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We are the storytellers and the soul of our publications. If a story makes you laugh, cry, taste or empathize, it’s a feature story.

We are the storytellers and the soul of our publications. If a story makes you laugh, cry, taste or empathize, it’s a feature story.

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Division 3 winners of 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards

The Division 3 winners of the 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards. The division 3 category features newsrooms with 201 or more full-time editorial employees and/or news outlets with a national or international focus.

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Division 2 winners of 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards

The Division 2 winners of the 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism contest winners. The division 2 category features newsrooms that have between 51 and 200 full-time employees and/or news outlets with a regional or statewide focus.

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Podcast, video, social media winners of 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards

The Combined Division winners of the 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards. The categories are narrative podcast, narrative video and social media portfolio.

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Division 1 winners of SFJ 2026 Excellence-in-Features journalism awards

The Division 1 winners of the 2026 Society for Features Journalism’s Excellence-in-Features contest. Division 1 features newsrooms with 50 or fewer full-time editorial employees and/or news outlets with a local-city-metro area focus.

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“It’s clear that features journalists are helping to illuminate our world by shedding light on the diversity that makes us stronger, the problems that face us and the strange times we’re facing. And we’re also there to inform, entertain and surprise readers — it’s all part of that magical world of features journalism.”

— Jim Haag, SFJ president (2017-18) and retired features editor at The Virginian-Pilot

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