2022 Awards
The 2022 Goldsmith Awards ceremony was held on April 5, 2022. Michele Norris was awarded the 2022 Goldsmith Career Award, and Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ba Tran of The Washington Post won the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for “FEMA’s Disasters.” Elizabeth Becker won the Goldsmith Book Award: Trade category for You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War, and Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Scott J. LaCombe won the Goldsmith Book Award: Academic category for Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities.
Watch the full award ceremony below:
Ceremony Date
April 5, 2022
Note
The Goldsmith Prizes are funded by an annual gift from the Goldsmith Fund of the Greenfield Foundation.
2022 Award and Prize Winners
Winner, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
FEMA’s Disasters
Washington Post reporters spent 2021 traversing the corners of the country most ravaged by natural disasters to find out if the government really has people’s backs in the long-term. The reporters conducted 300 interviews and several databases, filed dozens of records requests, and analyzed thousands of pages of individual Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) case records and other documents.
View the storyWinner, Goldsmith Book Prize: Trade
You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
Winner, Goldsmith Book Prize: Academic
Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities
Winner, Goldsmith Career Award
Michele Norris
Finalists for Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Unresponsive
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Wires and Fires
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Poisoned
Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Juvenile Injustice, Tennessee
Judges
Nancy Gibbs, Director of the Shorenstein Center, chaired the meeting. Judges recused themselves from voting on entries from their employers. The 2022 Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize judges were:
Kathleen Carroll
Former Executive Editor of the Associated Press. Winner of the 2020 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism
Beth Daley
Editor of The Conversation US, previously an editor and investigative journalists at InsideClimate News, The Boston Globe, and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting.
Betsy Fischer Martin
Executive Director, Women & Politics Institute and Executive in Residence in the Department of Government at American University. Former Executive Producer of Meet the Press with Tim Russert.
Mike Greenfield
Trustee of the Greenfield Foundation (financial supporters of the Goldsmith Awards Program); Co-Founder and CEO of Change Research.
Kathy Kiely
Lee Hills Chair in Free Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism
Alison Kodjak
Deputy Global Investigations Editor at the Associated Press
Wendy Ruderman
Staff Writer, The Marshall Project. Former investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she was a 2019 Goldsmith Prize finalist for “Toxic City: Sick Schools.”
Todd Wallack
Deputy Managing Editor, WBUR. Former data journalist and investigative reporter for The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team where he was a 2015 Goldsmith Prize finalist for “Shadow Campus.”
Setti Warren
Executive Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics, former Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center, and former Mayor of Newton, MA.