List of Livingston Award winners

The following is a list of Livingston Award winners. The award is given for works published in the previous year.

Year Recipient(s) StoryAward2025 Jessika Harkay 24 "Aleysha Ortiz" for The Connecticut Mirror Excellence in Local Reporting Esmy Jimenez 30 "Lost Patients" for The Seattle Times in partnership with KUOW Public Radio Excellence in National Reporting Sydney Brownstone 34 Nicole Sadek 26 "The Lost Village" for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Excellence in International Reporting2024 Samantha Hogan 30 "Maine's Part-Time Court" for The Maine Monitor Excellence in Local Reporting Alison Behringer 33 "Bodies" for KCRW Excellence in National Reporting Lila Hassan 28 Renata Brito 31 "Adrift/36 Days" for the Associated Press Excellence in International Reporting2023Caitlin Dickerson 33 "We Need to Take Away Children: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Family-Separation Policy" for The AtlanticExcellence in National ReportingVasilisa Stepanenko 22"A Year of War: Adversity Taps Into Deep Skills of Young Ukrainian Journalist" for the Associated PressExcellence in International ReportingAnna Wolfe 28"The Backchannel: Mississippi’s Welfare Scandal" for Mississippi TodayExcellence in Local Reporting2022Erika Lantz "The Turning: The Sisters Who Left" for Rococo Punch Excellence in International ReportingElin Lantz Lesser Jose A. Del Real "Truth, Trust, and Conspiracy Theories in America" for The Washington PostExcellence in National ReportingAlex Stuckey "In Crisis" for Houston ChronicleExcellence in Local Reporting2021Chao Deng "On the Front Lines in Wuhan" for The Wall Street JournalExcellence in International ReportingHannah Dreier "Trust and Consequences" for The Washington PostExcellence in National ReportingJoshua Sharpe "The Imperfect Alibi: The forgotten suspect, the DNA and the church murders that haunted a detective" for The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionExcellence in Local Reporting2020Assia Boundaoui "The Feeling of Being Watched" for PBS's POVExcellence in National ReportingCaroline Chen "Heartless Hospital" for ProPublicaExcellence in Local ReportingBrett Murphy "Show of Force" for USA TodayExcellence in International Reporting2019Lindsey Smith 34 "Believed" for Michigan Radio Excellence in Local ReportingKate Wells 31Chris Outcalt 34"Murder at the Alcatraz of the Rockies" for The Atavist MagazineExcellence in National ReportingDavey Alba 31"How Duterte Used Facebook to Fuel the Philippine Drug War" for BuzzFeed NewsExcellence in International Reporting2018Riham Feshir "74 Seconds," for Minnesota Public Radio News Excellence in Local ReportingMeg Martin Tracy Mumford Ronan Farrow 31"Ronan Farrow’s Investigation of Harvey Weinstein" for The New Yorker Excellence in National ReportingEmily Steel "O’Reilly Thrives, Then Falls, as Settlements Add Up" for The New York TimesMichael S. Schmidt 35Christina Goldbaum "Strong Evidence that U.S. Special Operations Forces Massacred Civilians in Somalia" for The Daily BeastExcellence in International Reporting2017Claire Galofaro 34"Surviving Appalachia" for Associated PressExcellence in Local ReportingBrooke Jarvis 32"Unclaimed" for The California Sunday MagazineExcellence in National ReportingBen Taub 25"The Assad Files" for The New YorkerExcellence in International Reporting2016Lisa Gartner 28 "Failure Factories" for Tampa Bay Times Excellence in Local ReportingMichael LaForgia 32Nathaniel Lash 24Mike Baker 31 "The Mobile-Home Trap" for The Seattle Times, The Center for Public Integrity and BuzzFeed News Excellence in National ReportingDaniel Wagner 34Adrian Chen 31"The Agency" for The New York Times MagazineExcellence in International Reporting2015Kiera Feldman 29"Sexual Assault at God’s Harvard" for The New RepublicExcellence in Local ReportingShoshana Walter 29"Hired Guns" for The Center for Investigative ReportingExcellence in National ReportingRyan Gabrielson 34Matthieu Aikins 30"Whoever Saves a Life" for