New York Press Club Announces its 2020 Journalism Award Winners
THE NEW YORK TIMES WINS GOLD KEYBOARD IN
2020 NEW YORK PRESS CLUB JOURNALISM AWARDS
The New York Times is the major winner in the latest New York Press Club Awards for Excellence in Journalism. Times reporter Brian Rosenthal won the 2020 Gold Keyboard Award, the competition’s highest, for “Taken for a Ride,” an investigative series on corruption in the New York City taxi medallion business.
As previously announced, NY Times Writers Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor will receive this year’s “Gabe Pressman Truth to Power Award” for their reporting on the Harvey Weinstein Case. The Gabe Pressman Truth to Power Award recognizes the club’s late president, friend and supporter who was a staunch supporter of the First Amendment.
Other major award winners were Spectrum News NY1 for Spot News Reporting on a helicopter crash in Midtown Manhattan in June 2019 and WCBS Newsradio 880 for a shooting at a Kosher delicatessen in Jersey City in December 2019. The winners of the Mychal Judge Heart of New York Award were: Alex Vadukul for “Stories of New York” in The New York Times (newspaper); Sara Fishko, Olivia Briley, Bill Moss, Karen Frillmann of WNYC for “Wright and the Guggenheim” (radio); “Pizza-Spinning Chef Helps Others Get a Slice of the American Dream” by Matt Frucci, Jill Billante, George Itzhak, Mohammed Syed, Terry Tousey of NBC News/Nightly News with Lester Holt (TV) and “The Art of Surviving” from Elizabeth Van Brocklin of The Trace (online).
In addition, Claudia Irizarry Aponte, who covers Brooklyn for THE CITY, was named the Nellie Bly Cub Reporter for 2020.
All winners were selected from hundreds of entries submitted by TV, radio, newspapers, websites, magazines and newswires in New York City and around the U.S.
New York Press Club President Jane Tillman Irving applauded all the award recipients and added that the high number of entries is a testament to the great reporting being done in New York even amid the significant challenges being faced by journalists today, including budget cuts, lay-offs and restrictions imposed by government officials.
A decades-long tradition in New York media, the annual “New York Press Club Awards for Journalism” honor excellence by writers, reporters, editors, producers, photographers and multi-media journalists. Entries this year were judged in 30 categories, including sub-categories for print, broadcast, and the Internet. Prominent journalists, former journalists and academics selected for their expertise in each category serve as judges.
Here is the full list of winners:
Gold Keyboard
“Taken for a Ride”
Brian M. Rosenthal
The New York Times
Nellie Bly Cub Reporter
“Claudia Irizarry Aponte”
Claudia Irizarry Aponte
THE CITY
Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York
Newspaper
“Stories of New York”
Alex Vadukul
The New York Times
Radio
“Wright and the Guggenheim”
Sara Fishko, Olivia Briley, Bill Moss, Karen Frillmann
WNYC
TV
“Pizza-Spinning Chef Helps Others Get a Slice of the American Dream”
Matt Frucci, Jill Billante, George Itzhak, Mohammed Syed, Terry Tousey,
NBC News/Nightly News with Lester Holt
Online
“The Art of Surviving”
Elizabeth Van Brocklin
The Trace
Business Reporting
Newspaper
“The WeWork Delusion”
Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell, Liz Hoffman, Eliot Brown, David Benoit
The Wall Street Journal
Magazine
“The Last Boys’ Club”
Claire Zillman
Fortune
Radio
“Boeing’s Grounded 737 Max”
Staff of Bloomberg Radio
Bloomberg Radio
Online
“How MoviePass went from Hollywood disrupter to flat broke in 18 months”
Jason Guerrasio
Business Insider
Commentary
Newspaper
“Bloomberg’s Biggest Liability: His Billions, Seen as a Strength, Are Actually a Weakness”
Dan Morrison
New York Daily News
Online
“The Reality-Defying Shame of Log Cabin Republicans”
Tim Teeman
The Daily Beast
Consumer Reporting
Newspaper
“How Amazon Puts Us at Risk”
Alexandra Berzon, Shane Shifflett, Justin Scheck, Khadeeja Safdar, Denise Blostein, Jon Emont, Dana Mattioli
The Wall Street Journal
Magazine
“The Real Tide Pod Challenge”
Jake Meth
Fortune
TV
“CBS Sunday Morning: Deal or No Deal?”
