Blade wins journalism awards
The Washington Blade this week won several 2023 Dateline Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists’ D.C. chapter. Photo Editor Michael Key won in the Weekly Newspaper Breaking News category for “Va.
students stage mass walkout over anti-LGBTQ policies,” which covered the thousands of Virginia students who walked out of their classes last fall in response to proposed revisions to policies designed to protect trans and nonbinary students.
Key also won in the Weekly Newspaper Photography Story category for his “Activists stage ‘smoke-in’ at Russian embassy to protest Griner incarceration” story.
Columnist Kathi Wolfe won in the Weekly Newspaper Features category for “Queer, Crip and Here,” an interview with Caitlin Hernandez, a queer writer and teacher who is blind.
