Past Winners
2023 Finalists for the EGF Accelerator’s Eddie Prize
See finalists listed in alphabetical order.
Gail Cornwall
The Hechinger Report
All You Need Is One Community to Help Pick You Up: Solutions for Restoring College Dreams
- ‘Revolutionary’ housing: How colleges aim to support formerly incarcerated students
- California helps college students cut their debt by paying them to help their communities
- Couch surfing, living in cars: Housing insecurity derails foster kids’ college dreams
Comments From the Judges:
“A trio of well-written, thoroughly-researched and moving stories that illustrate the barriers facing underserved students and highlight some emerging solutions that could help them overcome them.”
“What a beautiful, nuanced story. Great job. Great reporting with compelling characters.”
Eric Hoover
The Chronicle of Higher Education
48 Hours Inside a Student Emergency-Aid Experiment
Comments From the Judges:
“48 hours is rich in detail and full of compassion for the teacher and the students she supports. It offers an innovative solution to a growing challenge in higher education: how to support students who are, as Hoover puts it, ‘one blown tire, one sick child, one lost job away from a crisis’.”
“I really liked this one. So detailed. So heartbreaking.”
Deborah Jian Lee
Esquire & Economic Hardship Reporting Project
Persecution in the Name of the Lord
Comments From the Judges:
“This is a great story I’ve never read before. We all knew it happened, I guess, but this is an amazing work of reporting and writing. A standout entry that deftly combines accountability reporting, narrative writing and personal memoir.”
“Searing, powerful reporting that propels you through the piece. Very impressive work.”
