Todd Spivak has earned numerous national honors for investigative, news and feature reporting. In recent years, he has won first-place awards from the Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., the National Education Writers Association and the Association for Women In Communications. He was also a finalist for The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, honoring the best American journalists under 35. This year, in addition to being named a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards, the Texas Press Association has named him a finalist in the category of “print journalist of the year.”