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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.

National Magazine Awards, Public Interest Category: Winners & Finalists.

The National Magazine Awards, Public Interest Category “honors magazine journalism that illuminates issues of national importance.”

The Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism:

Set up by Private Eye and The Guardian in memory of the campaigning journalist Paul Foot, the award has celebrated 10 years of brilliant investigative and campaigning journalism, acknowledging the tenacity, diligence and excellent reporting of some of the best journalists working in the UK today.

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. 

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

The annual Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting honors investigative reporting that best promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government, the making of public policy, or the practice of politics…. While the subject can address issues of foreign policy, a submission qualifies only if it has an impact on public policy in the United States at the national, regional or local level.

Financial support for the Goldsmith Awards Program is provided by an annual grant from the Goldsmith Fund of the Greenfield Foundation. The program is administered by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.