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Recent Journalism Awards Won by University of Baltimore Law ScholarWorks@University of Baltimore School of Law All Faculty Scholarship Faculty Scholarship 12-2014 Recent Journalism Awards Won by "Old," "New," and "Hybrid" Media Robert H. Lande University of Baltimore School of Law, [email protected] Thomas J. Horton University of South Dakota School of Law Virginia Callahan Independent Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/all_fac Part of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Commons, Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons, and the Internet Law Commons Recommended Citation Recent Journalism Awards Won by "Old," "New," and "Hybrid" Media, University of Baltimore School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-12 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at ScholarWorks@University of Baltimore School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@University of Baltimore School of Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. University of Baltimore Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-12 Recent Journalism Awards Won by 'Old," New,' and 'Hybrid' Media Robert H. Lande University of Baltimore - School of Law Thomas Jeffrey Horton University of South Dakota, School of Law Virginia Callahan Independent Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2350965 RECENT JOURNALISM AWARDS WON BY “OLD,” “NEW,” AND “HYBRID” MEDIA by Robert H. Lande, Thomas J. Horton & Virginia Callahan1 Last updated July 2013 Introduction ...................................................................................... 2 Table I: Awards for Investigatory Journalism ................................... 3 Table II: Totals for All Awards ......................................................... 3 Table III: Awards for other types of journalism that implicitly contain a significant investigatory component .................................. 4 Table IV: Pulitzer Prize Only ............................................................ 6 Donald Robinson Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism ..... 7 Gold Keyboard Award ....................................................................... 8 New York Press Club Award for Feature Reporting ......................... 9 Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment .. 14 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism ...................... 15 John B. Oakes Award ...................................................................... 21 The Maria Moors Cabot Prize ......................................................... 23 National Journalism Awards ........................................................... 26 George Polk Awards ........................................................................ 30 Pulitzer Prize .................................................................................... 39 Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism ..... 44 The Sidney Awards ......................................................................... 46 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism ........................ 51 1. The authors extend their special thanks to Neil Averitt and Albert Foer for helpful comments, and to Jennifer Burroughs, James Denvil, Sophie Li, Isaac Maron, Gary Stapleton, and Jeff Schaefer for excellent research assistance. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2350965 2013] SHOULD THE INTERNET EXEMPT THE MEDIA SECTOR FROM ANTITRUST LAWS? 2 Introduction This compares the quality of the investigatory and local journalism contained in ―old media‖ with that contained in ―new media‖ by using the metrics the journalism industry itself uses. We ascertain which type of media has won most of the journalism awards in the years since these awards became open to the new media. To do this, we somewhat arbitrarily divided the media world into three categories: ―old,‖ ―new,‖ and ―hybrid.‖ It is admittedly extremely difficult to define ―old,‖ ―new,‖ and ―hybrid‖ types of media. Since the media sector is in flux, so too must be these definitions. Moreover, many media operations are difficult to classify. With these caveats, the ―new‖ media is the easiest to define. If a publication started online and remains online, we classify it as ―new‖ media. ―Old‖ media is difficult to define because there currently are very few newspapers, for example, that would correspond to the newspapers that existed a generation ago. Most of the traditional ―old‖ media has an online presence today. Most newspapers, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, for example, have an online version that frequently contains everything in its print edition, as well as supplemental material of a varied nature. We define these combinations