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NEWS FROM THE NEW YORK PRESS CLUB www.nypressclub.org | @NYPressClub contact: Debra Caruso, DJC Commuications 212.971.9708 [email protected] Winners Announced in 2014 New York Press Club Awards for Journalism Awards Presentation Dinner is June 9th at the Water Club, Manhattan TIME Magazine's Steven Brill is the 2014 winner of the New York Press Club's highest award, the Gold Keyboard for excellence in investigative journalism for his article, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us." The article exhaustively examined why healthcare in the U.S. costs so much and was an eye opener for many Americans. Brill's award will be among those presented June 9th at the Press Club's annual Awards and Installation of Officers Dinner at Manhattan's Water Club. Also at the event, the New York Press Club Foundation will officially rename its scholarship program for student members to memorialize Stan Brooks, the late 1010 WINS reporter and an inaugural member of the Press Club's New York Journalism Hall of Fame. Among other top winners in this year's competition, considered one of the most prestigious in journalism, is Jackie Mader of The Hechinger Report who will receive the Nellie Bly Cub Reporter Award for a research series entitled, "In Mississippi, Generations Still Fighting Illiteracy." The Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York Award for a story or series that is most complimentary of New York City will be presented in four categories. Radio: Wayne Cabot of WCBS Newsradio 880 for "35 Years of Ronald McDonald House in New York." Internet: Jennifer Hsu, WNYC.org, "Know Your Neighbor." Newspaper: Anne Kadet, The Wall Street Journal for "Metro Money." TV: Lewis Dodley, Thomas Farkas and Lisa Fuhrman of NY1 News for "Grand Central Terminal at 100: All Aboard." The Wall Street Journal won the most awards for 2014 with nine. Bloomberg News (including Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Radio WBBR and Bloomberg Television was second with eight awards. In third place was TIME (including TIME.com) with six. An enduring tradition in New York media, the annual New York Press Club Awards For Journalism honor excellence by writers, reporters, editors, producers and photographers, including multi-media journalists. Entries are considered in more than 20 categories of reporting from material submitted by New York metropolitan area news organizations and individual journalists. Judging is by prominent journalists, former journalists and academics selected for their expertise in each category. More information about the New York Press Club and the awards (including awards dinner reservations) and can be found on the club's Web site: https://www.nypressclub.org/awards.php. A list of this year's winners follows. The New York Press Club | 1324 Lexington Avenue (Box 190) | New York NY 10128 Gold Keyboard Magazine "The Hedge Fund Myth" "Bitter Pill: Why Our Medical Bills Are Killing Josh Tyrangiel Us" Bloomberg Businessweek Steven Brill TIME Best Web Exclusive Content Nellie Bly Cub Reporter Internet "Sandy: After the Storm" "In Mississippi, Generations Still Fighting The Wall Street Journal Staff Illiteracy" The Wall Street Journal Jackie Mader The Hechinger Report Newswire "Reckoning to Revival" Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of NY Keith Naughton Bloomberg News TV "Grand Central Terminal at 100: All Aboard" Business Reporting Lewis Dodley, Thomas Farkas, Lisa Fuhrman NY1 News/Time Warner Cable Newswire "Artful Dodgers" Radio Zachary R. Mider "35 Years of Ronald McDonald House in New Bloomberg News York" Wayne Cabot Magazine WCBS Newsradio 880 "Fortune: Insider Trading" Roger Parloff Internet Fortune "Know Your Neighbor" Jennifer Hsu Newspaper WNYC.org "The Sandy Insurance Mess" Joe Ryan Newspaper Newsday "Metro Money" Anne Kadet Business Reporting The Wall Street Journal Internet Best Headline and Front Page "Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze" Newspaper Michael Hudson, Djordje Padejski, Milan "BEATEN" Dudvarski, Branislav Sovljanski, Blaž Zgaga Newsday Staff Intl. Consortium of Investigative Journalists Newsday The New York Press Club | 1324 Lexington Avenue (Box 190) | New York NY 10128 Business Reporting Magazine "Tungsten's Tainted Trail" TV Michael Smith, Alex Webb, Tim Culpan "Picture Perfect Success" Bloomberg Markets Tara Rosenblum, Eric Leeds News 12 Westchester Continuing Coverage Radio Radio "NYC Tech: Who’s Your Daddy?" "Derailment In The Bronx" Manoush Zomorodi, Andrea Bernstein, Charlie WCBS Newsteam Herman WCBS Newsradio 880 WNYC-FM Newswire Consumer Reporting "Inside Rebel Syria" Oliver Holmes, Alexander Dziadosz Newswire Reuters "They Own the House, but Not What Lies Beneath" TV Michelle Conlin, Brian Grow "Shop & Frisk" Reuters Mario Diaz, Victor Lopez III, Paul