Candy Crowley is CNN’s award-winning chief political correspondent and anchor of State of the Union with Candy Crowley, a political hour of newsmaker interviews and analysis of the week’s most important issues that airs on Sundays at 9:00 a.m. ET and PT. Crowley joined CNN in 1987 and took the reigns as anchor of State of the Union in February 2010. In her role as chief political correspondent, Crowley covers a broad range of stories, including presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections and major legislative developments on Capitol Hill.
In her keynote address, Crowley spoke about the impact of social media and a fast-paced news cycle on the accuracy and truthfulness of journalism.
Nicholas Kristof has been a columnist for The New York Times since 2001. He grew up on a farm in Oregon, graduated from Harvard, studied law at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and then studied Arabic in Cairo. He was a longtime foreign correspondent for The New York Times and speaks various languages.
In addition to winning the 2013 Goldsmith Career Award, Kristof has won two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of Tiananmen Square and the genocide in Darfur, along with many humanitarian awards such as the Anne Frank Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
In his keynote address, Kristof called for more risk taking in media as well as increased engagement with a global world. The press must experiment with new platforms and find new business models, he said, and journalism must confront the growing mistrust the public feels toward it. “At its best, this can still really play such an important role in any society,” he told the audience.
Alan Rusbridger received the 2012 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism in recognition of his leadership in The Guardian’s five-year investigation and exposure of phone hacking by employees of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. He also led the Guardian’s negotiations with Julian Assange and subsequent publication of WikiLeaks documents. Rusbridger has been instrumental in the Guardian’s “digital-first” business strategy.
Rusbridger has been editor of the Guardian since 1995. He is editor-in-chief of Guardian News & Media, a member of the GNM and GMG Boards and a member of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian and the Observer.
Rusbridger’s career began at the Cambridge Evening News, where he trained as a reporter before first joining the Guardian in 1979. He worked as a general reporter, feature writer and diary columnist before leaving to succeed Clive James and Julian Barnes as the Observer’s TV critic. In 1987, he worked as the Washington correspondent for the London Daily News before returning to the Guardian as a feature writer. He was made deputy editor in 1994, when he first started working on the paper’s initial forays into digital publishing.
Frank Rich joined New York magazine in June 2011 as Writer-at-Large, covering politics and culture. He is also a commentator on nymag.com, engaging in regular dialogues on the news of the week.
Rich joined the magazine following a distinguished career at the New York Times, where he had been an op-ed columnist since 1994. He was previously the paper’s chief drama critic, from 1980 to 1993. His weekly 1,500-word essay helped inaugurate the expanded opinion pages that the Times introduced in the Sunday “Week in Review” section in 2005. From 2003 to 2005, Rich had been the front-page columnist for the Sunday “Arts & Leisure” section as part of that section’s redesign and expansion. He also served as senior adviser to the Times’s culture editor on the paper’s overall cultural-news report. From 1999 to 2003, he was also senior writer for The New York Times Magazine. The dual title was a first for the Times.
Rich has written about culture and politics for many national publications. He won the George Polk Award for commentary in 2005. His books include Ghost Light: A Memoir and, most recently, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina. Since 2008 Rich has also been a creative consultant to HBO, where he is an executive producer of the Emmy-winning comedy Veep, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and executive produced the Peabody Award-winning documentary Six by Sondheim as well as the forthcoming documentary Becoming Mike Nichols.
David Fanning, FRONTLINE’s founder, served as executive producer of the series from its first season in 1983 until 2015. He is now the series’ executive producer at large.
After 35 seasons and more than 600 films, FRONTLINE remains America’s longest-running investigative documentary series on television. The series has won all of the major awards for broadcast journalism: 82 Emmys; 34 duPont-Columbia University Awards; 20 Peabody Awards; 16 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards; eight Television Critics Awards; and eight Banff Television Awards. In 1990 and in 1996, FRONTLINE was recognized with the Gold Baton — the highest duPont-Columbia Award — for its “total contribution to the world of exceptional television.” In 2002, the series was honored with an unprecedented third Gold Baton for its post-Sept. 11 coverage, a series of seven hour-long documentaries on the origins and impact of terrorism.
Fanning — who was awarded Harvard University’s 2010 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism and recently received the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award — began his filmmaking career as a young journalist in South Africa.
The 2009 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism was given to Gwen Ifill, the moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. Her book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, was published in January 2009.
Paul E. Steiger
The 2008 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism was given to Paul E. Steiger, former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and editor-in-chief of ProPublica, a new nonprofit investigative journalism organization.
Daniel Schorr
2007 Goldsmith Career Award winner Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst for National Public Radio, gave the keynote address at the 2007 awards ceremony. “The power of the press has lost its meaning,” Schorr said, lamenting what he saw as the American public’s waning confidence in the news media. A repercussion of this development, he said, is that the public nowadays is less likely to rally on behalf of journalists who, citing the First Amendment, refuse to disclose their sources.
Jim Lehrer
The 2006 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism was given to Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor of The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News, received the 2005 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism.
A speech by Mitchell concluded the first night of the award ceremony, which took place on the evening of Tuesday, March 22. Although she lauded journalism’s power to provide “lasting images that, once stitched together, create our visual history,” Mitchell’s speech held a tone of caution. Condemning the use of video news releases and the government’s increasing infiltration into the mainstream media, she warned, “if we journalists are going to continue enjoying our front row seats, we really have to do a better job of justifying our privileged access.” According to Mitchell, journalists must walk a fine line, rejecting government encroachment so that they can retain their legitimacy, and thus, their audiences.
