2023 Winners of the National Awards for Education Reporting
See the full list of 2023 EWA Awards category winners below.
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Beat Reporting
Education-Only Outlets
Linda Jacobson
The 74
Linda Jacobson: Beat Reporting for The 74
Small Newsroom
Kate McGee
The Texas Tribune & Open Campus
Kate McGee, Higher Education Reporter
Large Newsroom
Talia Richman
The Dallas Morning News
Talia Richman Beat Reporting
Collaborations
All Newsroom Sizes
Brandi Kellam, Louis Hansen & Gabriel Sandoval
Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism & ProPublica
Uprooted
Data Reporting & Visualization
All Newsroom Sizes
Nic Querolo, Danielle Moran & Marie Patino
Bloomberg News
The Economics of Small US Colleges Are Faltering
Features
Broadcast
Talia Richman, Chris Benderev & Bethel Habte
The Dallas Morning News & This American Life
See Something, Slay Something
Small Newsroom
Jeff Oloizia
Madison Magazine
Is This Just a Drill?
Large Newsroom
Peter Thomson, Brian Bergstein, David Scharfenberg, Kelly Horan, Heather Hopp-Bruce & Abbi Matheson
The Boston Globe
The Radical, Forgotten Experiment in Educational Integration That Changed My Life
Investigative & Public Service Reporting
Education-Only Outlets
Kalyn Belsha
Chalkbeat
Too Many Kids: How an Online Tutoring Company Shortchanged Schools
Small Newsroom
Amy DiPierro & Corey Mitchell
Center for Public Integrity
Hidden Toll
Large Newsroom
Nicole Noren, T.J. Quinn, William Weinbaum, Rayna Banks, Chris Buckle, Craig T. Lazarus, Cathy Honeywell, Mike Drago & Laura Purtell
ESPN
LISTEN: ESPN investigates Lauren McCluskey’s murder
News
Broadcast
Jenny Brundin, Alison Borden & Hart Van Denburg
Colorado Public Radio
What’s Happening in Woodland Park?
Small Newsroom
Laura Pappano
The Hechinger Report
The (Mostly) Republican Moms Fighting to Reclaim Their Idaho School District From Conservatives
Large Newsroom
Marcela Rodrigues & Philip Jankowski
The Dallas Morning News
DEI Dilemma: Inside Texas’ Fight to Ban Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education
Podcast
All Newsroom Sizes
Ave Carrillo, Christopher Werth, Stephen Rex Brown, Clayton Guse, Jessica Gould & Gina Vosti
WNYC & Gothamist
An NYC Student’s Yearslong Struggle to Get Proper Instruction for Dyslexia
Student Journalism
All Newsroom Sizes
Alex Walters
The State News
Reporting on Michigan State’s Title IX Office
Visual Storytelling
All Newsroom Sizes
Liz Willen, Soledad O’Brien, Rose Arce, Naimah Jabali-Nash, Fazil Khan, Amari Leigh & Tristan Nash
The Hechinger Report, Soledad O’Brien Productions & CBS News
The End of Affirmative Action
