Livingston Awards

Finalists

The Livingston Awards honor the best reporting and storytelling by young journalists.
The 2022 finalists below were chosen from more than 450 entries for work released in 2021.

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Excellence in Local Reporting

Jessica Bakeman
“Cuomo Never Let Me Forget I Was a Woman”
New York Magazine
Sarah Blaskey
“House of Cards”
Miami Herald
Molly Born
“Foster Care: A System in Crisis”
Mountain State Spotlight and The GroundTruth Project
Zoë Carpenter
“Greetings From Portland”
The Nation
Taylor Eldridge
“Shots Fired”
FRONTLINE in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune
Abby Ellis
“Shots Fired”
FRONTLINE in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune
Rebecca Ellis
“Portland’s Private Police”
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Callie Ferguson
“Desperate to Escape Solitary Confinement, a Maine Man’s Plight Deepens”
The Bangor Daily News
Amelia Ferrell Knisely
“Foster Care: A System in Crisis”
Mountain State Spotlight and The GroundTruth Project
Marie J. French
“Energy Policy in New York”
POLITICO
Paighten Harkins
“Shots Fired”
FRONTLINE in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune
Amy Julia Harris
“Profiting off the Homeless”
The New York Times
Madison Hopkins
“The Failures Before the Fires”
Better Government Association and the Chicago Tribune
Cary Junior II
“On the Line”
Detroit Free Press
Mark Keierleber
“The Spy Tech That Followed Kids Home”
The 74
Danae King
“There’s No Escape: Memories of Being Raped by Catholic Priest Haunt Columbus Man”
The Columbus Dispatch
Kate McGee
“Transparency and the University of Texas at Austin”
The Texas Tribune
Mandy McLaren
“Reexamining Louisville’s Nationally Lauded School Integration Plan”
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
Brittny Mejia
“Riven by COVID”
Los Angeles Times
Jessica Miller
“Shots Fired”
FRONTLINE in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune
Muna Mohamed
“Shots Fired”
FRONTLINE in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune
Cecilia Reyes
“The Failures Before the Fires”
Better Government Association and the Chicago Tribune
Jessica Seaman
“She Is Such a Puzzle: Colorado Teen’s Months-Long Ordeal Spotlights Mysteries of Long COVID”
The Denver Post
Andrew Seidman
“The Hunt”
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Sam Stecklow
“Shots Fired”
FRONTLINE in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune
Alex Stuckey
“In Crisis”
Houston Chronicle
Evey Wilson Wetherbee
“Saving Juliette”
Georgia Public Broadcasting

Excellence in National Reporting

Mohamed Al Elew
“Banking on Inequity”
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
Jess Bidgood
“In Harm’s Way: The Car Becomes the Weapon”
The Boston Globe
Jamelle Bouie
“Long Time Coming: Jamelle Bouie on the Arrival of the Trump Presidency”
The New York Times
Tony Briscoe
“Conservationists See Rare Nature Sanctuaries. Black Farmers See a Legacy Bought Out From Under Them.”
ProPublica
Claire Hannah Collins
“Meet the Formerly Incarcerated Fire Crew Protecting California From Wildfires”
Los Angeles Times
Maddy Crowell
“Invisible Kid”
The Atavist Magazine
Jose A. Del Real
“Truth, Trust, and Conspiracy Theories in America”
The Washington Post
Hannah Dreyfus
“The Liberty Way: How Liberty University Discourages and Dismisses Students’ Reports of Sexual Assaults”
ProPublica
Katelyn Ferral
“Hero to Zero How the National Guard Fails Its Members”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Maggie Freleng
“Suave”
Futuro Media / PRX
Drew Harwell
“Powerful Spyware”
The Washington Post
Baxter Holmes
“Allegations of Racism and Misogyny Within the Phoenix Suns: Inside Robert Sarver’s 17-Year Tenure as Owner”
ESPN
Lauren Leatherby
“Visualizing the Coronavirus”
The New York Times
Julieta Martinelli
“Suave”
Futuro Media / PRX
Claire McNear
“A Smile With Sharp Teeth: Mike Richards’s Rise to ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Sparks Questions About His Past”
The Ringer
Laura Morel
“Banking on Inequity”
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
Cecilia Nowell
“She Used Drugs While Pregnant. Should She Be in Prison?”
New York Magazine's The Cut
Rita Omokha
“America Redefined”
ELLE
Lizzie Presser
“They Took Us Away From Each Other: Lost Inside’s America’s Shadow Foster System”
ProPublica
Maanvi Singh
“When Amazon Expands, These Communities Pay the Price”
Consumer Reports and The Guardian
Roman Stubbs
“High School Sports”
The Washington Post
Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.
“The Fist Without the Fuss and The Boabab Tree”
Gimlet Media
Kaveh Waddell
“When Amazon Expands, These Communities Pay the Price”
Consumer Reports and The Guardian

Excellence in International Reporting

Rachael Bale
“Cheetahs for Sale”
National Geographic
Max Bearak
“Africa's Rising Cities”
The Washington Post
Khalid Bencherif
“How Climate Change Turned This Moroccan Village Into a Ghost Town”
In These Times
Olivia Carville
“AirbNb”
Bloomberg Businessweek
Gloria Dickie
“The Polar Crucible”
Scientific American
Thomas Gibbons-Neff
“A Former Marine Turned Journalist Witnesses the End of the Afghan War”
The New York Times
Sanket Jain
“India’s Healthcare Workers Are Busting Misinformation on WhatsApp”
The Verge (Vox media)
May Jeong
“The U.N.'s Own Humanitarian Crisis”
New York Magazine
Olivia Konotey-Ahulu
“How London's Property Boom Left Black Britons With Nothing”
Bloomberg News
Erika Lantz
“The Turning: The Sisters Who Left”
Rococo Punch and iHeartRadio
Elin Lantz Lesser
“The Turning: The Sisters Who Left”
Rococo Punch and iHeartRadio
Júlia Ledur
“Africa's Rising Cities”
The Washington Post
Louisa Loveluck
“Iraq on a Precipice”
The Washington Post
David Mora
“Deported to Death and After the Flood”
VICE News
Dylan Moriarty
“Africa's Rising Cities”
The Washington Post
Mustafa Salim
“Iraq on a Precipice”
The Washington Post

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