Newhouse announces finalists in 2022 Mirror Awards competition

The Newhouse School today announced the finalists in the 2022 Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Winners will be announced June 8 at an awards ceremony in New York City.

The finalists, selected by a group of journalists and journalism educators, are:

Best Single Article/Story               

• Janell Ross, “The Key Role a Local Newspaper Played in the Trial Over Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder” – Time
• Peter Maass, “Mirrors of Calamity: How Hospitals Became Vaults That Hid Evidence of Covid-19’s Toll” – The Intercept
• Channing Gerard Joseph, “American Journalism’s Role in Promoting Racist Terror” – The Nation Magazine

Best Profile

• Andrew Beaujon, “Inside the Plan to Make Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post the Everything Newspaper” – Washingtonian
• Patricia McCormick, “The Girl in the Kent State Photo” – The Washington Post Magazine
• Jaeah Lee, “The Courts Beat” – Columbia Journalism Review

Best Commentary

• Alexandria Neason, “On Atonement” – Columbia Journalism Review     
• Ray Suarez, Jeb Sharp, Alissa Quart, David Wallis, “Going for Broke with Ray Suarez” – Economic Hardship Reporting Project, co-published by The Nation
  • “A Veteran Journalist Finds Himself the Center of the Story”  
  • “When Sleep Deprivation Compounds the Struggle of Being Unhoused” 
  • “Stars and Stripes and Strip Clubs”
• Erik Wemple, assorted media commentary – The Washington Post
  • “Opinion: CNN must investigate Chris Cuomo”
  • “Opinion: Journalists bungled coverage of the Attica uprising. 50 years later, the consequences remain”               
  • “Opinion: Indictment of Steele dossier source is more bad news for multiple media outlets”

John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting

• Stacy Perman and Josh Rottenberg, “Golden Globes voters in tumult” (PDF) – Los Angeles Times
  • “Behind Golden Globes Code of Silence”
  • “The Insular, Graying Globes”
  • “NBC Won’t Air ’22 Golden Globes”
• Elaine Yu, “Will Hong Kong’s Free Press Survive?” – Columbia Journalism Review
• Robert Mackey, “Meet the riot squad: right-wing reporters who use viral videos to smear BLM” – The Intercept
• Ben Smith, “Goldman Sachs, Ozy Media and a $40 Million Conference Call Gone Wrong” – The New York Times

SPECIAL TOPIC CATEGORY FOR 2022: Best Story on Media Coverage of the Insurrection and the ‘Stop the Steal’ Movement

• Celeste Katz Marston, “Covering Extremism: ‘As Exhausting a Beat as It Is Important’” – Nieman  Reports
• Zoë Carpenter, “Misinformation Is Destroying Our Country. Can Anything Rein It In?” – The Nation Magazine
• Jen Wieczner, “Dominion Voting: Big Lies vs. Big Lawsuits” (PDF) – Fortune 

SPECIAL TOPIC CATEGORY FOR 2022: Best Story on Media Coverage of Disinformation/Misinformation Regarding Vaccine and Mask Mandates  

• Sheera Frenkel and Tiffany Hsu, “Clouds of Doubt and Fear” – The New York Times
  • “Despite Outbreaks Among Unvaccinated, Fox News Hosts Smear Shots”
  • “The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online”
  • “How Local Media Spreads Misinformation From Vaccine Skeptics”
• Jon Allsop, “Vaccines, war, and the death of Colin Powell” – Columbia Journalism Review
• Lauren Harris, “When misinformation meets scarcity” – Columbia Journalism Review

About the Mirror Awards The Mirror Awards are the most important awards for recognizing excellence in media industry reporting. Established by the Newhouse School in 2006, the awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit. For information about the awards, visit newhouse.syr.edu/mirrorawards or email mirrorawards@syr.edu.