# Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting is an award for journalists administered by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The program was launched in 1991, with the goal of exposing examples of poor government, and encouraging good government in the United States. There is a $25,000 award for the winner.
The Goldsmith Awards Program is financially supported by an annual grant from the Greenfield Foundation.

## Awardees

* 2023 - Anna Wolfe of Mississippi Today, "The Backchannel"
* 2022 - Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ba Tran of the Washington Post, "Fema Disasters"
* 2021 - Joseph Neff, Alysia Santo, Anna Wolfe, and Michelle Liu, The Marshall Project, Mississippi Today, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, Jackson Clarion-Ledger, USA TODAY Network, "Mississippi's Dangerous and Dysfunctional Penal System."
* 2020 - By the staffs of The Arizona Republic, USA TODAY, and the Center for Public Integrity, "Copy. Paste. Legislate"
* 2019 – J. David McShane and Andrew Chavez of The Dallas Morning News, "Pain and Profit"
* 2018 – Nina Martin of ProPublica and Renee Montagne of NPR, "Lost Mothers"
* 2017 – Shane Bauer of Mother Jones, "My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard"
* 2016 – Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza, and Esther Htusan of The Associated Press, "Seafood from Slaves"
* 2015 – Carol Marbin Miller, Audra Burch, Mary Ellen Klas, Emily Michot, Kara Dapena and Lazaro Gamio of Miami Herald, "Innocents Lost"
* 2014 – Chris Hamby, Ronnie Greene, Jim Morris and Chris Zubak-Skees of the Center for Public Integrity; and Matthew Mosk, Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz of ABC News, "Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine"
* 2013 – Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe and Michael Hawthorne of the Chicago Tribune, "Playing with Fire"
* 2012 – Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley of the Associated Press, "NYPD Intelligence Division"
* 2011 – Marshall Allen, and Alex Richards of Las Vegas Sun, "Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas"
* 2010 – Raquel Rutledge of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, report on "Cashing In on Kids"
* 2009 – Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen of The Washington Post, investigative report "Forced Out"
* 2008 – Barton Gellman and Jo Becker of the Washington Post, investigative report "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency"
* 2007 – Charles Forelle, James Bandler and Mark Maremont of The Wall Street Journal, report on "unethical manipulation" and amassed millions of top executives
* 2006 – James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times, investigative report "Domestic Spying"
* 2005 – Diana B. Henriques, business reporter for The New York Times, investigative report titled "Captive Clientele"
* 2004 – New York Times and Frontline, investigative report "Dangerous Business: When Workers Die". (received by David Barstow, Lowell Bergman, David Rummel)
* 2003 – Boston Globe, investigative report "Crisis in the Catholic Church"
* 2002 – Duff Wilson and David Heath of The Seattle Times
* 2001 – Karen Dillon of the Kansas City Star, investigative report "To Protect and Defend"
* 2000 – Donald Barlett and James Steele of Time, investigative report, "What Corporate Welfare Costs"
* 1999 – A team of reporters, of The Miami Herald, "Dirty Votes: The Race for Miami Mayor"
* 1998 – Duff Wilson, of The Seattle Times, "Fear in the Fields — How Hazardous Wastes Become Fertilizer"
* 1998 – Michael Duffy, Michael Weisskopf, and Viveca Novak of Time magazine, "Abuse of Campaign Finance Laws"
* 1997 – Glenn Bunting, Rich Connell, Maggie Farley, Sara Fritz, Evelyn Iritani, Connie Kang, Jim Mann, Alan Miller, and Rone Tempest, of the Los Angeles Times, "Illegal Democratic Campaign Contributions"
* 1996 – Russell Carollo, Carol Hernandez, Jeff Nesmith, and Cheryl Reed of The Dayton Daily News, "Military Secrets" and "Prisoners on Payroll"
* 1995 – Lizette Alvarez, and Lisa Getter of The Miami Herald, "Lost in America: Our Failed Immigration Policy"
* 1994 – Neill Borowski and Gilbert Gaul, of The Philadelphia Inquirer, investigative series, "Warehouses of Wealth: The Tax-Free Economy",
* 1993 – Douglas Frantz and Murray Waas of the Los Angeles Times, investigative series, prewar policies before the Gulf War.

