Livingston Awards

Finalists

Finalists in 2017 for work published in 2016.

Excellence in Local Reporting

Amy Brittain
“Second Chance City”
The Washington Post
Ricardo Cano
“School Bus Safety”
The Arizona Republic
Jacob Carpenter
“Free to Flee”
Naples Daily News
Kiah Collier
“Hell and High Water”
ProPublica; The Texas Tribune
Courtney Crowder
“Trans in Iowa”
Des Moines Register
Sarah Gonzalez
“Kids in Prison: Racial Disparities, Longer Sentences and a Better Way”
WNYC
Lena Groeger
“Tracking Evictions and Rent Stabilization in NYC”
ProPublica
Molly Harbarger
“A River of Broken Promises”
The Oregonian/OregonLive
Paul Heintz
“The Gun: How I Bought an AR-15 in a Five Guys Parking Lot”
Seven Days
Stephen Hobbs
“Death on Their Watch”
Sun Sentinel
Kala Kachmar
“Inside the Municipal Court Cash Machine”
Asbury Park Press
Jeff Larson
“Hell and High Water”
ProPublica; The Texas Tribune
Vince Lattanzio
“Generation Addicted”
NBC10 Philadelphia (WCAU)
Andy Mannix
“Solitary: Way Down in the Hole”
Star Tribune
Caitlin McGlade
“School Bus Safety”
The Arizona Republic
Laura Morel
“Walmart: Saving Money, Calling the Cops”
Tampa Bay Times
Ryan Murphy
“Hell and High Water”
ProPublica; The Texas Tribune
Eli Murray
“Walmart: Saving Money, Calling the Cops”
Tampa Bay Times
Jonah Newman
“Settling for Misconduct”
The Chicago Reporter
Cesary Podkul
“Tracking Evictions and Rent Stabilization in NYC”
ProPublica
Brian Rosenthal
“Denied: How Texas Keeps Tens of Thousands of Children Out of Special Education”
Houston Chronicle
Zachary Sampson
“Walmart: Saving Money, Calling the Cops”
Tampa Bay Times
Neena Satija
“Hell and High Water”
ProPublica; The Texas Tribune
Ken Schwencke
“Tracking Evictions and Rent Stabilization in NYC”
ProPublica
Al Shaw
“Hell and High Water”
ProPublica; The Texas Tribune
Alex Stuckey
“Sexual Assault on Utah State University's Campus”
The Salt Lake Tribune
Sisi Wei
“Tracking Evictions and Rent Stabilization in NYC”
ProPublica
Morgan Zalot
“Generation Addicted”
NBC10 Philadelphia (WCAU)

Excellence in National Reporting

Tina Antolini
“What's Growing in Mossville?”
Gravy Podcast
Shane Bauer
“My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”
Mother Jones
Christopher Baxter
“The 100-Yard Deception”
NJ Advance Media (The Star-Ledger/NJ.com)
Marlon Bishop
“The Strange Death of Jose de Jesus Part 1 and 2”
Latino USA
Evelio Contreras
“Beyond the Border: Life in Limbo”
CNN
Fernanda Echavarri
“The Strange Death of Jose de Jesus Part 1 and 2”
Latino USA/NPR
John Eligon
“Bored, Broke and Armed: Clues to Chicago's Gang Violence”
The New York Times
Lyndsey Gilpin
“How the National Park Service is Failing Women”
High Country News
Eli Hager
“Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transportation”
The Marshall Project
Amy Julia Harris
“The God Loophole”
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
Jarrad Henderson
“A War Within: The Battle Against PTSD and Veteran Suicide”
USA Today
Jackie Jesko
“Daughters For Sale”
ABC News Nightline
Dana Liebelson
“Presumed Innocent, Found Dead - Tracking Jail Deaths Since Sandra Bland”
The Huffington Post
Terrence McCoy
“It was an accident, baby”
The Washington Post
Lillian Mongeau
“Little to Nothing: The State of America's Preschools”
The Hechinger Report
Ryan Reilly
“Presumed Innocent, Found Dead - Tracking Jail Deaths Since Sandra Bland”
The Huffington Post
Alysia Santo
“Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transportation”
The Marshall Project
Eli Saslow
“The White Flight of Derek Black”
The Washington Post
Shane Shifflett
“Presumed Innocent, Found Dead - Tracking Jail Deaths Since Sandra Bland”
The Huffington Post
Catherine Shoichet
“Beyond the Border: Life in Limbo”
CNN
Brandon Sneed
“I'm Not the Lone Wolf”
Bleacher Report
Mike Spies
“The Gunfighters”
The Trace
Matthew Stanmyre
“The 100-Yard Deception”
NJ Advance Media (The Star-Ledger/NJ.com)
Sarah Stillman
“The List”
The New Yorker
James West
“My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”
Mother Jones
Reeves Wiedeman
“The Sandy Hook Hoax”
New York Magazine

Excellence in International Reporting

Yara Bishara
“A Bomb Shatters an Aleppo Building and Videos Capture the Rescue Minute by Minute”
The New York Times
Heidi Blake
“The Tennis Racket”
BuzzFeed News, BBC
Samantha Bresnahan
“World Sport Presents: They'll Never Walk Alone”
CNN
Deborah Brunswick
“Vanishing”
CNN
Zach Dorfman
“Codename: Chilbom”
The Atavist Magazine
Hannah Drier
“Venezuela Undone”
The Associated Press
Alice Fordham
“Syria reporting”
NPR
Lottie Gammon
“The Traffickers: Fake Pharma”
Fusion
Matt Gannon
“Vanishing”
CNN
Mike Giglio
“ISIS”
BuzzFeed News
Nelufar Hedayat
“The Traffickers: Fake Pharma”
Fusion
Stefano Pozzebon
“The Traffickers: Fake Pharma”
Fusion
Kevin Sieff
“Sometimes when I'm alone with my baby, I think about killing him”
The Washington Post
Ben C. Solomon
“The Fight For Falluja”
The New York Times
Megan Specia
“A Bomb Shatters an Aleppo Building and Videos Capture the Rescue Minute by Minute”
The New York Times
John Sutter
“Vanishing”
CNN
John Templon
“The Tennis Racket”
BuzzFeed News, BBC
Francesca Trianni
“The Syrians Next Door”
Time
Bryce Urbany
“Vanishing”
CNN
Elisabeth Zerofsky
“Front Runner: Marine Le Pen's Campaign to Make France Great Again”
Harper's Magazine
Munzer al-Awad
“ISIS”
BuzzFeed News

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