By: (AP) Reporters for The Associated Press, National Public Radio, and
The Washington Post were among winners of the 2002
Livingston Awards, which honor young journalists for outstanding reporting, the awards panel announced Tuesday.
AP national writer Michael Luo, 27, won the award for "Small Town Justice," a series describing the bedeviling complexities of legal proceedings involving the mentally retarded.
Alix Spiegel, 32, of NPR's "This American Life," won for "81 Words: The Story of a Definition," a 55-minute documentary about the campaign to eliminate the clinical definition of homosexuality as a mental illness.
The Washington Post's Philip Pan, 32, won for "High Tide of Labor Unrest in China," a series that demonstrated labor abuses in China's effort to industrialize.
The $10,000 prizes go to journalists under the age of 35, and are the largest all-media, general-reporting awards in the country.
The panel also gave the Clurman Award for Mentoring to Jim Bellows, former editor of the
New York Herald Tribune, the
Washington Star and the
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. The $5,000 award is given to senior journalists who are superb on-the-job mentors.
The awards panel includes Tom Brokaw of NBC News, Ken Auletta of the
New Yorker, and Ellen Goodman of
The Boston Globe. The program is directed by Professor Charles Eisendrath at the University of Michigan.
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