# 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) | Recipient Age | Story | Award |
| 2024 | Samantha Hogan | 30 | "Maine's Part-Time Court" for The Maine Monitor | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2024 | Alison Behringer | 33 | "Bodies" for KCRW | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2024 | Lila Hassan | 28 | "Bodies" for KCRW | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2024 | Renata Brito | 31 | "Adrift/36 Days" for the Associated Press | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2023 | Caitlin Dickerson | 33 | "We Need to Take Away Children: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Family-Separation Policy" for The Atlantic | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2023 | Vasilisa Stepanenko | 22 | "A Year of War: Adversity Taps Into Deep Skills of Young Ukrainian Journalist" for the Associated Press | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2023 | Anna Wolfe | 28 | "The Backchannel: Mississippi’s Welfare Scandal" for Mississippi Today | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2022 | Erika Lantz | | "The Turning: The Sisters Who Left" for Rococo Punch | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2022 | Elin Lantz Lesser | | "The Turning: The Sisters Who Left" for Rococo Punch | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2022 | Jose A. Del Real | | "Truth, Trust, and Conspiracy Theories in America" for The Washington Post | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2022 | Alex Stuckey | | "In Crisis" for Houston Chronicle | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2021 | Chao Deng | | "On the Front Lines in Wuhan" for The Wall Street Journal | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2021 | Hannah Dreier | | "Trust and Consequences" for The Washington Post | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2021 | Joshua Sharpe | | "The Imperfect Alibi: The forgotten suspect, the DNA and the church murders that haunted a detective" for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2020 | Assia Boundaoui | | "The Feeling of Being Watched" for PBS's POV | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2020 | Caroline Chen | | "Heartless Hospital" for ProPublica | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2020 | Brett Murphy | | "Show of Force" for USA Today | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2019 | Lindsey Smith | 34 | "Believed" for Michigan Radio | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2019 | Kate Wells | 31 | "Believed" for Michigan Radio | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2019 | Chris Outcalt | 34 | "Murder at the Alcatraz of the Rockies" for The Atavist Magazine | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2019 | Davey Alba | 31 | "How Duterte Used Facebook to Fuel the Philippine Drug War" for BuzzFeed News | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2018 | Riham Feshir | | "74 Seconds," for Minnesota Public Radio News | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2018 | Meg Martin | | "74 Seconds," for Minnesota Public Radio News | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2018 | Tracy Mumford | | "74 Seconds," for Minnesota Public Radio News | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2018 | Ronan Farrow | 31 | "Ronan Farrow’s Investigation of Harvey Weinstein" for The New Yorker | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2018 | Emily Steel | | "O’Reilly Thrives, Then Falls, as Settlements Add Up" for The New York Times | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2018 | Michael S. Schmidt | 35 | "O’Reilly Thrives, Then Falls, as Settlements Add Up" for The New York Times | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2018 | Christina Goldbaum | | "Strong Evidence that U.S. Special Operations Forces Massacred Civilians in Somalia" for The Daily Beast | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2017 | Claire Galofaro | 34 | "Surviving Appalachia" for Associated Press | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2017 | Brooke Jarvis | 32 | "Unclaimed" for The California Sunday Magazine | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2017 | Ben Taub | 25 | "The Assad Files" for The New Yorker | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2016 | Lisa Gartner | 28 | "Failure Factories" for Tampa Bay Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2016 | Michael LaForgia | 32 | "Failure Factories" for Tampa Bay Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2016 | Nathaniel Lash | 24 | "Failure Factories" for Tampa Bay Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2016 | Mike Baker | 31 | "The Mobile-Home Trap" for The Seattle Times, The Center for Public Integrity and BuzzFeed News | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2016 | Daniel Wagner | 34 | "The Mobile-Home Trap" for The Seattle Times, The Center for Public Integrity and BuzzFeed News | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2016 | Adrian Chen | 31 | "The Agency" for The New York Times Magazine | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2015 | Kiera Feldman | 29 | "Sexual Assault at God’s Harvard" for The New Republic | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2015 | Shoshana Walter | 29 | "Hired Guns" for The Center for Investigative Reporting | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2015 | Ryan Gabrielson | 34 | "Hired Guns" for The Center for Investigative Reporting | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2015 | Matthieu Aikins | 30 | "Whoever Saves a Life" for Matter/Medium | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2014 | Christopher Baxter | 28 | "Private Schools, Hidden Riches" for The Star-Ledger | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2014 | Ellen Gabler | 33 | "Deadly Delays" for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2014 | Allan James Vestal | 24 | "Deadly Delays" for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2014 | Luke Mogelson | 29 | "The Dream Boat" for The New York Times Magazine | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2013 | Alexandra Zayas | 29 | "In God’s Name" for Tampa Bay Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2013 | Rachel Manteuffel | 28 | "The Things They Leave Behind" for Washingtonian Magazine | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2013 | John D. Sutter | 29 | "Slavery’s Last Stronghold" for CNN Digital | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2013 | Edythe McNamee | 27 | "Slavery’s Last Stronghold" for CNN Digital | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2012 | Andrew McLemore | 25 | "Until Proven Innocent" for The Williamson County Sun | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2012 | Olga Pierce | 32 | "Redistricting: How Powerful Hands Are Drawing You Out of A Vote" for ProPublica | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2012 | Jeff Larson | 30 | "Redistricting: How Powerful Hands Are Drawing You Out of A Vote" for ProPublica | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2012 | Lois Beckett | 25 | "Redistricting: How Powerful Hands Are Drawing You Out of A Vote" for ProPublica | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2012 | Mattathias Schwartz | 32 | "A Massacre in Jamaica" for The New Yorker | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2011 | Sarah Fenske | | "Mr. Big Stuff" for Phoenix New Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2011 | John Henion | | "Rape on the Reservation" for Current TV | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2011 | Mariana van Zeller | 35 | "Rape on the Reservation" for Current TV | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2011 | Matt Katz | 33 | "Mired in Afghanistan" for The Philadelphia Inquirer | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2010 | Mark Greenblatt | | "Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard" for KHOU-TV | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2010 | David Nathaniel Philipps | 33 | "Casualties of War" for The Gazette (Colorado Springs) | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2010 | Abbie Boudreau | 32 | "The Killings at the Canal: The Army Tapes" for CNN | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2009 | John Dickerson | 27 | "The Doctor is Out" for Phoenix New Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2009 | Kate Kelly | 34 | "Lost Opportunities Haunt Final Days of Bear Stearns" for The Wall Street Journal | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2009 | Lydia Polgreen | 34 | "The Spoils" for The New York Times | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2008 | Dave Jamieson | | "Letters From an Arsonist" for Washington City Paper | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2008 | Craig Kapitan | | "The Long Road Home" for The Bryan-College Station Eagle | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2008 | Mark Mazzetti | 34 | "C.I.A. Destroyed Two Tapes Showing Interrogations" for The New York Times | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2008 | Christof Putzel | | "From Russia With Hate" for Current TV | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2007 | Joshua Boak | 28 | "Business as Usual" for The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2007 | Jim Tankersley | 29 | "Business as Usual" for The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2007 | Stella Chavez | 34 | "Yolanda's Crossing" for The Dallas Morning News | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2007 | Paul David Meyer | 29 | "Yolanda's Crossing" for The Dallas Morning News | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2007 | Evan Osnos | 31 | "The Price We Pay for China's Boom" for The Chicago Tribune | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2006 | Peter Zuckerman | 27 | "Scouts Honor" for Post Register | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2006 | Robin Mejia | 32 | "Reasonable Doubt: Can Crime Labs Be Trusted?" for CNN | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2006 | Edward Wong | 34 | "The Struggle for Iraq" for The New York Times | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2005 | Pauline Arrillaga | 34 | "Doors to Death" for Associated Press | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2005 | Reese Dunklin | 31 | "Runaway Priests: Hiding in Plain Sight" for The