The Livingston Awards are American

United States

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 journalism

Journalism

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 awards issued to media professionals under the age of 35 for local, national, and international reporting. The awards are given by the Mollie Parnis Livingston Foundation in New York City

New York City

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 and are the largest, all media, general reporting prizes in America.

Unlike other prizes in journalism such as the Peabody Awards, the Polk Awards

George Polk Awards

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, the National Journalism Awards

National Journalism Awards

The National Journalism Awards are awards of US$10,000 to $25,000 in American journalism given by the Scripps Howard Foundation that recognize the best work in journalism in 17 categories, including: human interest writing; environmental and public service reporting; investigative reporting;...

 and the Pulitzer Prizes, the Livingston Awards judge print, broadcast and online entries against one another. Largely as a result, the Livingston Awards are assumed to be among the most competitive and prestigious reporting prizes in American journalism.