of traditional hard-copy publications and their online presence as ―old‖ media even though they could not have existed a generation ago, and even if their online versions contain features commonly associated with ―new‖ media, such as videos and live chats with reporters. ―Hybrid‖ media are publications that are between new and old media in one of several ways, or are aggregations of them. Hybrid media includes four subtypes. First, hybrid media includes the convergence of old and new media. Hybrid media is the near-to or actual simultaneous use of old and new media to disseminate information. For example, hybrid media includes a print article that cites and uses an online database released concurrently with the print story. However, if the print article is the gravamen of a publication‘s efforts followed up with supplementary information online, this will be classified as old media. The converse will be classified as new media. Second, hybrid media includes a publication‘s use of both old and new media to disseminate information. The use of both media types should be near-to or approximately equal—one form, new or old, should not dominate the mode of dissemination. Third, hybrid media includes awards where the award judges mention an online or new media component as part of its decision in addition to a print source. Finally, hybrid media includes cases where an old media source and a new media source team up for a journalistic enterprise.2 For example, 2. It can be very difficult and arbitrary to classify certain sources, particularly those that we would define as hybrid sources. For example, Bloomberg would have been classified as an old media source, but its shift to a more interactive platform with the use of its subscription web-based terminal makes it more like a hybrid source. By contacting authors of the respective Bloomberg articles, we have concluded that articles not printed solely in the Bloomberg Business Week Magazine should be considered a hybrid source. In an email, Dan Golden stated that his article series ―ran on the Bloomberg terminal and web site. In addition, several of the major features . were published in print form in the magazine Bloomberg Business Week.‖ E-mail from Daniel Golden, Bloomberg News, to author (July 10, 2013, 09:11 EST) (on file with author). Another author, Janet Lorin, wrote that ―most of the stories were online only though some were also in Bloomberg Businessweek.‖ Email from Janet Lorin, Bloomberg News, to author (July 10, 2013, 06:43 EST) (on file with author). The other authors did not respond. Based on the responses we received, Bloomberg would be considered a very complex hybrid organization, with elements of both old and new media. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2350965 2013] SHOULD THE INTERNET EXEMPT THE MEDIA SECTOR FROM ANTITRUST LAWS? 3 since the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism became open to the new media, there have been seven winners. Every winner was an old media source—either a traditional newspaper or the Associate Press, except for two old/new hybrid winners (see Table I infra). Table I Awards for investigative journalism, 2005 or more recent, that were open to both the ―old‖ and the ―new‖ media: Total Prize New Hybrid Old Unknown Awarded Pulitzer 7 -- 2 5 -- Golden Keyboard Award 8 -- -- 8 -- Worth Bingham Prize 4 -- 1 3 -- Donald Robinson Memorial 4 -- 2 2 -- Award National Journalism Award 4 -- -- 4 -- Sidney Award 47 11 5 31 -- Rockower Award (1st, 2nd, 12 -- -- 12 -- and 3rd places) Totals: 86 11 10 65 Table II: Totals for All Awards Award Total Awarded New Hybrid Old Unknown Donald Robinson Memorial 4 -- 2 2 -- Award for Investigative Journalism Gold Keyboard 8 -- -- 8 -- Award New York Press Club Award for 43 4 3 36 -- Feature Reporting Grantham Prize for 7 -- 4 3 -- Excellence in Reporting on 2013] SHOULD THE INTERNET EXEMPT THE MEDIA SECTOR FROM ANTITRUST LAWS? 4 the Environment James Aronson Award for 33 5 4 24 -- Social Justice Journalism John B. 9 2 3 4 -- Oakes Award The Maria Moors Cabot 18 2 1 15 -- Prize National Journalism 23 3 4 16 -- Awards George Polk 68 5 10 47 6 Awards Pulitzer Prize 37 4 9 24 -- Simon Rockower Awards for 12 -- -- 12 -- Excellence in Jewish Journalism The Sidney Awards (The 47 11 5 31 -- Hillman Foundation) Worth Bingham Prize for 4 -- 1 3 -- Investigative Journalism Totals: 313 36 46 225 6 Table III Awards for other types of journalism that implicitly contain a significant investigatory component, 2005 or more recent, that were open to both the ―old‖ and the ―new‖ media, including awards for Business reporting, Environmental reporting, and Local or Community reporting, but not awards for Commentary, Explanatory, Editorial writing, or Breaking News: 2013] SHOULD
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