Livingston Awards

Finalists

The Livingston Awards honor the best reporting and storytelling by young journalists.

The 2025 finalists below were chosen from work released in 2024.

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Excellence in Local Reporting

Hadley Barndollar
“How One Machine Supercharged Illicit Drug Manufacturing in Mass”
MassLive
Shannon Chaffers
“Hidden Costs: The Financial Toll of Gun Violence”
New York Amsterdam News
Max Chesnes and Emily Mahoney
“Florida Parks Scandal”
Tampa Bay Times
Ana Claudia and Clara-Sophia Daly
“Key Biscayne's Dark Secret”
Miami Herald
Wilson Criscione and Kelsey Turner
“Savior Complex”
InvestigateWest
Luis Ferré-Sadurní
“Inside New York’s Migrant Crisis”
The New York Times
Caroline Ghisolfi, Amelia Winger and Matt deGrood
“The Lakewood Church Shooter Had Encounters With More Than 50 Officers. Nobody Stopped Her.”
Houston Chronicle
Quinn Glabicki
“EQT's Gas Play”
Pittsburgh's Public Source
Jessika Harkay
“Aleysha Ortiz”
The Connecticut Mirror
Grace Hauck and Meredith Newman
“Strapped Down: Restraint Chairs in Illinois Jails”
Illinois Answers Project and Better Government Association
Ivana Hrynkiw
“Denied: Alabama's Broken Parole System”
AL.com
Andrea Iglozzi, Rashel Cedeño, Christian Vazquez-Garcia and Bryan Albor
“The Cost of the Harvest”
Univision 19
Cleo Krejci
“The Gray Zone”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Asher Lehrer-Small
“Young, Homeless, Illegally Suspended”
Houston Landing
Brittny Mejia
“Crime and Justice”
Los Angeles Times
Katie Mettler
“How a ‘Climate of Chaos’ Went Unchecked at Maryland’s Max-Security Psych Hospital”
The Washington Post
Juliette Rihl
“Dauphin County”
PennLive and The Patriot-News
Bayliss Wagner
“The Cost of a Texas Town’s Book Ban Battle”
Austin American-Statesman
Mihir Zaveri
“The Housing Crunch”
The New York Times
Alissa Zhu, Jessica Gallagher and Nick Thieme
“How Baltimore Became the U.S. Overdose Capital”
The Baltimore Banner in partnership with The New York Times

Excellence in National Reporting

Thomas Birmingham
“As Corporate Landlords Spread, a Mold Epidemic Takes Root”
In These Times
Eric Boodman
“Coercive Care”
STAT
Chip Brownlee
“The Bruen Era”
The Trace
Chabeli Carrazana
“Who Can You Trust With Your Child’s Safety?”
The 19th
Nicole Einbinder and Hannah Beckler
“The Gutting of the Eighth Amendment”
Business Insider
Lev Facher
“War on Recovery”
STAT
Lauren Gill and Daniel Moritz-Rabson
“Alabama Justice: Inside the State's Death Machine”
Bolts in partnership with The Intercept
Emily Gogolak
“Lost Highway: The Trials of Trucking School”
Harper's Magazine
Emma Goldberg
“Facing Death and Grief”
The New York Times
Benjamin Guggenheim
“How Tax-Free Savings Increases Inequality”
POLITICO
Esmy Jimenez and Sydney Brownstone
“Lost Patients”
The Seattle Times in partnership with KUOW Public Radio
George Joseph and Will Craft
“‘Unlimited Dollars’: How an Indiana Hospital Chain Took Over a Region and Jacked up Prices”
The Guardian US
Joshua Kaplan
“Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia”
ProPublica
Joseph Lee
“Changing With Our Climate”
Vox
Daniel Lombroso
“Denial: One Man’s Stand Against Donald Trump’s Election Denialism”
The New Yorker
Mark Olalde and Nick Bowlin
“Unplugged: Will Taxpayers Foot the Oil Industry’s Cleanup Bill?”
ProPublica and Capital & Main
Cecilia Reyes
“Locked Out”
Business Insider
Christie Thompson
“Dozens of Prisoners Allege a Culture of Violence by Guards at Federal Facility in Virginia”
The Marshall Project
Jasmine Wright
“‘Broken Since the Beginning’: What Went Wrong Inside the Harris Campaign”
NOTUS

Excellence in International Reporting

Anna-Catherine Brigida
“Behind the Journey”
Houston Landing
Eli Cahan
“Of Neverwars and Superbugs”
Rolling Stone
Mari Cohen
“Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?”
Jewish Currents
Jeremy Diamond
“Israel Claims a Tunnel Ran Through This Gaza Cemetery It Destroyed. A Visit to the Site Raised More Questions Than Answers”
CNN Worldwide
Jesscia Fu
“A Blistering Inferno. A Whirling Tornado. A Shocking Crash.”
Popular Mechanics
Raffaele Huang and Tracy Qu
“China’s Chip Evasions”
The Wall Street Journal
Lizzie Johnson, Anastacia Galouchka and Kamila Hrabchuk
““Every Day Russia Takes Someone’s Life”: A Third Year of War in Ukraine”
The Washington Post
Lasha Madan
“Towers of Silence”
99% Invisible, SiriusXM
Charlie Metcalfe
“Meet the Radio-Obsessed Civilian Shaping Ukraine’s Drone Defense”
MIT Technology Review
Will Neal
“NATO Helped Georgia Counter Russian Trolls. Then the Strategy Backfired”
New Lines Magazine
David Pan and Fasika Tadesse
“The Cryptocurrency Market”
Bloomberg News
Nicole Sadek
“The Lost Village: Western Oil Companies Enriched Kazakhstan’s Power Brokers – And Left a Community in Ruins”
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Liam Scott
“Exiled and Under Threat”
Voice of America
Dasl Yoon
“North Korean Soldiers on the Front Lines”
The Wall Street Journal

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