Multi-newsroom solutions project honored with National Headliner Award

AL.com, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, The Post and Courier, The Seattle Times [April 2022]: A solutions-focused package produced by six news organizations won second place in the education category in the National Headliner Awards, one of the nation’s oldest and largest journalism contests. The winning entry included a series of stories that explored where and how schools are making progress in boosting students’ reading skills, which suffered during the pandemic. These six news organizations, plus The Fresno Bee, are now working on the fifth package of solutions-focused stories they’ve jointly produced since March 2021.