The following is a list of Livingston Award winners.[1][2] The award is given for works published in the previous year.
Year | Recipient(s) | Recipient Age | Story | Award |
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2024 | Samantha Hogan | 30 | "Maine's Part-Time Court" for The Maine Monitor | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Alison Behringer | 33 | "Bodies" for KCRW | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Lila Hassan | 28 | |||
Renata Brito | 31 | "Adrift/36 Days" for the Associated Press | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2023 | Caitlin Dickerson | 33 | "We Need to Take Away Children: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Family-Separation Policy" for The Atlantic | Excellence in National Reporting |
Vasilisa Stepanenko | 22 | "A Year of War: Adversity Taps Into Deep Skills of Young Ukrainian Journalist" for the Associated Press | Excellence in International Reporting | |
Anna Wolfe | 28 | "The Backchannel: Mississippi’s Welfare Scandal" for Mississippi Today | Excellence in Local Reporting | |
2022 | Erika Lantz | "The Turning: The Sisters Who Left" for Rococo Punch | Excellence in International Reporting | |
Elin Lantz Lesser | ||||
Jose A. Del Real | "Truth, Trust, and Conspiracy Theories in America" for The Washington Post | Excellence in National Reporting | ||
Alex Stuckey | "In Crisis" for Houston Chronicle | Excellence in Local Reporting | ||
2021 | Chao Deng | "On the Front Lines in Wuhan" for The Wall Street Journal | Excellence in International Reporting | |
Hannah Dreier | "Trust and Consequences" for The Washington Post | Excellence in National Reporting | ||
Joshua Sharpe | "The Imperfect Alibi: The forgotten suspect, the DNA and the church murders that haunted a detective" for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Excellence in Local Reporting | ||
2020 | Assia Boundaoui | "The Feeling of Being Watched" for PBS's POV | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Caroline Chen | "Heartless Hospital" for ProPublica | Excellence in Local Reporting | ||
Brett Murphy | "Show of Force" for USA Today | Excellence in International Reporting | ||
2019 | Lindsey Smith | 34 | "Believed" for Michigan Radio | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Kate Wells | 31 | |||
Chris Outcalt | 34 | "Murder at the Alcatraz of the Rockies" for The Atavist Magazine | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Davey Alba | 31 | "How Duterte Used Facebook to Fuel the Philippine Drug War" for BuzzFeed News | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2018 | Riham Feshir | "74 Seconds," for Minnesota Public Radio News | Excellence in Local Reporting | |
Meg Martin | ||||
Tracy Mumford | ||||
Ronan Farrow | 31 | "Ronan Farrow’s Investigation of Harvey Weinstein" for The New Yorker | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Emily Steel | "O’Reilly Thrives, Then Falls, as Settlements Add Up" for The New York Times | |||
Michael S. Schmidt | 35 | |||
Christina Goldbaum | "Strong Evidence that U.S. Special Operations Forces Massacred Civilians in Somalia" for The Daily Beast | Excellence in International Reporting | ||
2017 | Claire Galofaro | 34 | "Surviving Appalachia" for Associated Press | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Brooke Jarvis | 32 | "Unclaimed" for The California Sunday Magazine | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Ben Taub | 25 | "The Assad Files" for The New Yorker | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2016 | Lisa Gartner | 28 | "Failure Factories" for Tampa Bay Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Michael LaForgia | 32 | |||
Nathaniel Lash | 24 | |||
Mike Baker | 31 | "The Mobile-Home Trap" for The Seattle Times, The Center for Public Integrity and BuzzFeed News | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Daniel Wagner | 34 | |||
Adrian Chen | 31 | "The Agency" for The New York Times Magazine | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2015 | Kiera Feldman | 29 | "Sexual Assault at God’s Harvard" for The New Republic | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Shoshana Walter | 29 | "Hired Guns" for The Center for Investigative Reporting | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Ryan Gabrielson | 34 | |||
Matthieu Aikins | 30 | "Whoever Saves a Life" for Matter/Medium | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2014 | Christopher Baxter | 28 | "Private Schools, Hidden Riches" for The Star-Ledger | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Ellen Gabler | 33 | "Deadly Delays" for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Allan James Vestal | 24 | |||
