2023 Winners of the National Awards for Education Reporting

See the full list of 2023 EWA Awards category winners below.

Photo credit: James Minichello of AASA for EWA

 

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

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