2014 Awards

The 2014 Goldsmith Awards Ceremony honored the best in investigative and political journalism. The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting was awarded to Chris Hamby, Ronnie Greene, Jim Morris and Chris Zubak-Skees of The Center for Public Integrity and Matthew Mosk, Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz of ABC News for their investigative report “Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine.”

The Book Prize for best academic book was awarded to Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson, for Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice; and Matthew Levendusky for How Partisan Media Polarize America. The Goldsmith Book Prize for best trade book went to Jaron Lanier for Who Owns the Future?

The Career Award for Excellence in Journalism was awarded to Candy Crowley, chief political correspondent and anchor of State of the Union with Candy Crowley, CNN. Candy Crowley delivered the keynote address. She spoke about the impact of social media and a fast-paced news cycle on the accuracy and truthfulness of journalism.

Ceremony Date

March 4, 2014

Note

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

2014 Award and Prize Winners

Winner, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine
Chris Hamby, Ronnie Greene, Jim Morris and Chris Zubak-Skees, Matthew Mosk, Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz, The Center for Public Integrity and ABC News
A year-long investigation by The Center for Public Integrity, in partnership with the ABC News Brian Ross investigative unit, examined how doctors and lawyers, working at the behest of the coal industry, helped defeat benefit claims of coal miners who were sick and dying of black lung disease.
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Winner, Goldsmith Book Prize: Academic
How Partisan Media Polarize America
Matthew Levendusky, The University of Chicago Press
Winner, Goldsmith Book Prize: Academic
Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice
Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson, The University of Chicago Press
Winner, Goldsmith Book Prize: Trade
Who Owns the Future?
Jaron Lanier, Simon & Schuster
Winner, Goldsmith Career Award
Candy Crowley

Finalists for Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize

Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
The Lobotomy Files
Michael M. Phillips, The Wall Street Journal
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Deadly Delays
Ellen Gabler, Mark Johnson, John Fauber, Allan James Vestal and Kristyna Wentz-Graff, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Biogenesis: Steroids, Baseball and an Industry Gone Wrong
Tim Elfrink, The Miami New Times
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Rape in the Fields/Violación de un Sueño
Andrés Cediel, Bernice Yeung, Lowell Bergman, Lauren Rosenfeld, Grace Rubenstein, Stephanie Mechura and Ariane Wu, The Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism, The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), FRONTLINE, Univisión Documentaries, KQED
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) staff, The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

Judges

Judges recused themselves from voting on entries from their employer. Judges for the 2014 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting were:

Linda Bilmes

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School

Patricia Callahan

Investigative Reporter at the Chicago Tribune

Bill Epstein

Greenfield Foundation

Robert H. Giles

former curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism

Ben Greenfield

Greenfield Foundation