## Nominees

| News organization | Reporter | Title | Year | Summary |
| The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Carrie Teegardin, Danny Robbins, Ariel Hart, Jeff Ernsthausen, Alan Judd, Johnny Edwards | "Doctors & Sex Abuse" | 2017 | |
| Chicago Tribune | Sam Roe, Karisa King, Ray Long | "Dangerous Doses" | 2017 | |
| Los Angeles Times | David S. Cloud | "California National Guard Enlistment Bonus Scandal" | 2017 | |
| Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Josh Salman, Emily Le Coz, Elizabeth Johnson | "Bias on the Bench" | 2017 | |
| The Wall Street Journal | John Carreyrou, Christopher Weaver, Michael Siconolfi | "The Downfall of Theranos" | 2017 | |
| The Guardian US | Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey, Ciara McCarthy | "The Counted" | 2016 | |
| InsideClimate News | Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, Lisa Song | "Exxon: The Road Not Taken" | 2016 | |
| The New York Times | Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Michael Corkery, Robert Gebeloff | "Beware the Fine Print" | 2016 | |
| Tampa Bay Times | Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick, Lisa Gartner | "Failure Factories" | 2016 | |
| The Washington Post | The Washington Post staff | "Fatal Shooting by Police" | 2016 | |
| The Boston Globe | Thomas Farragher, Jonathan Saltzman, Jenn Abelson, Casey Ross, Todd Wallack | "Shadow Campus" | 2015 | |
| The Post and Courier | Jennifer Berry Hawes, Natalie Caula Hauff, Doug Pardue, Glenn Smith | "Till Death Do Us Part" | 2015 | |
| ProPublica and NPR | Justin Elliott, Jesse Eisinger, Laura Sullivan | "The Red Cross' Secret Disaster" | 2015 | |
| Reuters | Joan Biskupic, Janet Roberts, John Shiffman | "The Echo Chamber" | 2015 | |
| The Wall Street Journal | Christopher S. Stewart, Christopher Weaver, John Carreyrou, Tom McGinty, Anna Wilde Mathews, Rob Barry | "Medicare Unmasked" | 2015 | |
| Center for Public Integrity, ABC News | Chris Hamby, Ronnie Greene, Jim Morris, Chris Zubak-Skees, Matthew Mosk, Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz | Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine | 2014 | |
| International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | | Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze | 2014 | |
| University of California's Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Center for Investigative Reporting, Frontline, Univisión Documentaries, KQED | Andrés Cediel, Bernice Yeung, Lowell Bergman, Lauren Rosenfeld, Grace Rubenstein, Stephanie Mechura, Ariane Wu | Rape in the Fields/Violación de un Sueño | 2014 | |
| Miami New Times | Tim Elfrink | Biogenesis: Steroids, Baseball and an Industry Gone Wrong | 2014 | |
| Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Ellen Gabler, Mark Johnson, John Fauber, Allan James Vestal, Kristyna Wentz-Graff | Deadly Delays | 2014 | |
| The Wall Street Journal | Michael M. Phillips | The Lobotomy Files | 2014 | |
| Reuters | Scot Paltrow, Kelly Carr | Unaccountable | 2014 | United States Department of Defense bookkeeping |
| Chicago Tribune | Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe, Michael Hawthorne | Playing with Fire | 2013 | |
| The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Alan Judd, Heather Vogell, John Perry, M.B. Pell | Cheating Our Children | 2013 | |
| Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity, Public Radio International, Investigative News Network | | State Integrity Investigation | 2013 | Corruption in U.S. state governments |
