Alyson Hurt
Awards and Honors
Digital Design
Diagnosis: Debt — NPR and KFF Health News
My role: graphics editor (one of many)
- Gerald Loeb Awards (2023) — Winner: Personal Finance and Consumer Reporting
Climate, migration and the far-right: How the ripples of climate change are radiating outward — NPR
My role: designer/developer (one of many), graphics editor, project management
- Online Journalism Awards (2023) — Winner: Topical Reporting: Climate Change
The ripple effects of Russia's war in Ukraine are changing the world — NPR
My role: designer/developer (one of three), graphics editor
- SND Best of News Design Creative Competition (2022) — Award of Excellence: Infographics: International
Joy Generator — NPR
My role: graphics editor, project management
- Edward R Murrow Awards (National) (2022) — Winner: Excellence in Innovation, Radio Network
- Webby Awards (2022) — Honoree: Websites and Mobile Sites: Weird
COVID-19 data trackers (cases, vaccinations, etc.) — NPR
My role: designer (one of many), graphics editor
- Edward R Murrow Awards (National) (2022) — Winner: Digital, Radio Network (for suite of COVID-related trackers)
- SND Best of Digital Design (2021) — Award of Excellence: Line of Coverage: Coronavirus
- SND Best of Digital Design (2021) — Award of Excellence: Infographics: Health (for vaccination tracker)
- SND Best of Digital Design (2020) — Award of Excellence: Format: Use of Data (for U.S. COVID case tracker)
Who Will Pay To Protect Tech Giants From Rising Seas? — NPR
My role: design/development, graphics editing, project management
- Society of Environmental Journalists Awards for Reporting on the Environment (2022) — First Honorable Mention: Outstanding Feature Story, Large
- Covering Climate Now (2022) — Finalist: Multimedia
- SND Best of Digital Design (2021) — Award of Excellence: Design: Environment & Science
United States of Wildfire — NPR
My role: graphics editor, project management
- SND Best of Digital Design (2021) — Award of Excellence: Design: Environment & Science
The Ghost Towns Behind The Gates — NPR
My role: art direction, graphics editing
- WHNPA Eyes of History (2021) — Second Place: Best Multimedia Package
- SND Best of Digital Design (2020) — Award of Excellence: Format: Use of Photography or Photo Story
NPR Visuals team portfolio — NPR
- SND Best of Digital Design (2019) — Award of Excellence: Portfolios, Story Page Design
- SND Best of Digital Design (2014) — Silver Medal: Portfolios: Organization, Large
Losing The Eternal Blue Sky — NPR
- WHNPA Eyes of History (2020) — First Place: Best Multimedia Package
- SND Best of Digital Design (2019) — Award of Excellence: Story Page Design - International
Plastics: What To Recycle, What Remains Trash, And Why — NPR
- WHNPA Eyes of History (2020) — Award of Excellence: Best Multimedia Package
- SND Best of Digital Design (2019) — Award of Excellence: Story Page Design - Environmental, Health & Science
After The Water — NPR
- SND Best of Digital Design (2019) — Award of Excellence: Story Page Design - Environmental, Health & Science
White Lies — NPR
- SND Best of Digital Design (2019) — Award of Excellence: Story Page Design - National
The Driving Life and Death of Philando Castile — NPR
- SND Best of Digital Design (2016) — Award of Excellence: Graphics, breaking news
2016 election coverage — NPR
My role: co-designer/front-end developer
- SND Best of Digital Design (2016) — Award of Excellence: Special events, U.S. elections
A Silent Epidemic — NPR
My role: co-designer/front-end developer, project manager
- SND Best of Digital Design (2016) — Award of Excellence: Features, single-subject project
Why America’s Schools Have a Money Problem — NPR
My role: co-designer
- SND Best of Digital Design (2016) — Award of Excellence: Graphics, features and planned coverage
Coal, Gas, Nuclear, Hydro? How Your State Generates Power — NPR
- Information Is Beautiful Awards (2015) — Short list: Data visualization
NPR Election Party — NPR
My role: co-designer/front-end developer
- ONA Online Journalism Awards (2015) — Finalist: Planned News/Events, Large
- SND Best of Digital Design (2014) — Silver Medal: Special Events, Large
