TCF Award Recipients

Teen Contender

Sixteen-year-old Claressa Shields has a dream, to be at the 2012 Olympic finals and hear the announcer call out, "The first woman Olympian boxer at 165 pounds - Claressa Shields!"

The Five Percent Rule

Soldiers smoke more than civilians.

2011
06:36
Sally Herships

Finding Emilie

While in college, Alan fell hard for a fellow art student, Emilie.

Deportations Before Reform: Anatomy of an Immigration Bust

As lawmakers continued to debate immigration reform in 2010, the Obama administration pushed for a path to citizenship.

2011
08:56
Marianne McCune

Heel, Toe, Step Together

Bob Hill, 86, has been dancing on and off since he was 16 years old.

2011
27:40
Katie Burningham

Kohn

Most people find hearing their own voices (on voice mails or other recordings) strange, unfamiliar, or even discomforting.

2011
08:05
Andy Mills

The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt

Jay Thunderbolt's business card is a little mysterious. It reads, "Thunderbolt - Party Naked" and gives a phone number.

Sounds Up There

Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón presented Glenn Freemantle with a challenge - to create authentic sound design in the vacuum of space.

2015
27:28
Colin McNulty

695BGK

Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas, when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men.

The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper

British writer and radio presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli remembers the loneliness of being a goalkeeper, the player who spends 90 minutes looking at his colleagues' backs.

2010
27:41
Adam Fowler

Punks

Once upon a time, Kai Wright saw a movie called Punks. A romantic comedy about black gay men, it was like nothing he'd ever seen before. But then it disappeared.

'It started in the fourth grade building'

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best News Feature Award, selected by Final Round Judges Katherine Nagasawa, Habiba Nosheen, and Richard Yeh.