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The Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting is the United States' top annual prize for journalism about education. It has been awarded each year since 1972 by the
Education Writers Association , the national group for reporters and editors who cover education issues. The Hechinger Prize is awarded to the top work of journalism among the first-place winners in the association's annual
National Awards for Education Reporting .
It is named for
Fred M. Hechinger , the longtime education editor of
The New York Times .
List of winners
1972:
John Matthews ,
The Washington Star
1973:
William Grant ,
The Detroit Free Press
1974:
James Nolan and
Linda Stahl ,
The Louisville Courier-Journal
1975:
Jonathan Neumann ,
Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, Mass.)
1976:
James Worsham and
Marguerite Del Guidice ,
The Boston Globe
1977:
Lou Antosh ,
The Philadelphia Bulletin
1978:
Stanley Moulton and
Laurel Sorenson ,
Daily Hampshire Gazette
1979: Staff of 10 writers,
The Charlotte Observer
1980:
Rena W. Cohen ,
The Daily and Sunday Herald (Arlington Heights, Ill.)
1981:
Mary Bishop ,
Thomas Ferrick, Jr. and
Donald Kimelman ,
The Philadelphia Inquirer
1982:
Fred Anklam and
Nancy Weaver ,
The Clarion-Ledger
1983:
Robert Frahm ,
The Journal Times (Racine, Wisc.)
1984:
Cindy Goodaker ,
The Oakland Press
1985:
Janet Groat ,
The Macon Telegraph & Tribune
1986:
Ricardo Gandara ,
The Albuquerque Tribune
1987:
Emily Sachar ,
New York Newsday
1988: Team of 14 reporters from
The Chicago Tribune
1989:
Emily Sachar ,
New York Newsday
1990:
Ann Carnahan and
Tony Pugh ,
The Rocky Mountain News
1991:
Theresa Churchill ,
Ron Ingram and
Carol Alexander ,
The Herald & Review (Decatur, Ill.)
1992:
Kimberly J. McLarin ,
The Philadelphia Inquirer
1993:
Stephen Henderson ,
Lexington Herald-Leader
1994:
Neil A. Borowski ,
Laura Bruch ,
Thomas Ferrick ,
Craig McCoy ,
Dale Mezzacappa ,
John Woestenliek and
Martha Woodall ,
The Philadelphia Inquirer
1995:
Dudley Althaus ,
The Houston Chronicle
1996:
Robert Frahm and
Rick Green ,
The Hartford Courant
1997:
Jacques Steinberg ,
The New York Times
1998:
Deb Kollars ,
The Sacramento Bee
1999:
Tim Simmons ,
The News and Observer
2000:
Kenneth Weiss , the
Los Angeles Times
2001:
Patrick Healy ,
The Boston Globe
2002:
Eric Eyre and
Scott Finn ,
The Charleston Gazette
2003:
Christine Willmsen and Maureen O'Hagan,
The Seattle Times
2004:
Joshua Benton , Holly Hacker and Herb Booth,
The Dallas Morning News
2005:
Linda Lutton ,
Kati Phillips and
Jonathan Lipman ,
The Daily Southtown
2006:
Jean Rimbach and
Kathleen Carroll ,
The Bergen Record
2007:
Martha Irvine and
Robert Tanner ,
Associated Press
[1]
2008:
Blake Morrison and
Brad Heath ,
USA Today
2009:
Bob Hohler , Boston Globe, "Failing Our Athletes: The Sad State of Sports in Boston Public Schools"
[2]
2010:
Bloomberg News : "Education, Inc."
[3]
2011:
Daniel Golden and
Oliver Staley , Bloomberg News
2012:
David Jackson and
Gary Marx ,
Chicago Tribune
2013:
Alex Blumberg ,
Ben Calhoun ,
Ira Glass ,
Sarah Koening ,
Alex Kotlowitz ,
Linda Lutton ,
Miki Meek ,
Jonathan Menjivar ,
Lisa Pollak ,
Brian Reed ,
Robyn Semien ,
Alissa Shipp ,
Julie Snyder , and
Nancy Updike of
WBEZ (Chicago),
This American Life
2014:
Nikole Hannah-Jones of
ProPublica
2015:
Cara Fitzpatrick ,
Lisa Gartner and
Michael LaForgia ,
Tampa Bay Times
2016:
Brian Rosenthal ,
Houston Chronicle
2017:
John Woodrow Cox ,
The Washington Post
2018:
Hannah Dreier ,
ProPublica ,
New York and
The New York Times Magazine
2019:
Jennifer Smith Richards of the
Chicago Tribune , and
Jodi S. Cohen and
Lakeidra Chavis of ProPublica Illinois
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