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NEWSPAPERS, WIRE SERVICES AND DIGITAL
The Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative Reporting
Winner
- Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Yeganeh Torbati, Reuters, “Assets of the Ayatollah”
Finalists
- Ian Urbina, The New York Times, “OSHA”
- Megan Twohey, Reuters, “The Child Exchange”
Newspaper or Digital Beat Reporting
Winner
- Rukmini Callimachi, The Associated Press, “Al-Qaeda’s Papers”
Finalists
- Shawn Boburg, The Record, “The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey”
- Gary Fields, The Wall Street Journal, “Mental Health: The Violent Price of Neglect”
Newspaper or Digital Feature Reporting
Winner
- John Leland, The New York Times, “58 Years and Counting, A Love Story”
Finalists
- Jaweed Kaleem, The Huffington Post, “Home Funerals Grow As Americans Skip the Mortician for Do-It-Yourself After-Death Care”
- Tim Rohan, The New York Times, “Beyond the Finish Line”
Newspaper or Digital Spot News Reporting
Winner
- Staff, Newsday, “Deadly Curve”
Finalists
- Steven Russolillo, Jacob Bunge, Jenny Strasburg and Scott Patterson, The Wall Street Journal, “Stock Market Breakdown”
- Staff, The Associated Press, “Tornado Strike in Moore, Oklahoma”
Newspaper or Digital Enterprise Reporting
Winner
- Dennis Overbye, The New York Times, “Higgs”
Finalists
- Jodi Kantor, The New York Times, “Harvard Business School”
- Lindy Washburn, The Record, “The Pain Doctor”
Newspaper or Digital Local News Reporting
Winner
- Al Shaw, Theodoric Meyer, Jeff Larson and Christie Thompson, ProPublica, “After the Flood”
Finalists
Josh Nathan-Kazis, Jewish Daily Forward, “We’ll Shun the Internet But Take Your Access Money”
Sonja Sharp, DNAinfo.com, “English is Absent, Math Doesn’t Count at Brooklyn’s Biggest Yeshivas”
Reporting Newspaper with a Circulation Under 100,000
Winner
- Rong Xiaoqing, Sing Tao Daily, “The Dark Corner in An Elite High School –Mental Health of Successful Students Needs More Attention”
Finalists
- Josh Nathan-Kazis, Jewish Daily Forward, “Exploiting a $2bn Federal Library Subsidy Program”
- Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Chris Cusumano, Chrissie Williams and Spencer Ainsley, Poughkeepsie Journal, “No Small Thing — A series of articles on Lyme disease”
Reporting by Independent Digital Media
Winner
- Katherine Bagley and Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News, “Bloomberg’s Hidden Legacy: Climate Change and the Future of New York City”
Finalists
- Sasha Chavkin, The New York World, “How New York City Failed the Vulnerable During Sandy”
- Lisa Riordan Seville and Graham Kates, The Crime Report, “A Home of Their Own: An Investigation of New York’s ‘Sober Home’ System”
MAGAZINES
Magazine Personal Service
Winner
- Jessica Bruder, Bobbie Gossage and Eric Schurenberg, Inc. Magazine, “The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship”
Finalists
- Kim Clark, Money Magazine, “College Aid Advisors”
- Shibani Mahtani and Patrick Barta, The Wall Street Journal, “Secret Rocks”
Magazine Profile
Winner
- Suzanna Andrews, More Magazine, “A Texas Rebel’s Fight for Her Land”
Finalists
- Steven Bertoni and Caleb Melby, Forbes Media, “The Sad, Lecherous, Rent-a-Friend Life of The King of All Fun, Stewie Rah Rah”
- Marie Brenner, Vanity Fair, “The Target”
Magazine Investigative Reporting
Winner
- Steven Brill, Time Magazine, “Bitter Pill: Why Our Medical Bills Are Killing Us”
Finalists
- Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, “Will it Fly?”
- Steve Fishman, New York Magazine, “Dean of Corruption: St John’s officials took secret loans”
Magazine Feature Reporting
Winner
- Robin Marantz Henig, The New York Times Magazine, “A Life or Death Situation”
Finalists
- Jennifer Gonnerman and Raha Naddaf, New York Magazine, “Did Your Father Touch You?”
