Livingston Awards

Finalists

The Livingston Awards honor the best reporting and storytelling by young journalists.
The 2023 finalists below were chosen from more than 450 entries for work released in 2022.

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Excellence in Local Reporting

Mayowa Aina
“The Walk Home”
KNKX Public Radio in collaboration with The Seattle Times
James Barragán
“Operation Lone Star”
The Texas Tribune and Military Times
Adrián Blanco Ramos
“Enslavers”
The Washington Post
Sarah Blaskey
“Covert Op: The Story Behind DeSantis' Migrant Flights”
Miami Herald
Leo Dominguez
“Enslavers”
The Washington Post
Nina Earnest
“Open and Shut”
Wisconsin Watch and Wisconsin Public Radio
Marisa Gerber
“One Last Trip: Gabriella Walsh’s Decision to Die – And Celebrate Life – On Her Own Terms”
Los Angeles Times
Niki Griswold
“After Uvalde: Portraits of Grief and Calls for Accountability”
Austin American-Statesman
Samantha Hogan
“Eavesdropping in Maine Jails”
The Maine Monitor
Maya Kaufman
“Homeless New Yorkers With Serious Mental Illness Keep Falling Through the Cracks Despite Billions in Spending”
Crain's New York Business
David Leffler
“A Texas County Wants to Punish Polluters. The State Won't Let It.”
Public Health Watch in partnership with The Pulitzer Center, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist
Alex Mann
“Criminal Justice Reporting”
The Baltimore Sun
Nicholas Nehamas
“Covert Op: The Story Behind DeSantis' Migrant Flights”
Miami Herald
Max Nesterak
“Wage Theft in Construction”
Minnesota Reformer
Krystal Nurse
“Lansing State Journal's Coverage on Federal Boarding Schools”
Lansing State Journal
Phoebe Petrovic
“Open and Shut”
Wisconsin Watch and Wisconsin Public Radio
Kari Plog
“The Walk Home”
KNKX Public Radio in collaboration with The Seattle Times
Albert Samaha
“The Only Way for Some People to Stay in San Francisco Is to Steal”
BuzzFeed News
Zachary T. Sampson
“Rising Threat”
Tampa Bay Times
Will Sennott
“How Foreign Private Equity Hooked New England's Fishing Industry”
The New Bedford Light in partnership with ProPublica
Savanna Strott
“A Texas County Wants to Punish Polluters. The State Won't Let It.”
Public Health Watch in partnership with The Pulitzer Center, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist
Langston Taylor
“Rising Threat”
Tampa Bay Times
Trisha Thadani
“A Disaster in Plain Sight”
San Francisco Chronicle
Carter Walker
“Covering Threats to Democracy on the Local Level”
LNP | LancasterOnline
Julie Zauzmer Weil
“Enslavers”
The Washington Post
Davis Winkie
“Operation Lone Star”
The Texas Tribune and Military Times
Anna Wolfe
“The Backchannel: Mississippi’s Welfare Scandal”
Mississippi Today

Excellence in National Reporting

Rachel Adams-Heard
“In Trust”
Bloomberg News
Anna Canny
“In Deep: Season 2”
American Public Media
Marshall Cohen
“Trump Fake Electors”
CNN
Zachary Cohen
“Trump Fake Electors”
CNN
Jasper Craven
“Hazing, Fighting, Sexual Assaults: How Valley Forge Military Academy Devolved Into 'Lord of the Flies'”
Mother Jones
Gaby Del Valle
“The Most Surveilled Place in America”
The Verge
Caitlin Dickerson
“We Need to Take Away Children: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Family-Separation Policy”
The Atlantic
Robert Downen
“Justice, Repentance and the Southern Baptist Sex Abuse Crisis”
Houston Chronicle
Nicholas Florko
“An Investigation Into Prisons’ Refusal to Treat Hepatitis C”
STAT
Alex Heath
“Zuck Turns Up the Heat”
The Verge
Mark Helenowski
“She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter?”
Mother Jones
Astead W. Herndon
“A New York Times Podcast Series Goes Beyond the Horse Race for Unique Election Coverage”
The New York Times
Jamie Hobbs
“In Deep: Season 2”
American Public Media
Cassandra Jaramillo
“The Big Grift Behind the Big Lie”
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
Caroline Kitchener
“Abortion and Post-Roe v. Wade”
The Washington Post
Ava Kofman
“Endgame”
The New Yorker and ProPublica
Davis Land
“In Trust”
Bloomberg News
Dan Merica
“Trump Fake Electors”
CNN
Samantha Michaels
“She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter?”
Mother Jones
Lauren Migaki
“Getting a Bachelor's Degree in Prison”
NPR
Rachel Lauren Mueller
“Dying Inside: Chaos and Cruelty In Louisiana Juvenile Detention”
The New York Times and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism
Brett Murphy
“Words of Conviction: Tracing a Junk Science Through the Justice System”
ProPublica
Elissa Nadworny
“Getting a Bachelor's Degree in Prison”
NPR
Andrea Patiño Contreras
“#IamVanessaGuillen”
Univision News Digital
Alexandra Rain
“The Prodigal Mother”
Deseret News
Lauren Rosenthal
“In Deep: Season 2”
American Public Media
Meg Shutzer
“Dying Inside: Chaos and Cruelty In Louisiana Juvenile Detention”
The New York Times and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism
Anjali Singhvi
“Visual Investigations With 3D”
The New York Times

Excellence in International Reporting

Lynzy Billing
“The Night Raids”
ProPublica
Regine Cabato
“How the Philippines' Brutal History Is Being Whitewashed for Voters”
The Washington Post
Josh Holder
“Egypt's Revolving Prison Door”
The New York Times
Kamila Hrabchuk
“Ukrainian Front Lines”
The Washington Post
Isabelle Khurshudyan
“Ukrainian Front Lines”
The Washington Post
Oscar Lopez
“The Devastating Crisis of Disappearance in Mexico”
The New York Times
Matthew Luxmoore
“The War's Toll on Ukraine and Russia”
The Wall Street Journal
Shibani Mahtani
“How the Philippines' Brutal History Is Being Whitewashed for Voters”
The Washington Post
Lyse Mauvais
“Syrian Farmers Trapped by "Erdogan's wall"”
AI-Monitor
Allison McCann
“Egypt's Revolving Prison Door”
The New York Times
Leila Miller
“"Flotation Test" Condemns Innocent Mothers to Prison”
Los Angeles Times
Solin Muhammed Amin
“Syrian Farmers Trapped by "Erdogan's wall"”
AI-Monitor
Alexander Sammon
“Crime and Forestry”
The New Republic
Mia Sato
“Ukrainian Influencers Bring the Frontlines to TikTok”
The Verge
Emily Schultheis
“'Nobody Helped Me': Austria Shaken by Suicide of Doctor Trolled by Anti-vaccine Haters”
Coda Story
Sarah Souli
“A Matter of Honor”
The Atavist
Vasilisa Stepanenko
“A Year of War: Adversity Taps Into Deep Skills of Young Ukrainian Journalist”
The Associated Press
Sam Tabachnik
“Looted: Stolen Relics, Laundered Art and a Colorado Scholar's Role in the Illicit Antiquities Trade”
The Denver Post
Elizabeth Trovall
“Haitian Odyssey”
Houston Chronicle
Vivian Yee
“Egypt's Revolving Prison Door”
The New York Times

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