2022 Winners of the National Awards for Education Reporting
See the full list of 2022 EWA Awards category winners below.
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Audio Storytelling
Smaller Newsroom
Jess Clark, Stephanie Wolf, Rebecca Feldhaus Adams, Clare Roth & Laura Ellis
WFPL
A Critical Moment
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
Beat Reporting
Small Newsroom
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
Large Newsroom
Mike Hixenbaugh
NBC News Digital
Race, Gender and Civil Rights
Collaborations
All Newsroom Sizes
Mike Reicher, Lulu Ramadan & Taylor Blatchford
The Seattle Times & ProPublica
Invisible Schools
Features
Small Newsroom
Gail Cornwall
The Hechinger Report
A School Created a Homeless Shelter in the Gym and It Paid Off in the Classroom
Midsize Newsroom
Eric Hoover
The Chronicle of Higher Education
When You Can’t Make It On Your Own
Large Newsroom
John Woodrow Cox
The Washington Post
An American Girl
Investigative & Public Service Reporting
Small Newsroom
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
Large Newsroom
Jodi S. Cohen & Jennifer Smith Richards
ProPublica & Chicago Tribune
The Price Kids Pay
News
Small Newsroom
Tara García-Mathewson
The Hechinger Report
‘State-Sanctioned Violence:’ Inside One of the Thousands of Schools That Still Paddle Students
Midsize Newsroom
Kalyn Belsha, Stephanie Wang, Erica Meltzer & Marta W. Aldrich
Chalkbeat
Rethinking What Students Learn, One State at a Time
Large Newsroom
Talia Richman, Corbett Smith, Emily Donaldson & Eva-Marie Ayala
The Dallas Morning News
Texas’ “Wild West” Teacher Prep Problems
Visual Storytelling
Smaller Newsroom
Jim Fields, Emmeline Zhao, Laura Fay & Meghan Gallagher
The 74
Weaving a Stronger Society — Starting in Our Schools
Larger Newsroom
Kassie Bracken, Mark Boyer, Jacey Fortin, Rebecca Lieberman & Noah Throop
The New York Times
What’s Actually Being Taught in History Class
