National Magazine Awards, Reporting Category: Winners & Finalists.

The National Magazine Awards, Reporting Category, “honors reporting excellence as exemplified by one article or a series of articles.”

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting is awarded “for a distinguished example of investigative reporting, using any available journalistic tool.”

Robert F. Kennedy US Journalism Awards.

The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards honor those who report on issues that reflect Robert F. Kennedy’s concerns including human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world.  Entries include insights into the causes, conditions and remedies of injustice and critical analysis of relevant public policies, programs, attitudes, and private endeavors.

Established in December of 1968 by a group of reporters covering Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign, the awards program has far exceeded the expectations of its founders. Led by a committee of six independent journalists, the Awards are judged by more than fifty journalists each year. It has become the largest program of its kind and one of few in which the winners are determined solely by their peers. 

Scripps Howard Awards

Established in 1953, the Scripps Howard Foundation’s national journalism awards competition is open to news organizations based in the United States and recognizes outstanding print,

broadcast and online journalism in 15 categories. [One of these categories is the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize for Investigative Reporting, and another is Public Service Reporting.] Two additional categories honor college journalism and mass communication educators for excellence in administration and teaching. Winners receive trophies and share $180,000 in cash prizes.

Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting (USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism)

Walter Lippmann knew that powerful politicians, big business, and other institutions in our society could create perceptions that people might mistake for reality. That is why, especially today, we need tenacious investigative journalists to pierce the veil of misleading, and often deceptive, information to reveal the truth.

The Selden Ring Award is a jewel of recognition for top journalists. The…award recognizes published investigative reporting that has brought results.

Sidney Awards, The Sidney Hillman Foundation

For more than fifty years, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has awarded the Hillman prizes, which are among the most prestigious honors in journalism. In 2009, the foundation inaugurated the Sidney, a monthly award for an outstanding piece of socially-conscious journalism. We are looking for investigative work that fosters social and economic justice.

Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers (Administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard)

The Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers was established by members of the Taylor family, who published The Boston Globe from 1872 to 1999. The purpose of the…award is to encourage fairness in news coverage by America’s daily newspapers. William O. Taylor, chairman emeritus of the Globe, embraced the idea of an award for fairness in newspapers as a way to give something back to the craft to which five generations of his family devoted their working lives. The Taylor family’s 127-year stewardship of the Globe was characterized by an enduring commitment to fairness. At his invitation, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard agreed to administer the prize.

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

This category, supported by the Gannett Foundation, honors a single story or a series of stories that uncover major news that advances and serves the public interest based on the reporters’ own investigations. Clear presentation through user interface and interactivity, creative use of the medium and platforms, including mobile, use of social tools and evidence of the impact of the publication will be considered. An entry will consist of a single piece, series or package on the same subject, including an explanation detailing the investigation’s impact. An entry may consist of up to three examples, including articles, blog posts, videos, graphics, podcasts, etc.

The Hillman Prize (Canada), The Sidney Hillman Foundation

In 2011, the Sidney Hillman Foundation inaugurated the Canadian Hillman Prize, honouring journalists who seek out stories that change lives, whose work identifies important social and economic issues in Canada and helps bring about change for the better.

The Hillman Prize (United States), The Sidney Hillman Foundation

Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good. Winners exemplify sound news judgment, resourcefulness and courage in reporting, skilled storytelling and social impact. See our complete list of past winners here.