2017 Finalists for Reporting Awards
EWA is pleased to announce this year’s finalists for the 2017 EWA National Awards for Education Reporting, as well as the Edwin Gould Foundation’s Eddie Prize.
(All category finalists are listed alphabetically by title.)
General News Outlets, Print and Online (Small Staff)
Single-Topic News or Feature
“I Am a Black
Girl and…”
PublicSource
Jeffrey Benzing, Mary Niederberger
The Portfolio
Model
Chalkbeat
Matt Barnum, Dylan Peers McCoy, Laura Kebede
Seclusion Rooms in
Oklahoma Schools
Oklahoma Watch
Jennifer Palmer
Beat Reporting
The
American Prospect
Rachel M. Cohen
Chalkbeat
Detroit
Erin Einhorn
The Hechinger
Report
Tara García Mathewson
Investigative Reporting
The Broken
Promise of Indiana’s Online Schools
Chalkbeat
Shaina Cavazos
Empty
Schools, Empty Promises
The Chicago Reporter
Kalyn Belsha
The Graduates
Better Government Association
David Kidwell
General News Outlets, Print and Online (Medium Staff)
Single-Topic News or Feature
‘Benefit
of the Doubt’: Evading Allegations of Educator Sexual
Misconduct
The Oregonian/OregonLive
Bethany Barnes
Learning
About Civil Rights History in Mississippi
The Hechinger Report
Sierra Mannie
Massive Endowment at University of Texas Offers Little
for Student Aid
The Texas Tribune
Neena Satija
Matthew Watkins
Too Young?
The Fresno Bee
Mackenzie Mays
Beat Reporting
The
Oregonian/OregonLive
Bethany Barnes
The Palm
Beach Post
Andrew Marra
The Texas Tribune
Aliyya Swaby
Investigative Reporting
Counted Out
The News and Observer/The Charlotte Observer
Joseph Neff, Ann Doss Helms, and David Raynor
The
Fall of Forrest Claypool as Chicago’s Schools Chief
The Chicago Sun-Times
Lauren FitzPatrick and Dan Mihalopoulos
Hartford
Schools: More Separate, Still Unequal
The Hartford Courant
Vanessa de la Torre, Matthew Kauffman, Kathleen Megan,
and Patrick Raycraft
General News Outlets, Print and Online (Large Staff)
Single-Topic News or Feature
Children and Gun
Violence
The Washington Post
John Woodrow Cox
Mr. Wilson’s Second
Act
The San Francisco Chronicle
Jill Tucker
The
Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones
The Marshall Project
Eli Hager
Beat Reporting
The Boston
Globe
Deirdre Fernandes
Buzzfeed
News
Tyler Kingkade
The Wall Street
Journal
Melissa Korn
Investigative Reporting
Coaches’
Use of Homeless Athletes Draws Scrutiny
The Seattle Times
Claudia Rowe
Education
Disrupted
The New York Times
Natasha Singer and Danielle Ivory
The Failure
Track
ProPublica, The Teacher Project
Heather Vogell, Hannah Fresques, Sarah Carr, Francesca
Berardi, Zoe Kirsh, Stephen Smiley, Al Shaw, and
Olga Pierce
Broadcast
Single-Topic News or Feature
Hard to Read: How American Schools Fail Kids with
Dyslexia
APM Reports, American Public Media
Emily Hanford
Last Chance
High
Viceland
Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud
Naked
Truth: Undocumented on Campus
Fusion
Justine Gubar, Keith Summa, Mark Lima, Joanna Suarez,
Suzette Laboy, Jackie Cruz, Sam Dubin, Adrian Saravia,
Roderick Avila, John Michie, Darwin K. Phillips, and Julia
Soto
View
From Room 205
WBEZ – Chicago Public Media
Linda Lutton, Marianne McCune, Cate Cahan, Joe
DeCeault, and Ben Calhoun
Beat Reporting
The Chronicle
of Higher Education
Julia Schmalz
Colorado
Public Radio
Jenny Brundin
KERA
Bill Zeeble
Investigative Reporting
Arrested at
School
NBC Bay Area
Bigad Shaban, Michael Bott, Mark
Villarreal, Michael Horn, Rachel Witte, Jeremy
Carroll, Felipe Escamilla, Stephanie Adrouny, Bob
Goldberger, Scott Pham, Nelson Hsu, and Ron Campbell
Chemawa Indian School, An OPB
Investigation
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Rob Manning and Tony Schick
CPS Secretly Overhauled Special Education at Students’
Expense
WBEZ Chicago
Sarah Karp and Kate Grossman
What
Really Happened at Ballou High School
WAMU
Kate McGee and Acacia Squires
Magazines and Weeklies
Feature Writing
Heavens to
Betsy
Mother Jones
Kristina Rizga
The
Long, Difficult Journey to College
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Eric Hoover
An
Underground College for Undocumented Immigrants
The New Yorker
Jonathan Blitzer
Investigative Reporting
Inside
the Scramble to Save Ashford University
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Michael Vasquez
The Secession
Movement in Education
The Hechinger Report
Emmanuel Felton
“What Am I Paying
For?”
ESPN The Magazine
Peter Keating and Christopher A. Buckle
Data Journalism
“Are
College Prep Classes Failing to Prepare Kids?”
Chicago Tribune
Diane Rado
The Invisible Hazard Afflicting Thousands of
Schools
Center for Public Integrity
Reveal for The Center for Investigative Reporting
Jamie Smith Hopkins, Chris Zubak-Skees, Eric Sagara,
Fernanda Camarena, Amy Walters, and Ike Sriskandarajah
Underqualified and Inexperienced: Arizona’s Teacher
Crisis
The Arizona Republic
Ricardo Cano
Opinion Writing
Challenges and Opportunities for Education
Journalism
The Grade
Alexander Russo
Let’s Waste College
on the Old
Washington Monthly
Paul Glastris
Parents Talk
Back
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Aisha Sultan
The Edwin Gould Foundation Eddie Award
The College Try
The California Sunday Magazine
Ashley Powers
The Long,
Difficult Journey to College
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Eric Hoover
Shadow
Class: College Dreamers in Trump’s America
APM Reports
Sasha Aslanian, Catherine Winter, Emily Hanford, and
Stephen Smith