| Los Angeles Times | Jason Felch, Kim Christensen and members of the Los Angeles Times staff | The Shame of the Boy Scouts | 2013 | |
| The New York Times | Charles Duhigg, Keith Bradsher, David Barboza, David Segal and David Kocieniewski | The iEconomy | 2013 | |
| The New York Times | David Barstow | Wal-Mart Abroad | 2013 | |
| Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley | NYPD Intelligence Division | 2012 | |
| ABC News 20/20 | Brian Ross, Anna Schecter and the ABC News Investigative Team | Peace Corps: A Trust Betrayed | 2012 | |
| | Jim Morris, Ronnie Greene, Chris Hamby and Keith Epstein, Center for Public Integrity and Elizabeth Shogren, Howard Berkes, Sandra Bartlett and Susanne Reber, National Public Radio | Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities | 2012 | |
| KHOU-TV (CBS Houston) | Mark Greenblatt, David Raziq and Keith Tomshe | A Matter of Risk: Radiation, Drinking Water, and Deception | 2012 | |
| The New York Times | Danny Hakim and Russell Buettner | Abused and Used | 2012 | |
| ProPublica, The Washington Post | Dafna Linzer, Jennifer LaFleur | Presidential Pardons | 2012 | |
| Bloomberg News | Bradley Keoun, Phil Kuntz, Bob Ivry, Craig Torres, Scott Lanman and Christopher Condon | The Fed's Trillion-Dollar Secret | 2012 | |
| Las Vegas Sun | Marshall Allen and Alex Richards | Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas | 2011 | |
| Los Angeles Times | Jeff Gottlieb, Ruben Vives and The Los Angeles Times Staff | Breach of Faith | 2011 | |
| National Public Radio | Laura Sullivan and Steven Drummond | Behind the Bail Bond System | 2011 | |
| | ProPublica: Jesse Eisinger, Jake Bernstein; Planet Money, National Public Radio: Adam Davidson; This American Life, Chicago Public Radio: Ira Glass and Alex Blumberg | Betting Against the American Dream – The Wall Street Money Machine | 2011 | |
| San Jose Mercury News | Karen de Sá | Sponsored Bills in Sacramento | 2011 | |
| The Washington Post | Dana Priest, William Arkin | Top Secret America | 2011 | Top Secret America |
| Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Raquel Rutledge | Cashing In on Kids | 2010 | |
| The Boston Globe | Sean P. Murphy | Gaming the System: Public Pensions the Massachusetts Way | 2010 | |
| KHOU–TV, Houston, TX | Mark Greenblatt, David Raziq, Keith Tomshe, Robyn Hughes and Chris Henao | Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard | 2010 | |
| The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | J. Andrew Curliss and Staff | Executive Privilege: The Perks of Power | 2010 | |
| ProPublica and The Nation Institute | A.C. Thompson in collaboration with Gordon Russell, Laura Maggi and Brendan McCarthy, The New Orleans Times-Picayune and Tom Jennings, Frontline] | Law and Disorder | 2010 | |
| The Washington Post | Joe Stephens, Lena H. Sun and Lyndsey Layton | Death on the Rails | 2010 | |
| The Washington Post | Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen | Forced Out | 2009 | |
| The Charlotte Observer | Ames Alexander, Kerry Hall, Franco Ordonez, Ted Mellnik and Peter St. Onge | The Cruelest Cuts: The Human Cost of Bringing Poultry to Your Table | 2009 | |
| Detroit Free Press | Jim Schaefer, M.L. Elrick and Detroit Free Press staff | A Mayor in Crisis | 2009 | |
| The New York Times | David Barstow | Message Machine | 2009 | |
