Amy Mayer

My journalism has been recognized in all the places I've lived. 

• 2023 CASE Best of District Award, News Feature, We Met AT Wellesley.
• 2021 Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources, post-workshop reporting grant for NPR story, Coastal tribes in Oregon hope to bring sea otters back to their community.
• 2020 MBNA, award of merit, Systemic Racism’s Legacy in Iowa. 
• 2019 Iowa Broadcast News Association, first place, “Near Cities, Land Owners And Urban Farmers Confront Pressure From Development”
• 2019 MBNA, award of merit, “Across Midwest Farm Fields, Pesticide Exposure Is Tracked Unevenly Or Not At All”
• 2018 MBNA, first place, “How Fancy Cheese May Save Some Small-Scale Dairies”
• 2016 RTDNA Regional Murrow Award, “On the Trail of PED”
  
• 2015 Midwest Broadcast News Association, award of merit, “Avian Flu in the Midwest”
• 2013 Northwest Broadcast News Association, first place, “Refugees Find Home on the Farm”
• 2005 Massachusetts/Rhode Island Associated Press feature reporting award, “Pay Phones”
• 2003 Alaska Public Health Association Community Service Award.
• 2000 Alaska Press Club, First Place, “Evening Rounds”
• 1998 SPJ Mark Of Excellence Award, 2nd place, “Modern Drugs or Ancient Remedies”

In addition, I edited the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting-funded "Change at the Climate Divide" series for Harvest Public Media and I received grants from MassHumanities for Peace Corps Voices and from Sound Partners For Community Health, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for an Alaska Native youth radio project.