NPR Visuals team portfolio — NPR
- SND Best of Digital Design (2014) — Silver Medal: Portfolios: Organization, Large
Deals for Developers — NPR
My role: designer
- Data Journalism Awards (2014) — Finalist: Data-Driven Investigation
Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt — NPR
My role: co-designer / front-end developer
- 35th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards (2014) — Emmy Winner: New Approaches, Documentaries
- Online Journalism Awards (2014) — Winner: Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, Large | Winner: Feature, Large | Finalist: Explanatory Reporting, Large
- Gerald Loeb Awards (2014) — Online Winner
- Overseas Press Club Awards (2013) — Winner: Best Multimedia News Presentation
- SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Awards (2013) — Winner: Specialized Journalism Site
- SND Best of Digital Design (2014) — Gold Medal: Single-Story Project | Silver Medal: Use of Multimedia
- Scripps Howard Awards (2014) — Winner: Digital Innovation
- Pictures of the Year International (2014) — Winner: Documentary Project of the Year | First Place: Documentary Journalism
- SABEW Best in Business awards (2013) — Winner: Innovation
- White House News Photographers Association Eyes of History Contest (2014) — First Place: Innovation
Zoom In On Oklahoma Tornado Damage — NPR
My role: designer
- SND Best of Digital Design (2014) — Award of Excellence: Breaking or Daily News, Single-Subject Project | Award of Excellence: Breaking or Daily News, Data Project
Playgrounds For Everyone — NPR
My role: co-designer
- SND Best of Digital Design (2014) — Award of Excellence: Features, Data Project
Previously, On Arrested Development — NPR
My role: co-designer
- SND Best of Digital Design (2014) — Award of Excellence: Features, Single-Story Project
NPR Music Presents: In Memoriam 2012 — NPR
My role: designer
- SND Best of Digital Design (2013) — Award of Excellence: Use of Multimedia
Election 2012 — NPR
My role: designer
- SND Best of Digital Design (2013) — Award of Excellence: Single-Story Project
Black Lung Returns To Coal Country — NPR
My role: designer / infographics
- IRE Awards (2012) — Finalist: Multiplatform (Large)
Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities — NPR
My role: co-designer
- National Association of Science Writers (2012) — Science in Society Journalism Award: Science Reporting
- Newspaper Guild-CWA (2012) — Heywood Broun Award of Distinction
- Investigative Reporters and Editors (2011) — IRE Award: Finalist: Multiplatform, Large
- Society of Professional Journalists (2012) — Sigma Delta Chi Award: Public Service in Online Journalism (Independent)
- Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (2012) — Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Post Mortem: Death Investigation in America — NPR, PBS Frontline
My role: co-designer
- Investigative Reporters and Editors (2011) — IRE Award: Multiplatform, Large
Election 2010 Coverage — NPR
- Webby Awards (2011) — People’s Voice Winner: Politics
NPR.org — NPR
- Radio Television Digital News Association (2010-2014) — National Edward R. Murrow Award - Web Site
- SND Best of Digital Design (2011) — Judge’s Special Recognition
- National Press Foundation (2010) — Excellence in Online Journalism Award
- Editor and Publisher EPpy Awards (2010) — Best News Web Site (More Than 1 Million Unique Monthly Visitors) | Best Entertainment Web Site (More Than 1 Million Unique Monthly Visitors) | Best Network or Syndicated Radio-Affiliated Website
- Peabody Award (2009)
A Web of GOP Influence — NPR
My role: co-designer
- SND Best of Digital Design (2011) — Winner: Information Graphics, More Than 50m
Planet Money’s Toxic Asset — NPR
My role: co-designer
- White House News Photographers Association Eyes of History Contest (2011) — First Place: Multimedia Innovation
Traveling Down The Amazon Road — NPR
My role: co-designer
- White House News Photographers Association Eyes of History Contest (2010) — Award of Excellence, Best Multimedia Package - In Depth
Fixing D.C.’s Schools — The Washington Post
My role: Designed school database pages
