The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists announced its nominees yesterday.
The annual prizes recognize outstanding reporting by journalists under 35. Winners of the $10,000 prizes for local, national and international reporting will be announced June 6.
Sadly, the official announcement doesn’t include links to the entries so I’m collecting them here. I’ve started digging, but this seems like a relatively “quiet” award (unlike The Pulitzer Prizes, which get a ton of coverage).
You can help me by sending a link to the entry plus some verification (a press release or story from the outlet, for example). This year’s goal is to improve upon the list I made for the 2009 awards. Thanks for your help.
Finalists for the 2011 Livingston Awards prize
- Trevor Aaronson (@trevoraaronson), Mother Jones, “The Informants“
- Leila Atassi, The Plain Dealer, “From Night Out to Nightmare“
- Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, “God Knows Where I Am“
- Emily Cadei, Congressional Quarterly/CQ Weekly
- Cindy Carcamo (@theCindyCarcamo), Slake: Los Angeles, “Return to Sender“
- Jordan Conn (@jordanconn), The Atavist, “The Defender“
- Nicholas Deshais (@NickDeshais), The Pacific Northwest Inlander, “The Bulldog“
- Adam Ellick (@aellick), The New York Times, “Toxic Coffee in Bahrain“
- David Epstein (@SIDavidEpstein), Sports Illustrated, for a package on “pain and anticipatory skill in sports”
- Sarah Favot, Kristen Berg, Jenna Ebersole, New England Center for Investigative Reporting
- Megan Feldman (@Meg_feldman), 5280 The Denver Magazine, “What Happened to Abbey’s Mom“
- Ryan Gabrielson (@rgabrielsonCW), California Watch, for an investigation into flaws in death investigations
- Gus Garcia-Roberts (@GusGarciaHyphen), Miami New Times, “Rotten to the Core“
- Michael Garofalo, National Public Radio
- Eliza Gray, The New Republic
- Chris Hamby (@ChrisDHamby), iWatch News, for the three-part series, “Model Workplaces, Imperiled Workers“
- Melissa Harris, Julie Wernau, Chicago Tribune
- Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
- Elizabeth Herman, Mohannad Sabry, Omnia Al Desoukie, Deena Adel, Matthew Negrin, Kristin Deasy, Lauren Bohn, GlobalPost
- Blake Hounshell, Foreign Policy
- Kelly House, The Oregonian
- Julia Ioffe, The New Yorker
- Michael LaForgia (@laforgia_), The Palm Beach Post, for the three-part series, “Drugging Delinquents“
- A.J. Lagoe (@ajinvestigates), WRIC-TV 8 (VA), for investigative reporting on black market babies and the push for adoptees to receive access to their birth records
- Amber Elizabeth Lyon, CNN
- Brittany Lyte (@blyte), Connecticut Post, for investigative reporting on toxic dumping
- Andrew McLemore, The Williamson County Sun (TX)
- Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian), The Star-Ledger, for an investigation into an alleged cover-up of a drunk driving collision involving a state police trooper
- Ben Montgomery (@gangrey), Tampa Bay Times, “Spectacle: The lynching of Claude Neal“
- Eric Moskowitz (@GlobeMoskowitz, The Boston Globe, “Little noted or known, they bear scars of that day“
- Stephanie Paige Ogburn, High Country News (CO)
- Olga Pierce (@olgapierce), Jeff Larson (@thejefflarson), Lois Beckett (@loisbeckett), ProPublica, for their investigative reporting on redistricting
- Ben Poston (@bposton), The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, for investigative reporting on police traffic stops and response times
- Corinne Reilly (@CorinneReilly), The Virginian-Pilot, “A Chance in Hell“
- Nathaniel Rich, Harper’s, “The Luckiest Woman on Earth: Three ways to win the lottery” (Subscription required)
- Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy
- Robert Sanchez (@MileHighRobert), 5280 The Denver Magazine, “Rewrite“
- Eli Saslow, The Washington Post
- Mattathias Schwartz, The New Yorker, “A Massacre in Jamaica“
- Amy Silverstein (@amysiltein), Mother Jones, “Is Susan G. Komen Denying the BPA-Breast Cancer Link?“
- Kelley Weiss, California Watch