ProPublica’s visual storytelling department — including the staff films team and independent photographers who the department partnered with on various projects — were honored with multiple awards by the National Press Photographers Association in its Best of Photojournalism awards.

ProPublica’s visuals editors won first place for editor of the year, team, in the national category.

Visual journalist Mauricio Rodríguez Pons won first place in the documentary editor category for “The Night Doctrine.”

“With Every Breath” won first place in the documentary short form category. The short documentary was filmed and edited by videographer Liz Moughon. The film also won second place in the documentary of the year category. Moughon won second place in the documentary editor category.

“This Scientist Tracked Bats for Decades and Solved a Mystery About a Deadly Disease,” by photographer and filmmaker Kathleen Flynn, won second place in the category of culture, sports and science, online video, individual.