2022 Finalists for the National Awards for Education Reporting
Click each of the eight dropdown menus (awards categories) listed below to see all finalists.
Photo credit: 2021 EWA Awards finalists by James Minichello, AASA
The Complete List
Audio Storytelling
Smaller Newsroom
Jess Clark, Stephanie Wolf, Rebecca Feldhaus Adams, Clare Roth & Laura Ellis
WFPL
A Critical Moment
Mira Gordon & Taylor McGraw
The Bell
Season Six: In Our Own Voices
Nevaeh Nez, Camille Leihulu Slagle, Reuben Kitto Stately, Archie Yellow & Sasha Aslanian
American Public Media
Standing in Two Worlds: Native American College Diaries
Larger Newsroom
DJ Cashmere, Catherine Winter, Anna Canny, Alden Loury, Chris Julin, Craig Thorson & Andy Kruse
APM Reports
No Excuses: Race and Reckoning at a Chicago Charter School
Carrie Jung, Max Larkin, Yasmin Amer, Elisabeth Harrison, Amy Gorel, Jennifer Goren & Gabrielle Emanuel
WBUR
The Cost of Child Care
Elissa Nadworny, Lauren Migaki & Steve Drummond
NPR
Getting a Bachelor’s Degree in Prison Is Rare. That’s About to Change
Beat Reporting
Small Newsroom
Becky Z. Dernbach
Sahan Journal
Education in Minnesota’s Immigrant Communities and Communities of Color
Jon Marcus
The Hechinger Report
Jon Marcus Covers Higher Education
Emily Tate Sullivan
EdSurge
What Side Hustle Culture Reveals About Teacher Pay in America
Midsize Newsroom
Lily Altavena
Detroit Free Press
Lily Altavena, Beat Reporting at the Detroit Free Press
Kalyn Belsha
Chalkbeat
Kalyn Belsha Beat Reporting
Kate McGee
The Texas Tribune
Kate McGee, Higher Education Reporting
Large Newsroom
Mike Hixenbaugh
NBC News Digital
Race, Gender and Civil Rights in Schools
Hannah Natanson
The Washington Post
LGBTQ in Schools
Teresa Watanabe
Los Angeles Times
Teresa Watanabe: Sustained Excellence in Beat Reporting
Collaborations
All Newsroom Sizes
Devna Bose, Rebecca Griesbach, Sharon Lurye, Neal Morton, Trisha Powell Crain, Janelle Retka & Talia Richman
The Post & Courier, AL.com, The Associated Press, The Hechinger Report, The Seattle Times & The Dallas Morning News
Tackling Teacher Shortages
Mike Reicher, Lulu Ramadan & Taylor Blatchford
The Seattle Times & ProPublica
Invisible Schools
Jeremy Schwartz & Mike Hixenbaugh
The Texas Tribune, ProPublica & NBC News
Granbury, Texas: A Harbinger for Fierce Battles Over LGBTQ-Themed Books
Features
Small Newsroom
Gail Cornwall
The Hechinger Report
A School Created a Homeless Shelter in the Gym and It Paid Off in the Classroom
Seyward Darby
The Atavist Magazine
Fault Lines
Molly Minta
Mississippi Today & Open Campus
Critical Race Theory in Mississippi
Midsize Newsroom
Noelle Crombie, Beth Nakamura & Margaret Haberman
The Oregonian
The Safest Place
Eric Hoover
The Chronicle of Higher Education
When You Can’t Make It On Your Own
Savannah Tryens-Fernandes & Amanda Khorramabadi
The Alabama Education Lab at AL.com & Reckon News
Inside Alabama’s First LGBTQ-Focused Charter School
Large Newsroom
Nicole Carr
ProPublica & Frontline
White Parents Rallied to Chase a Black Educator Out of Town. Then, They Followed Her to the Next One.
