2018 Category Winners for the National Awards for Education Reporting
On May 6, EWA announced the category winners for the 2018 EWA National Awards for Education Reporting.
Single-Topic News
Small Staff (<25 FTE newsroom employees)
The
Post-Parkland Landscape of School Security
The 74 Million
Mark Keierleber
Medium Staff (25-99 FTE newsroom employees)
Parkland
Shooting: From the Causes to the Aftermath
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Staff
Large Staff (100+ FTE newsroom employees)
The Education
Issue
The New York Times Magazine
Jeneen Interlandi, Sara Mosle, Dale Russakoff, Brian Ulrich,
Jaime Lowe
Feature Stories
Small Staff (<25 FTE newsroom employees)
Stars and Struggles
The Nevada Independent
Jackie Valley
Medium Staff (25-99 FTE newsroom employees)
Targeted:
A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School
Shooter
The Oregonian
Bethany Barnes
Large Staff (100+ FTE newsroom employees)
Casualties of
a Crackdown: MS-13 on Long Island
ProPublica, New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine
Hannah Dreier
Beat Reporting
Small Staff (<25 FTE newsroom employees)
WLRN
News
Jessica Bakeman
Medium Staff (25-99 FTE newsroom employees)
Detroit Free
Press
David Jesse
Large Staff (100+ FTE newsroom employees)
The New
York Times
Erica L. Green
Public Service
Small Staff (<25 FTE newsroom employees)
Hard
Words: Why Aren’t Kids Being Taught to Read?
APM Reports
Emily Hanford, Chris Julin
Medium Staff (25-99 FTE newsroom employees)
Parkland:
History’s Most Preventable School Shooting
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Staff
Large Staff (100+ FTE newsroom employees)
Betrayed: How Chicago Schools Failed to Protect Students
From Sexual Abuse
Chicago Tribune
David Jackson, Jennifer Smith Richards, Gary Marx, Juan Perez,
Jr.
Toxic City: Sick
Schools
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Barbara Laker, Wendy Ruderman, Dylan Purcell, Jessica
Griffin, Garland Potts
Best Audio Storytelling
Smaller (<10 FTE newsroom employees)
Illinois Prison System Spent Less Than $300 on Books Last
Year
Illinois Public Media
Lee Gaines
Larger (>10 FTE newsroom employees)
My Effing First
Amendment
This American Life/The Chronicle of Higher Education
Steve Kolowich, Dana Chivvis, Zoe Chace, Brian Reed, Ira
Glass
Best Visual Storytelling
Smaller (<35 FTE newsroom employees)
Tainted
Taps: Lead Puts California Children at Risk
EdSource
Yuxuan Xie, Justin Allen, Daniel J. Willis, Nico Savidge
Larger (>35 FTE newsroom employees)
Is Your District Drawing Borders to Reduce or Perpetuate Racial
Segregation?
Vox
Alvin Chang
Voices of Change
From Parkland
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Mike Stocker, Doreen Christensen, Yiran Zhu