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Patricia Sabatini and Len Boselovic | Degree of Influence: Academic Corruption at West Virginia University | 2009 | |
| ProPublica | Abrahm Lustgarten | Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies? | 2009 | |
| The Washington Post | Barton Gellman and Jo Becker | Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency | 2008 | |
| The Nation | Joshua Kors | Thanks for Nothing | 2008 | |
| The New York Times | Walter Bogdanich and Jake Hooker | A Toxic Pipeline | 2008 | |
| The Palm Beach Post | Tom Dubocq | Palm Beach County's Culture of Corruption | 2008 | |
| The Salt Lake Tribune | Loretta Tofani | American Imports, Chinese Deaths | 2008 | |
| Washington Post | Dana Priest and Anne Hull | The Other Walter Reed | 2008 | |
| The Wall Street Journal | Charles Forelle, James Bandler and Mark Maremont | Stock Option Abuses | 2007 | |
| The Boston Globe | Walter V. Robinson, Michael Rezendes, Beth Healy, Francie Latour, Heather Allen | Debtors' Hell | 2007 | |
| Los Angeles Times | Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber | Transplant Patients at Risk | 2007 | |
| Miami Herald | Debbie Cenziper | House of Lies | 2007 | |
| Seattle Times | Ken Armstrong, Justin Mayo and Steve Miletich | Your Courts, Their Secrets | 2007 | |
| The Washington Post | Dan Morgan, Gilbert M. Gaul and Sarah Cohen | Harvesting Cash | 2007 | |
| The New York Times | James Risen and Eric Lichtblau | Domestic Spying | 2006 | |
| The Blade | Joshua Boak, James Drew, Steve Eder, Christopher D. Kirkpatrick, Jim Tankersley and Mike Wilkinson | Uncovering 'Coingate' | 2006 | |
| Copley News Service | Marcus Stern and Jerry Kammer | Randy 'Duke' Cunningham | 2006 | |
| Los Angeles Times | Evelyn Larrubia, Robin Fields and Jack Leonard | Guardians for Profit | 2006 | |
| The Washington Post | Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith | The Abramoff Scandal | 2006 | |
| The Washington Post | Dana Priest | The CIA's Secret War Against Terrorism | 2006 | |
| The New York Times | Nicholas D. Kristof | The Genocide in Darfur | 2006 | |
| The New York Times | Diana Henriques | Captive Clientele | 2005 | |
| The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Paul Donsky and Ken Foskett | Wired for Waste | 2005 | |
| Atlantic Monthly | James Fallows | Blind into Baghdad | 2005 | |
| The Oregonian | Steve Suo and Erin Hoover Barnett | Unnecessary Epidemic | 2005 | |
| The Seattle Times | Ken Armstrong, Florangela Davila and Justin Mayo | The Empty Promise of an Equal Defense | 2005 | |
| WFAA-TV, Dallas, TX | Brett Shipp and Mark Smith | State of Denial | 2005 | |
| Frontline and the BBC | | Ghosts of Rwanda | 2005 | |
| The New York Times, Frontline, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | David Barstow, Lowell Bergman, David Rummel and Neil Doherty | Dangerous Business: When Workers Die | 2004 | |
| The Dayton Daily News | Russell Carollo and Mei-Ling Hopgood | Casualties of Peace | 2004 | |
| | Staff of the Gannett New Jersey Newspaper | Profiting from Public Service | 2004 | |
| Los Angeles Times | Chuck Neubauer, Richard T. Cooper, Judy Pasterna | The Senators' Sons | 2004 | |
| The Washington Post | Joe Stephens, David B. Ottaway | Big Green | 2004 | |
| WTVF-TV, Nashville, TN | Phil Williams, Bryan Staples | Friends in High Places: Perks of Power | 2004 | |
