Livingston Awards

Finalists

Finalists in 2019 for work published in 2018.

Excellence in Local Reporting

Allen Arthur
“Too Sick to Jail”
The Marshall Project and USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee
Carla Astudillo
“The Force Report”
NJ Advance Media (NJ.com and The Star-Ledger)
Bethany Barnes
“Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter”
The Oregonian/OregonLive
Nate Berg
“Man vs. Nature: Can Engineering Save Louisiana's Coastline?”
Curbed
Dave Boucher
“Too Sick to Jail”
The Marshall Project and USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee
Alison Bowen
“She Went to the ER for a Rape Exam. Her Nurse Didn't Know How to do One.”
Chicago Tribune
Zoë Carpenter
“Lessons from the Opioid Epidemic”
The Nation Magazine
Andrew Chavez
“Pain & Profit”
The Dallas Morning News
Jessica Contrera
“The Boy on the Bridge”
The Washington Post
Emily Corwin
“JOLTED, Parts 1 and 4”
Vermont Public Radio
Hannah Dreier
“Trapped in Gangland”
ProPublica in partnership with New York magazine, This American Life, and The New York Times Magazine
Liam Elder-Connors
“JOLTED, Parts 1 and 4”
Vermont Public Radio
Andrew Ford
“Selections from Protecting the Shield”
Asbury Park Press
Mike Hayes
“Busted: The NYPD's Secret Files”
Buzzfeed News
Lizzie Johnson
“150 Minutes of Hell”
San Francisco Chronicle
Amy Julia Harris
“She Said She'd Free Them from Addiction. She Turned Them into Her Personal Servants”
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
Craig McCarthy
“The Force Report”
NJ Advance Media (NJ.com and The Star-Ledger)
J. David McSwane
“Pain & Profit”
The Dallas Morning News
Blake Nelson
“The Force Report”
NJ Advance Media (NJ.com and The Star-Ledger)
Julian Noisecat
“Caught Between Crises”
High Country News
Nick Pachelli
“Brainwashed”
San Francisco Magazine
Erin Petenko
“The Force Report”
NJ Advance Media (NJ.com and The Star-Ledger)
Disha Raychaudhuri
“The Force Report”
NJ Advance Media (NJ.com and The Star-Ledger)
Connor Sheets
“Alabama's Beach House Sheriff”
Alabama Media Group (The Birmingham News)
Sean Sullivan
“The Force Report”
NJ Advance Media (NJ.com and The Star-Ledger)
Aliyya Swaby
“Dis-Integration”
The Texas Tribune
Kendall Taggart
“Busted: The NYPD's Secret Files”
BuzzFeed News
Alexa Ura
“Dis-Integration”
The Texas Tribune
Shoshana Walter
“She Said She'd Free Them from Addiction. She Turned Them into Her Personal Servants”
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
Yan Wu
“The Force Report”
NJ Advance Media (NJ.com and The Star-Ledger)

