Awards & recognition
“Troubled Kids, Troubled System”
Pulitzer-nominated.
Finalist for Scripps Howard Awards in the community journalism category.
Honorable mention in the national Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.
First place for an investigative series in the 2019 Society of Professional Journalists’ Northwest Excellence in Journalism competition.
Second place in investigative journalism in the 2020 Montana Better Newspaper competition.
“Education and the Path to Prosperity”
Supported by a fellowship from the Education Writer’s Association.
First place for a reporting series in the 2019 Society of Professional Journalists’ Northwest Excellence in Journalism competition.
First place in education coverage in the 2020 Montana Better Newspaper competition.
Other awards
First place in Breaking News category in the 2020 Montana Better Newspaper competition for a story I wrote about the removal of 23 children from a residential program by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services.