"Detective Trapp: A Cop's Quest for the Mothers Who Lost Their Daughters": Los Angeles Times / By Christopher Goffard
"The Trade War's Casualties": The Washington Post / By Annie Gowen
"It's Time for You to Die: How Flaws in the SC Prison System Led to 7 Deaths in a Single Night": The Post and Courier (Charleston, South Carolina) / By Jennifer Berry Hawes and Stephen Hobbs
"The Confession": The Washington Post / By Peter Jamison
"House Calls and Rarest of Diseases": Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / By Mark Johnson
"At the Edge of a Warming World": The Boston Globe / By Nestor Ramos
"No Mercy": The Oregonian / By Noelle Crombie with Kale Williams and Beth Nakamura
"The Fisherman's Secret": A Modern-day Treasure Hunt: San Francisco Chronicle / By Tara Duggan and Jason Fagone
"Brilliant, Faithful, Undaunted": The Boston Globe / By Jenna Russell
"Guardians": The Dallas Morning News / By Charles Scudder