National Awards for Education Reporting — Education Writers Association
Finalist, 2021, News, “How China’s New Education Policy Affects Teachers, Parents and Students Around the World”
Rebecca Koenig and Emily Tate
Winner, 2020, Feature, “Inside a Preschool That Treats the Youngest Victims of the Opioid Crisis”
Emily Tate
Finalist, 2019, Feature, “In DC, Teachers Run the Jail. It’s Turning Inmates Into Students.”
Rebecca Koenig
Livingston Awards for Young Journalists — Wallace House and the University of Michigan
Finalist, 2020, National Reporting, “When an Online Teaching Job Becomes a Window into Child Abuse”
Emily Tate
Society of Professional Journalists
Finalist, 2022, Online Feature, Dateline Awards, “The Humanities May Be Declining at Universities — But They’re Thriving on Zoom”
Rebecca Koenig
Winner, 2020, Online Feature, Dateline Awards, “In DC, Teachers Run the Jail. It’s Turning Inmates Into Students.”
Rebecca Koenig
Azbee Awards of Excellence — American Society of Business Publication Editors
Regional Finalist, 2023, Enterprise News Story, “Does Solving Inequality in Education Mean Embracing ‘Birth Equity’?”
Daniel Mollenkamp
National Bronze Award, 2022, Podcast, “Is It Still Teaching When the Professor Is Dead?”
Jeffrey R. Young
Regional Silver Award, 2022, Web Feature Article, “We Wondered If NFTs Could Change Education, So We Decided to Sell This Article on the Blockchain”
Jeffrey R. Young
Regional Silver Award, 2021, Podcast, “Who Is Missing From College? Pandemic Campus Diaries Ep. 5”
Jeffrey R. Young
National Gold Award, 2020, Investigative Reporting, “When an Online Teaching Job Becomes a Window into Child Abuse”
Emily Tate
Regional Bronze Award, 2020, Case History, “How a University Took on the Textbook Industry”
Rebecca Koenig
Regional Bronze Award, 2020, Company Profile, “How Indian Tutoring App Provider Byju’s Got So Big”
Wade Tyler Millward
Forbes “30 Under 30” in Education
2016: Mary Jo Madda
2014: Tony Wan
Education Writers Association Reporting Fellowship
2022: Nadia Tamez-Robledo
2020: Jeffrey R. Young
2020: Tony Wan
Institute for Citizens & Scholars Higher Ed Media Fellowship
2020: Rebecca Koenig
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