EWA National Awards for Education Reporting: Tips and Tools From Past Winners
EWA is now accepting entries for our 2013 National Awards for Education Reporting. You can find all the pertinent details here. We've added some new categories this year, including data journalism and education organizations and experts. I thought this would be a good opportunity to look back at some of thewinners of the 2012 contest, who were featured at our 66th National Seminar at Stanford University in May. Today's guest blogger is education reporter and editor Cathy Grimes of the Daily Press in Hampton Roads, Va.
Think your sources are slow responding to your FOIA requests? Try waiting more than 12 years for the data you need to tell an important story about truant students. David Jackson and Gary Marx, of the Chicago Tribune, were among five reporters and writers who shared the challenges, strategies and rewards of their prize-winning stories during a session at EWA’s National Seminar.
Jackson and Marx won the 2013 Fred. M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Reporting for their series “An Empty-desk Epidemic,” an investigation of
Think your sources are slow responding to your FOIA requests? Try waiting more than 12 years for the data you need to tell an important story about truant students. David Jackson and Gary Marx, of the Chicago Tribune, were among five reporters and writers who shared the challenges, strategies and rewards of their prize-winning stories during a session at EWA’s National Seminar.
Jackson and Marx won the 2013 Fred. M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Reporting for their series “An Empty-desk Epidemic,” an investigation of