A Black Woman Just Won The Largest Media Award In The Country

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 7, 2024

Nonfiction writer and journalist Dara T. Mathis is the 2024 recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize. Created by the Heising-Simons Foundation, with a $100,000 award, it is the largest national media award in the country.

Per the website, the Prize has been “awarded for excellence in long-form, narrative, or deep reporting on stories about underrepresented and/or misrepresented groups in the present American landscape.”

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