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Watch the 2021 Goldsmith Awards ceremony live via @harvardiop

This year's Goldsmith Book prize in the academic category, announced by @tompharvard, goes to Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda by John Maxwell Hamilton goldsmithawards.org/honoree/manipu…

The 2021 trade book winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize goes to @batesunlv for An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press goldsmithawards.org/honoree/an-ari…

The Goldsmith Awards began in 1991, and have been funded for the past 30 years through the generosity of the Greenfield Foundation. This year, the awards have a new online home at GoldsmithAwards.org

The six finalists for the 2021 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting represent the best in both reporting and impact. They include collaborative projects, data driven investigations, and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting. Learn about them here:

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The winner of the 2021 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting is: "Mississippi’s Dangerous and Dysfunctional Penal System" goldsmithawards.org/honoree/missis…

Congratulations to @josephcneff @alysiasanto @ayewolfe @mchelleliu and their colleagues at @MarshallProj @MSTODAYnews @MississippiCIR @clarionledger @USATODAY for winning the 2021 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting!

The judges awarded the 2021 Goldsmith Prize to the collaborative team that reported "Mississippi's Dangerous and Dysfunctional Penal System" because of its deeply reported data-supported storytelling, and the direct impact it is having on public policy reforms in Mississippi.

Learn more about how the 2021 Goldsmith Prize winner was reported in this behind-the-scenes interview with @JournoResource journalistsresource.org/criminal-justi…

Live Now: @nancygibbs in conversation with Goldsmith Career Award winner and legendary @propublica editor @SteveEngelberg. Tune in for a fascinating conversation between two world class journalists:

.@SteveEngelberg has led @propublica through crisis after crisis, investing in deep investigative reporting on emerging threats and entrenched issues. propublica.org/people/stephen…

"Are there stories you think have been under-covered?" @nancygibbs asks @SteveEngelberg. Immigration is one, he says. Trade and its implications across the country were "woefully not understood" in the lead-up to the 2016 election.

Investigative reporting on extremism and violence, which @propublica does often, is particularly dangerous and taxing to reporters. "The job is one that (a reporter) must volunteer for. I would never assign that work," says @SteveEngelberg

You can see the kinds of multimedia investigative reporting on extremism that @SteveEngelberg has helped to shepherd at @propublica tonight in @ACInvestigates new documentary on @frontlinepbs pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…

"It's not like people can't be moved by facts," says @SteveEngelberg, citing the earth-shaking tapes @gingerthomp1 published of children in immigration detention. That story was a 2019 Goldsmith Prize finalist: goldsmithawards.org/honoree/zero-t…

"There are no secrets." @propublica editor-in-chief @SteveEngelberg warns people trying to keep things secret that should be public - investigative reporters will bring them to light. #GoldsmithAwards

Is print dead in the wake of pandemic changes? asks Anan, a @harvardiop student. "Print is certainly dead - it will be like vinyl" - a collectors item - says @SteveEngelberg.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic @SteveEngelberg and @nancygibbs also expect that journalism will become less coastal and urban-based, and that journalists will even more be able to live anywhere and report from everywhere.

.@propublica's Local Reporting Network is helping to fund important local investigative reporting projects across the country. @SteveEngelberg worries about growing news deserts, and sees collaborations like this year's Goldsmith Prize winner as part of the solution.

Congratulations to @SteveEngelberg for his 2021 Goldsmith Career Award & to the Goldsmith Investigative Reporting & Book Prize winners! You can learn more about all of them, and the critical role of investigative journalism in a free society, at GoldsmithAwards.org