2024 Winners of the National Awards for Education Reporting
See the full list of 2024 EWA Awards category winners below.
Beat Reporting
Education-Only Outlets
Jackie Mader
The Hechinger Report
Covering Early Education
Small Newsroom
Asher Lehrer-Small
Houston Landing
Beat Reporting – Asher Lehrer-Small
Large Newsroom
Mandy McLaren
The Boston Globe
Investigating Special Education
Data Reporting & Visualization
All Newsroom Sizes
Sarah Karp, Nader Issa, Kate Grossman, Becky Vevea, Jesse Howe, Justin Myers, Angela Massino, Alex Keefe, Lauren FitzPatrick, Fernanda Veles, Thomas Wilburn, Ellery Jones, Candi Meriwether, Amy Qin, Anna Savchenko & Steven Arroyo
WBEZ Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times & Chalkbeat Chicago
Covering Chicago’s First School Board Election
Features
Broadcast
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
Education-Only Outlets
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
Small Newsroom
Natalia Alamdari
Flatwater Free Press
Marco’s Journey
Large Newsroom
Talia Richman
The Dallas Morning News
The Show Went On
Investigative & Public Service Reporting
Education-Only Outlets
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?
Small Newsroom
Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Keri Heath & Tony Plohetski
Austin American-Statesman
A Fatal Field Trip
Large Newsroom
Mara Klecker, Jeffrey Meitrodt & MaryJo Webster
Minnesota Star Tribune
Failing Grades
News
Broadcast
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
Education-Only Outlets
Olivia Sanchez, Nirvi Shah, Meredith Kolodner, Joanna Hou & Laura Pappano
The Hechinger Report
Affirmative Action Backlash
Small Newsroom
Nuria Martinez-Keel
Oklahoma Voice
Oklahoma Quietly Lowering Testing Rigor
Large Newsroom
Aliyya Swaby & Paige Pfleger
ProPublica & WPLN News
Crackdown on Student Threats: Tennessee’s Harsh Punishment of Kids
Podcast
All Newsroom Sizes
Jon Marcus & Kirk Carapezza
The Hechinger Report & GBH Boston
College Uncovered
Student Journalism
All Newsroom Sizes
Alex Walters, Owen McCarthy & Theo Scheer
The State News at Michigan State University
Inside the Nassar Documents
