List of Livingston Award winners
The following is a list of Livingston Award winners.[1][2] The award is given for works published in the previous year.
| Year | Recipient(s) | Recipient Age | Story | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Jessika Harkay | 24 | "Aleysha Ortiz" for The Connecticut Mirror | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Esmy Jimenez | 30 | "Lost Patients" for The Seattle Times in partnership with KUOW Public Radio | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Sydney Brownstone | 34 | |||
| Nicole Sadek | 26 | "The Lost Village" for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2024 | Samantha Hogan | 30 | "Maine's Part-Time Court" for The Maine Monitor | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Alison Behringer | 33 | "Bodies" for KCRW | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Lila Hassan | 28 | |||
| Renata Brito | 31 | "Adrift/36 Days" for the Associated Press | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2023 | Caitlin Dickerson | 33 | "We Need to Take Away Children: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Family-Separation Policy" for The Atlantic | Excellence in National Reporting |
| Vasilisa Stepanenko | 22 | "A Year of War: Adversity Taps Into Deep Skills of Young Ukrainian Journalist" for the Associated Press | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| Anna Wolfe | 28 | "The Backchannel: Mississippi’s Welfare Scandal" for Mississippi Today | Excellence in Local Reporting | |
| 2022 | Erika Lantz | "The Turning: The Sisters Who Left" for Rococo Punch | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| Elin Lantz Lesser | ||||
| Jose A. Del Real | "Truth, Trust, and Conspiracy Theories in America" for The Washington Post | Excellence in National Reporting | ||
| Alex Stuckey | "In Crisis" for Houston Chronicle | Excellence in Local Reporting | ||
| 2021 | Chao Deng | "On the Front Lines in Wuhan" for The Wall Street Journal | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| Hannah Dreier | "Trust and Consequences" for The Washington Post | Excellence in National Reporting | ||
| Joshua Sharpe | "The Imperfect Alibi: The forgotten suspect, the DNA and the church murders that haunted a detective" for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Excellence in Local Reporting | ||
| 2020 | Assia Boundaoui | "The Feeling of Being Watched" for PBS's POV | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Caroline Chen | "Heartless Hospital" for ProPublica | Excellence in Local Reporting | ||
| Brett Murphy | "Show of Force" for USA Today | Excellence in International Reporting | ||
| 2019 | Lindsey Smith | 34 | "Believed" for Michigan Radio | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Kate Wells | 31 | |||
| Chris Outcalt | 34 | "Murder at the Alcatraz of the Rockies" for The Atavist Magazine | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Davey Alba | 31 | "How Duterte Used Facebook to Fuel the Philippine Drug War" for BuzzFeed News | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2018 | Riham Feshir | "74 Seconds," for Minnesota Public Radio News | Excellence in Local Reporting | |
| Meg Martin | ||||
| Tracy Mumford | ||||
| Ronan Farrow | 31 | "Ronan Farrow’s Investigation of Harvey Weinstein" for The New Yorker | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Emily Steel | "O’Reilly Thrives, Then Falls, as Settlements Add Up" for The New York Times | |||
| Michael S. Schmidt | 35 | |||
| Christina Goldbaum | "Strong Evidence that U.S. Special Operations Forces Massacred Civilians in Somalia" for The Daily Beast | Excellence in International Reporting | ||
| 2017 | Claire Galofaro | 34 | "Surviving Appalachia" for Associated Press | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Brooke Jarvis | 32 | "Unclaimed" for The California Sunday Magazine | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Ben Taub | 25 | "The Assad Files" for The New Yorker | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2016 | Lisa Gartner | 28 | "Failure Factories" for Tampa Bay Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Michael LaForgia | 32 | |||
| Nathaniel Lash | 24 | |||
| Mike Baker | 31 | "The Mobile-Home Trap" for The Seattle Times, The Center for Public Integrity and BuzzFeed News | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Daniel Wagner | 34 | |||
| Adrian Chen | 31 | "The Agency" for The New York Times Magazine | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2015 | Kiera Feldman | 29 | "Sexual Assault at God’s Harvard" for The New Republic | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Shoshana Walter | 29 | "Hired Guns" for The Center for Investigative Reporting | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Ryan Gabrielson | 34 | |||
