Deadline: 10 January 2024
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting to honor investigative reporting that best promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government, the making of public policy, or the practice of politics.
Financial support for the Goldsmith Awards Program is provided by an annual grant from the Goldsmith Fund of the Greenfield Foundation.
In 2024 they intend to award a special citation for explanatory and/or investigative reporting that focuses on the functioning of government and the implementation of public policy. Exemplary pieces will dive into a societal or governance problem, and use a solutions-focused lens to describe how government can work most effectively and efficiently to solve that problem.
Prize Information
- The winning entry receives $25,000, and five finalist entries receive $10,000 each. Prize money is paid directly to credited authors of the winning/nominated entries, not their organizations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Submissions will be accepted only from the U.S. news media. Newspapers, magazines, broadcast media, radio, podcasts, and online news organizations are eligible.
- Entries from small and mid-size publications and comparable broadcast/online outlets are encouraged.
- Original broadcast or publication must have occurred between January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023.
- No more than two entries may be submitted by a news organization. If entries were produced in collaboration with another news organization, the lead news organization must submit the entry and list any secondary partner organizations/collaborators. If your organization is listed as a secondary partner/collaborator in an entry submitted by another news organization this does not count towards your two allowed entries.
- Books will not be accepted as submissions for this prize.
For more information, visit Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
