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Collier Awardees

2026
Awards ceremony: April 15, 2026
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STUDENT CATEGORY
Krish Dev and Dharma Niles, New York University
NYU hit with 10 class action lawsuits following data breach
Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez, Tyler Crivella, Sherlyn Dominguez, The Retrograde (University of Texas at Dallas)
My story was stolen from me and buried’: A survivor’s battle with UTD’s Title IX.
Anna Yang, The Stanford Daily
A student reported her rapist to Stanford University. Two years later, the perpetrator was suspended
LOCAL CATEGORY
Ana Ceballos, Claire Healy, Ben Wieder, Shirsho Dasgupta, Ana Claudia Chacin, the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times
The Truth About Alligator Alcatraz
Brian Howey, Mukta Joshi, Jerry Mitchell, Steph Quinn, Nate Rosenfield, Mississippi Today/The New York Times
Mississippi inmates used as enforcers
Ashley Balcerzak, Jean Rimbach, The Record (New Jersey)
Hidden at Home: NJ group home residents face neglect, abuse and despair in flawed system
NATIONAL CATEGORY
Mike Hixenbaugh, Jon Schuppe, Susan Carroll, Liz Kreutz, Anagilmara Vilchez, Tyler Kingkade, NBC News and Noticias Telemundo
Dealing the Dead
The Staff of The Associated Press, The Associated Press
Freedom of Speech (Gulf of Mexico)
Jeffrey Goldberg, Shane Harris, Adrienne LaFrance, Griff Witte, Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic
Signalgate
2025
Awards ceremony: April 10, 2026
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STUDENT CATEGORY
Garrett Shanley
WINNER
‘Oath of Fealty’: How the U. of Florida Forced Faculty Cooperation with a GOP-backed Civics Center
Ariane Luthi
‘They Promised to Take Out Our Families’: The Afghans America Left Behind
Cathy Wang
An investigation into Johns Hopkins’ controversial real estate holdings
LOCAL CATEGORY
Mississippi Today
WINNER
Continued coverage of state officials’ alleged misuse of federal welfare funds
The Baltimore Banner
This megachurch warned of hell. Then it concealed its own sins.
Documented
Fear Across Borders: Chinese Americans and the Shadow of Surveillance
NATIONAL CATEGORY
The Washington Post
WINNER
Abused by the Badge
The New Yorker
In the Dark
NBC News, The Guardian, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism
‘Kill Us or Send Us Home’: Amazon workers in Saudi Arabia say they were exploited by labor supply and recruiting firms