| Matthieu Aikins | 30 | "Whoever Saves a Life" for Matter/Medium | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2014 | Christopher Baxter | 28 | "Private Schools, Hidden Riches" for The Star-Ledger | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Ellen Gabler | 33 | "Deadly Delays" for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Allan James Vestal | 24 | |||
| Luke Mogelson | 29 | "The Dream Boat" for The New York Times Magazine | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2013 | Alexandra Zayas | 29 | "In God’s Name" for Tampa Bay Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Rachel Manteuffel | 28 | "The Things They Leave Behind" for Washingtonian Magazine | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| John D. Sutter | 29 | "Slavery’s Last Stronghold" for CNN Digital | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| Edythe McNamee | 27 | |||
| 2012 | Andrew McLemore | 25 | "Until Proven Innocent" for The Williamson County Sun | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Olga Pierce | 32 | "Redistricting: How Powerful Hands Are Drawing You Out of A Vote" for ProPublica | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Jeff Larson | 30 | |||
| Lois Beckett | 25 | |||
| Mattathias Schwartz | 32 | "A Massacre in Jamaica" for The New Yorker | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2011 | Sarah Fenske | "Mr. Big Stuff" for Phoenix New Times | Excellence in Local Reporting | |
| John Henion | "Rape on the Reservation" for Current TV | Excellence in National Reporting | ||
| Mariana van Zeller | 35 | |||
| Matt Katz | 33 | "Mired in Afghanistan" for The Philadelphia Inquirer | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2010 | Mark Greenblatt | "Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard" for KHOU-TV | Excellence in Local Reporting | |
| David Nathaniel Philipps | 33 | "Casualties of War" for The Gazette (Colorado Springs) | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Abbie Boudreau | 32 | "The Killings at the Canal: The Army Tapes" for CNN | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2009 | John Dickerson | 27 | "The Doctor is Out" for Phoenix New Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Kate Kelly | 34 | "Lost Opportunities Haunt Final Days of Bear Stearns" for The Wall Street Journal | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Lydia Polgreen | 34 | "The Spoils" for The New York Times | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2008 | Dave Jamieson | "Letters From an Arsonist" for Washington City Paper | Excellence in Local Reporting | |
| Craig Kapitan | "The Long Road Home" for The Bryan-College Station Eagle | Excellence in National Reporting | ||
| Mark Mazzetti | 34 | "C.I.A. Destroyed Two Tapes Showing Interrogations" for The New York Times | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Christof Putzel | "From Russia With Hate" for Current TV | Excellence in International Reporting | ||
| 2007 | Joshua Boak | 28 | "Business as Usual" for The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Jim Tankersley | 29 | |||
| Stella Chavez | 34 | "Yolanda's Crossing" for The Dallas Morning News | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Paul David Meyer | 29 | |||
| Evan Osnos | 31 | "The Price We Pay for China's Boom" for The Chicago Tribune | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2006 | Peter Zuckerman | 27 | "Scouts Honor" for Post Register | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Robin Mejia | 32 | "Reasonable Doubt: Can Crime Labs Be Trusted?" for CNN | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Edward Wong | 34 | "The Struggle for Iraq" for The New York Times | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2005 | Pauline Arrillaga | 34 | "Doors to Death" for Associated Press | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Reese Dunklin | 31 | "Runaway Priests: Hiding in Plain Sight" for The Dallas Morning News | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy | 27 | "Reinventing the Taliban" for Discovery Times Channel | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2004 | Cathy Frye | 34 | "Caught in the Web" for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Nicholas Confessore | 28[3] | "G.I. Woe" for Washington Monthly | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Julie Jargon | 29 | "The War Within" (series), "Honor Rolled", "Take These Wings" for Westword | ||
