2025
Screener, Online News Association Women’s Leadership Accelerator
2024
Earned my executive MBA while working full-time
2018-19
Panelist, SXSW: How National Media Can Be a Good Partner to Local
Moderator, ONA: Table Talks: Reporting Tools and Techniques
Speaker, Boston University: Media Criticism class
Speaker, Point Park University journalism classes
Panelist, Penn State’s Association for Women in Sports Media
Interviewed by 90.5 WESA
The Incline was recognized for its work:
- 2019 Excellence in Written Journalism, Daily – Medical/Health, Golden Quill, The Press Club of Western: Fresh Divide
- 2018 Biggest blockbuster story: Newsletter subscriptions and pageviews, Hearken’s Champions of Curiosity Awards: ‘What’s up with the monkey balls?’ The story of Pittsburgh’s weirdest tree
- 2018 First Place Golden Quill, The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania: Lifestyle, Digital, Eating the Turnpike: All of Pennsylvania’s 15 East-West Rest Stops, Ranked
- 2018 First Place Golden Quill, The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania: Continuing Blog: Four One Brew
- 2018 Pittsburgh Black Media Federation Vann Award, online business news: Meet the woman behind Black Tech Nation in Pittsburgh
2017
Keynote, High school journalism workshop at Indiana University of Pennsylvania for PolitiFact: How to fact check everything in a world of fake news
Speaker, Vincentian Academy Career Day
2016
Launched The Incline
Speaker, Innovation in Pittsburgh Media at Point Park University Center for Media Innovation opening
Panelist, “New Forms of Communication” with the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America
2015
Recognized by my alma mater as being a successful, hard-working alumna: Hopewell Area School District Public School Proud
Speaker, University of Pittsburgh Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Speaker, Point Park University journalism classes
Pennsylvania Women’s Press Association Excellence in Journalism, Rookie Reporter Honorable Mention
Traveled to Mount Carbon, W. Va., where I wrote about families recounting a train derailment and massive explosion and explained how they adjusted to being displaced from their homes
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Klein/Gibb award, Feb. 2015: “Lexi’s reporting from families who were literally running from the sounds of the explosions and were displaced for days kept readers focused on how the disaster impacted everyday people in the community.”
2014
Covered a mass stabbing at Franklin Regional High School
- 2015 Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors: 1st place General News Reporting (staff); 2nd place Online Coverage of Breaking News (staff)
2013
Covered a shooting near Pittsburgh Brashear High School, 2013
- 2014 Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors: 1st Place Online Coverage of Breaking News (staff)
- 2014 Pittsburgh Black Media Federation Robert L. Vann Media Awards: 1st place Newspaper Spot News (staff)
2011-12
Interviewed by CNN, The L.A. Times, NPR, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Poynter, This American Life and The Washington Post
Panelist, Associated Collegiate Press conference
Panelist, Society of Professional Journalists national conference: Crisis U.: When National News Breaks on your Campus
Panelist, Student leader presentation for alumni during Collegian’s 125th anniversary celebration
Daily Collegian recognition for our coverage of the Jerry Sandusky scandal and death of Joe Paterno
- National 1st Place in Editorial Writing, Collegian editorials 2011 Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence Awards
- Daily Collegian Hall of Fame, 2011-2012 staff inducted in 2012
- @dailycollegian named one of BuzzFeed’s 90 best Twitter accounts of 2011
- 2012 Best Student Newspaper, The Princeton Review
- College Newspaper of the Year, 2011-12, College Media Matters
- College Hybrid Publication Gold Crown, Columbia Scholastic Press Association
- Pacemaker Award, Associated Collegiate Press
- First Place Website, Keystone Press Awards
Swam with great white sharks in Gansbaai, South Africa for a McClatchy Newswire story about the tension between cage diving operators and surfers, which topped McClatchy’s traffic for days, as part of an international reporting class
- 2011 Hearst Journalism Awards, 13th Place in Feature Writing
2010
Profiled John Fetterman — then a mayor with big dreams for his small steel town — for a semester-long in-depth reporting class
- Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence Awards, National 1st Place in Feature Writing
- Hearst Journalism Awards, 5th Place in Personality
2005
Received Good Citizen’s Award for service-learning project “Hope-In-A-Bag”
Lexi Belculfine 