| The Boston Globe | Matt Carroll, Kevin Cullen, Thomas Farragher, Stephen Kurkjian, Michael Paulson, Sacha Pfeiffer, Michael Rezendes, Walter V. Robinson | Crisis in the Catholic Church | 2003 | Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston |
| Dayton Daily News | Mike Wagner, Ben Sutherly, Laura Bischoff, Ken McCall, Dal Dempsey and Martha Hild | Down on the Factory: Cheap Food, Hidden Cost | 2003 | |
| The New York Times | David Cay Johnston | Tax Cheats | 2003 | |
| National Public Radio | Steve Inskeep | Oruzgan Raid | 2003 | |
| WFAA-TV, Dallas, TX | Brett Shipp and Mark Smith | Fake Drugs, Real Lives | 2003 | |
| Wisconsin State Journal | Phil Brinkman, Dee J. Hall, Scott Milfred | Corruption in the Wisconsin Capitol | 2003 | |
| The Seattle Times | Duff Wilson and David Heath | Uninformed Consent | 2002 | |
| Knight Ridder Washington Bureau | Sumana Chatterjee and Susarsan Raghavan | A Taste of Slavery | 2002 | |
| Los Angeles Times | Bob Drogin, Josh Meyer, Craig Pyes, William C. Rempel, Sebastian Rotella | Revealing Terrorism | 2002 | |
| Los Angeles Times | David Willman | The New FDA: Partnership With Deadly Risk | 2002 | |
| Orlando Sentinel | Sean Holton, et al. | Exposing the Flaws | 2002 | |
| The Washington Post | David S. Fallis, Craig Whitlock and April Witt | A Blue Wall of Silence — False Confessions | 2002 | |
| Kansas City Star | Karen Dillon | To Protect and Collect | 2001 | |
| Chicago Tribune | Ken Armstrong and Steve Mills | The Failure of the Death Penalty in Illinois and State of Execution: The Death Penalty in Texas | 2001 | |
| NBC 5 Chicago (WMAQ-TV) | Renee Ferguson | Strip-Searched at O'Hare | 2001 | |
| Orange County Register | Mark Katches, William Heisel, Ronald Campbell, Sharon Henry, Michael Goulding, Rebecca Allen and Tracy Wood | The Body Brokers | 2001 | |
| ABC News, World News Tonight | Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Vic Walter, Jill Rackmill, David Scott, Dawn Goeb, Jud Marvin, Gary Fairman, John Detarzio, Dow Haynor, Stuart Schutzman, Paul Slavin and Paul Friedman | The Money Trail | 2001 | |
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Andrew Schneider, Carol Smith | Uncivil Action | 2001 | |
| Time | Donald Barlett and James Steele | What Corporate Welfare Costs | 2000 | |
| Chicago Tribune | Ken Armstrong, Maurice J. Possley | Trial & Error | 2000 | |
| Associated Press | Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley, Randy Herschaft and Martha Mendoza | The Bridge at No Gun Ri | 2000 | No Gun Ri Massacre |
| The Blade | Sam Roe | Deadly Alliance | 2000 | |
| Boston Globe | Robert Whitaker, Dolores Kong | Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill | 2000 | |
| Los Angeles Times | David G. Willman | Rezulin: A Billion-Dollar Killer | 2000 | |
| Miami Herald | A team of reporters | Dirty Votes: The Race for Miami Mayor | 1999 | |
| St. Louis Post-Dispatch | William Allen, Kim Bell, and Andrew Skolnick | Health Care Behind Bars | 1999 | |
| Baltimore Sun | Will Englund, Gary Cohn | The Shipbreakers | 1999 | |
| The Wall Street Journal | Alix M. Freedman | Population Bomb | 1999 | |
| The Washington Post | Bart Gellman | Shell Games: The Search for Iraq's Hidden Weapons | 1999 | |
| Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | President Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky Scandal | 1999 | |
| The Seattle Times | Duff Wilson | Fear in the Fields — How Hazardous Wastes Become Fertilizer | 1998 | |
| Time | Michael Duffy, Michael Weisskopf, Viveca Novak | Abuse of Campaign Finance Laws | 1998 | |
| Cape Cod Times | Anne Brennan, William A. Mills | Broken Trust: The Failed Cleanup at the Massachusetts Military Reservation | 1998 | |
| Chicago Sun-Times | Chuck Neubauer, Charles Nicodemus | Investigation into Chicago City Hall Ethics Abuses | 1998 | |
| The New York Times | Martin Gotttlieb, Kurt Eichenwald, Josh Barbanel and Tamar Lewin | Health Care's Giant | 1998 | |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer | Loretta Tofani, Jeffrey Fleishman | Inside Tibet: A Country Tortured | 1998 | |
| Los Angeles Times | Glenn Bunting, Rich Connell, Maggie Farley, Sara Fritz, Evelyn Iritani, Connie Kang, Jim Mann, Alan Miller and Rone Tempest | Illegal Democratic Campaign Contributions | 1997 | |
| The Wall Street Journal | Jill Abramson, Helene Cooper, Phil Kuntz, Michael Moss, Glenn Simpson, Peter Waldman, John Wilke | Foreign Contributions Riddle | 1997 | |
| Times Picayune | Chris Adams | Of Pain and Gain | 1997 | |
| Kansas City Star | Joe Stephens | Ill-gotten Gains? | 1997 | |
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | Elizabeth Marchak | FAA: Safety Comes Second | 1997 | |
| The Boston Globe | Charles Sennott | Armed for Profit: The Selling of U.S. Weapons | 1997 | |
| Dayton Daily News | Russell Carollo, Carol Hernandez, Jeff Nesmith, Cheryl Reed | Military Secrets and Prisoners on Payroll | 1996 | |
| The New York Times | Ralph Blumenthal, Adam Bryant, Stephen Engleberg, Douglas Frantz and Matthew Wald | The FAA, USAir and the ATR Turbo Prop Planes | 1996 | |
| The Baltimore Sun | Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson | Honduras | 1996 | |
| Star Tribune | Sharon Schmickle, Tom Hamburger | Who Owns the Law? West Publishing and the Courts | 1996 | |
| Sun-Sentinel | Fred Schulte and Jenni Bergal | Profits from Pain | 1996 | |
| Miami Herald | Lizette Alvarez, Lisa Getter | Lost in America: Our Failed Immigration Policy | 1995 | |
| ABC News, Day One | Walt Bogdanich | Smoke Screen, Parts I and II | 1995 | |
| The Dallas Morning News | Susan Feeney and Steve McGonigle | Voting Rights: The Next Generation | 1995 | |
| The Washington Post | Dan Morgan | How Medicaid Grew | 1995 | |
| Chicago Sun-Times | Chuck Neubauer, Mark Brown, Michael Briggs | The Rostenkowski Investigation | 1995 | |
| U.S. News & World Report | Joseph Shapiro, Penny Loeb, Susan Headden, Dave Bowermaster, Andrea Wright and Tom Toch | Separate and Unequal | 1995 | |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer | Neill Borowski and Gilbert Gaul | Warehouses of Wealth: The Tax-Free Economy | 1994 | |
| Scripps Howard News Service | Lisa Hoffman and Andrew Schneider | Home Infusion: Medicine's New Vein of Gold | 1994 | |
| The Washington Post | Athelia Knight | Murder on Trial | 1994 | |
| The Dallas Morning News | Randy Lee Loftis and Craig Flournoy | Race and Risk: HUD's $67 Million Plan and Housing Deal | 1994 | |
| Scripps Howard News Service | Andrew Schnieder, Peter Brown | FDIC: Protector Turned Predator | 1994 | |
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | Ted Wendling and Dave Davis | Lethal Doses: Radiation That Kills | 1994 | |
| Los Angeles Times | Douglas Frantz, Murray Waas | Series on Iraqgate | 1993 | |
| The Seattle Times | David Boardman, Susan Gilmore, Eric Nalder, and Eric Pryne | Series on charges of sexual misconduct against former Senator Brock Adams | 1993 | |