MassLive journalist is a finalist for prestigious 2025 Livingston Award
A MassLive reporter who shed critical light on how illicit pill presses are used to quickly create dangerous counterfeit pills that kill thousands of Americans is a finalist for an award that honors the work of the nation's finest young journalists.
Reporter Hadley Barndollar, whose October 2024 series 'How one machine supercharged illicit drug manufacturing in Mass.' also spurred legislative action, is among this year's Livingston Award finalists.
Now in its 44th year, the award, sponsored by the Wallace House Center for Journalists and the University of Michigan, supports young journalists and honors the best reporting and storytelling by journalists aged 35 and younger across all forms of journalism, according to its website.
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