Livingston Awards

Finalists

Finalists in 2016 for work published in 2015.

Excellence in Local Reporting

Jonathan Blitzer
“Crossing Over”
The Oxford American
Susanne Cervenka
“The Tax Windfall”
Asbury Park Press
Andrew Chavez
“Texas Officials Gave $270M in Bonuses with Few Rules, Little Oversight”
Austin American-Statesman
Mike Christy
“Divided by Law”
Arizona Daily Star/Arizona Public Media
Fernanda Echavarri
“Divided by Law”
Arizona Daily Star/Arizona Public Media
Justin Fenton
“Chasing a Killer”
The Baltimore Sun
Jessica Floum
“Destroying the Center for Building Hope”
Sarasota Herald Tribune
Gus Garcia-Roberts
“The 7th Precinct vs. Jack Franqui”
Newsday
Caitlin Gibson
“The Way Forward”
The Washington Post
Mike Hixenbaugh
“Sea Dragon Down”
The Virginian-Pilot, in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Program and NBC News
Mirela Iverac
“The Long Way Home”
WNYCRadio
Alexandra Kanik
“Troubled Kids, Powerful Drugs”
PublicSource
Marisa Kashino
“Donald Trump‘s Great, Amazing, Absolutely Huge Acquisition of Virginia’s Biggest Vineyard”
Washingtonian
Charlotte Keith
“Child Abuse Unit Still Struggling”
Investigative Post
J. David McSwane
“Texas Officials Gave $270M in Bonuses with Few Rules, Little Oversight”
Austin American-Statesman
Jonah Newman
“Public Housing, Private Security”
The Chicago Reporter
Jason Paladino
“Sea Dragon Down”
The Virginian-Pilot, in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Program and NBC News
Cezary Podkul
“The Rent Racket: How Landlords Sidestep Tenant Protections in New York City”
ProPublica
Marcelo Rochabrun
“The Rent Racket: How Landlords Sidestep Tenant Protections in New York City”
ProPublica
Brian Rosenthal
“Accountability Austin: The Rules Don't Apply”
Houston Chronicle
Lindsey Smith
“Not Safe to Drink”
Michigan Radio
Kameel Stanley
“Biking While Black”
Tampa Bay Times
Halle Stockton
“Troubled Kids, Powerful Drug”
PublicSource
Perla Trevizo
“Divided by Law”
Arizona Daily Star/Arizona Public Media
Alexandra Zayas
“Biking While Black”
Tampa Bay Times

Excellence in National Reporting

Rachel Aviv
“Revenge Killing: Race and the Death Penalty in a Louisiana Parish”
The New Yorker
Caitlin Dickerson
“WWII Secret Mustard Gas Testing”
NPR
Catherine Dunn
“Bullets Beyond Recall: Defective Guns Outside US Government’s Reach”
International Business Times
Robert Faturechi
“Super PAC Men: How Political Consultants Took a Texas Oilman on a Wild Ride”
ProPublica
David Ferry
“The Fever”
Mother Jones
Alissa Figueroa
“Prison Kids”
Fusion
Connie Fossi
“Prison Kids”
Fusion
Azeen Ghorayshi
“Sexual Harassment in Science”
BuzzFeed News
Dana Goldstein
“What’s Justice for Kids Who Kill?”
The Marshall Project in partnership with Slate
Michael Grabell
“Insult to Injury: America’s Vanishing Worker Protections”
ProPublica
Lena Groeger
“Insult to Injury: America’s Vanishing Worker Protections”
ProPublica
Lindsey Konkel
“Clinical Racism: Why Some of the World’s Most Important Medications Don’t Work for Minorities”
Newsweek
Jeff Larson
“Telecoms, Manufacturers Delaying Critical Patches for Classified Military Smartphones”
ProPublica
Dana Liebelson
“Cruel And All-Too-Usual”
The Huffington Post
Dan Lieberman
“The Heroin Trail”
Fusion
Rachel Monroe
“Have You Ever Thought About Killing Someone?”
Matter
Tricia L. Nadolny
“Tip-Overs: Preventable Tragedies”
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Anahad O’Connor
“Coca-Cola”
The New York Times
Steve Reilly
“Untested Rape Kits”
USA Today
Alysia Santo
“Preying on Prisoners”
The Marshall Project
Eli Saslow
“A Survivor’s Life”
The Washington Post
Joseph Walker
“The Dysfunction in Drug Prices”
The Wall Street Journal

Excellence in International Reporting

Jake Abrahamson
“The Overburden”
Sierra Magazine
Joseph Goldstein
“U.S. Troops Are Told to Ignore Afghan Allies' Abuse of Boys”
The New York Times
Brooke Jarvis
“Homeward”
The California Sunday Magazine
Natasha Khan
“The Price of LIfe: In China, Cancer Patients Struggle”
Bloomberg News
Azmat Khan
“Ghost Schools”
BuzzFeed News
Hui Li
“The Price of LIfe: In China, Cancer Patients Struggle”
Bloomberg News
Simon Ostrovsky
“Selfie Soldiers: Russia's Army Checks In To Ukraine”
VICE News
Jennifer Percy
“Road Warriors”
The New York Times Magazine
J. Weston Phippen
“Young, Illegal, and Alone”
The Atlantic
Scott Sayare
“The Ultimate Terrorist Factory”
Harper's Magazine
Kevin Sieff
“Exodus”
The Washington Post
Christian Stephen
“Welcome to Aleppo”
Freelance Society Productions
Alice Su
“Youth Fighters in Syria: Why They Go”
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and The Atlantic

Knight-Wallace Fellowships

HOW TO APPLY Applications for the 2017-2018 academic year are now closed. The Knight-Wallace Fellowship class of 2017-2018 will be announced in April 2017.

Livingston Awards

HOW TO ENTER Entries for work published in 2016 are now closed. Winners will be announced on June 6, 2017.