Staff members for the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting won two honors in the 82nd National Headliner Awards, one of the oldest and largest journalism contests in the nation.

Trevor Aaronson won second place in Writing for a Website for his article “The Sting,” which was published in The Intercept and supported by the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. Aaronson’s reporting, which relied on leaked transcripts that had been placed under court seal, revealed how FBI agents in Tampa set up a counterterrorism sting operation against a mentally ill man. The Center for Public Integrity’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists won first place in the category, and InsideClimate News took third.

Tristram Korten placed third in Environmental Writing by an Individual or Team for his reporting on Florida’s “climate change” ban, which was published in news media statewide. Korten’s stories revealed how Gov. Rick Scott’s administration had ordered state employees not to use the terms “climate change” or “global warming” in official communications. The Associated Press finished first and the Arizona Republic second in the category.