2012 Awards

The 2012 Goldsmith Awards Ceremony honored excellence in political and investigative journalism. Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, delivered the keynote address, and the winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting was awarded to the Associated Press for the series NYPD Intelligence Division.

Ceremony Date

March 6, 2012

Note

The Goldsmith Prizes are funded by an annual gift from the Goldsmith Fund of the Greenfield Foundation.

2012 Award and Prize Winners

Winner, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
NYPD Intelligence Division
Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley, Associated Press
The New York Police Department, in close collaboration with the CIA and with nearly no outside oversight, developed clandestine spying programs that monitored and catalogued daily life in Muslim communities, from where people ate and shopped to where they worked and prayed.
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Winner, Goldsmith Book Prize: Trade
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
Evgeny Morozov, PublicAffairs
Winner, Goldsmith Book Prize: Academic
Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age
Jeffrey E. Cohen, Cambridge University Press
Winner, Goldsmith Career Award
Alan Rusbridger

Finalists for Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize

Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Presidential Pardons
Dafna Linzer and Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica (co-published with The Washington Post)
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Abused and Used
Danny Hakim and Russell Buettner, The New York Times
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
A Matter of Risk: Radiation, Drinking Water, and Deception
Mark Greenblatt, David Raziq and Keith Tomshe, KHOU-TV (CBS Houston)
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities
Jim Morris, Ronnie Greene, Chris Hamby, Keith Epstein, Elizabeth Shogren, Howard Berkes, Sandra Bartlett and Susanne Reber, Center for Public Integrity and NPR
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Peace Corps: A Trust Betrayed
Brian Ross, Anna Schecter and the ABC News Investigative Team, ABC News 20/20

Judges

Judges recused themselves from voting on entries from their employer. The judges for the 2012 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting were:

Karen de Sá

Investigative reporter, The San Jose Mercury News

Trey Grayson

Director, Institute of Politics, Harvard University

Mike Greenfield

Trustee, Greenfield Foundation; CTO and founder of Circle of Moms; founder of Team Rankings

Raquel Rutledge

Investigative reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Nieman Fellow

Maralee Schwartz

Former political editor of The Washington Post; former Visiting Lecturer and Fellow, Shorenstein Center