Allison Aubrey, Dustin Stephens, Mike Levine, & Rand Morrison
CBS News
Online
“The Fumes in South Portland”
Sabrina Shankman
InsideClimate News
Continuing Coverage
Newspaper
“Climate of Fear”
Will Van Sant, Victor Manuel Ramos
Newsday
Magazine
“New Red Scare”
Peter Waldman
Bloomberg Businessweek
Radio
“The Victim Compensation Fund”
WCBS News Team
WCBS NewsRadio 880 AM
TV
“Syria 2019”
Richard Engel
NBC News
Online
“Viral lies: Facebook’s Health Misinformation Problem”
Brandy Zadrozny; Aliza Nadi
NBC News Digital
Crime Reporting
TV
“Justice for Junior: Terror of the Trinitarios”
Anthony Carlo, Michelle Ross, Eric Steltzer, Anthony Circosta, Brooke Rothenberg, Jony Hurtado, Jose Sanchez, Juan De Jesus, Salomon Sarmiento, Chade Newton, Thuvia Jones, Pratik Parija
News 12 The Bronx
Online
“The NYPD’s Mental Illness Breakdown”
Ese Olumhense and Greg B. Smith
THE CITY
Critical Arts Review
Newspaper
“Dance Critic”
Gia Kourlas
The New York Times
Magazine
“Critic’s Notebook: ‘Some Like it Hot’ Turns 60, as Fresh and Frisky as Ever”
Simi Horwitz
The Hollywood Reporter
Radio
“Warhol’s Work”
Sara Fishko, Olivia Briley, Wayne Shulmister, Karen Frillmann
WNYC
TV
“Roma Reviews”
Roma Torre
Spectrum News NY1
Online
“Moments/Stories – Paintings by Peter Beston”
Alix Cohen
Woman Around Town
Documentary
Newspaper
“An Innocent Man?”
Thomas Maier
Newsday
Radio
“Shell Shock 1919: How the Great War Changed Culture”
Sara Fishko, Olivia Briley, Ed Haber, Karen Frillmann
WNYC
TV
“Amazon on Fire”
Subrata De, Beverly Chase, Ruben Davis, Craig Thomson, Seb Walker, Juanita Ceballos, Adam Desiderio, Lee Doyle, Daniel Vergara, Agnes Walton, Cameron Dennis, Ryo Ikegami, Kelly Kendrick, Joe Matoske, Javier Manzano, Daniel Vergara, Adam Desiderio, Lee Doyle, Zach Caldwell, Erik Whitestone, Lunae Parracho, Roberta Fortuna, Alan Lima, Lyle Kendrick
Investigations by VICE (Hulu)
Online
“Did Marsha P. Johnson Start the 1969 Stonewall Riots?”
Sal Bono, Rich Sullivan, Mara Montalbano, John Ostojic and IE staff
Inside Edition
Entertainment News
Newspaper
“Students and Cosplay”
Dave Paone
Campus News
Magazine
“Theatre’s Front Lines: For House Managers and Theatre Service Directors the Work is Invisible but Rewarding”
Simi Horwitz
American Theatre
Radio
“Oscar and Nat”
Sara Fishko, Olivia Briley, Wayne Shulmister, Karen Frillmann
WNYC
TV
“On Stage: Network”
Kevin Dugan, Frank DiLella, Roma Torre, Cody Williams, Ariella Weintraub, Adam Paul Verity, Jose Duran, Thibaut Rigeot
Spectrum News NY1
Feature Reporting
Newspaper
“In the Shadows”
Victor Manuel Ramos
Newsday
Magazine
“They Call Her The Savant”
Jessica Pels, Andrea Stanley, Meredith Bryan (Editor)
Cosmopolitan
TV
“CBS Sunday Morning: All Her Sons”
Seth Doane, Dustin Stephens, Steven Tyler, Rand Morrison
CBS News
Online
“Richard White Was a Homeless Kid. Then, with a Tuba, He Made Music History”
Tim Teeman
The Daily Beast
Feature – Science Medicine & Technology
Newspaper
“Going Under the Knife to Heal a Lifelong Wound”
Pam Belluck
The New York Times
Magazine
“The Face of Change”
Jamie Ducharme
TIME
Radio
“Event 201: Preparing for a Pandemic”
Janet Wu
Bloomberg Radio
TV
“Climate in Crisis Coverage”
NBC News Group Staff
NBC News Group
Online
“Heartless Hospital”
Caroline Chen
ProPublica
Feature – Sports
Magazine
“How Much Is a Little Girl Worth?”
Mary Pilon
Fortune
TV
“Paper Super Bowl 3”
Kevin Maher, Daniel Scaturro Dave Dodds, Gregory Stevens
News 12 Long Island
Online
“Whatever Happened to Villanova Basketball Star Shelly Pennefather?”
