The Livingston Awards at the

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awards issued to media professionals under the age of 35 for local, national, and international reporting. They are the largest, all-media, general reporting prizes in America. Popularly referred to as the "Pulitzer for the Young", the awards have recognized the early talent of journalists, including

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, J. R. Moehringer,

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, Rick Atkinson, David Isay,

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Overview

Unlike other prizes in journalism (such as the

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, the

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and the

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), the Livingston Awards judge print, broadcast, and online entries against one another. The winners are selected by the Livingston Board of National Judges. These include

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, Dean Baquet,

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, Clarence Page, and

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was one of the national judges for several years.

History

Mollie Parnis Livingston, one of America's first fashion designers known by name, established the Livingston Awards in 1981 to honor her son, Robert, who published the journalism review ''More''. For thirty years, The Mollie Parnis Livingston Foundation, headed by Livingston's nephew Neal Hochman, sponsored the awards. Recent supporters include the Indian Trail Foundation,

, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the

List of Livingston Award recipients

Richard M. Clurman Award

Since 1996, the Livingston Awards ceremony has also included the presentation of the Richard M. Clurman Award, which recognizes exceptional mentors in journalism who excel in nurturing, critiquing, and inspiring young journalists. The award is named in honor of Richard M. Clurman, a former editor at ''

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'' and the architect of the Livingston Awards.

Richard M. Clurman Award recipients

: Source: * 1996 Charles G. Peters * 1997 Gordon Manning * 1998

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* 1999: **

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* 2000 Arthur Gelb * 2001

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* 2002 Eugene C. Patterson * 2003

Jim Bellows James Gilbert Bellows (November 12, 1922 – March 6, 2009) was an American journalist of the 20th century. Bellows has been credited with the inspiration and nurture of many leading writers of the New Journalism during the 1960s and 1970s. ...

* 2004

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* 2005

John Seigenthaler John Lawrence Seigenthaler ( ; July 27, 1927July 11, 2014) was an American journalist, writer, and political figure. He was known as a prominent defender of First Amendment rights. Seigenthaler joined the Nashville newspaper ''The Tennessea ...

* 2006 Eugene L. Roberts, Jr. * 2007

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* 2008

* 2009 John S. Carroll * 2010 Paul E. Steiger * 2011 Sandra Mims Rowe * 2012 Stephen B. Shepard * 2013

Victor Navasky Victor Saul Navasky (July 5, 1932 – January 23, 2023) was an American journalist, editor, and author. From 1978 to 1995, he edited the liberal weekly magazine '' The Nation''. From 1995 to 2005, he was the magazine's publisher and editorial di ...

* 2014 Steven Brill * 2015

Tom Brokaw Thomas John Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940) is an American author and retired network television journalist. He first served as the co-anchor of Today (American TV program), ''The Today Show'' from 1976 to 1981 with Jane Pauley, then as the anch ...

* 2016 Charles R. Eisendrath * 2017

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* 2018

Walt Mossberg Walter S. Mossberg (born March 27, 1947) is an American retired technology journalist and moderator. From 1991 through 2013, he was the principal technology columnist for ''The Wall Street Journal''. He also co-founded '' AllThingsD'', ''Re ...

* 2019

Rob Hiaasen Robert Keith Hiaasen (February 9, 1959 – June 28, 2018) was an American journalist and assistant editor at ''The Capital'', a newspaper published in Annapolis, Maryland. He also taught at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of ...

* 2021 Susan Chira * 2022

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* 2023

— special award * 2024

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