Adam Clark
NJ Advance Media
Portraits of a Crisis
John Woodrow Cox
The Washington Post
An American Girl
Investigative & Public Service Reporting
Small Newsroom
Mark Keierleber
The 74
Exposing Student Safety Threats
Tara García Mathewson, Fazil Khan & Maria Polletta
The Hechinger Report & Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
Education Suspended: When Students Are Blocked From Class for Missing Class
Thomas Peele
EdSource
Chico State Professor Disciplined for Student Affair Allegedly Threatened Colleagues Who Complained
Midsize Newsroom
Lily Altavena & Dave Boucher
Detroit Free Press
Trapped and Traumatized
Mandy McLaren
The Courier Journal
Between the Lines
Leslie Postal & Annie Martin
Orlando Sentinel
Unequal Futures
Larger Newsroom
Jodi S. Cohen & Jennifer Smith Richards
ProPublica & Chicago Tribune
The Price Kids Pay
Eliza Shapiro & Brian Rosenthal
The New York Times
How Hasidic Schools Are Reaping Millions but Failing the Students
Samantha Shapiro
The New York Times Magazine
Young and Homeless in Rural America
News
Small Newsroom
Tara García-Mathewson
The Hechinger Report
‘State-Sanctioned Violence:’ Inside One of the Thousands of Schools That Still Paddle Students
Beth Hawkins
The 74
‘The Hate Is Just Too Much’: Threatened by Neighbors and Trolled on Social Media, Minnesota School Board Members Are Quitting in Record Numbers
Jackie Mader, Olivia Sanchez, Sara Hutchinson & Kavitha Cardoza
The Hechinger Report
Education in a Post-Roe World
Midsize Newsroom
Kalyn Belsha, Stephanie Wang, Erica Meltzer & Marta W. Aldrich
Chalkbeat
Rethinking What Students Learn, One State at a Time
Carrie Peirce, Chris Papst, Jed Gamber, Dwayne Myers & Ray Rogowski
Fox45 Baltimore
Disabled & Denied
Stephen Sawchuk, Ileana Najarro & Laura Baker
Education Week
How the Debate About Race Is Changing Social Studies Content
Large Newsroom
Dana Goldstein & Stephanie Saul
The New York Times
Page by Page: Florida’s Math Textbook Controversy
Talia Richman, Corbett Smith, Emily Donaldson & Eva-Marie Ayala
The Dallas Morning News
Texas’ “Wild West” Teacher Prep Problems
Bianca Vázquez Toness, Sharon Lurye, Jocelyn Gecker & Collin Binkley
The Associated Press
Pandemic Learning Loss: Data, Accountability and Community Reach
Visual Storytelling
Smaller Newsroom
Jim Fields, Emmeline Zhao, Laura Fay & Meghan Gallagher
The 74
Weaving a Stronger Society — Starting in Our Schools
Andrew Reed & John Fensterwald
EdSource
Kid Cooks and Tasty Lunches: One Elementary School’s Recipe for Survival
Lauren Santucci
Education Week
They Survived a School Shooting. And They Have Advice for Educators Who May Experience the Same
Larger Newsroom
Marta W. Aldrich, Dan Lyon, Kae Petrin & Thomas Wilburn
Chalkbeat
Visualizing the “Age Appropriate” Curriculum Debate
Kassie Bracken, Mark Boyer, Jacey Fortin, Rebecca Lieberman & Noah Throop
The New York Times
What’s Actually Being Taught in History Class
Kelly Wiley, Chris Nelson, Christopher Adams, Sam Stark, Josh Hinkle, Robert Sims, Kate Winkle & Aileen Hernandez
KXAN
The Exit: Teachers Leave. Students Suffer.
EGF Accelerator's Eddie Prize
Eddie Prize Finalists
Jason Gonzales
Chalkbeat & Open Campus
Challenges and Opportunities in Colorado Higher Education
Megan Pauly
VPM
Follow-up Coverage to 2021 Dreams Deferred Series
Camille Phillips, Fernando Ortiz Jr., Dan Katz & Jacob Rosati
Texas Public Radio
The Enduring Gap
