First place: Staff, Herald-Tribune, Sarasota, Florida

Community engagement projects include: Uravel: Housing, Spire CoLab and Medicaid

Second place: Staff, Rockford Register Star, Rockford, Illinois
Third place: Alan Johnson, Brittney McNamara, Kimball Perry, Rita Price, Encarnacion Pyle and JoAnne Viviano, The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio