Times’ Moehringer Wins Reporting Award

J.R. Moehringer, Atlanta bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, has won the Livingston Award for local reporting.

Moehringer, 33, received the national honor for a Los Angeles Times Magazine story about Bob Satterfield, a heavyweight boxing contender of the 1940s and 1950s, and the fighter who impersonated Satterfield long after his death.

Moehringer’s tale began as a story about a former boxer living on the streets of Santa Ana and grew into a complex exploration of true identity and father-son relationships.

Winners of the Livingston Awards for international, national and local reporting receive cash prizes of $10,000. The awards are limited to journalists under 35 and are funded by the Mollie Parnis Livingston Foundation of New York.

Other Livingston winners for 1997 were Alan Zarembo, 26, who won for international reporting for a story in Harper’s magazine, and Patrick Weiland, 34, and Lindsey Schwartz, 26, who won for national reporting for a “Dateline NBC” television segment.