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

2024 Winners

Winner, Goldsmith Career Award

Nina Totenberg

Nina Totenberg's trailblazing career covering the U.S. Supreme Court has surpassed that of the longest-serving Justices in the Court’s history. Regarded as one of the “Founding Mothers” of NPR, Totenberg’s decades of award-winning reporting have cemented her status as the country’s preeminent legal reporter, and earned her the 2024 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism. View the story
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Recent Announcements

April 4, 2024

Hannah Dreier Wins 2024 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

Hannah Dreier of the New York Times is the winner of the 2024 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for her five-part exposé “Alone and Exploited.” Shorenstein Center Director Nancy Gibbs unveiled the winner of the prize live at the Goldsmith Awards Ceremony on April 3, 2024, in the JFK Jr.

December 6, 2024

Nominations now open for the 2025 Goldsmith Awards

Submissions for the 2025 Goldsmith Prizes for investigative and explanatory reporting are due January 9, 2025 at 11:59pm.

This year the Goldsmith Awards are offering a new prize category. Inaugurated in 2024 as the Goldsmith Special Citation for Reporting on Government, this year we will offer a formal Goldsmith Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the first time.