2020 Audio (Smaller Newsroom) Storytelling Finalists

Covid on Campus
Sasha Aslanian, Stephen Smith, and Catherine Winer
APM Reports

Comment from the judges: “A very insightful look at the way Covid is pushing economic trends that predated the epidemic and is helping to push some schools into bankruptcy. The story asks whether higher ed will be stronger after Covid, or irreparably damaged.”

WFPL Series on Student Assignment and Segregation In Louisville
Jess Clark
WFPL Louisville Public Media

Comment from the judges: “A very comprehensive, sensitive analysis of perhaps the most compelling issue facing this reporter’s community: whether to give up on a desegregation plan simply because it hasn’t achieved all its goals.”