BLOOMINGTON – The Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism won a series of national and local awards and honors this spring.

“Big Bucks, Big Buyouts” by Nic Napier and Nadia Scharf won a first place Hearst Award for team investigative reporting for “Big Bucks, Big Byouts.” The story, written in partnership with InvestigateTV and Gray Television also won a first place Indy SPJ award for student sports reporting, and was a finalist for an Indy SPJ student investigative reporting award and a finalist for an SPJ Region 5 Mark of Excellence Award.

“Private Practice” won a second place National Headliner Award for broadcast television networks, cable networks and syndicators health/science/pandemic
reporting. The two-part series was done in partnership with InvestigateTV and Gray Television.

Center students Kayan Tara, Lizzie Wright, Ryan Fields, Caroline Geib, Lily Staatz, Liz DeSantis, Lauren Ulrich, Sophie Kaelble and Olivia Bianco worked on “Private Practice.”

USA Today’s “Falling short at 50” project on continued issues with Title IX won first place in the APSE Award’s investigative category, a second place National Headliner Award for news series in a top 20 newspaper market, was a finalist for an IRE sports investigation award, and was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize.

Arnolt Center students Laura Gerber, Liz DeSantis, Janzen Greene, Haley Miller, Kayan Tara, Lauren Ulrich, Nic Napier, Ruth Cronin and Caroline contributed research to the series.