Luke Mogelson | 29 | "The Dream Boat" for The New York Times Magazine | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2013 | Alexandra Zayas | 29 | "In God’s Name" for Tampa Bay Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Rachel Manteuffel | 28 | "The Things They Leave Behind" for Washingtonian Magazine | Excellence in National Reporting | |
John D. Sutter | 29 | "Slavery’s Last Stronghold" for CNN Digital | Excellence in International Reporting | |
Edythe McNamee | 27 | |||
2012 | Andrew McLemore | 25 | "Until Proven Innocent" for The Williamson County Sun | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Olga Pierce | 32 | "Redistricting: How Powerful Hands Are Drawing You Out of A Vote" for ProPublica | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Jeff Larson | 30 | |||
Lois Beckett | 25 | |||
Mattathias Schwartz | 32 | "A Massacre in Jamaica" for The New Yorker | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2011 | Sarah Fenske | "Mr. Big Stuff" for Phoenix New Times | Excellence in Local Reporting | |
John Henion | "Rape on the Reservation" for Current TV | Excellence in National Reporting | ||
Mariana van Zeller | 35 | |||
Matt Katz | 33 | "Mired in Afghanistan" for The Philadelphia Inquirer | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2010 | Mark Greenblatt | "Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard" for KHOU-TV | Excellence in Local Reporting | |
David Nathaniel Philipps | 33 | "Casualties of War" for The Gazette (Colorado Springs) | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Abbie Boudreau | 32 | "The Killings at the Canal: The Army Tapes" for CNN | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2009 | John Dickerson | 27 | "The Doctor is Out" for Phoenix New Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Kate Kelly | 34 | "Lost Opportunities Haunt Final Days of Bear Stearns" for The Wall Street Journal | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Lydia Polgreen | 34 | "The Spoils" for The New York Times | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2008 | Dave Jamieson | "Letters From an Arsonist" for Washington City Paper | Excellence in Local Reporting | |
Craig Kapitan | "The Long Road Home" for The Bryan-College Station Eagle | Excellence in National Reporting | ||
Mark Mazzetti | 34 | "C.I.A. Destroyed Two Tapes Showing Interrogations" for The New York Times | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Christof Putzel | "From Russia With Hate" for Current TV | Excellence in International Reporting | ||
2007 | Joshua Boak | 28 | "Business as Usual" for The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Jim Tankersley | 29 | |||
Stella Chavez | 34 | "Yolanda's Crossing" for The Dallas Morning News | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Paul David Meyer | 29 | |||
Evan Osnos | 31 | "The Price We Pay for China's Boom" for The Chicago Tribune | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2006 | Peter Zuckerman | 27 | "Scouts Honor" for Post Register | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Robin Mejia | 32 | "Reasonable Doubt: Can Crime Labs Be Trusted?" for CNN | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Edward Wong | 34 | "The Struggle for Iraq" for The New York Times | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2005 | Pauline Arrillaga | 34 | "Doors to Death" for Associated Press | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Reese Dunklin | 31 | "Runaway Priests: Hiding in Plain Sight" for The Dallas Morning News | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy | 27 | "Reinventing the Taliban" for Discovery Times Channel | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2004 | Cathy Frye | 34 | "Caught in the Web" for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Nicholas Confessore | 28[3] | "G.I. Woe" for Washington Monthly | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Julie Jargon | 29 | "The War Within" (series), "Honor Rolled", "Take These Wings" for Westword | ||