- Barry Lopez, Harper’s Magazine, “Sliver of Sky: Confronting the Trauma of Sexual Abuse”
SPECIALIZED WRITING
Headline Writing
Winner
- Jeremy Smerd, Crain’s New York Business, “So many Chapter 11s, he could write a book”
Finalists
- Bruce Dansker, Newsday, “Simply Ribbiting”
- Glenn Coleman, Crain’s New York Business, “Ice, ice maybe”
Arts Reporting
Winner
- Ingrid Sischy, Vanity Fair, “Galliano in the Wilderness”
Finalists
- Hoberman, Tablet Magazine, “J. Hoberman”
- Simi Horwitz, Nate Lavey and Adam Langer, Jewish Daily Forward “A New Generation of Magicians”
- Larry Mayer, Jewish Daily Forward, “The Paradox of Teaching Arthur Miller, Sherman Alexie and Shirley Jackson in an Orthodox School”
Business Feature
Winner
- C. Thompson and Jonathan Jones, ProPublica, “Life and Death in Assisted Living“
Finalists
- Steven Bertoni and Caleb Melby, Forbes, “The Sad Lecherous Rent-a-friend life of the King of all Fun Stewie Rah Rah”
- Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair, “Goldman’s Geek Tragedy”
Business Investigative Reporting
Winner
- Katherine Eban, Fortune, “Dirty Medicine”
Finalists
- Jeff Gerth and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, “Overdose”
- Scott Paltrow and Kelly Carr, Reuters, “Unaccountable”
- Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times, “Fleecing the Vulnerable”
Opinion Writing
Winner
- Jay Michaelson, Jewish Daily Forward
Finalists
- Jane Eisner, Jewish Daily Forward
- Allan Sloan, Fortune
Science, Technology, Medical or Environmental Reporting
Winner
- Natacha Pisarenko and Michael Warren, The Associated Press, “Argentines link health problems to agrochemicals”
Finalists
- Amy Harmon, The New York Times, “GMO”
- Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein, Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica, “The Prescribers”
Sports Reporting
Winner
- Thomas Zambito, The Star-Ledger, “Tragic tale of a death born on the practice field”
Finalists
- Jenna Fryer, The Associated Press, “Nascar”
- Don Van Natta Jr., ESPN The Magazine, “His Game, His Rules”
PHOTOGRAPHY
Spot News Photo
Winner
- Mohammad Sajjad, The Associated Press, “Bomb Attack”
Finalists
- James Keivom, Daily News, “Worker Rescued”
- Charles Krupa, The Associated Press, “A Victim: The Boston Marathon Bombings”
Feature Photo
Winner
- Rodrigo Abd, The Associated Press, “War Scars”
Finalists
- Aristide Economopoulos, The Star-Ledger, “Freedom Rising”
- Andrew Savulich, The New York Daily News, “Anthony Weiner Marching”
Sports Photo
Winner
- Bill Lyons, Staten Island Advance, “COLLISION”
Finalists
Thomas A. Ferrara, Newsday, “Mariano Rivera”
Mark J. Terrill, The Associated Press, “In Your Face”
DIGITAL AND INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Multimedia, Interactive Graphics and Animation
Winner
- Irene Jay Liu and team, Reuters, “Connected China”
Finalists
- Saba Ali, Robert Brisita, Ronald Griffo, David Holland, Tim Healy and Rachel Senatore, Newsday, “How does your salary stack up?”
- Jeff Gerth, T. Christian Miller, Al Shaw, Lena Groeger, and Krista Kjellman Schmidt, ProPublica, “Overdose”
Digital Innovation
Winner
- Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein, Jennifer LaFleur, Jeff Larson and Lena Groeger, ProPublica, “The Prescribers”
Finalists
- Ritchie S. King, Sam Williams and David Yanofsky, Quartz, “By reading this article, you’re mining bitcoins”
- Joe Parkinson and Nour Malas, The Wall Street Journal, “Borderlands”
RADIO AND AUDIO
Radio or Audio Reporting
Winner
- Paige Cowett and Sarah Koenig, WNYC Radio, “What Are You Doing for the Test of Your Life?”
Finalists
- Sarah Carr and Mallory Falk, The Hechinger Report and WWNO, “Three Models for Charter Schools in New Orleans
- Scott Gurian and Karen Frillmann, WNYC / NJ Public Radio, “Demolition Crews Finish the Job Sandy Started”
DIGITAL VIDEO
Digital Video Reporting
Winner
- Michael M. Phillips, Araby Williams and Jill Kirschenbaum, The Wall Street Journal, “The Lobotomy Files”
Finalists
Jake Heller, Olivia Huynh, Scott Simon and Alex Chancey, The Daily Beast, “Scott Simon: Thank You, Mom”
Benjamin Lowy, Sierra Jiminez and Ryan Bradley, Fortune, “Fortune: Industry Powered by Bees”
TELEVISION
Television Spot News Reporting
Winner
- CNN International Reporting Team, “CNN’s Coverage of Typhoon Haiyan”
Finalists
- Staff, ABC News, “The Boston Manhunt”
- The Staff of “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” “Boston Bombing”
Television Feature
Winner
- Diane Sawyer, Michael Corn, Almin Karamehmedovic, Claire J. Weinraub, Jon Meyersohn, Denise Martinez-Ramundo, Ely Brown, Stephanie Wash, Jeff Turboff, Michael Darlington, Terrence Kiff, Tom Gubar, Akram Abi-Hanna, Bartley Price and Gill Ben Ze’ev, ABC News, ABC News, “Hidden America: Fear and Hope at Strawberry Mansion”
Finalists
- Cynthia McFadden, Melia Patria, Almin Karamehmedovic and Jeanmarie Condon, ABC News, “Nightline: Saving Daniel”
- David Muir, Christine Romo, Jon Meyersohn, Almin Karamehmedovic and Jeanmarie Condon, ABC News, “Nightline: The Gift of Sight”
Television Series or Investigative Reporting
Winner
- Walt Kane, Karin Attonito and Anthony Cocco, News 12 New Jersey, “Kane In Your Corner: The Fenimore Fumes”
Finalists
Sanjay Gupta, Bud Bultman, Roni Selig, Melissa Dunst Lipmanm Carl Graf, Saundra Young, Ben Tinker, Max Newfield and Kristen Kiraly, CNN, “WEED: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports”
Sandra King, Due Process – Rutgers School of Law / NJTV, “$$ = Freedom: The Broken Bail System”
OMNIBUS AWARDS
Minority Focus
Winner
- Michael Grabell, ProPublica, “Temp Land”
Finalists
- Kathleen Horan, Xana O’Neill, Karen Frillmann, Julianne Welby, Paul Schneider and Wayne Shulmister, WNYC Radio, “In Harm’s Way: Profiling Every New York City Child Killed with a Gun”
- Dave Lindroff, Ronald Fink and Jeremy Smerd, Crain’s New York Business, “Big Trouble at Little Chinatown Bank”
Public Service Award
Winner
Andrea Elliott, The New York Times, “Invisible Child”
Finalists
- Katherine Eban, Fortune, “Fortune: Dirty Medicine”
- Dustin Racioppi and Amanda Oglesby, Asbury Park Press, “Heroin at the Shore”
- Staff, Newsday, “Police Misconduct”