2016 Beat Reporting for Print/Online (Medium Staff) Finalist: Andrea Eger Canfield

About the Entry

Andrea Eger Canfield’s coverage of the education beat includes stories chronicling Oklahoma’s struggles to attract and keep public school teachers, as well as stories that open windows into the state’s charter sector and an employers’ impact on one small town’s schools.

Comments from the Judges

“Great beat reporting. Andrea Eger Canfield writes with authority and offered a broad range of stories highlighting major challenges for the public schools in Oklahoma. Nice use of color and detail in her writing. The story on substitutes was an insightful and deeply troubling illustration of how the teacher shortage is affecting schools on a day to day basis.”

“Andrea shows great energy in reporting and variety in subject, and her best strength is in the voices she finds in telling her stories. They are human, sympathetic and right on point.”