2019 Finalists for Reporting Awards
EWA is pleased to announce this year’s finalists for the 2019 EWA National Awards for Education Reporting, as well as the Edwin Gould Foundation’s Eddie Prize.
(All category finalists are listed alphabetically by title.)
Single-Topic News
Small Newsroom (<25 FTE newsroom employees)
California’s Teacher Housing Crunch
EdSource
Diana Lambert
Daniel J. Willis
Sunny Xie
Justin Allen
Rose Ciotta
Denise Zapata
First Step to the Middle Class
The Hechinger Report
Meredith Kolodner
Subbing Out Teachers
Bridge Magazine
Ron French
Mike Wilkinson
Midsize Newsroom (25-99 FTE newsroom employees)
In Flint, Schools Overwhelmed by Special Ed. Needs in Aftermath of Lead Crisis
Education Week
Corey Mitchell
Brittany Greeson
Is California Saving Higher Education?
The Hechinger Report & CalMatters
Jon Marcus
Felicia Mello
When College Aid for Vets’ Kids Goes MIA
Chicago Sun-Times
Stephanie Zimmermann
Large Newsroom (100+ FTE newsroom employees)
Los Angeles Teachers’ Strike
Los Angeles Times
Howard Blume
Sonali Kohli
Ruben Vives
The Pressure on American Teachers
USA TODAY
Racial Inequality in New York’s Top Schools
The New York Times
Eliza Shapiro
Feature Stories
Small Newsroom (<25 FTE newsroom employees)
In DC, Teachers Run the Jail. It’s Turning Inmates Into Students.
EdSurge
Rebecca Koenig
Nearly All the Seniors at This Charter School Went to College. Only 6 Out of 52 Finished on Time
The Hechinger Report
Casey Parks
Refugee Girls Want to Improve the World. Will We Let Them Do So?
The Hechinger Report
Sarah Butrymowicz
Midsize Newsroom (25-99 FTE newsroom employees)
The Distance Between
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Eric Hoover
Hope, Love and Basketball: Summer at North Philly’s Hank Gathers Rec Center
WHYY
Kevin McCorry
Avi Wolfman-Arent
Naomi Starobin
Charlie Kaier
Race, Campus, and Community
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Vimal Patel
Marc Parry
Jack Stripling
Ready or Not: Are Students From Struggling Cities Ready for College? And Are Colleges Ready for Them?
Chalkbeat
Lori Higgins
Patrick Wall
Large Newsroom (100+ FTE newsroom employees)
From Prison to Dean’s List: How Danielle Metz Got an Education After Incarceration
The Hechinger Report
Casey Parks
Love Them First: Lessons from Lucy Laney Elementary
KARE 11 News/TEGNA
Ben Garvin
Lindsey Seavert
Janeen Vogelaar
Opportunity Hoarding
The New York Times
Dana Goldstein
Beat Reporting
Small Newsroom (<25 FTE newsroom employees)
The Hechinger Report
Matt Krupnick
The Hechinger Report
Jon Marcus
New Haven Independent
Christopher Peak
Midsize Newsroom (25-99 FTE newsroom employees)
Chalkbeat
Melanie Asmar
Chalkbeat
Dylan Peers McCoy
Education Week
Stephen Sawchuk
MindShift/KQED
Katrina Schwartz
Large Newsroom (100+ FTE newsroom employees)
Los Angeles Times
Sonali Kohli
The New York Times
Eliza Shapiro
The Washington Post
Laura Meckler
Investigative Reporting
Smaller Newsroom (<50 FTE newsroom employees)
Indiana’s Hidden Dropout Crisis
Chalkbeat
Dylan Peers McCoy
The Unexplained Resignation of Clayton Wilcox From Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Charlotte Observer
Annie Ma
Fred Clasen-Kelly
Larger Newsroom (50+ FTE newsroom employees)
Beaten, Then Silenced
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Lisa Gartner
Predator Pipeline
Gannett/USA TODAY Network
Kenny Jacoby
The Vulnerable Borrowers Project
NPR
Cory Turner
Chris Arnold
Clare Lombardo
Public Service
Smaller Newsroom (<50 FTE newsroom employees)
At a Loss for Words
APM Reports
Emily Hanford
Criminalizing Disability
Searchlight New Mexico
Ed Williams
Ike Swetlitz
Wasted Minds
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Ryan McKinnon
Josh Salman
Larger Newsroom (50+ FTE newsroom employees)
California Charter School Series
Los Angeles Times
Anna M. Phillips
The Quiet Rooms
Chicago Tribune/ProPublica Illinois
Jennifer Smith Richards
Jodi S. Cohen
Lakeidra Chavis
The Valedictorians Project
The Boston Globe
Malcolm Gay
Meghan Irons
Eric Moskowitz
Best Audio Storytelling
Smaller Newsroom (<35 FTE newsroom employees)
A Childhood Interrupted: In Year Since Shooting, Stoneman Douglas Family Wrestles With How to Stay
WLRN News
Jessica Bakeman
Alicia Zuckerman
Students on the Move: Keeping Uprooted Kids in School
APM Reports/Wyoming Public Radio
Chris Julin
Tennessee Watson
Catherine Winter
Under a Watchful Eye: How Colleges Are Tracking Students to Boost Graduation
The Hechinger Report/APM Reports
Jill Barshay
Sasha Aslanian
Catherine Winter
Stephen Smith
Larger Newsroom (35+ FTE newsroom employees)
Don’t Eat the Marshmallow: Students From a ‘No Excuses’ Charter Grow up to Tell the Tale
WHYY
Avi Wolfman-Arent
Kevin McCorry
Charlie Kaier
How Schools Can Help Kids With Anxiety
MindShift/KQED
‘School Shooters: What’s Their Path to Violence?’ ‘When Teens Threaten Violence, A Community Responds With Compassion’
NPR
Rhitu Chatterjee
Rebecca Davis
Vikki Valentine
Deborah Franklin
Meredith Rizzo
Best Visual Storytelling
Smaller Newsroom (<35 FTE newsroom employees)
Hire Me: Educating Colorado’s Changing Workforce
KUNC
Stephanie Daniel
Rural California: An Education Divide
EdSource
Jennifer Molina
David Washburn
Sydney Johnson
Carolyn Jones
Larry Gordon
Anne Vasquez
Rose Ciotta
Denise Zapata
Six Miles in a San Ysidro High Schooler’s Shoes
Voice of San Diego
Adriana Heldiz
Larger Newsroom (35+ FTE newsroom employees)
Skiff Mountain Films
WETA, Washington, DC
In association with Florentine Films
Homeless Students in New York City
The New York Times
Eliza Shapiro
Brittainy Newman
Andrew Hinderaker
Meghan Louttit
Surrounded: Killings Near School, and the Students Left Behind
The Los Angeles Times
Sonali Kohli
Iris Lee
Priya Krishnakumar
Marcus Yam
The Edwin Gould Foundation Eddie Prize
How America’s College-Closure Crisis Leaves Families Devastated
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Michael Vasquez
Dan Bauman
Nearly All the Seniors at This Charter School Went to College. Only 6 Out of 52 Finished on Time
The Hechinger Report
Casey Parks
The Valedictorians Project
The Boston Globe
Malcolm Gay
Meghan Irons
Eric Moskowitz
