2024 Clurman Award Recipient
Kevin Merida
The Livingston Awards honored Kevin Merida with the 2024 Richard M. Clurman Award for his commitment to counseling, nurturing and inspiring young journalists. Merida is the former executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, former senior vice president at ESPN and former managing editor of The Washington Post. In a video tribute, journalists from the Los Angeles Times, ESPN and The Washington Post talked about Merida’s encouragement of young reporters and his influence on their careers.
In a video tribute at the luncheon, former colleagues spoke about Merida’s influence on their writing, approach to storytelling and his encouragement of young journalists.
“Nearly every piece of journalism that changed me, challenged me and upped my game as a reporter had Kevin’s imprint and genius behind it. He is the kind of leader I now strive to be – empowering, innovative, accessible, no B.S. He showed so many of us that we could lead in newsrooms as ourselves.”
— Krissah Thompson, Managing Editor, The Washington Post