LERA Kenneth May Media Award

The LERA Media Award Committee annually confers an the LERA Media Award to recognize outstanding contributions to journalism in the area of labor and employment relations. Awardees are recognized at the LERA Annual Meeting each May/June.

WINNERS:

2024
The Garamond Agency	Truthout

2023
Daniel J.B. Mitchell UCLA	Stuart Basefsky Cornell University	David Moberg  In These Times (posthumous)

2022
Eli Rosenberg Washington Post	Margot Roosevelt LA Times	Katie Johnston Boston Globe	Michael Sainato The Guardian (freelancer)

2021
Hamilton Nolan In These Times	Jeff Schuhrke In These Times	Lauren Kaori Gurley VICE	Noam Scheiber The New York Times

2020
Juliana Feliciano Reyes Workplace & Workforce, The Philadelphia Inquirer	Josh Eidelson Bloomberg News

2019
Dave Jamieson Labor Reporter, The Huffington Post	Sarah Kessler Deputy Editor, The Quartz	Moshe Marvit Fellow, The Century Foundation

2018
Steven Greenhouse The New York Times (ret.)	The McClatchy Group	Sam Zagoria The Washington Post

2017
Natalie Kitroeff Los Angeles Times	Peter Waldman Bloomberg News

*LERA Awards were changed in how they are dated in the year 2016; they are now dated the year in which the award is presented. This change makes it look as though no awards were given in 2016.

2015
Lydia DePillis The Houston Chronicle	Barb Kucera Workday Minnesota

2014
The Boston Globe