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

    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

  • Winner, Goldsmith Book Prize: Academic

    Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China

  • Winner, Goldsmith Career Award

    Marvin Kalb

Finalists for Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Medicare Unmasked

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    The Echo Chamber

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Till Death Do Us Part

  • Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    Shadow Campus

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