2016 Finalists for the National Awards for Education Reporting
EWA is pleased to announce this year’s finalists for the 2016 EWA National Awards for Education Reporting, as well as the Edwin Gould Foundation’s Eddie Prize.
General News Outlets, Print and Online (Small Staff)
Single-Topic News or Feature
Mississippi
Child Care Crisis
The Hechinger Report
Sarah Butrymowicz and Jackie Mader
Troubled
Schools on Trial
The Connecticut Mirror
Jake Kara and Jacqueline Rabe Thomas
Beat Reporting
Chalkbeat
Melanie Asmar
Chalkbeat
Erin Einhorn
Investigative Reporting
How a Perks Binge Sweetens the Pay of Massachusetts
College Chiefs
The Eye at New England Center for Investigative
Reporting
Jon Marcus
Special Needs,
Troubled Schools
The Eye at New England Center for Investigative Reporting
Koby Levin, Jenifer McKim, and Gary Putka
General News Outlets, Print and Online (Medium Staff)
Single-Topic News or Feature
New Realities:
TFA at 25
Education Week
Laura Baker, Sumi Banerjee, Deanna Del Ciello, and Stephen
Sawchuk
Race in
America’s Classrooms
Slate: Jonathan Fischer, Aymann Ismail, Andrew Kahn, Chris Kirk,
Dani McClain, and Laura Moser
The Teacher Project: Sarah Carr, Miriam Hall, Jessica Huseman,
Alexandria Neason, and Vanessa Romo
Beat Reporting
MarketWatch
Jillian Berman
Tulsa
World
Andrea Eger Canfield
Investigative Reporting
Expelled:
No Second Chances
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Shelby Webb
Who Keeps Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Flowing to
For-Profit Colleges? These Guys
ProPublica
Annie Waldman
General News Outlets, Print and Online (Large Staff)
Single-Topic News or Feature
The Screen
Age
The Washington Post
Jessica Contrera and Caitlin Gibson
#BlackatSMU
The Dallas Morning News
Holly K. Hacker and Dianne Solis
Beat Reporting
The Boston
Globe
Laura Krantz
The
Washington Post
Nick Anderson
Investigative Reporting
Denied: How Texas Keeps Tens of Thousands of Children Out
of Special Education
Houston Chronicle
Brian M. Rosenthal
New Jersey’s Student Loan Program is ‘State-Sanctioned
Loan-Sharking’
ProPublica (partnered with The New York Times)
Annie Waldman
Broadcast
Single-Topic News or Feature
Seeking Asylum: Young Migrants Hope to Make Oakland Their
Home
KALW Public Radio
Hannah Kingsley-Ma and Liza Veale
Suspended
Futures
WBUR: Peter Balonon-Rosen
St. Louis Public Radio: Brent Jones, Tim Lloyd, and Kameel
Stanley
Beat Reporting
Southern California Public Radio/KPCC
Kyle Stokes
WBHM/Southern
Education Desk
Dan Carsen
Investigative Reporting
Building
Segregation in Chicago
WBEZ
Cate Cahan, Sarah Karp, and Becky Vevea
School
Money
NPR: Alyson Hurt, Amy Morgan, Katie Park, Claudio Sanchez, Acacia
Squires, and Cory Turner
NPR Member Stations: Paul Boger, Mississippi Public Broadcasting;
Jenny Brundin, Colorado Public Radio; Kirk Carapezza, WGBH; Dan
Carsen, WBHM; Beth Fertig, WNYC; Sarah Gonzalez, New Jersey
Public Radio; Jennifer Guerra, Michigan Radio; Laura Isensee,
Houston Public Media; Reema Khrais, WUNC; Tim Lloyd, St. Louis
Public Radio; Rob Manning, OPB; Kevin McCorry, WHYY; Kate McGee,
KUT; Claire McInerny, Indiana Public Broadcasting; Alexandra
Olgin, KJZZ; Aaron Schrank, Wyoming Public Radio; Ana Tintocalis,
KQED; Becky Vevea, WBEZ; Lisa Worf, WFAE; and Sam Zeff, KCUR
Education Week: Holly Yettick
Magazines and Weeklies
Feature Writing
Segregation
and Integration in the Delta
The Hechinger Report
Emrys Eller, LynNell Hancock, and Nicole Lewis
Teen Suicide Is Contagious, and the Problem May Be Worse
Than We Thought
Newsweek
Max Kutner
Investigative Reporting
Rewarding Failure: An Education Week Investigation of the
Cyber Charter Industry
Education Week
Benjamin Herold and Arianna Prothero
The New Cheating
Economy
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Brad Wolverton
Data Journalism
Broken Discipline Tracking Systems Let Teachers Flee
Troubled Pasts
USA TODAY Network
John Kelly, Nick Penzenstadler, and Steve Reilly
Detroit
Board Candidates Exposed
Bridge Magazine: Chastity Pratt Dawsey
Detroit Free Press: Jennifer Dixon, Jamie Smith, Kristi Tanner,
John Wisely, and Ann Zaniewski
Fox 2 Detroit: M.L. Elrick and Patricia Montemurri
WDET Detroit Public Radio: Sascha Raiyn
How Data Proved the Importance of Texas Financial Aid
Program
The Dallas Morning News
Ariana Giorgi, Lauren McGaughy, and J. David McSwane
Opinion Writing
The Mariachi Superintendent: A Signal of Hope for
Hispanics and America
Houston Press
Rolando Rodriguez
Opinions/Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Maureen Downey
The Edwin Gould Foundation Eddie Award
Education’s
Broken Promise to Native Students
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Kelly Field
The Road Not
Taken
Marketplace
Krissy Clark, Gina Delvac, Caitlin Esch, Nancy Farghalli, Sitara
Nieves, Amy Scott, and Betsy Streisand
What It Takes: Chasing Graduation at High-Poverty High
Schools
APM Reports
Emily Hanford
