Awards and Media Partners

Awards

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

Fellowships

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

Media Partners

We produce and co-publish stories with media partners to amplify our reach.