Livingston Awards Names Winners: 2007
New York, June 4. Christiane Amanpour of CNN, Ellen Goodman of The Boston Globe and Osborn Elliott, former editor of Newsweek and dean emeritus of the Columbia University School of Journalism announced the winners of the $10,000 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists in local, national and international reporting. The prizes are limited to journalists under the age of 35 and are the largest all-media, general-reporting prizes in the country
In addition to the prizes for young journalists, the Livingston Awards also honors a senior professional who has been a superb on-the-job mentor with a $5,000 prize named for Richard M. Clurman, the distinguished Time, Inc. journalist. Ken Auletta, of The New Yorker, made the presentation to columnist and author Anna Quindlen.
Winners for 2007 work are:
- Local reporting. Dave Jamieson, 29, of the Washington City Paper, for “Letters From an Arsonist,” an investigative account and narrative about serial arsonist, Thomas Sweatt. From his prison cell, he confided to Jamieson in long handwritten letters details of his crimes and the motives behind them. Sweatt set more than 350 fires over 25 years in Washington D.C., taking at least two lives and costing the city millions of dollars before he was arrested and sentenced to two life terms in the federal penitentiary.
- National reporting. Judges awarded a tie in the national reporting category. Craig Kapitan, 30, of The Bryan-College Station (TX) Eagle, won for his series, “The Long Road Home,” chronicling the struggle of an Iraq war hero who returns home with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Mark Mazzetti, 34, of The New York Times, won for his series “C.I.A. Destroyed 2 Tapes Showing Interrogations,” confirming videotape evidence of severe interrogation techniques against al Qaeda operatives had been destroyed within the C.I.A.
- International reporting. Christof Putzel, 28, of Current TV. With his report, “From Russia with Hate,” Putzel spotlighted the skinhead movement in Russia by gaining access to skinhead members and leaders who revealed, on camera, their strategy of intimidation via internet videos of beatings of minorities and immigrants.
- Quindlen won the Richard M. Clurman Award for mentoring young journalists in a variety of settings. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and columnist began her career in 1974 as a reporter at The New York Post. She joined The New York Times in 1977 and during her 18 years at the paper held several posts from reporter to deputy metropolitan editor. In 1990, she began writing the nationally-syndicated “Public and Private” column for the Times’ Op-Ed page. Two years later, in 1992, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Quindlen is an author whose books include fiction and non-fiction. She chairs the board of trustees at her alma mater, Barnard, and writes a bi-weekly column for Newsweek, “The Last Word.”
Amanpour, Elliott, Goodman and Auletta are joined on the Livingston judging panel by Dean Baquet, Washington bureau chief of The New York Times; Tom Brokaw, special correspondent at NBC News; Charles Gibson, anchor for ABC’s, “World News,” and Clarence Page, columnist with the Chicago Tribune. The program is directed by Professor Charles R. Eisendrath at the University of Michigan.
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