New York, June 5. Dean Baquet of The New York Times, Tom Brokaw of NBC News and Ellen Goodman of The Boston Globe announced the winners of the $10,000 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists in local, national and international reporting. The prizes are limited to journalists under the age of 35 and are the largest all-media, general-reporting prizes in the country.

In addition to the prizes for young journalists, the Livingston Awards also honors a senior professional who has been a superb on-the-job mentor with a $5,000 prize named for Richard M. Clurman, the distinguished Time, Inc. journalist. Chicago Tribune syndicated columnist Clarence Page made the presentation

Additionally, Neal S. Hochman, Mollie Parnis Livingston Foundation President, presented a one-time special citation for work inspiring young journalists.

Winners for 2006 work are:

• Local reporting. Jim Tankersley, 29, and Joshua Boak, 28, of The Blade (Toledo, OH), for “Business as Usual,” a series that uncovers groundbreaking economic research that clarifies why some states, specifically Ohio, can’t maintain a healthy economy.
• National reporting. Paul David Meyer, 29, and Stella M. Chávez, 34, of The Dallas Morning News, for “Yolanda’s Crossing,” a series that chronicles the six-year long sexual abuse of a young Mexican girl by a relative who later abducts her and smuggles her across the border into the U.S.
• International reporting. Evan Osnos, 30, of the Chicago Tribune, for “The Cost We Pay for China’s Boom.” The series examines economic and environmental impacts of China’s explosive growth in manufacturing and how it affects not only China, but its biggest customer, America.
• The Richard M. Clurman Award went to Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent, “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” PBS. Woodruff has spent almost 40 years as a broadcast journalist reporting on national politics. She spent her career at NBC, CNN and recently returned to PBS. As a senior correspondent at CNN, she anchored the weekday political program, “Inside Politics.” She is founding co-chair of the International Women’s Media Foundation, dedicated to the worldwide support of women in communication.
• A special citation for work inspiring young journalists went to New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof. In 2006, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner initiated an annual contest to take a student with him on a reporting trip to Africa, as a way of making the issues come alive to students. In its second year, the “Win a Trip with Nick” contest has received thousands of applications, as well as viewers to its blog reports.

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