Excellence in National Reporting

Jonathan Blitzer
“The New Yorker's Jonathan Blitzer”
The New Yorker
Molly Born
“Stirring the Waters”
The GroundTruth Project / Report for America in partnership with Lexington Herald-Leader, Charleston Gazette-Mail and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Elizabeth Bruenig
“What Do We Owe Her Now?”
The Washington Post
Brian Burnsed
“How Did We Let James Hardy Slip Through the Cracks?”
Sports Illustrated
Margaret Cheatham Williams
“Conception | Season II”
The New York Times
Caity Coyne
“Stirring the Waters”
The GroundTruth Project / Report for America in partnership with Lexington Herald-Leader, Charleston Gazette-Mail and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Caitlin Dickerson
“Migrant Families Torn Apart at the Border”
The New York Times
Ella Dobson
“Conception | Season II”
The New York Times
Emily Gogolak
“How Trump Moved the Mexican Border North”
Politico Magazine
Vanessa Gonzalez-Block
“Election 2000: Over/Time”
CNN
Jihan Hafiz
“Native American Women Are Disappearing, Why is Nothing Being Done?”
"Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien," Hearst Media
Jocie Juritz
“Conception | Season II”
The New York Times
Derek Kravitz
“Trump Town”
ProPublica
Julia Lurie
“Opioid Reporting”
Mother Jones
Daniel Medina
“Adopted and Undocumented: He Grew Up Thinking He Was American Until He Was Deported”
The Intercept
Alex Mierjeski
“Trump Town”
ProPublica
Tricia L. Nadolny
“Abuse in the Bugle & Drum Corps”
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Alex Napoliello
“Groomed, then Gone”
NJ Advance Media (NJ.com and The Star-Ledger)
Sophie Nieto-Muñoz
“Groomed, then Gone”
NJ Advance Media (NJ.com and The Star-Ledger)
Andrea Patiño Contreras
“America First: The Legacy of an Immigration Raid”
Univision News Digital in collaboration with the Knight Foundation and The Intercept
Claire Perlman
“Trump Town”
ProPublica
Lizzie Presser
“Whatever's Your Darkest Question, You Can Ask Me”
The California Sunday Magazine in partnership with the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute
Naveena Sadasivam
“Shallow Waters”
Quartz and The Texas Observer
Zoë Schlanger
“Shallow Waters”
Quartz and The Texas Observer
Emily Seslowsky
“Election 2000: Over/Time”
CNN
Al Shaw
“Trump Town”
ProPublica
Sarah Smith
“Spirit of Fear”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Angela Stempel
“Conception | Season II”
The New York Times
Almudena Toral
“America First: The Legacy of an Immigration Raid”
Univision News Digital in collaboration with the Knight Foundation and The Intercept
Will Wright
“Stirring the Waters”
The GroundTruth Project / Report for America in partnership with Lexington Herald-Leader, Charleston Gazette-Mail and West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Excellence in International Reporting

Atossa Abrahamian
“The Business of Citizenship”
The New York Times
Anna-Catherine Brigida
“Kicked Out of the U.S., Salvadoran Deportees Are Struggling Simply to Stay Alive”
World Politics Review
Mstyslav Chernov
“Nationalist Camp in Ukraine Trains Kids to Kill”
The Associated Press
Mansi Choksi
“A Chance to Rewrite History: The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers”
Longreads
Luisa Conlon
“We Became Fragments”
The New York Times Op-Docs in partnership with The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Krysta Fauria
“Nationalist Camp in Ukraine Trains Kids to Kill”
The Associated Press
Jane Ferguson
“Yemen's Hidden War”
PBS NewsHour
Ryan Gallagher
“Google's Secret Plans to Launch a Censored Version of its Search Engine in China”
The Intercept
Louisa Loveluck
“Syria's Once-Teeming Prison Cells Being Emptied by Mass Murder”
The Washington Post
Niharika Mandhana
“Exposing Genocide”
The Wall Street Journal
Timothy McLaughlin
“How Facebook, WhatsApp Fuel Confusion and Violence”
WIRED in partnership with the Pulitzer Center
Hanna Miller
“We Became Fragments”
The New York Times Op-Docs in partnership with The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Lacy Jane Roberts
“We Became Fragments”
The New York Times Op-Docs in partnership with The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Kevin Sieff
“For Asylum Seekers, Deportation Can Mean Death”
The Washington Post
Sonia Smith
“War of Words”
Texas Monthly
Kejal Vyas
“On the Ground in Venezuela”
The Wall Street Journal
Kim Wall
“A Chance to Rewrite History: The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers”
Longreads
Spencer Woodman
“Woodman Implant Files Feature”
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Finlay Young
“Unprotected”
ProPublica in partnership with Time
Zakaria Zakaria
“Syria's Once-Teeming Prison Cells Being Emptied by Mass Murder”
The Washington Post

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