awards and honors
Society of Professional Journalists, 2024
Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism: Extremism in San Diego
Investigative/Enterprise Story, First Place: Racism in the San Diego Police Department
Golden Mike Award, Best Investigative Reporting, Finalist 2024
Institute for Nonprofit News, Investigative Reporting, Finalist, 2023
Veterans Village: An Investigation
Society of Professional Journalists, 2023
Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism: Veterans Village: An Investigation
Other awards here.
San Diego Press Club, 2023
Investigative Reporting: These officers committed misconduct. But what were the consequences?
Institute for Nonprofit News, Investigative Reporting, Finalist, 2022
The Mission Act: An Investigation into Problems at the VA
Society of Professional Journalists, 2022
Neil Morgan Community Impact Award: The Mission Act Project
Investigative/Enterprise Story: The Mission Act Project
Other first place awards in audio reporting.
Association of Health Care Journalism Awards, 2021
Investigative Reporting, Third Place: The Mission Act Project
Public Health Reporting, Third Place: The COVID Hotels Project
Golden Mike Award, 2021, Best Radio Medical and Science Reporting
San Diego Press Club, 2021
Investigative Reporting: The COVID Hotels Project
Best of Show: Donovan Deaths
Public Service: Years of staffing cutbacks left San Diego nursing homes in peril during the pandemic
I received first place, second place and third place in the investigative reporting category this year at the Press Club for three separate investigative projects. I received other first-place awards in audio.
Society of Professional Journalists, 2021
Distinguished Coverage Award: COVID-19 Deaths - An inewsource Series.
Health story: Uncounted - San Diego County’s pandemic victims far surpass official totals
Several other first place awards in audio and online reporting.
San Diego Press Club, 2020 (see more awards here)
First Place, Radio/Podcast Investigative Reporting: REWIRED
First Place, Serious Subject: Risky Research
First Place, Investigative Reporting: San Diego County knew about gaps in mental health care at a COVID-19 motel. Now someone is dead.
Rising Star Award, San Diego Press Club, 2019
Sigma Data Journalism Awards, 2019, only American finalist
For building an accessible database of campaign finance transactions for San Diego
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, 2018
The Wall: Unknown Stories, Unintended Consequences
‘Mass disaster’ grows at the U.S.-Mexico border, but Washington doesn’t seem to care
Punch Sulzberger Award for Online Storytelling, ASNE, 2018
The Wall: Unknown Stories, Unintended Consequences
‘Mass disaster’ grows at the U.S.-Mexico border, but Washington doesn’t seem to care
Scripps Howard Award for Innovation, 2018
The Wall: Unknown Stories, Unintended Consequences
‘Mass disaster’ grows at the U.S.-Mexico border, but Washington doesn’t seem to care
California Newspaper Publisher Association, 2018
Granted ten awards to projects I edited in 2017. See full list here.
Second Place, Investigative Reporting, California Newspaper Publishers Association, 2017
Two years after Prop 47, addicts walk free with nowhere to go
First Place, Best News Documentary, Edward R. Murrow Award, 2017
Two years after Prop 47, addicts walk free with nowhere to go
Second Place, Best Multimedia Project, Utah Journalism Awards, 2017
Third Place, Newspaper - Division A: Government, Utah Journalism Awards, 2017
Who says civil servants can’t make good money?
Second Place, Online Special Package, Utah Idaho Spokane Associated Press Association, 2017
Dow Jones Data Journalism Fellowship, 2016
Nora Magid Mentorship Prize, 2016
The Daily Pennsylvanian Alumni Association Michael Silver Writing Award, 2015
First Place, Excellence in Student Religion Reporting, Religion Newswriters Association, 2015
Behind the glass, a contested history
Third Place, Personality Profile, Columbia Scholastic Press Association, 2015
Busting barriers: Penn's top cop celebrates 20 years
First Place, Breaking News for Digital Media, Columbia Scholastic Press Association, 2014