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About the Livingston Awards Mike Wallace, Morley Safer and the late Mollie Parnis Livingston at the 1990 awards luncheon. The Livingston Awards for excellence by professionals under the age of 35 are the largest all-media, general reporting prizes in American journalism. They are also unusual in judging print, broadcast and online entries against one another, a practice of increasing interest as technology blurs traditional distinctions between rival branches of the profession. Mollie Parnis Livingston established the awards in 1980 to honor her son, Robert, who published the journalism review More. Ten thousand dollar prizes for local, national, and international reporting are conferred in person by the judging panel at a New York luncheon attended by leading media figures and the winners' families and colleagues. Mollie Parnis dress designs were wearable success symbols of the 1960's through the early 1980's. She loved and gathered around her top young talent in the fashion business, a practice she then extended to journalism. To her delight, she realized that the awards were creating a journalistic "family" of considerable and growing distinction. In most cases, it was her prizes that had recognized the winners' talent first, when they needed it most.
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The Livingston Awards