Most recently, in August 2016, Tatge and his co-author, Alex Luchsinger, won the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Graduate Student Interests Group's fifth annual Carson B Wagner Scholar-to-Scholar Award, for the presentation of their study, "Where Should We Eat? A Content Analysis Examining What Factors Yelp! Users Perceive Useful When Picking Restaurants" at this year's 99th convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tatge received a plaque emboldened with the authors' name and the name of the study, as well as a check for $100.