Livingston Awards

Finalists

The Livingston Awards honor the best reporting and storytelling by young journalists.
The 2024 finalists below were chosen from more than 400 entries for work released in 2023.

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Excellence in Local Reporting

Clare Amari
“Justice Delayed”
Houston Landing
Antonia Cereijido and Meg Cramer
“Imperfect Paradise: Nury & the Secret Tapes”
LAist Studios
Rebecca Ellis
“Decades of Abuse”
Los Angeles Times
Shayla Escudero
“Unsheltered in the Mid-Valley”
Albany Democrat-Herald
Andrea Gallo
“For Dear Life: Louisiana's Infant Mortality Crisis”
The Times-Picayune and The Advocate
Michael Korsh and Neena Hagen
“Left to Rot: The City of Pittsburgh's Wasteland of Unsafe, Abandoned Homes”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jake Bittle and Anita Hofschneider
“The Developer Poised to Profit From the Maui Wildfire”
Grist
Daniel Huang
“The Rutters of Athens County”
New York Magazine
Stephanie Kuzydym
“Safer Sidelines”
The Courier-Journal
Chris Marquette
“Accountability for the Capitol Police”
CQ Roll Call
Mariam Elba and Paige Pfleger
“How Tennessee’s Justice System Allows Dangerous People to Keep Guns — With Deadly Outcomes”
WPLN Nashville Public Radio and ProPublica
Nell Salzman
“The Mendez Family”
Chicago Tribune
Ivy Scott
“A Commitment to Move Forward After Mass Shooting in Lewiston, Maine”
The Boston Globe
Brenna Smith
“Baltimore Banner Visual Investigations”
The Baltimore Banner
Salina Arredondo, Jana Cholakovska, David Leffler and Savanna Strott
“Toxic Texas Air”
Public Health Watch
Agnel Philip, Mollie Simon and Isabelle Taft
“Committed to Jail: How Mississippi Jails People for Mental Illness”
Mississippi Today and ProPublica
Makenzie Huber and Annie Todd
“The Lost Children”
South Dakota Searchlight and Sioux Falls Argus Leader

Excellence in National Reporting

Akbar Shahid Ahmed
“Coverage of U.S. Response to War in Gaza”
HuffPost
Ethan Bauer
“The Pursuit of Forgiveness”
Deseret Magazine
Hannah Beckler
“The Secret Terror Inside U.S. Prisons”
Business Insider
Matt Drange
“The Predators’ Playground”
Business Insider
Brittany Gibson
“Voting Group Founded by Abrams, Once Led by Warnock, Faces Financial Scrutiny”
Politico
Astead W. Herndon
“Politics Beyond Who Wins and Loses”
The New York Times
Vivian Ho
“‘Like Becoming a Refugee Again’: They Paid for Their Crimes. The U.S. Deported Them Anyway”
The Guardian US
Kenny Jacoby
“Misconduct”
USA Today
Ava Kofman
“Measure for Measure: The Promethean Quest to Enlarge the Penis Is Leaving Some Men Desperate and Disfigured”
The New Yorker co-published with ProPublica
Julia Lurie
“Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a 'Gold Mine'”
Mother Jones
Kirsten Berg, Alex Mierjeski, and Brett Murphy
“Friends of the Court”
ProPublica
Aneri Pattani
“Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash”
KFF Health News
Brianna Sacks
“Hurricane Ian’s Abandoned Victims”
The Washington Post
Lauren Caruba and Ari Sen
“Bleeding Out”
The Dallas Morning News in partnership with the San Antonio Express-News
Richard Sima
“A Catatonic Woman Awakened After 20 Years. Her Story May Change Psychiatry.”
The Washington Post
Talmon Joseph Smith
“The Wealth Divide”
The New York Times
Margo Snipe
“Dangerous Deliveries”
Capital B

Excellence in International Reporting

Lynzy Billing
“How America’s War Devastated Afghanistan’s Environment”
Inside Climate News and New Lines Magazine
Nick Bowlin
“A Good Prospect”
The Drift
Ali Breland
“Surviving Germany’s Neo-Nazi Resurgence”
The New Republic
Shirsho Dasgupta
“Blood Timber: Teak for Luxury Yachts Enters the U.S. Defying Sanctions, Stripping Forests and Financing Myanmar’s Murderous Regime”
Miami Herald
Rachel Fobar
“Somaliland’s Frankincense Brings Gold to Companies. Its Women Pay the Price”
The Guardian US published in partnership with The Fuller Project
Julia Love
“American Coyote”
Bloomberg Businessweek
Pete McKenzie
“At the Margins of American Empire, Neglect and Corruption Thrive”
The New York Times
Kunle Adebajo and Mansir Muhammed
“Nigeria’s War With Boko Haram May Have Killed Thousands of Innocent People”
New Lines Magazine and HumAngle
Zahra Nader
“Afghan Women Take Their Own Lives as Despair Grows Under Taliban Rule”
The Fuller Project Co-published with The Guardian US and Zan Times
Nicolas Niarchos
“Dirty Nickel, Clean Power: Making the Oceans Bleed Red”
The Nation
Anastacia Galouchka and Siobhan O'Grady
“Civilians Under Fire in Ukraine”
The Washington Post
Andrei Popoviciu
“How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa”
In These Times
Cape Diamond and Rebecca Tan
“Myanmar”
The Washington Post
Chris Walker
“Ransom Road”
5280 Magazine
Jessie Williams
“‘This War Made Him a Monster.’ Ukrainian Women Fear the Return of Their Partners”
TIME Magazine in partnership with The Fuller Project

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