T. Christian Miller | 34 | "Colombia's Children of War" (series), "A Family Undone by War", "A Piece of Boyhood is Stolen" for Los Angeles Times | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2003 | Michael Luo | 26 | "Small Town Justice" for Associated Press | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Alix Spiegel | 31 | "81 Words: The Story of a Definition" for This American Life, WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Philip P. Pan | 31 | "High Tide of Labor Unrest in China" for The Washington Post | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2002 | Patrick Healy | 30 | "Harvard's Quiet Secret" (series) for The Boston Globe | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Bob Norman | 33 | "Admitting Terror" for New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Sumana Chatterjee | 30 | "A Taste of Slavery" for Knight-Ridder News Service | Excellence in International Reporting | |
Sudarsan Raghavan | 34 | |||
2001 | Jennifer Gonnerman | 29 | "Riker's Island and Life on the Outside" for The Village Voice | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Edward Pinder | 30 | "Master Teacher" | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Michael Finkel | 32 | "Desperate Passage" for The New York Times Magazine | Excellence in International Reporting | |
2000 | Sean Patrick Lyons | 28 | "A System Padded with Patronage" for Waterbury Republican-American | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Ken Ward Jr. | 32 | "Mountaintop Removal" for The Charleston Gazette | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Kevin Heldman | 34 | "Japanese Prisons: Brutality by Design" for APBnews.com | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1999 | Jo Becker | 31 | "Trouble in Pasco County" for St. Petersburg Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Laura Meckler | 30 | "Organ Transplantation" (series) for Associated Press | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Elizabeth Rubin | 33 | "Our Children Are Killing Us" for The New Yorker | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1998 | J. R. Moehringer | 33 | "The Champ" for Los Angeles Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Lindsey Schwartz | 26 | "Probable Cause" for Dateline, NBC News | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Patrick Weiland | 34 | |||
Alan Zarembo | 26 | "Judgment Day" for Harper's Magazine | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1997 | Scott Glover | 30 | "Quick Cash: With Few Questions" for Sun-Sentinel | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Evelyn Larrubia | 27 | |||
Charles Sennott | 34 | "Armed for Profit" for The Boston Globe | Excellence in National Reporting | |
C. J. Chivers | 33 | "Empty Nets: Atlantic Banks in Peril" (series) for The Providence Journal-Bulletin | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1996 | Chris Adams | 30 | "Medicaid Madness" for The Times-Picayune | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Jim Lynch | 34 | "Angry Patriots" (series) for The Spokesman-Review | Excellence in National Reporting | |
David S. Rohde | 28 | Bosnia Massacre Coverage for The Christian Science Monitor | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1995 | Melinda Ruley | 33 | "Downeast" (series) for The Independent (Durham N.C.) | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Jeanmarie Condon | 32 | "Turning Point at Waco: The Untold Story" for ABC News | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Mitchell Zuckoff | 32 | "Foul Trade" (series) for The Boston Globe | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1994 | Mark Flatten | 34 | "Policing for Profits" (series) for Tribune Newspapers (Ariz.) | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Darcy Frey | 32 | "The Last Shot" for Harper's Magazine | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Pamela Burdman | 31 | "Bitter Voyage" for San Francisco Chronicle | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1993 | Celia W. Dugger | 34 | "When Abuse Turns Fatal" for The New York Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Bert Robinson | 31 | "Showdown in the West: The Endangered Species Act" for the San Jose Mercury News | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Scott Thurm | 34 | |||
Christiane Amanpour | 34 | "Siege of Sarajevo" for CNN | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1992 | Thomas French | 34 | "South of Heaven" for the St. Petersburg Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Leda Zimmerman | "Hard Lessons at Chelsea High" for WGBH-TV | Excellence in National Reporting | ||
Steve Coll | 34 | "Crisis and Change in South Asia" for The Washington Post | Excellence in International Reporting | |