Matter/MediumExcellence in International Reporting2014Christopher Baxter 28"Private Schools, Hidden Riches" for The Star-LedgerExcellence in Local ReportingEllen Gabler 33"Deadly Delays" for Milwaukee Journal SentinelExcellence in National ReportingAllan James Vestal 24Luke Mogelson 29"The Dream Boat" for The New York Times MagazineExcellence in International Reporting2013Alexandra Zayas 29"In God’s Name" for Tampa Bay TimesExcellence in Local ReportingRachel Manteuffel 28"The Things They Leave Behind" for Washingtonian MagazineExcellence in National ReportingJohn D. Sutter 29"Slavery’s Last Stronghold" for CNN DigitalExcellence in International ReportingEdythe McNamee 272012Andrew McLemore 25"Until Proven Innocent" for The Williamson County SunExcellence in Local ReportingOlga Pierce 32 "Redistricting: How Powerful Hands Are Drawing You Out of A Vote" for ProPublica Excellence in National ReportingJeff Larson 30Lois Beckett 25Mattathias Schwartz 32"A Massacre in Jamaica" for The New YorkerExcellence in International Reporting2011Sarah Fenske "Mr. Big Stuff" for Phoenix New TimesExcellence in Local ReportingJohn Henion "Rape on the Reservation" for Current TVExcellence in National ReportingMariana van Zeller 35Matt Katz 33"Mired in Afghanistan" for The Philadelphia InquirerExcellence in International Reporting2010Mark Greenblatt "Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard" for KHOU-TVExcellence in Local ReportingDavid Nathaniel Philipps 33"Casualties of War" for The Gazette (Colorado Springs)Excellence in National ReportingAbbie Boudreau 32"The Killings at the Canal: The Army Tapes" for CNNExcellence in International Reporting2009 John Dickerson 27"The Doctor is Out" for Phoenix New TimesExcellence in Local ReportingKate Kelly 34"Lost Opportunities Haunt Final Days of Bear Stearns" for The Wall Street JournalExcellence in National ReportingLydia Polgreen 34"The Spoils" for The New York TimesExcellence in International Reporting2008Dave Jamieson "Letters From an Arsonist" for Washington City PaperExcellence in Local ReportingCraig Kapitan "The Long Road Home" for The Bryan-College Station EagleExcellence in National ReportingMark Mazzetti 34"C.I.A. Destroyed Two Tapes Showing Interrogations" for The New York TimesExcellence in National Reporting Christof Putzel "From Russia With Hate" for Current TVExcellence in International Reporting2007Joshua Boak 28"Business as Usual" for The Blade (Toledo, Ohio)Excellence in Local ReportingJim Tankersley 29Stella Chavez 34"Yolanda's Crossing" for The Dallas Morning NewsExcellence in National ReportingPaul David Meyer 29 Evan Osnos 31"The Price We Pay for China's Boom" for The Chicago TribuneExcellence in International Reporting2006 Peter Zuckerman 27"Scouts Honor" for Post RegisterExcellence in Local ReportingRobin Mejia 32"Reasonable Doubt: Can Crime Labs Be Trusted?" for CNNExcellence in National ReportingEdward Wong 34"The Struggle for Iraq" for The New York TimesExcellence in International Reporting2005Pauline Arrillaga 34"Doors to Death" for Associated PressExcellence in Local ReportingReese Dunklin 31"Runaway Priests: Hiding in Plain Sight" for The Dallas Morning NewsExcellence in National Reporting Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy 27"Reinventing the Taliban" for Discovery Times ChannelExcellence in International Reporting2004Cathy Frye 34"Caught in the Web" for Arkansas Democrat-GazetteExcellence in Local Reporting Nicholas Confessore 28"G.I. Woe" for Washington MonthlyExcellence in National ReportingJulie Jargon 29"The War Within" (series), "Honor Rolled", "Take These Wings" for Westword T. Christian Miller 34"Colombia's Children of War" (series), "A Family Undone by War", "A Piece of Boyhood is Stolen" for Los Angeles TimesExcellence in International Reporting2003 Michael Luo 26"Small Town Justice" for Associated PressExcellence in Local ReportingAlix Spiegel 31"81 Words: The Story of a Definition" for This American Life, WBEZ, Chicago Public RadioExcellence in National