Dallas Morning News | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2005 | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy | 27 | "Reinventing the Taliban" for Discovery Times Channel | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2004 | Cathy Frye | 34 | "Caught in the Web" for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2004 | Nicholas Confessore | 28 | "G.I. Woe" for Washington Monthly | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2004 | Julie Jargon | 29 | "The War Within" (series), "Honor Rolled", "Take These Wings" for Westword | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2004 | T. Christian Miller | 34 | "Colombia's Children of War" (series), "A Family Undone by War", "A Piece of Boyhood is Stolen" for Los Angeles Times | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2003 | Michael Luo | 26 | "Small Town Justice" for Associated Press | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2003 | Alix Spiegel | 31 | "81 Words: The Story of a Definition" for This American Life, WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2003 | Philip P. Pan | 31 | "High Tide of Labor Unrest in China" for The Washington Post | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2002 | Patrick Healy | 30 | "Harvard's Quiet Secret" (series) for The Boston Globe | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2002 | Bob Norman | 33 | "Admitting Terror" for New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2002 | Sumana Chatterjee | 30 | "A Taste of Slavery" for Knight-Ridder News Service | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2002 | Sudarsan Raghavan | 34 | "A Taste of Slavery" for Knight-Ridder News Service | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2001 | Jennifer Gonnerman | 29 | "Riker's Island and Life on the Outside" for The Village Voice | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2001 | Edward Pinder | 30 | "Master Teacher" | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2001 | Michael Finkel | 32 | "Desperate Passage" for The New York Times Magazine | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 2000 | Sean Patrick Lyons | 28 | "A System Padded with Patronage" for Waterbury Republican-American | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 2000 | Ken Ward Jr. | 32 | "Mountaintop Removal" for The Charleston Gazette | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 2000 | Kevin Heldman | 34 | "Japanese Prisons: Brutality by Design" for APBnews.com | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1999 | Jo Becker | 31 | "Trouble in Pasco County" for St. Petersburg Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1999 | Laura Meckler | 30 | "Organ Transplantation" (series) for Associated Press | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1999 | Elizabeth Rubin | 33 | "Our Children Are Killing Us" for The New Yorker | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1998 | J. R. Moehringer | 33 | "The Champ" for Los Angeles Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1998 | Lindsey Schwartz | 26 | "Probable Cause" for Dateline, NBC News | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1998 | Patrick Weiland | 34 | "Probable Cause" for Dateline, NBC News | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1998 | Alan Zarembo | 26 | "Judgment Day" for Harper's Magazine | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1997 | Scott Glover | 30 | "Quick Cash: With Few Questions" for Sun-Sentinel | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1997 | Evelyn Larrubia | 27 | "Quick Cash: With Few Questions" for Sun-Sentinel | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1997 | Charles Sennott | 34 | "Armed for Profit" for The Boston Globe | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1997 | C. J. Chivers | 33 | "Empty Nets: Atlantic Banks in Peril" (series) for The Providence Journal-Bulletin | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1996 | Chris Adams | 30 | "Medicaid Madness" for The Times-Picayune | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1996 | Jim Lynch | 34 | "Angry Patriots" (series) for The Spokesman-Review | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1996 | David S. Rohde | 28 | Bosnia Massacre Coverage for The Christian Science Monitor | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1995 | Melinda Ruley | 33 | "Downeast" (series) for The Independent (Durham N.C.) | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1995 | Jeanmarie Condon | 32 | "Turning Point at Waco: The Untold Story" for ABC News | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1995 | Mitchell Zuckoff | 32 | "Foul Trade" (series) for The Boston Globe | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1994 | Mark Flatten | 34 | "Policing for Profits" (series) for Tribune Newspapers (Ariz.) | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1994 | Darcy Frey | 32 | "The Last Shot" for Harper's Magazine | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1994 | Pamela Burdman | 31 | "Bitter Voyage" for San Francisco Chronicle | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1993 | Celia W. Dugger | 34 | "When Abuse Turns Fatal" for The New York Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1993 | Bert Robinson | 31 | "Showdown in the West: The Endangered Species Act" for the San Jose Mercury News | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1993 | Scott Thurm | 34 | "Showdown in the West: The Endangered Species Act" for the San Jose Mercury News | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1993 | Christiane Amanpour | 34 | "Siege of Sarajevo" for CNN | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1992 | Thomas French | 34 | "South of Heaven" for the St. Petersburg Times | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1992 | Leda Zimmerman | | "Hard Lessons at Chelsea High" for WGBH-TV | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1992 | Steve Coll | 34 | "Crisis and Change in South Asia" for The Washington Post | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1992 | 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 NPR | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1991 | Jack Hitt | 33 | "Terminal Delinquents" for Esquire | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1991 | Paul Tough | 23 | "Terminal Delinquents" for Esquire | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1991 | 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 | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1990 | Tom Ashbrook | 34 | "A View From the East" for The Boston Globe | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1990 | Peter Gumbel | 31 | "Gorbachev's Broken Economy" for The Wall Street Journal | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1990 | Todd Smith | 28 | Reporter, The Tampa Tribune | Special Posthumous Citation |
| 1989 | Bonita Brodt | 32 | "Chicago Schools: Worst in America" for the Chicago Tribune | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1989 | David Von Drehle | 28 | "The Death Penalty: A Failure of Execution" for the Miami Herald | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1989 | Anne Nelson | 35 | "In the Grotto of the Pink Sisters" for Mother Jones | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1988 | Kevin Cullen | 29 | "Bad Boys" for The Boston Globe | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1988 | Deborah Blum | 34 | "California: The Weapons Master" for The Sacramento Bee | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1988 | Ira Glass | 28 | "Radio in Vietnam" for NPR | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1988 | Alexis Muellner | 25 | "Radio in Vietnam" for NPR | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1988 | Jonathan Schwartz | 31 | "Radio in Vietnam" for NPR | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1987 | Benjamin L. Weiser | 32 | "No Exit: Juvenile Justice in Washington" for The Washington Post | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1987 | Max Zieman | 25 | "Dirty Grain" for The Kansas City Star | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1987 | Barbara Fischkin | 32 | "A Chronicle of Hope" for Newsday | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1986 | Charles Ely | 34 | "Tulsa's Golden Missionary" for KTUL | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1986 | Jim Lyons | | "Tulsa's Golden Missionary" for KTUL | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1986 | Gregg Easterbrook | 32 | "Making Sense of Agriculture" for The Atlantic | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1986 | Blaine Harden | 33 | "Notes of a Famine Watcher" for The Washington Post | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1985 | Tom Hallman | 29 | "Valsetz 1919–84" for The Oregonian | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1985 | Susan Milstein | 27 | "Lazy Justice" for The American Lawyer | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1985 | Larry Tye | 30 | "America's Shame" for The Courier-Journal | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1984 | Daniel Biddle | 30 | "Above the Law" for The Philadelphia Inquirer | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1984 | Barry Siegel | 34 | "El Nino: The World Turns Topsy-Turvy" for the Los Angeles Times | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1984 | Rick Atkinson | 31 | "The Hunger Games: Our Wasted Foreign Aid" for the Kansas City Times | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1983 | Mark Feldstein | 26 | "Prisoners of the Harvest" for WTSP-TV | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1983 | Jim Sutherland | 26 | "Prisoners of the Harvest" for WTSP-TV | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1983 | Edward Zuckerman | 34 | "How Would the U.S. Survive a Nuclear War?" for Esquire | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1983 | Thomas Friedman | 30 | "The Beirut Massacre: The Four Days" for The New York Times | Excellence in International Reporting |
| 1982 | Eric Scigliano | 28 | "The Aleuts' Last Stand" for the Seattle Weekly | Excellence in Local Reporting |
| 1982 | H. G. (Buzz) Bissinger | 28 | "The Plane That Fell From the Sky" for the St. Paul Pioneer Press | Excellence in National Reporting |
| 1982 | Steven Erlanger | 30 | "Envy of the West Vies with Pride in Nation" for The Boston Globe | Excellence in International Reporting |