To recognize excellence in reporting on economic inequality and its effects on families in the U.S., the National Press Foundation will provide three $4,000 Economic Justice Journalism Awards for work done in any medium.
The three $4,000 prizes are given for work published within each of these categories:
- Story published/aired by any news outlet
- Story published/aired by any news outlet with a newsroom of 150 or fewer journalists
- Story is published/aired by any news outlet with a newsroom of 50 or fewer journalists, or by a freelancer, unemployed or furloughed journalist
This award is offered in conjunction with briefings for journalists who took part in the Future of the American Child Reporting Fellowships in 2023 and 2024. Summaries and transcripts of those briefings, as well as videos, can be found in NPF’s Children & Families and Poverty and Inequality resource areas.
NPF has given four rounds of this award, previously known as the Poverty Awards.
The winners in 2023 were journalists from Marketplace, Miami Herald and NBC News/Noticias Telemundo.
The winners in 2022 were Kayla Canne of the Asbury Park Press, a team from WBEZ Chicago and freelancer Mya Frazier writing for the New York Times Magazine.
The 2021 awards went to Elizabeth Hlavinka and Shannon Firth of MedPage Today, Mountain State Spotlight’s Amelia Ferrell Knisely and The California Divide for reporting on what works to alleviate poverty.
The inaugural round of the awards went to Idrees Kahloon of The Economist and Anna Wolfe of Mississippi Today in 2020 for the best reporting on children and poverty in the United States.
These awards and the trainings are funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Heising-Simons Foundation. NPF is solely responsible for the content.
