Awards & Prizes

The Goldsmith Career Award

About the award

The Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism is given annually for outstanding contributions to the field of journalism, and for work that has enriched our political discourse and our society.

Questions

Please contact Lindsay Underwood at the Shorenstein Center: lindsayunderwood@hks.harvard.edu

2025 Winners

Winner, Goldsmith Career Award

Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper is the winner of the 2025 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Cooper will be the featured speaker at this year’s Goldsmith Awards ceremony, to be held on April 3, 2025 in the JFK Jr. Forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

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Recent Announcements

March 13, 2025

Announcing the winner of the inaugural Goldsmith Prize for Explanatory Reporting

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is pleased to announce that The Washington Post’s Opinions series “Who is Government?” is the winner of the inaugural Goldsmith Prize for Explanatory Reporting. The prize will be awarded at the 2025 Goldsmith Awards ceremony on April 3 at the JFK Jr.

March 5, 2025

Announcing the Finalists for the 2025 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the six finalists for the 2025 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The Goldsmith Prize, first awarded in 1993 and funded by a gift from the Greenfield Foundation, honors the best public service investigative journalism that has made an impact on local, state, or federal public policy or the practice of politics in the United States.