We are proud to announce that 2023 Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting has been awarded to the creators of “Therapy Ghostbusters,” an NPR Invisibilia podcast about one therapist’s effort to connect with refugee survivors of the Cambodian genocide. The Award is presented annually in partnership with the National Press Foundation. Stephanie Foo, Neena Pathak, Lee Hale, Ariana Lee, Phoebe Wang, Yowei Shaw and Nic Read More »

Mental Health in the Spotlight as Three Employers Receive New Award for Exemplary Efforts to Support Workforce Wellbeing   Washington, D.C., October 04, 2022 – The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH) and The Luv u Project announced today the inaugural winners of the Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health in the Read More »

Stories probing America’s mental health crisis and rising suicide rate among Black teens win recognition Christina Caron, a reporter for the Well section at The New York Times, has won this year’s National Press Foundation’s Carolyn C. Mattingly award for her coverage of how COVID affected U.S. mental health in 2021, particularly among Black teenagers. Read More »

We are proud to announce the inaugural Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health in the Workplace (Mattingly Award). This important new initiative will actively recognize organizations wishing to embrace and enhance mental health. Applications will open in January 2022. The idea for the new award was developed at a 2016 symposium held at the Read More »

Dan Boyce of Colorado Public Radio Wins the Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting with a powerful Documentary on His Own Mental Breakdown and Recovery. Colorado Public Radio reporter Dan Boyce has won this year’s Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting for an audio documentary about his own mental breakdown and Read More »

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS The Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting honors excellence in mental health reporting. The award is open to any U.S.-based journalist at a U.S.-based news organization, including print, broadcast, and online journalists. The Carolyn award recognizes exemplary journalism that illuminates and advances the understanding of mental health issues and treatments Read More »

The 2021 Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Excellence in Mental Health Reporting application window opens on Tuesday, January 5. Make sure to visit our website on the 5th for how to more info on how to apply.  

Never in our lifetimes have we collectively been so physically disconnected, yet so focused on a common objective—moving beyond Covid-19 and its far-reaching effects. I will even venture to suggest that many have come to better understand the correlation between and importance of, both physical and mental health in our lives.  In these unprecedented times, the Read More »

The Colorado Independent is the winner of the National Press Foundation’s Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting for a story on how the killing of a mentally ill man by a police officer changed a community. “Through the Cracks: A stranger, a police shooting, and a small town’s silence,” was written by Niki Read More »

We are proud to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2020 Carolyn C. Mattingly Journalism Award for Mental Health Reporting. The Luv u Project and the National Press Foundation established this journalism award in 2015 to honor excellence in mental health reporting. The award honors the memory of Carolyn C. Mattingly, and her legacy of goodness. Read More »