Livingston Awards

Finalists

Finalists in 2018 for work published in 2017.

Excellence in Local Reporting

Evan Allen
“Security Guards Beating the Homeless at TD Garden”
The Boston Globe
Bethany Barnes
“Benefit of the Doubt”
The Oregonian/OregonLive
Neil Bedi
“Hellfire from Above”
Tampa Bay Times
Jonathan Blitzer
“The Teens Trapped Between a Gang and the Law”
The New Yorker
Michael Bott
“Kicked Out”
NBC Bay Area (KNTV)
Jonathan Capriel
“Hellfire from Above”
Tampa Bay Times
Lauren Caruba
“Life in Transition”
San Antonio Express-News
Christopher Collins
“Death from Above”
The Texas Observer
Anastasia Dawson
“Hellfire from Above”
Tampa Bay Times
Jose A. Del Real
“The Bronx's Quiet, Brutal War With Opioids”
The New York Times
Nicole Dungca
“Security Guards Beating the Homeless at TD Garden”
The Boston Globe
Jonathan Edwards
“A Murderous Year”
The Virginian-Pilot
Joan Garrett McClane
“The Lost Way”
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Mike Hixenbaugh
“Alive Inside”
Houston Chronicle
Vivian Ho
“A Life on the Line”
San Francisco Chronicle
Joy Lukachick Smith
“The Lost Way”
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Ed Mahon
“Broken Trust”
York Daily Record/Sunday News
Kathleen McGrory
“Hellfire from Above”
Tampa Bay Times
Mark Mulligan
“Alive Inside”
Houston Chronicle
Tricia L. Nadolny
“Larry Wittig”
Philadelphia Media Network
Ese Olumhense
“NYCHA Crime Witnesses Face Obstacles When They Seek Safety”
City Limits in partnership with The Investigative Fund
Maria Perez
“Florida's disposable workers”
Naples Daily News
Gregory Pratt
“If the DNA is not me, why am I still here?”
Chicago Tribune
Raven Rakia
“A Living Nightmare: Women Visiting Loved Ones Jailed at Rikers Describe a Pattern of Invasive Searches by Guards”
The Intercept
Jan Ransom
“Security Guards Beating the Homeless at TD Garden”
The Boston Globe
Bigad Shaban
“Kicked Out”
NBC Bay Area (KNTV)
Stephen Stirling
“Death & Dysfunction”
NJ Advance Media (NJ.com & The Star-Ledger)
S. P. Sullivan
“Death & Dysfunction”
NJ Advance Media (NJ.com & The Star-Ledger)
Rachel Witte
“Kicked Out”
NBC Bay Area (KNTV)

Excellence in National Reporting

Stan Alcorn
“Trial and Terror”
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
Spencer Bakalar
“The Silence Breakers”
TIME
Amy Brittain
“8 women: Charlie Rose harassed us”
The Washington Post
Brian Burnsed
“Away from the NFL spotlight, financial ruin drove Clinton Portis to the brink of murder”
Sports Illustrated
Irin Carmon
“8 women: Charlie Rose harassed us”
The Washington Post
Alana Casanova-Burgess
“After the Storm”
On the Media, WNYC Radio
Eliana Dockterman
“The Silence Breakers”
TIME
Steve Dorsey
“Diplomats Injured in Cuba”
CBS News
Kaitlyn Emerson
“The Silence Breakers”
TIME
Emmanuel Felton
“The Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools”
The Hechinger Report/The Nation
Cat Ferguson
“Searching for Help”
The Verge
Connie Fossi
“The Naked Truth: Wasteland”
Fusion
Brian Freskos
“Missing Pieces”
The Trace
Damian Garde
“Inside a hedge fund where sexual harassment was the norm”
STAT
Rachel Glickhouse
“Documenting Hate”
ProPublica
Henry Grabar
“Who Gets to Live in Fremont, Nebraska?”
Slate
Amy Julia Harris
“All Work. No Pay.”
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
Sara Jerving
“Indebted”
Vice News
Laura Juncadella
“The Naked Truth: Wasteland”
Fusion
Julia Lull
“The Silence Breakers”
TIME
Taylor Mirfendereski
“Unshackled: A prostitute's journey to freedom”
King 5
Brett Murphy
“Rigged: Forced into debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing.”
USA TODAY Network
Kristofer Rios
“The Naked Truth: Wasteland”
Fusion
Daniel Rivero
“The Naked Truth: Wasteland”
Fusion
Haley Sweetland Edwards
“The Silence Breakers”
TIME
Diane Tsai
“The Silence Breakers”
TIME
Shoshana Walter
“All Work. No Pay.”
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
John Woodrow Cox
“Children and Gun Violence”
The Washington Post
Chris Young
“The United States of Petroleum”
The Center for Public Integrity
Jie Jenny Zou
“The United States of Petroleum”
The Center for Public Integrity

Excellence in International Reporting

Kimberly Brooks
“O Girls”
Fusion
Mansi Choksi
“The Newlyweds”
Harper's Magazine
Roberto Daza
“O Girls”
Fusion
Will Fitzgibbon
“Paradise Papers”
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
Susannah George
“Cost of Liberation - coverage of the battle for Mosul”
The Associated Press
May Jeong
“The U.S.-Trained Warlords Committing Atrocities in Afghanistan”
In These Times and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting
Jacob Kushner
“10 Murders, 3 Nazis, and Germany's Moment of Reckoning”
Foreign Policy
Kate Linthicum
“Back to Malinalco”
Los Angeles Times
Micah Loewinger
“Swedish Cowboys & Syrian Refugees”
On the Media, WNYC Radio
Lizzie Presser
“Below Deck”
The California Sunday Magazine
Kenneth R. Rosen
“The Devil's Henchmen”
The Atavist Magazine
Juliana Schatz Preston
“Los Commandos”
Show of Force
Kevin Sieff
“In world's biggest refugee camp, ban casts pall of despair”
The Washington Post
Ben C. Solomon
“4 Days of Exile”
The New York Times
Sushma Subramanian
“Worse Than Tuskegee”
Slate

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