Rosenberg, Bill Muller, Nick Devita, Shashi Sharma, Radio Amy Waldman "Know Thy @Neighbor: The End of Urban WPIX-TV Anonymity" Manoush Zomorodi, Collin Campbell, Charlie Internet Herman, Dan Tucker "Long Island's Water Supply" WNYC-FM Ian Bross, Jennifer Earl, Eileen Holliday, Amanda Hofmockel, Timothy Healy, Emily C. Dooley Newsday Internet "Wireless Savings Calculator" Newspaper Scott M. Austin, Lakshmi Ketineni, Paul "Waste Lands" Antonson, Spencer E. Ante, Ryan Knutson, John R. Emshwiller, Jeremy Singer-Vine Thomas Gryta, Ben Fox Rubin The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal Consumer Reporting Crime Reporting TV Newspaper "The Body Business" "Mental Illness: The Violent Price of Neglect" Patrick Dolan, Thomas Maier, Daniel Scaturro, Gary Fields Andrew Singh, David Rahner, Jessica Lee The Wall Street Journal News 12 Long Island The New York Press Club | 1324 Lexington Avenue (Box 190) | New York NY 10128 Crime Reporting Radio "Lenny's Letters" Internet Sara Fishko, Karen Frillmann, Wayne "Baby Hope's Mother Found 22 Years After Shulmister, Laura Mayer Girl's Murder" WNYC-FM Murray Weiss DNAinfo.com New York Magazine Crime Reporting "The Chelsea Hotel Had Its Own Eloise" Taffy Brodesser-Akner Newswire The New York Times Magazine "Honduras" Alberto Arce Newswire Associated Press "Profiles in Entertainment" Jocelyn Noveck TV Associated Press "Hit and Run Squad" Eileen Lehpamer, David Rahner, Glenn Feature Photo Garthwaite Magazine News 12 Long Island "Healing Bobby" Peter van Agtmael Magazine TIME "El Gringo Loco" John H. Richardson Internet Playboy Magazine "Portrait of Domestic Violence" Sara Naomi Lewkowicz Entertainment News TIME.com Newspaper Newspaper "Sandy: One Year After" "It's Not Easy Being a Jewish Artist in a Muslim Debbie Egan-Chin Land: Theater Professionals Face Challenges in New York Daily News Arab Countries" Simi Horwitz The Jewish Daily Forward Feature Reporting Internet Newswire "Discovering the Unexplored Interior: An "Friends Like These" Important Lesson in History with Jonathan Allen Jay O. Sanders" Reuters Marti Davidson Sichel WomanAroundTown.com Radio "The Price of Admission: A Musical Biography of Florence Beatrice Price" Terrance McKnight WQXR The New York Press Club | 1324 Lexington Avenue (Box 190) | New York NY 10128 Feature Reporting "Learning From Newtown" Dan Mannarino, Dawn Howes, Kenton Young, TV Victor Lopez "The Player: Secrets of a Vegas Whale" WPIX-TV Alexandra Dean, Trish Regan, Courtney Coupe, Ryo Ikegami, Ara Ayer, Vincent Mactiernan Newspaper Bloomberg Television "Trials" Amy Dockser Marcus Internet The Wall Street Journal "The Ins and the Outs" Vinnie Rotondaro, Maura Ewing Feature Reporting-Sports Narratively Internet Feature Reporting "Inside the Rivalry: Don Bosco vs. Bergen Catholic" Magazine Brian Fitzsimmons "Vile Rat" MSGVarsity.com David Kushner Playboy Magazine Newspaper "Enduring Endurance Sports" Newspaper Kevin Helliker "Born To Ride" The Wall Street Journal Barry Bearak The New York Times Newswire "Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn" Feature-Science Medicine Tech Beth J. Harpaz Associated Press Newswire "Crimes of the Heart" Feature Reporting-Sports Peter Waldman, David Armstrong, Sydney P. Freedberg TV Bloomberg News "The Good Luck Charm" Virginia Huie, Brian Endres Magazine News 12 Long Island "Fortune: Sheryl Sandberg" Miguel Helft Radio Fortune "I am Somebody" Bobby Gubin Radio WFUV "How Kids Are Like Software" Manoush Zomorodi, Alex Goldmark, Dan Magazine Tucker, Charlie Herman "It Was Nice To Be On The Inside" WNYC-FM Peter Keating ESPN the Magazine TV The New York Press Club | 1324 Lexington Avenue (Box 190) | New York NY 10128 Feature Video Magazine "Majority Rule" TV Michael Scherer, Alex Altman "Video Composite" TIME Douglas Pawlikowski News 12 Westchester TV "Brookhaven Fallout" Internet Eileen Lehpamer, David Leibowitz "Long Island's New Farmers" News 12 Long Island Chris Ware, Mario Gonzalez, Robert Cassidy, Arnold Miller Special Event Reporting Newsday Internet News Special "Fete Paradiso - Out of Time Into Imagination" Alix Cohen TV WomanAroundTown.com "Bail Or Jail: Forgetting Fairness" Richard French, Don Dudley, Ashley Giddix, Special Event Reporting Mike Bruno, Amy Nyikos, Mike Andriello, Ralph Kebrdle TV FiOS1 News "ROME Picking a New Pope" Mary Murphy, Dan Mannarino, Kenton Young, Political Coverage Ken Pelczar WPIX-TV Internet "Three Stooges of NJ Disability Pensions" Radio Mark Lagerkvist "Emerging Economies Race to Compete" New Jersey Watchdog Carole Zimmer, Mark Mills, Al Mayers Bloomberg Radio WBBR Radio "The 2013 NYC Campaign" Sports News Rich Lamb WCBS Newsradio 880 TV "Rutgers Scandal Widens" Newswire Richard French, Andrew Whitman, Dominic "Unaccountable" Carter, Mike Bruno, Ralph Kebrdle Scot Paltrow, Kelly Carr RNNTV Reuters Newspaper Newspaper "A Different