- SND Best of Multimedia Design Competition (June 2007) — Monthly Winner
washingtonpost.com
- Editor and Publisher EPpy Awards (2007) — First Place: Best Design of a Media-Affiliated Web Site (more than one million unique visitors per month)
- Editor and Publisher EPpy Awards (2006) — Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Internet Service with over 1 million unique monthly visitors
- Editor and Publisher EPpy Awards (2005) — First Place: Best Overall Design of an Internet Service over 1 million monthly visitors
Campaign 2006: Key Races — washingtonpost.com
- SND.ies, SND Best of New Media Design Competition (August 2006) — Monthly Winner: Non-Breaking Presentations, News
Crisis in the Middle East — washingtonpost.com
- SND.ies, SND Best of New Media Design Competition (August 2006) — Monthly Winner: Breaking Presentations, News
Faces of the Fallen — washingtonpost.com
My role: co-designer
- SND.ies, SND Best of New Media Design Competition (June 2006) — Monthly Winner: Features
A Life Lived in 4/4 Time — washingtonpost.com
- SND.ies, SND Best of New Media Design Competition (2006) — Finalist: Features, Non-Breaking
- SND.ies, SND Best of New Media Design Competition (August 2005) — Monthly Winner
The Gulf Coast in Katrina’s Wake — washingtonpost.com
My role: co-designer
- SND.ies, SND Best of New Media Design Competition (2006) — Finalist: News, Breaking
- SND.ies, SND Best of New Media Design Competition (September 2005) — Monthly Winner
How a Pope is Elected — washingtonpost.com
My role: co-designer
- SND.ies, SND Best of New Media Design Competition (June 2005) — Monthly Winner
Golf Guide — washingtonpost.com
- SND.ies, SND Best of New Media Design Competition (June 2005) — Monthly Winner
azcentral.com — The Arizona Republic
- Editor and Publisher EPpy Awards (2005) — Finalist: Best Overall Design of an Internet Service over 1 million
"Runaway Inferno" — The Arizona Republic
- NAA Digital Edge Awards (2003) — Finalist: Most Innovative Use of Digital Media - News Event Coverage
- Arizona Press Club Awards (2002) — Second Place: Creative Use of the Online Medium
sports.azcentral.com — The Arizona Republic
- Arizona Press Club Awards (2004) — Third Place: Creative Use of Online (This award recognized azcentral.com’s online coverage of Pat Tillman, the 2004 Cactus League and the 2004 Olympics. I worked on the latter project.)
- NAA Digital Edge Awards (2003) — Finalist: Best Sports Site
Dying to Work — The Arizona Republic
- Best of the West (2001) — First Place: Online Project Enterprise
- Best of Gannett Awards (2001) — First Place: Project Enterprise
The Rep Entertainment Guide — The Arizona Republic
- Editor & Publisher EPpy Awards (2005) — Finalist: Best Internet Entertainment Service over 1 million
- Editor & Publisher EPpy Awards (2001 and 2002) — Finalist: Best Entertainment Section in a Newspaper Online Service
Digital Design (College)
statepress.com — The State Press/Arizona State University
- Society for Professional Journalists Awards (1999 and 2000) — Second place: Best Student Online Newspaper, Region 11
Print Design (College)
- Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Awards (2000) — Honorable mention: Feature Page Design ("George Strait Festival")
- Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Awards (2000) — Honorable mention: Single Subject Presentation, Double-truck, Special Section ("Jazz Master")
Writing (College, High School)
- Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Awards (2000) — Honorable mention: In-depth News/Feature
- Arizona Press Women High School Journalism Contest (1997) — Third place: Editorial Writing; Honorable mention: Newswriting
- Kaplan/Newsweek "My Turn" essay contest (1997) — Honorable Mention
Academic (College, High School)
- The Arizona Republic, ASU Cronkite School (1998) — Eugene C. Pulliam Memorial Scholarship
- Arizona State University, National Merit Corporation (1997-2001) — National Merit Scholarship
- Arizona State University (1997-2001) — Regent’s Tuition Scholarship (awarded to top 5% of high school graduating class)
- The Arizona Republic, ASU Cronkite School (1997) — Summer Journalism Institute