Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

The Goldsmith Awards Program is financially supported by an annual grant from the Greenfield Foundation.

• Name — Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting • Description — Architecture award for journalists with the goal of exposing examples of poor government, and encouraging good government • Country — United States • Presenter — Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University

• 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