI investigation into Trenton Mayor Tony Mack. Included a vendor confessing in print to paying a kickback to a Mafia-connected ally of the mayor.

First place for stories exposing corruption in the Trenton water utility.

First place for a series of stories on escalating street gang and drug trade violence during a record-breaking year of homicides in Trenton.

For a collection of work, including an interview with a shooting victim who was left paralyzed after being hit by a stray bullet.

For a series on how the community helped a destitute mother who had been arrested.

For coverage of a deadly 37-hour hostage standoff.

First place for television coverage of the Derek Chauvin sentencing.

Team coverage of a water main break that led to a drinking water crisis in the city of Newark on the hottest day of the year.