The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting is an award for journalists administered by the
Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center that explores the intersection and impact of media, politics and public policy in theory and practice.
Among other activities, the center ...
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...
. The program was launched in 1991, with the goal of exposing examples of poor government, and encouraging good government in the United States. There is a $25,000 award for the winner.
The Goldsmith Awards Program is financially supported by an annual grant from the Greenfield Foundation.
The Dallas Morning News
''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885 by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the ''Galvesto ...
Shane Bauer
Shane Bauer is an American journalist, best known for his undercover reporting for ''Mother Jones'' magazine. He has won several awards including the Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the National Magazine Award for Best ...
The Associated Press
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Carol Marbin Miller Carol Marbin Miller is a senior investigative reporter at ''The Miami Herald''. Marbin Miller began covering social welfare programs at the '' St. Petersburg Times'' in the 1990s. She joined ''The Miami Herald'' in 2000 and has reported extensively ...
Miami Herald
The ''Miami Herald'' is an American daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area, several miles west of Downtown Miami."Innocents Lost"
*2014 – Chris Hamby, Ronnie Greene,
Jim Morris
James Samuel Morris Jr. (born January 19, 1964) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for two seasons with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Although brief, Morris' career is noted for making hi ...
and Chris Zubak-Skees of the Center for Public Integrity; and Matthew Mosk, Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz of ABC News, "Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine"
*2013 –
Patricia Callahan Patricia Callahan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist for ProPublica.
Early life and career
Callahan attended from Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Illinois and graduated from Northwestern University's Medill Sc ...
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Sam Roe Sam Roe is a journalist who was part of a team of reporters at the ''Chicago Tribune'' that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for an examination of hazardous toys and other children's products. He is currently an editor for the ...
and Michael Hawthorne of the ''Chicago Tribune'', "Playing with Fire"
*2012 –
Matt Apuzzo
Matt Apuzzo (born October 20, 1978) is an American journalist.
Early life
Apuzzo was born in Cumberland, Maine and attended Colby College, where he edited the school newspaper, the Colby Echo.
Career
He wrote for the Waterville ''Morning S ...
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. new ...
Las Vegas Sun
The ''Las Vegas Sun'' is one of the Las Vegas Valley's two daily subscription newspapers. It is owned by the Greenspun family and is affiliated with Greenspun Media Group. The paper published afternoons on weekdays from 1990 to 2005 and is no ...
'', "Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas"
*2010 –
Raquel Rutledge
Raquel Rutledge is an Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative reporter working at the ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel''. Her investigations have uncovered government benefits fraud, public health, workplace safety issues, tax oversight failure ...
of ''
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it is the primary newspaper. It is also the largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin, where it is widely distributed. It is currently ...
'', report on "Cashing In on Kids"
*2009 –
Debbie Cenziper
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The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large n ...
'', investigative report "Forced Out"
*2008 –
Barton Gellman
Barton David Gellman (born 1960) is an American author and journalist known for his reports on September 11 attacks, on Dick Cheney's vice presidency and on the global surveillance disclosure.
Beginning in June 2013, he authored ''The Washington P ...
Mark Maremont
Mark Maremont is an American business journalist with the '' Wall Street Journal''. Maremont has worked on reports for the ''Journal'' for which the paper received two Pulitzer Prizes.
Maremont was born in Michigan.
of ''
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', report on "unethical manipulation" and amassed millions of top executives
*2006 –
James Risen
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and
Eric Lichtblau
Eric Lichtblau (born 1965) is an American journalist, reporting for '' The New York Times'' in the Washington bureau, as well as the '' Los Angeles Times'', '' Time'' magazine, '' The New Yorker'', and the CNN network's investigative news unit. H ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', investigative report "Domestic Spying"
*2005 – Diana B. Henriques, business reporter for ''The New York Times'', investigative report titled "Captive Clientele"
*2004 – ''New York Times'' and''
Frontline
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Books and publications
* ''Front Lines'' (novel), young adult historical novel by American author Michael Grant
* ''Frontlines ...
'', investigative report "Dangerous Business: When Workers Die". (received by
David Barstow
David Barstow (born 1963) is an American journalist and professor. While a reporter at ''The New York Times'' from 1999 to 2019, Barstow was awarded, individually or jointly, four Pulitzer Prizes, becoming the first reporter in the history of the ...
Boston Globe
''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Gl ...
The Seattle Times
''The Seattle Times'' is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded in 1891 and has been owned by the Blethen family since 1896. ''The Seattle Times'' has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Washington ...
Kansas City Star
''The Kansas City Star'' is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Star'' is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and ...
'', investigative report "To Protect and Defend"
*2000 –
Donald Barlett
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Time
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'', investigative report, "What Corporate Welfare Costs"
*1999 – A team of reporters, of ''The Miami Herald'', "Dirty Votes: The Race for Miami Mayor"
*1998 – Duff Wilson, of ''The Seattle Times'', "Fear in the Fields — How Hazardous Wastes Become Fertilizer"
*1998 – Michael Duffy,
Michael Weisskopf
Michael Weisskopf (born 1946) is a Polk Award-winning journalist, currently working as a senior correspondent for ''Time'' magazine. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1996 for the accounts he and David Maraniss gave of the activities in 1995 followi ...
, and
Viveca Novak
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Rone Tempest Rone Tempest is a Salt Lake City, UT-based American journalist, author and investigative reporter. He won a 1997 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Working for the ''Los Angeles Times'', he shared the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News ...
, of the ''Los Angeles Times'', "Illegal Democratic Campaign Contributions"
*1996 –
Russell Carollo
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region of Southeastern Pennsy ...
'', investigative series, "Warehouses of Wealth: The Tax-Free Economy",
*1993 – Douglas Frantz and
Murray Waas
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of the ''Los Angeles Times'', investigative series, prewar policies before the Gulf War.
Nominees
See also
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Investigative journalism
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Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center that explores the intersection and impact of media, politics and public policy in theory and practice.
Among other activities, the center ...
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Goldsmith Book Prize
The Goldsmith Book Prize is a literary award for books published in the United States.
Description
The award is meant to recognize works that " mprovegovernment through an examination of the intersection between press, politics, and public policy. ...
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Project On Government Oversight
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, that investigates and works to expose waste, fraud, abuse, and conflicts of interest in the U.S. federal government. According to its webs ...