Elizabeth Merrill
ESPN
Food Writing
Online
“In a Wheelchair and Hungry”
Robert Sietsema
Eater New York
Infographics
Newspaper
“The Shed, Unveiled”
Heather Jones
The New York Times
Online
“Wealth Detectives”
Tom Metcalf, Andrew Heathcote, Pei Yi Mak, Sophie Alexander, Tom Maloney, Devon Pendleton, Venus Feng, Yoojung Lee, Blake Schmidt, Jack Witzig, Steven Crabill, Dave Merrill, Jeremy C.F. Lin, Andre Tartar, Blake Schmidt, Chloe Whiteaker, Adrian Leung and Demetrios Pogkas
Bloomberg News
News Special
TV
“They Come for Us at Night: China’s Vanishing Muslims”
Madeleine Haeringer, Josh Tyrangiel, Shane Smith, Subrata De, Beverly Chase, Nicole Bozorgmir, Isobel Yeung, T. Wang, Carina Wong, Paula Salhany
VICE News Tonight
Photo
Feature Photo
Newspaper
“Unstoppable”
Alejandra Villa Loarca
Newsday
Magazine
“Rohingya Living in a Nowhere Land”
James Nachtwey
TIME
Online
“‘They Will Remember Us’: The Miners of Black Harlan
Radcliffe Roye”
NYR Daily, The New York Review of Books
Feature Video
TV
“The Messages”
Michael DelGiudice
WNBC-TV
Online
“Street Level Photography”
Digital Photographers
Spectrum News
Spot News Photo
Newspaper
“Tears for the Fallen”
Steve Pfost
Newsday
Spot News Video
Online
“QuickTake: Hong Kong on Edge”
Virginia Lau, Josie Wong, Simon Fuller and Stephanie Chung
Bloomberg QuickTake
Podcast
Newspaper
“The WeWork Trilogy”
Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell, Kate Linebaugh, Ryan Knutson, Annie Minoff, Rikki Novetsky, Sarah Platt, Willa Rubin, Pia Gadkari, Annie-Rose Strasser, Griffin Tanner and Jarrard Cole
The Wall Street Journal and Gimlet
Radio
“Trump, Inc.”
ProPublica and WNYC Staff
ProPublica and WNYC
TV
“Article II: Inside Impeachment”
Audio Unit
NBC News
Online
“The Shrink Next Door”
Joe Nocera, Khrista Rypl, Francesca Levy, Jared Sandberg, Katie Boyce, George Lavender, Marshall Lewy, Hernan Lopez, Maya Kaufman
Bloomberg and Wondery
Political Coverage
Newspaper
“A Secretive Dinner Where $25,000 Buys Access to Cuomo (and Filet Mignon)”
David Goodman
The New York Times
Magazine
“Fortune: Death by a Thousand Clicks”
Erika Fry and Fred Schulte
Fortune and Kaiser Health News
TV
“Out of Service: NY1 Investigation Finds Chronic Elevator Outages Plague NYCHA”
Courtney Gross, Dan Keese, Dan Komarinetz
Spectrum News NY1
Online
“Solitary Voices”
Reporting and Data Teams Staff
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Intercept, NBC News, Univision, WNYC and Latin American media partners
Special Event Reporting
Newspaper
“’Game of Thrones’ Final Season”
The Culture Desk Staff of The New York Times
The New York Times
TV
“Homeless, Not Nameless”
Courtney Gross, Dan Keese, Kristi Lee Neuberger, Shanel Dawson, Dan Komarinetz
Spectrum News NY1
Online
“Since Parkland”
The Trace, Miami Herald, and McClatchy
The Trace, Miami Herald, and McClatchy
Sports News
Radio
“Who Runs the World? THE USWNT”
Brianna Leverty
WFUV 90.7 FM
TV
“Foul Ball: Did a N.J. Man Get Duped into Buying $100K in Bogus Sports Memorabilia?”
Kevin Monahan, Stephanie Gosk, Rich Schapiro, Kenzi Abou-Sabe
NBC News Investigative Unit
Online
“Los Angeles Angels Employee Details Team’s Knowledge of Tyler Skaggs’ Drug Use to Federal DEA Investigators”
T.J. Quinn and Arty Berko
ESPN
Spot News
Radio
“The Jersey City Shooting”
WCBS News Team
WCBS Newsradio 880
TV
“Midtown Helicopter Crash”
Spectrum News NY1 Staff
Spectrum News NY1
Travel Writing
Newspaper
“Her Uncle Died with the French Resistance, and She Had to Visit the Spot”
Sylvie Bigar
Washington Post
Magazine
“Hot and Unbothered”
Anjali Khosla
Gossamer
Online
“Not Italian Enough: Christmas in Castelfranco”
Valarie D’Elia, John Rattazzi
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