2002 Awards

Christiane Amanpour, the 2002 winner of the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism, gave the keynote address at the awards ceremony at Harvard Kennedy School. Amanpour, chief international correspondent at CNN, spoke about the trials, tribulations — and rewards — of being a war correspondent in these difficult days. The Forum talk was a highlight of the 10th anniversary of the Goldsmith Awards, which are given by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

Duff Wilson and David Heath of the Seattle Times won the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. In addition, two Goldsmith Book Prizes were awarded. Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki won for The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel won for The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect. The Goldsmith Book Prize is awarded to the best books that seek to improve the quality of government or politics through an examination of press and politics in the formation of public policy.

The annual Goldsmith Awards Program receives financial support from the Goldsmith-Greenfield Foundation.

This article is based on one in the Harvard Gazette; the photo is by Stephanie Mitchell.

Ceremony Date

March 12, 2002

Note

The annual Goldsmith Awards Program is funded by the Greenfield Foundation.

2002 Award and Prize Winners

  • Winner, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Uninformed Consent

    The Seattle Times began a five-part investigative series entitled, “Uninformed Consent: What patients at ‘The Hutch’ weren’t told about the experiments in which they died.” In it, Times reporters David Heath and Duff Wilson described how patients had died prematurely in two clinical trials at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, experiments in which some of their doctors and the center itself had a financial interest.

  • Winner, Goldsmith Career Award

    Christiane Amanpour

  • Winner, Goldsmith Book Prize: Trade

    The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

  • Winner, Goldsmith Book Prize: Academic

    The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America

Finalists for Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    A Blue Wall of Silence – False Confessions

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Exposing the Flaws

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    The New FDA: Partnership With Deadly Risk

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Revealing Terrorism

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    A Taste of Slavery