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

Finalists for Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    The Lobotomy Files

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Deadly Delays

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Biogenesis: Steroids, Baseball and an Industry Gone Wrong

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Rape in the Fields/Violación de un Sueño

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze

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