2015 Awards

The 2015 Goldsmith Awards Ceremony honored the best in investigative and political journalism. The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting was awarded to Carol Marbin Miller, Audra Burch, Mary Ellen Klas, Emily Michot, Kara Dapena and Lazaro Gamio of the Miami Herald for their investigative report “Innocents Lost.” The Book Prize for best academic book was awarded to Daniela Stockmann for Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China. The Goldsmith Book Prize for best trade book was awarded to Andrew Pettegree for The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself. The Career Award for Excellence in Journalism was awarded to Marvin Kalb, veteran reporter for CBS News, NBC News, and former moderator of “Meet the Press.” Marvin Kalb delivered the keynote address.

Ceremony Date

March 3, 2015

Note

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

2015 Award and Prize Winners

  • Winner, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Innocents Lost

    Carol Marbin Miller, Audra Burch, Mary Ellen Klas, Emily Michot, Kara Dapena and Lazaro Gamio, Miami Herald

    The Miami Herald examined how more than 500 children died of abuse or neglect over a seven-year period after falling through Florida’s child welfare safety net, largely as a result of a misguided effort to reduce the number of foster children while simultaneously slashing services for troubled families.

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  • Winner, Goldsmith Book Prize: Trade

    The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself

    Andrew Pettegree, Yale University Press

  • Winner, Goldsmith Book Prize: Academic

    Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China

    Daniela Stockmann, Cambridge University Press

  • Winner, Goldsmith Career Award

    Marvin Kalb

Finalists for Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Medicare Unmasked

    Christopher S. Stewart, Christopher Weaver, John Carreyrou, Tom McGinty, Anna Wilde Mathews, Rob Barry and Staff, The Wall Street Journal

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    The Echo Chamber

    Joan Biskupic, Janet Roberts and John Shiffman, Reuters

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster

    Justin Elliott, Jesse Eisinger and Laura Sullivan, ProPublica and NPR

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Till Death Do Us Part

    Jennifer Berry Hawes, Natalie Caula Hauff, Doug Pardue and Glenn Smith, The Post and Courier

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Shadow Campus

    Thomas Farragher, Jonathan Saltzman, Jenn Abelson, Casey Ross and Todd Wallack, The Boston Globe

Judges

Judges recused themselves from voting on entries from their employer. Judges for the 2015 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting were:

Mike Greenfield

Greenfield Foundation

Lorelei Kelly

Fellow, XLab, New America Foundation

Susan Smith Richardson

Editor and Publisher, The Chicago Reporter

David Shribman

Executive Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Paul C. Tash

Chairman and CEO, Times Publishing Company