Eason Jordan | 31 | Coverage of the Gulf War, the Soviet crisis, and the African famine | Special Citation for Outstanding Enterprise | |
1991 | David Isay | 25 | "Tossing Away the Keys" for NPR | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Jack Hitt | 33 | "Terminal Delinquents" for Esquire | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Paul Tough | 23 | |||
David Remnick | 32 | "Millions of Soviet Lives Pervaded by Poverty" for The Washington Post | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1990 | Michele Norris | 29 | "Six-Year-Old's Maryland Home was a Modern-Day Opium Den" for The Washington Post | Excellence in Local Reporting[4] |
Tom Ashbrook | 34 | "A View From the East" for The Boston Globe | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Peter Gumbel | 31 | "Gorbachev's Broken Economy" for The Wall Street Journal | Excellence in International Reporting | |
Todd Smith | 28 | Reporter, The Tampa Tribune | Special Posthumous Citation | |
1989 | Bonita Brodt | 32 | "Chicago Schools: Worst in America" for the Chicago Tribune | Excellence in Local Reporting |
David Von Drehle | 28 | "The Death Penalty: A Failure of Execution" for the Miami Herald | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Anne Nelson | 35 | "In the Grotto of the Pink Sisters" for Mother Jones | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1988 | Kevin Cullen | 29 | "Bad Boys" for The Boston Globe | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Deborah Blum | 34 | "California: The Weapons Master" for The Sacramento Bee | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Ira Glass | 28 | "Radio in Vietnam" for NPR | Excellence in International Reporting | |
Alexis Muellner | 25 | |||
Jonathan Schwartz | 31 | |||
1987 | Benjamin L. Weiser | 32 | "No Exit: Juvenile Justice in Washington" for The Washington Post | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Max Zieman | 25 | "Dirty Grain" for The Kansas City Star | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Barbara Fischkin | 32 | "A Chronicle of Hope" for Newsday | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1986 | Charles Ely | 34 | "Tulsa's Golden Missionary" for KTUL | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Jim Lyons | ||||
Gregg Easterbrook | 32 | "Making Sense of Agriculture" for The Atlantic | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Blaine Harden | 33 | "Notes of a Famine Watcher" for The Washington Post | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1985 | Tom Hallman | 29 | "Valsetz 1919–84" for The Oregonian | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Susan Milstein | 27 | "Lazy Justice" for The American Lawyer | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Larry Tye | 30 | "America's Shame" for The Courier-Journal | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1984 | Daniel Biddle | 30 | "Above the Law" for The Philadelphia Inquirer | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Barry Siegel | 34 | "El Nino: The World Turns Topsy-Turvy" for the Los Angeles Times | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Rick Atkinson | 31 | "The Hunger Games: Our Wasted Foreign Aid" for the Kansas City Times | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1983 | Mark Feldstein | 26 | "Prisoners of the Harvest" for WTSP-TV | Excellence in Local Reporting |
Jim Sutherland | 26 | |||
Edward Zuckerman | 34 | "How Would the U.S. Survive a Nuclear War?" for Esquire | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Thomas Friedman | 30 | "The Beirut Massacre: The Four Days" for the The New York Times | Excellence in International Reporting | |
1982 | Eric Scigliano | 28 | "The Aleuts' Last Stand" for the Seattle Weekly | Excellence in Local Reporting |
H. G. (Buzz) Bissinger | 28 | "The Plane That Fell From the Sky" for the St. Paul Pioneer Press | Excellence in National Reporting | |
Steven Erlanger | 30 | "Envy of the West Vies with Pride in Nation" for The Boston Globe | Excellence in International Reporting |
See also
[edit]- Richard M. Clurman Award — mentoring award presented during the Livingston Award ceremonies
References
[edit]- ^ "Past Winners". Recognizing Young Journalists. Livingston Awards: University of Michigan. 2024. pp. 26–41.
- ^ "Past Winners - Wallace House". 18 November 2019.
- ^ "2003 Winners". The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
- ^ "Reporter Honored for Articles On Child's Life in Crack House". Washington Post. June 7, 1990. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2017.