Awards & recognition

 
 
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“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.

 
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“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.