| T. Christian Miller | 34 | "Colombia's Children of War" (series), "A Family Undone by War", "A Piece of Boyhood is Stolen" for Los Angeles Times | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2003 | Michael Luo | 26 | "Small Town Justice" for Associated Press | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Alix Spiegel | 31 | "81 Words: The Story of a Definition" for This American Life, WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Philip P. Pan | 31 | "High Tide of Labor Unrest in China" for The Washington Post | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2002 | Patrick Healy | 30 | "Harvard's Quiet Secret" (series) for The Boston Globe | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Bob Norman | 33 | "Admitting Terror" for New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Sumana Chatterjee | 30 | "A Taste of Slavery" for Knight-Ridder News Service | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| Sudarsan Raghavan | 34 | |||
| 2001 | Jennifer Gonnerman | 29 | "Riker's Island and Life on the Outside" for The Village Voice | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Edward Pinder | 30 | "Master Teacher" | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Michael Finkel | 32 | "Desperate Passage" for The New York Times Magazine | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 2000 | Sean Patrick Lyons | 28 | "A System Padded with Patronage" for Waterbury Republican-American | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Ken Ward Jr. | 32 | "Mountaintop Removal" for The Charleston Gazette | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Kevin Heldman | 34 | "Japanese Prisons: Brutality by Design" for APBnews.com | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1999 | Jo Becker | 31 | "Trouble in Pasco County" for St. Petersburg Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Laura Meckler | 30 | "Organ Transplantation" (series) for Associated Press | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Elizabeth Rubin | 33 | "Our Children Are Killing Us" for The New Yorker | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1998 | J. R. Moehringer | 33 | "The Champ" for Los Angeles Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Lindsey Schwartz | 26 | "Probable Cause" for Dateline, NBC News | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Patrick Weiland | 34 | |||
| Alan Zarembo | 26 | "Judgment Day" for Harper's Magazine | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1997 | Scott Glover | 30 | "Quick Cash: With Few Questions" for Sun-Sentinel | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Evelyn Larrubia | 27 | |||
| Charles Sennott | 34 | "Armed for Profit" for The Boston Globe | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| C. J. Chivers | 33 | "Empty Nets: Atlantic Banks in Peril" (series) for The Providence Journal-Bulletin | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1996 | Chris Adams | 30 | "Medicaid Madness" for The Times-Picayune | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Jim Lynch | 34 | "Angry Patriots" (series) for The Spokesman-Review | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| David S. Rohde | 28 | Bosnia Massacre Coverage for The Christian Science Monitor | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1995 | Melinda Ruley | 33 | "Downeast" (series) for The Independent (Durham N.C.) | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Jeanmarie Condon | 32 | "Turning Point at Waco: The Untold Story" for ABC News | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Mitchell Zuckoff | 32 | "Foul Trade" (series) for The Boston Globe | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1994 | Mark Flatten | 34 | "Policing for Profits" (series) for Tribune Newspapers (Ariz.) | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Darcy Frey | 32 | "The Last Shot" for Harper's Magazine | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Pamela Burdman | 31 | "Bitter Voyage" for San Francisco Chronicle | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1993 | Celia W. Dugger | 34 | "When Abuse Turns Fatal" for The New York Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Bert Robinson | 31 | "Showdown in the West: The Endangered Species Act" for the San Jose Mercury News | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Scott Thurm | 34 | |||
| Christiane Amanpour | 34 | "Siege of Sarajevo" for CNN | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1992 | Thomas French | 34 | "South of Heaven" for the St. Petersburg Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Leda Zimmerman | "Hard Lessons at Chelsea High" for WGBH-TV | Excellence in National Reporting | ||
