Casey Feldman Award for Transportation Safety Reporting
The award, sponsored by the Casey Feldman Foundation, Cambridge Mobile Telematics and the Journalism department at the College of Communication, Media, Design and Information (CMDI), honors Casey Feldman, a senior journalism student at Fordham University who was killed in 2009 by a distracted driver. Casey’s parents, Joel Feldman and Dianne Anderson, created the foundation to provide scholarships for students and to support work that will help put an end to distracted driving.
The fifth annual Casey Feldman Award for Transportation Safety Reporting is for work produced by a reporter or reporting team in print and/or online platforms in the United States between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026. Entries should take the form of a story or series about one topic and/or event related to transportation safety. Writer Kevin Simpson, co-founder and editor of The Colorado Sun, will lead judging. Submissions will be accepted from Aug. 4 to Sept. 21, 2026.
The first-place prize is $3,000 plus an opportunity to travel to CU Boulder and meet with journalism students.
Visit EndDD.org to learn more about ending distracted driving.
Past winners:
- 2025: Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Keri Heath, Tony Plohetski, A fatal field trip: Texas bus crash shattered victims' lives, revealed regulatory lapses, Austin American-Statesman
- 2024: Sarah Freishtat, Serious Crashes With Pedestrians and Cyclists Often Fail to Lead to Tickets or Charges: ‘We Can’t Be OK With This,’ The Chicago Tribune
- 2023: Judy L. Thomas, Laura Bauer and Kevin Hardy, Hundreds crash at dangerous rail crossings that should have been fixed. Whose fault is it? The Kansas City Star
- 2022: Jesse Coburn, “Always Scared”: Dangerous Streets Outside City Schools Threaten Children, StreetsBlogNYC