Lauryn Higgins
Contributor, The Midwest NewsroomLauryn Higgins is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist whose work focuses primarily on public health and wellness. A native of North Carolina, she lived in Nebraska from 2018 to 2025.
She currently works as a freelance journalist, adjunct professor of journalism and as a Midwest stringer for the New York Times and The Washington Post. She has worked for the New York Times, NPR, Women's Health, Shape, Health.com, Teen Vogue and other outlets.
Lauryn’s work tracking the Covid-19 pandemic at the New York Times was part of a team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, as well as the 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism award and a 2020 Sigma Delta Chi award.
And her work tracking the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the New York Times was part of a team that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.
Contact: info@laurynhiggins.com
Website: laurynhiggins.com
Job Title: Contributor, The Midwest Newsroom
Topic Expertise: Investigative, climate agriculture, health and wellness
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
Geographic Expertise: Nebraska and the wider Midwest region
Education: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Masters Degree; Mars Hill University, Bachelor’s Degree
Language: English
Honors & Awards: Part of a team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, as well as the 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism award for coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. Part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for coverage of the war in Ukraine. 2023 Mars Hill University alumna of the year, and youngest recipient of the award.
Membership: Nebraska Press Women
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Debate over the GOP-backed “Let Them Grow Act” roiled Nebraska’s usually cordial unicameral legislature. With battle lines drawn for and against gender-affirming care, the PAC aims to use its national platform to support state-level candidates who will support their mission. -
Lack of rainfall and water restrictions are two early signs of the future that are causing water worries to bubble up in Lincoln. As drought plagues the state, and with climate change promising more of the same, there is a plan to have a second water supply in place by 2048.