| Steve Coll | 34 | "Crisis and Change in South Asia" for The Washington Post | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| Eason Jordan | 31 | Coverage of the Gulf War, the Soviet crisis, and the African famine | Special Citation for Outstanding Enterprise | |
| 1991 | David Isay | 25 | "Tossing Away the Keys" for NPR | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Jack Hitt | 33 | "Terminal Delinquents" for Esquire | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Paul Tough | 23 | |||
| David Remnick | 32 | "Millions of Soviet Lives Pervaded by Poverty" for The Washington Post | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1990 | Michele Norris | 29 | "Six-Year-Old's Maryland Home was a Modern-Day Opium Den" for The Washington Post | Excellence in Local Reporting[4] |
| Tom Ashbrook | 34 | "A View From the East" for The Boston Globe | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Peter Gumbel | 31 | "Gorbachev's Broken Economy" for The Wall Street Journal | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| Todd Smith | 28 | Reporter, The Tampa Tribune | Special Posthumous Citation | |
| 1989 | Bonita Brodt | 32 | "Chicago Schools: Worst in America" for the Chicago Tribune | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| David Von Drehle | 28 | "The Death Penalty: A Failure of Execution" for the Miami Herald | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Anne Nelson | 35 | "In the Grotto of the Pink Sisters" for Mother Jones | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1988 | Kevin Cullen | 29 | "Bad Boys" for The Boston Globe | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Deborah Blum | 34 | "California: The Weapons Master" for The Sacramento Bee | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Ira Glass | 28 | "Radio in Vietnam" for NPR | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| Alexis Muellner | 25 | |||
| Jonathan Schwartz | 31 | |||
| 1987 | Benjamin L. Weiser | 32 | "No Exit: Juvenile Justice in Washington" for The Washington Post | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Max Zieman | 25 | "Dirty Grain" for The Kansas City Star | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Barbara Fischkin | 32 | "A Chronicle of Hope" for Newsday | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1986 | Charles Ely | 34 | "Tulsa's Golden Missionary" for KTUL | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Jim Lyons | ||||
| Gregg Easterbrook | 32 | "Making Sense of Agriculture" for The Atlantic | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Blaine Harden | 33 | "Notes of a Famine Watcher" for The Washington Post | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1985 | Tom Hallman | 29 | "Valsetz 1919–84" for The Oregonian | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Susan Milstein | 27 | "Lazy Justice" for The American Lawyer | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Larry Tye | 30 | "America's Shame" for The Courier-Journal | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1984 | Daniel Biddle | 30 | "Above the Law" for The Philadelphia Inquirer | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Barry Siegel | 34 | "El Nino: The World Turns Topsy-Turvy" for the Los Angeles Times | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Rick Atkinson | 31 | "The Hunger Games: Our Wasted Foreign Aid" for the Kansas City Times | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1983 | Mark Feldstein | 26 | "Prisoners of the Harvest" for WTSP-TV | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| Jim Sutherland | 26 | |||
| Edward Zuckerman | 34 | "How Would the U.S. Survive a Nuclear War?" for Esquire | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Thomas Friedman | 30 | "The Beirut Massacre: The Four Days" for The New York Times | Excellence in International Reporting | |
| 1982 | Eric Scigliano | 28 | "The Aleuts' Last Stand" for the Seattle Weekly | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| H. G. (Buzz) Bissinger | 28 | "The Plane That Fell From the Sky" for the St. Paul Pioneer Press | Excellence in National Reporting | |
| Steven Erlanger | 30 | "Envy of the West Vies with Pride in Nation" for The Boston Globe | Excellence in International Reporting |
See also
- Richard M. Clurman Award — mentoring award presented during the Livingston Award ceremonies
References
- ^ "Past Winners". Recognizing Young Journalists. Livingston Awards: University of Michigan. 2024. pp. 26–41.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - ^ "Past Winners - Wallace House". 18 November 2019.
- ^ "2003 Winners". The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
- ^ "Reporter Honored for Articles On Child's Life in Crack House". Washington Post. June 7, 1990. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2017.