Announcement

March 23, 2021

2021 Goldsmith Book Prize Winners

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce the 2021 winners of the Goldsmith Book Prize. The annual Goldsmith Book Prize is awarded to the trade and academic book published in the United States in the last 24 months that best fulfills the objective of improving democratic governance through an examination of the intersection between the media, politics and public policy. This year’s winners are:

Trade

An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press

Stephen Bates, Yale University Press

An account of the 1940s Commission on Freedom of the Press, the most extraordinary collaboration of American thinkers in the 20th century, and its classic study of journalism and democracy, “A Free and Responsible Press.”

Academic

Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda

John Maxwell Hamilton, LSU Press

Manipulating the Masses is a timely, pathbreaking work about a profound and enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the state and the difficulties that persist in fencing back this power of the presidency.

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Recent Announcements

February 23, 2023

Announcing the 2023 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting Finalists 

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the six finalists for the 2023 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The Goldsmith Prize, first awarded in 1993 and funded by a gift from the Greenfield Foundation, honors the best public service investigative journalism that has made an impact on local, state, or federal public policy or the practice of politics in the United States.

March 5, 2024

Announcing the 2024 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting Finalists

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the six finalists for the 2024 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The Goldsmith Prize, first awarded in 1993 and funded by a gift from the Greenfield Foundation, honors the best public service investigative journalism that has made an impact on local, state, or federal public policy or the practice of politics in the United States.

February 26, 2024

Nina Totenberg to be honored with the 2024 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism

Each year, the Shorenstein Center presents the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism to recognize outstanding contributions to the field and honor work that has enriched our political discourse and our society. This year’s winner is Nina Totenberg, whose trailblazing career covering the U.S.