
2024 Finalists for the National Awards for Education Reporting
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Click each awards category dropdown menu to see all finalists.
Photo credit: James Minichello for EWA
Linda Jacobson
The 74
Beat Reporting for The 74
Mila Koumpilova
Chalkbeat Chicago
Mila Koumpilova Beat Reporting
Jackie Mader
The Hechinger Report
Covering Early Education
Wyatt Massey
Spotlight PA
Penn State Beat Reporting
Molly Minta
Mississippi Today & Open Campus
Investigating the Haves and Have-Nots in Mississippi’s Higher Education System
Asher Lehrer-Small
Houston Landing
Beat Reporting – Asher Lehrer Small, Houston Landing
Alec MacGillis
ProPublica
Alec MacGillis – Education Reporting
Mandy McLaren
The Boston Globe
Investigating Special Education
Hannah Natanson
The Washington Post
Conflicts in Education
Moriah Balingit, Sharon Lurye, Daniel Beekman, Carly Flandro, Valeria Olivares & Alaina Bookman
The Associated Press, The Seattle Times, Idaho Education News, The Dallas Morning News & AL.com
America’s Child Care Crisis Is Holding Back Moms Without College Degrees
Jacquelyn Elias, Brian O’Leary, Megan Zahneis, Adrienne Lu & Julia Piper
The Chronicle of Higher Education
What Professors Actually Earn
Sarah Karp, Nader Issa, Kate Grossman, Becky Vevea, Jesse Howe, Justin Myers, Angela Massino, Alex Keefe, Lauren FitzPatrick, Fernanda Veles, Thomas Wilburn, Candi Meriwether, Amy Qin, Anna Savchenko & Steven Arroyo
WBEZ Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times & Chalkbeat Chicago
Covering Chicago’s First School Board Election
Howard Bryant, Nicole Noren, Jessica Foster, Rayna Banks, Jena Janovy, Chris Buckle, John Mastroberardino, Jessi Dodge & Lyndsey Armacost
ESPN
The Walkout: A Florida Baseball Team’s Battle – Against Itself
Wayne Carter, Mark Muller & John Stone
NBC Universal
Carter in the Classroom – Features
Dylan Peers McCoy, Nicole Cohen & Janet Woojeong Lee
WFYI & NPR
He Has a Badge and a Gun — and He Investigates School Truancy
Kate Hidalgo Bellows
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Traumatized Campus
Kavitha Cardoza, Caroline Preston & Valeria Fernandez
The Hechinger Report, palabra. & AL.com
A Superintendent Made Big Gains With English Learners. His Success May Have Been His Downfall.
Mila Koumpilova
Chalkbeat Chicago
‘The Kids Everyone Forgot’
Natalia Alamdari
Flatwater Free Press
Marco’s Journey
Colin Hogan
The New Bedford Light
The Students the Reading Wars Forgot
Liz Rosenberg, David Dayen, Jandos Rothstein & Gerard Edic
The American Prospect
New York City’s Last Dictatorship
Jennifer Berry Hawes & Liz Moughon
ProPublica
Segregation Academies: Decades After Desegregation, Private Schools Still Divide
Talia Richman
The Dallas Morning News
The Show Went On
Jeremy Schwartz
ProPublica & The Texas Tribune
She Campaigned for a Texas School Board Seat as a GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.
Sarah Butrymowicz, Fazil Khan, Meredith Kolodner, Gail Cornwall, Sara Hutchinson, Hadley Hitson, Madeline Mitchell, Amanda Chen, Tazbia Fatima, Tara García Mathewson & Nirvi Shah
The Hechinger Report, Montgomery Advertiser & Cincinnati Enquirer
Suspended for…What?
Thomas Peele, Daniel J. Willis, Emma Gallegos, Justin Allen, Yuxuan Xie, Mallika Seshadri, Lasherica Thornton & Monica Velez
EdSource
Calling the Cops
Jasper Smith
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Once a Beacon. Now a Burden.
