Livingston Awards

Finalists

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

The finalist selections were chosen from more than 500 entries for work released in 2019.

Excellence in Local Reporting

Jenny Abamu
“Children Are Routinely Isolated in Some Fairfax County Schools; We Have Fallen Short; and U.S. Schools Underreport How Often Students Are Restrained or Secluded”
WAMU
Bridget Balch
“Unguarded”
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Michael Barajas
“Where the Bodies Are Buried”
Texas Observer
Neil Bedi
“You're trapped. They're Cashing In.”
Tampa Bay Times
Emily Corwin
“Supervision”
New Hampshire Public Radio
Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge
“Why Prisoners Get the Doctors No One Else Wants”
Type Investigations in partnership with The Appeal
Allie Gross
“Wayne County's Auction Program Is Supposed to Keep People in Homes. It's Not.”
Detroit Free Press
Alyssa Hodenfield
“S.A.C.”
The Sacramento Bee
Lizzie Johnson
“A Fire's Unfathomable Toll”
San Francisco Chronicle
Spencer Kent
“The Man Who Lived”
NJ Advance Media
Marisa M. Kashino
“A Murder on the Rappahannock”
Washingtonian
Taylor Mirfendereski
“Uncuffed”
KING 5
Danielle Muoio
“Bill de Blasio's Bogus Divestment Claims”
Politico New York
Tim Prudente
“Peanut King”
The Baltimore Sun
Dylan Segelbaum
“C. Q. Smith”
The York Daily Record
Amber South
“C. Q. Smith”
The York Daily Record
Marina Starleaf Riker
“Kicked Out”
San Antonio Express-News
Alain Stephens
“Ghost Guns”
The Trace in partnership with NBC Bay Area, NBC San Diego and NBC Los Angeles

Excellence in National Reporting

Stuart A. Thompson
“One Nation, Tracked”
The New York Times
Emily Baumgaertner
“Smokescreens”
Los Angeles Times
Sarah Blaskey
“Trump Tourism: The Selling of Presidential Access”
Miami Herald
Helena Bottemiller Evich
“Suppressing Climate Science”
Politico
Jacob Carah
“Flint's Deadly Water”
Frontline
Ashley Cleek
“A Child Lost in Translation”
Latino USA
Jessica Contrera
“Why Did You Do This?; When a 'Prank' Became a Hate Crime; She Met Her Abuser at 16”
The Washington Post
Robert Downen
“Abuse of Faith”
Houston Chronicle
Abby Ellis
“Flint's Deadly Water”
Frontline
Katie Engelhart
“Her Time”
The California Sunday Magazine
Ryan Felton
“Bottled Water Contamination”
Consumer Reports
Brian Freskos
“Easy Targets”
The Trace in partnership with The New Yorker
Kenny Jacoby
“Predator Pipeline”
USA Today Network
Emily Kassie
“Detained”
The Marshall Project in partnership with The Guardian
Janice Llamoca
“A Child Lost in Translation”
Latino USA
Julia Lurie
“Opioids and the Failing Addiction Treatment System”
Mother Jones
Jenna McLaughlin
“Can a Nation Keep Its Secrets in the Digital Age?”
Yahoo News
Nicholas Nehamas
“Trump Tourism: The Selling of Presidential Access”
Miami Herald
Jack Nicas
“Facebook's Military Romance Scams”
The New York Times
Bobby Olivier
“Joyce”
NJ Advance Media
Caitlin Ostroff
“Trump Tourism: The Selling of Presidential Access”
Miami Herald
Kayla Ruble
“Flint's Deadly Water”
Frontline
Michael Sol Warren
“Joyce”
NJ Advance Media
Kendall Taggart
“Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops to Investigate Their Own Customers”
Buzzfeed News
Emily Tate
“When an Online Teaching Job Becomes a Window into Child Abuse”
EdSurge and WIRED
Charlie Warzel
“One Nation, Tracked”
The New York Times

Excellence in International Reporting

Rosalind Adams
“Inside the Hong Kong Protests”
BuzzFeed News
Lama Al-Arian
“How It Ends: The Missing and Trapped After the Caliphate”
NPR
Doug Bock Clark
“The American Missionary and the Uncontacted Tribe”
GQ
Sarah Butrymowicz
“Refugee Girls Want to Improve the World. Will We Let Them Do So?”
The Hechinger Report in partnership with Marie Claire
Isabel Coles
“Children of No Nation”
The Wall Street Journal
Olivia Goldhill
“The Data Boom”
Quartz
Jarrad Henderson
“1619: The Long Road Home”
USA Today
Andrew Keh
“The Champion Who Picked a Date to Die”
The New York Times
Natasha Khan
“Hong Kong's Revolt”
The Wall Street Journal
Kate Linthicum
“Mexico's Homicide Crisis”
Los Angeles Times
Molly O'Toole
“Borderline: Trump's Immigration Crackdown”
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth R. Rosen
“The Body Pullers of Syria; Walls Often Fail”
WIRED
Ruth Sherlock
“How It Ends: The Missing and Trapped After the Caliphate”
NPR
Blake Sobczak
“The Most Dangerous Malware”
E&E News
Ben Solomon
“Ebola in Congo”
Frontline
Chris Walker
“Searching for Adolfo”
Rock and Ice Magazine
Karla Zabludovsky
“The Shocking Reality of Reproductive Rights In Latin America”
BuzzFeed News
Max de Haldevang
“Tax Haven USA”
Quartz

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