Awards

• 2026NTLN Innovation Sprint: $4,000 microgrant, in partnership with Blue Engine Collaborative and Google News
• 2025NTLN Innovation Sprint: $10,000 grant for “Skill Me,” a Google-funded project to train newsroom staff in photo, video, social media, and AI innovation
• 2023Chicago Journalists Association Sarah Brown Boyden Award, Best Collaboration, Unsealed: The Tylenol Murders
• 2023Chicago Headline Club, Best Multimedia Collaboration, Unsealed: The Tylenol Murders
• 2023Chicago Headline Club, Best Podcast, Unsealed: The Tylenol Murders
• 2023National Headliner Awards, 2nd place, Criminal justice and/or crime podcast, Unsealed: The Tylenol Murders
• 2020New York Press Club Journalism Award, Podcast–TV category, Article II: Inside Impeachment
• 2019Amnesty International Media Award for Outstanding Student Journalism (Graduate Level)
• 2018New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute Fellowship
• 2015Illinois Arts Council Nonfiction Writing Grantee
• 2010Winfield Davidson-Walkley Prize for Excellence in Theatre Arts

Press + Recognition

• 2026Meet the sixth cohort of the News Product Management Certification
• 2026New model for newsroom learning fuels digital storytelling
• 2026News Innovation Sprint: a $10,000 grant for a new model for newsroom learning
• 2025From restaurant chatbots to data products: NTLN announces winners of first News Innovation Sprint
• 2025Maine Trust for Local News hires 3 to bolster innovation, community engagement
• 2023How To Freelance In The Audio Industry Today: With Claire Tighe
• 2023Dickinson Graduate Story - Claire Tighe, Journalist and Producer
• 2022Apple Podcasts’s Shows That Got Us Hooked 2022
• 2022Sounds Profitable’s Women and Gender Non-Conforming Folks to Watch in Podcasting
• 2022Interview Feature with Podcast the Newsletter
• 2021Insisde Podcasting’s Top Podcast Takeaways 2021 with Shreya Sharma