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 2020.

Excellence in Local Reporting

Haley BeMiller
“First Came Sex Abuse Allegations at the Abbey. Then Secret Payments. Then a Suicide.”
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Lauren Caruba
“A last resort against COVID-19; Night Shift; 'What if we pull the plug too early?'”
San Antonio Express-News
Lakeidra Chavis
“In Chicago, a Steep Rise in Suicide Among Black People”
The Trace in partnership with The Chicago Sun-Times
Ann Choi
“Inside New York City's Housing Lotteries”
The City (NY, NY)
Jessica Contrera
“The Pandemic’s Human Supply Chain”
The Washington Post
Courtney Crowder
“The Stories of Iowans”
The Des Moines Register
Andrew Ford
“Policing the Police”
Asbury Park Press in partnership with ProPublica
Eileen Grench
“Education, iPads, and Child Welfare Workers in the Age of Covid”
The City (NY, NY)
Samantha Hogan
“Defenseless: Investigating the Only State Without Public Defenders”
The Maine Monitor and ProPublica
Rachel Holiday Smith
“Inside New York City's Housing Lotteries”
The City (NY, NY)
Lizzie Johnson
“The Evidence Burns Away”
The San Francisco Chronicle
Josh Kaplan
“Thousands Of D.C. Renters Are Evicted Every Year. Do They All Know To Show Up To Court?”
DCist in partnership with Spotlight DC
Soumya Karlamangla
“A Last Selfless Act”
Los Angeles Times
Ana Ley
“Power Over Portsmouth: How a Majority-Black City Challenged Systemic Racism”
The Virginian-Pilot
Nichole Manna
“Life and Death in 76104”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Jessica Miller
“Utah's troubled-teen industry”
The Salt Lake Tribune
Thad Moore
“South Carolina Eviction Coverage”
The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.)
Agnel Philip
“Defenseless: Investigating the Only State Without Public Defenders”
The Maine Monitor and ProPublica
Bridget Read
“The Eco–Yogi Slumlords of Brooklyn”
New York Magazine
Eric Sandy
“Caught Between Here and There”
Cleveland Scene
Josuha Sharpe
“The Imperfect Alibi: The forgotten suspect, the DNA and the church murders that haunted a detective”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Will Welch
“Inside New York City's Housing Lotteries”
The City (NY, NY)

Excellence in National Reporting

Kenzi Abou-Sabe
“Millions of Americans Receive Drugs by Mail. But Are They Safe?”
NBC News Investigative Unit
Hamed Aleaziz
“Hamed Aleaziz's Immigration Series”
BuzzFeed News
Bethany Barnes
“Cash Driven”
Tampa Bay Times
Eric Boodman
“In the COVID-19 Death of a Hospital Food Worker, a Microcosm of the Pandemic”
STAT
Sydney Brownstone
“Outsiders”
KNKX Public Radio and The Seattle Times
Elizabeth Bruenig
“Elizabeth Bruenig on Politics, Religion and Social Issues”
The New York Times
Chabeli Carrazana
“America's First Female Recession”
The 19th
Elizabeth Dias
“America's Soul”
The New York Times
Hannah Dreier
“Trust and Consequences”
The Washington Post
Blake Ellis
“Dozens of Amazon’s Own Products Have Been Reported as Dangerous”
CNN
Katie Engelhart
“What Happened in Room 10?”
The California Sunday Magazine
Alissa Escarce
“At the Mercy of the Courts”
Documented, Latino USA and Type Investigations
Scott Greenstone
“Outsiders”
KNKX Public Radio and The Seattle Times
Eli Hager
“They Agreed to Meet Their Mother’s Killer. Then Tragedy Struck Again.”
The Marshall Project in partnership with The Atlantic
Melanie Hicken
“Dozens of Amazon’s Own Products Have Been Reported as Dangerous”
CNN
Ellen Huet
“Foundering”
Bloomberg News
Will James
“Outsiders”
KNKX Public Radio and The Seattle Times
Adiel Kaplan
“Millions of Americans Receive Drugs by Mail. But Are They Safe?”
NBC News Investigative Unit
Jamiles Lartey
“Why It’s Not So Simple To Arrest The Cops Who Shot Breonna Taylor”
The Marshall Project
Daniel Lombroso
“White Noise”
The Atlantic
Elaine McMillion Sheldon
“Tutwiler”
The Marshall Project in partnership with Frontline and America ReFramed on WORLD Channel
Kit Ramgopal
“Millions of Americans Receive Drugs by Mail. But Are They Safe?”
NBC News Investigative Unit
Alysia Santo
“Tutwiler”
The Marshall Project in partnership with Frontline and America ReFramed on WORLD Channel
Emily Shugerman
“Racism Rocks the National Organization for Women”
The Daily Beast
Mazin Sidahmed
“At the Mercy of the Courts”
Documented, Latino USA and Type Investigations
Max Siegelbaum
“At the Mercy of the Courts”
Documented, Latino USA and Type Investigations
Roman Stubbs
“Youth Sports and Society”
The Washington Post
Shawn Wen
“Foundering”
Bloomberg News
Sarah Zhang
“The Last Children of Down Syndrome”
The Atlantic

Excellence in International Reporting

Joshua Baker
“I'm Not A Monster”
Frontline
Luisa Conlon
“Across the Rio Grande: Crisis Inside the Border's Largest Refugee Tent City”
Vice News
Maddy Crowell
“The Messengers”
Virginia Quarterly Review
Gabriela Dematteis
“Across the Rio Grande: Crisis Inside the Border's Largest Refugee Tent City”
Vice News
Chao Deng
“On the Front Lines in Wuhan”
The Wall Street Journal
Caitlin Dickerson
“Camped at America's Doorstep”
The New York Times
Emily Feng
“Portraits from a Pandemic: The Coronavirus in China”
NPR
Ruby Gaviola
“Returned”
San Diego Union-Tribune
Claire Harbage
“Recovering Fukushima”
NPR in partnership with the John Alexander Project
Isayen Herrera Gutiérrez
“Motherhood Amid Catastrophe”
The New York Times
Emily Keen
“Women Are Being Killed With Impunity In Mexico”
Vice News
Kat Lonsdorf
“Recovering Fukushima”
NPR in partnership with the John Alexander Project
Timothy McLaughlin
“The Reengineering of Hong Kong”
The Atlantic
Kate Morrissey
“Returned”
San Diego Union-Tribune
Paola Ramos
“Across the Rio Grande: Crisis Inside the Border's Largest Refugee Tent City”
Vice News
Lauren Schroeder
“Returned”
San Diego Union-Tribune
Julie Turkewitz
“Motherhood Amid Catastrophe”
The New York Times
J. Weston Phippen
“The Kidnapped American Trump Forgot”
Politico
Isobel Yeung
“Women Are Being Killed With Impunity In Mexico”
Vice News

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