Reporting Philip P. Pan 31"High Tide of Labor Unrest in China" for The Washington PostExcellence in International Reporting2002Patrick Healy 30"Harvard's Quiet Secret" (series) for The Boston GlobeExcellence in Local Reporting Bob Norman 33"Admitting Terror" for New Times Broward-Palm BeachExcellence in National ReportingSumana Chatterjee 30"A Taste of Slavery" for Knight-Ridder News ServiceExcellence in International ReportingSudarsan Raghavan 342001Jennifer Gonnerman 29"Riker's Island and Life on the Outside" for The Village VoiceExcellence in Local ReportingEdward Pinder 30"Master Teacher"Excellence in National ReportingMichael Finkel 32"Desperate Passage" for The New York Times MagazineExcellence in International Reporting2000Sean Patrick Lyons 28"A System Padded with Patronage" for Waterbury Republican-AmericanExcellence in Local ReportingKen Ward Jr. 32"Mountaintop Removal" for The Charleston GazetteExcellence in National ReportingKevin Heldman 34"Japanese Prisons: Brutality by Design" for APBnews.comExcellence in International Reporting1999Jo Becker 31"Trouble in Pasco County" for St. Petersburg TimesExcellence in Local ReportingLaura Meckler 30"Organ Transplantation" (series) for Associated PressExcellence in National ReportingElizabeth Rubin 33"Our Children Are Killing Us" for The New YorkerExcellence in International Reporting1998J. R. Moehringer 33"The Champ" for Los Angeles TimesExcellence in Local ReportingLindsey Schwartz 26"Probable Cause" for Dateline, NBC NewsExcellence in National ReportingPatrick Weiland 34Alan Zarembo 26"Judgment Day" for Harper's MagazineExcellence in International Reporting1997Scott Glover 30"Quick Cash: With Few Questions" for Sun-SentinelExcellence in Local ReportingEvelyn Larrubia 27Charles Sennott 34"Armed for Profit" for The Boston GlobeExcellence in National ReportingC. J. Chivers 33"Empty Nets: Atlantic Banks in Peril" (series) for The Providence Journal-BulletinExcellence in International Reporting1996Chris Adams 30"Medicaid Madness" for The Times-PicayuneExcellence in Local ReportingJim Lynch 34"Angry Patriots" (series) for The Spokesman-ReviewExcellence in National ReportingDavid S. Rohde 28Bosnia Massacre Coverage for The Christian Science MonitorExcellence in International Reporting1995Melinda Ruley 33"Downeast" (series) for The Independent (Durham N.C.)Excellence in Local ReportingJeanmarie Condon 32"Turning Point at Waco: The Untold Story" for ABC NewsExcellence in National ReportingMitchell Zuckoff 32"Foul Trade" (series) for The Boston GlobeExcellence in International Reporting1994Mark Flatten 34"Policing for Profits" (series) for Tribune Newspapers (Ariz.)Excellence in Local ReportingDarcy Frey 32"The Last Shot" for Harper's MagazineExcellence in National ReportingPamela Burdman 31"Bitter Voyage" for San Francisco ChronicleExcellence in International Reporting 1993 Celia W. Dugger 34 "When Abuse Turns Fatal" for The New York Times Excellence in Local Reporting Bert Robinson 31 "Showdown in the West: The Endangered Species Act" for the San Jose Mercury News Excellence in National Reporting Scott Thurm 34 Christiane Amanpour 34 "Siege of Sarajevo" for CNN Excellence in International Reporting 1992Thomas French 34"South of Heaven" for the St. Petersburg TimesExcellence in Local ReportingLeda Zimmerman "Hard Lessons at Chelsea High" for WGBH-TV Excellence in National ReportingSteve Coll 34"Crisis and Change in South Asia" for The Washington PostExcellence in International Reporting Eason Jordan 31 Coverage of the Gulf War, the Soviet crisis, and the African famine Special Citation for Outstanding Enterprise 1991 David Isay 25"Tossing Away the Keys" for NPRExcellence in Local Reporting Jack Hitt 33 "Terminal Delinquents" for Esquire Excellence in National Reporting Paul Tough 23 David Remnick 32 "Millions of Soviet Lives Pervaded by Poverty" for The Washington Post Excellence in International Reporting 1990 Michele Norris 29 "Six-Year-Old's Maryland Home was a Modern-Day Opium Den" for The Washington Post