Livingston Awards Program Announces Finalists: 2011

New York, May 1, 2012 — Finalists for the 2011 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists have been announced. The Livingstons, the nation’s largest all-media, general reporting prizes, award three $10,000 prizes for Local, National, and International Reporting to journalists under the age of 35. The winners will be announced on June 6, 2012. Livingston Awards finalists, who include print, broadcast and online journalists, are:

  • Trevor Aaronson, Mother Jones
  • Leila Atassi, The Plain Dealer
  • Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker
  • Emily Cadei, Congressional Quarterly/ CQ Weekly
  • Cindy Carcamo, Slake: Los Angeles
  • Jordan Conn, The Atavist
  • Nicholas Deshais, The Pacific Northwest Inlander
  • Adam Ellick, The New York Times
  • David Epstein, Sports Illustrated
  • Sarah Favot, Kirsten Berg, Jenna Ebersole, New England Center for Investigative Reporting
  • Megan Feldman, 5280 The Denver Magazine
  • Ryan Gabrielson, California Watch
  • Gus Garcia-Roberts, Miami New Times
  • Michael Garofalo, Story Corps/National Public Radio
  • Eliza Gray, The New Republic
  • Chris Hamby, iWatch News, The Center for Public Integrity
  • 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, The Palm Beach Post
  • A.J. Lagoe, WRIC-TV 8 (VA)
  • Amber Elizabeth Lyon, CNN
  • Brittany Lyte, Connecticut Post
  • Andrew McLemore, The Williamson County Sun (TX)
  • Chris Megerian, The Star-Ledger
  • Ben Montgomery, Tampa Bay Times
  • Eric Moskowitz, The Boston Globe
  • Stephanie Paige Ogburn, High Country News (CO)
  • Olga Pierce, Jeff Larson, Lois Beckett, ProPublica
  • Ben Poston, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  • Corinne Reilly, The Virginian-Pilot
  • Nathaniel Rich, Harper's
  • Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy
  • Robert Sanchez, 5280 The Denver Magazine
  • Eli Saslow, The Washington Post
  • Mattathias Schwartz, The New Yorker
  • Amy Silverstein, Mother Jones
  • Kelley Weiss, California Watch
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