Joshua Bowling
Searchlight New Mexico
‘The Finer Things in Life’
Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Keri Heath & Tony Plohetski
Austin American-Statesman
A Fatal Field Trip
Camille Phillips
Texas Public Radio
Concussions, Bruises, Bite Marks: San Antonio Special Education Teachers Say They Often Get Hurt at Work
Jenn Abelson, Jessica Contrera & Nate Jones
The Washington Post
Abused by the Badge
Mara Klecker, Jeffrey Meitrodt & MaryJo Webster
Minnesota Star Tribune
Failing Grades
Chris Quintana, Kenny Jacoby, Lamar Salter & Alexa Juliana Ard
USA TODAY
Post-Grad Football Lures Players With a Second Shot at Glory. They Rarely Get It.
Lisa Kurian Philip, Esther Yoon-Ji Kang, Amy Qin, Alex Keefe, Natalie Moore & Steven Arroyo
WBEZ Chicago & Open Campus
Illinois For-Profit Colleges
Ray Rogowski, Chris Papst, Jed Gamber & Anthony Durso
Fox45 Baltimore/WBFF-TV
Hiding in the Hallways
Liz Willen, Meredith Kolodner, Marina Villeneuve, Nick Perez, Soledad O’Brien, Tristan Nash, Rose Arce, Bonnie Bertram, Sandra McDaniel & Amari Leigh
The Hechinger Report & Retro Report
Affirmative Action Backlash
Mark Keierleber
The 74
The Rise and Fall of AllHere: From AI Innovator to Indicted CEO
Jackie Mader
The Hechinger Report
The Dark Future of American Child Care
Olivia Sanchez, Nirvi Shah, Meredith Kolodner, Joanna Hou & Laura Pappano
The Hechinger Report
Affirmative Action Backlash
Tamica Jean-Charles
Charlottesville Tomorrow
Local Head Start Provider Closes Due to Major Federal Violations
Nuria Martinez-Keel
Oklahoma Voice
Oklahoma Quietly Lowering Testing Rigor
Amber Payne, Jamil Smith, Cristal Balis, Alex LaSalvia, Melissa Clavijo, Tami Nguyen, Yuchen Hong, Sabira Khalili, Mattew Rushford & Sixun Ren
The Emancipator & Northeastern University Media Innovation Studio
The Supreme Court Ended Affirmative Action for Higher Education. The Impact Could Be Felt for Years to Come.
Sarah Karp & Nader Issa
WBEZ Chicago & Chicago Sun Times
The Leadership Crisis at Chicago Public Schools
Hannah Natanson, Sarah Blaskey, John Woodrow Cox, Teo Armus, Laura Meckler & Shawn Boburg
The Washington Post
Apalachee: The Making of an Alleged School Shooter
Aliyya Swaby & Paige Pfleger
ProPublica & WPLN News
Crackdown on Student Threats: Tennessee’s Harsh Punishment of Kids
Nimah Gobir, Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli, Chris Hambrick, Ki Sung, Kara Newhouse, Beth LaBerge & Seth Samuel
MindShift/KQED
Community Schools in California
Jon Marcus & Kirk Carapezza
The Hechinger Report & GBH Boston
College Uncovered
Ilya Marritz, Kristin Nelson, Katya Rogers, Emily Botein, Jazmin Aguilera, Regina De Heer, Jared Paul, Brendan Dalton & Jennifer Munson
The Boston Globe & WNYC
The Harvard Plan
Alex Walters, Owen McCarthy & Theo Scheer
The State News at Michigan State University
Inside the Nassar Documents
Katelynn Winebrenner, Laura Shaughnessy, Khushboo Rathore, Max Schaeffer & Caroline Pecora
Local News Network at University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Child Care: Missing in Maryland
Sarah Yousseff, Roury Fitzpatrick, Ashley Carr, Alexis Schmidt, Brianna Schmidt, Ethan Rodriguez, Steve Dixon, Shawn McCarthy, Jayden Joseph, Oswaldo Nunez, Zion Williams, Ash Prasai, Annie Marchese, Sukey Hayden & Joe Book
PBS News Student Reporting Labs
Run, Hide, Fight: Growing Up Under the Gun
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