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Associated Press Team Wins New York Press Club Gold Keyboard Investigative Journalism Award For Series, "NYPD Spies on NYC."
AP and hyperlocal news site DNAinfo.com were awarded six wins each in the competition. Awards presentations are June 11th at Manhattan's Water Club.
An Associated Press team has won top honors in the 2012 New York Press Club Awards for Journalism, winning the Club's Gold Keyboard Award for the investigative series, "NYPD Spies on NYC." The stories by Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Chris Hawley and Eillen Sullivan fired renewed debate over a central, post-9/11 question: How far should government go to prevent another major terrorist attack in the United States?
The Gold Keyboard was one of six entries by Associated Press writers that were judged exemplary by the Press Club jury, a tally matched by The Wall Street Journal and by hyperlocal news website DNAinfo.com which won Best Web Exclusive Content for its "Crime and Safety Report," an in-depth analysis of New York City crime that ranked 69 neighborhoods from safest to least safe based on violent and nonviolent crime.
Bloomberg media properties dominated the Business Reporting awards this year with nine individual wins by Bloomberg broadcast, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazines.
Nearly 400 entries were received in this year's competition, submitted by journalists publishing or broadcasting for 58 metro New York news organizations.
An enduring tradition in New York media, the annual New York Press Club Awards For Journalism honor excellence in the craft by writers, reporters, editors, producers, shooters and multimediographers. Entries are considered in more than 20 categories of reporting. Judging is by prominent working journalists, former journalists and academics who are selected for their expertise in each category.
Award presentations will take place Monday, June 11th, at the Press Club's Awards and Installation of Officers Dinner at Manhattan's Water Club.
MORE INFORMATION about the Awards, the Awards Dinner (including reservations) and the New York Press Club can be found on the Club's Web site: www.nypressclub.org.
Gold Keyboard Reports by Alex Silverman "NYPD Spies on NYC" WCBS Newsradio 880 Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Chris Hawley, Eileen Sullivan Best Headline and Front Page Associated Press Magazine "The Infidelity Economy" Finalists: Richard Turley, David Foldvari "Drilling Down" Bloomberg BusinessWeek Ian Urbina New York Times Newspaper "Blunder and Lightning" "Lost in Translation" Newsday Staff Daniel Golden, Oliver Staley Newsday Bloomberg News Best Web Exclusive Content Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York Internet TV "DNAinfo.com's Crime & Safety Report" "One on 1 with Budd Mishkin: DNAinfo.com staff A Look Back at 2011" DNAinfo.com Budd Mishkin, Sean Flax NY1 News Business Reporting TV Radio "Race For The Next Facebook" "Our 9/11: Growing Up In The Aftermath" Carol Massar, Matt Miller, Carole Zimmer, Jillian Suarez, Erin Reeg, Norhan Basuni, Eric Ted Fine Leinung, Brendan Illis, Joey Rizzolo, Kaari Bloomberg Broadcast Pitkin, Marianne McCune, Sanda Htyte and Courtney Stein, John DeLore, Mike Jones Magazine WNYC-FM "The Secret Sins of Koch Industries" Asjylyn Loder, David Evans, Leigh Baldwin, Internet Angela Cullen and Elisa Martinuzzi "Woman Around Town: Bloomberg Markets Deborah Koenigsberger - Heart of Gold" Charlene Giannetti Newswire WomanAroundTown.com "Shell Games" Brian Grow, Kelly Carr, Laurence Fletcher, Nellie Bly Cub Reporter Nanette Byrnes, Cynthia Johnston, Matthew "Various Articles by Sarah Butrymowicz" Bigg, Joshua Schneyer, Kevin Drawbaugh, Sarah Butrymowicz Martin de Sa'Pinto, Sara Ledwith Hechinger Report Reuters
Finalists: Articles by Nicholas Kusnetz ProPublica
Business Reporting cont'd Newspaper Newspaper "Courting the Consumer" "Inside Track" Ellen Byron Susan Pulliam, Brody Mullins, Steve Eder, Wall Street Journal Michael Rothfeld, Jenny Strasburg, Vanessa O'Connell Continuing Coverage Wall Street Journal Internet "National Arts Club Mismanagement Radio Allegations" "Ray Hoffman CEO Radio" Amy Zimmer Ray Hoffman DNAinfo.com WCBS-AM 880 Newsradio TV Internet "Looking for Lauren" "Hedge Funds: A Three Part Series" Lisa Reyes, Eric Leeds Merry Sheils News 12 Westchester WomanAroundTown.com Newspaper Consumer Reporting "Long Island Railroad" Newswire Alfonso A. Castillo "Charter Schools, Broken Promises" Newsday John Hechinger Bloomberg News Newswire "Libyan Revolution" Internet Samia Nakhoul, Marie-Louise Gumuchian, "Jobs coverage" Alastair MacDonald, Oliver Holmes, Lamine Janet Guyon, Jeremy Greenfield, Julie Chikhi, Christian Lowe, Emma Farge, Jessica Steinberg, Damian Ghigliotty, Kelly Eggers, Donati, Paul Taylor, Dmitry Zhdannikov, Joseph Walker, Kyle Stock Regan E. Doherty, Mohammed Abbas, Rania FINS.com El Gamal Reuters Radio "Your Wallet" Radio Ginny Kosola, Judy Speicher "The October Snow" FM News 101.9 The WCBS News Team WCBS-AM 880 Newsradio TV "A Losing Ticket" Crime Reporting Jackie Lukas, Brian Jingeleski Newswire News 12 Long Island "Hydrocodone Abuse" Chris Hawley Magazine Associated Press "Golden Years Gone Global" Missy Sullivan SmartMoney
Crime Reporting cont'd Radio Magazine "Songs from The Book of Mormon" "Cash, Crime and Human Organs" Kurt Andersen, Jenny Lawton Michael Smith, Daryna Krasnolutska, David Studio 360 With Kurt Andersen Glovin, David Voreacos Bloomberg Markets Newspaper "The Last Movie Maestro" Internet John Jurgensen "NYPD Ticket-Fixing Scandal" Wall Street Journal Murray Weiss DNAinfo.com Internet "Marching to Save Mother Earth" Newspaper Alix Cohen "Crime Scene" WomanAroundTown.com Mike Wilson New York Times Feature Photo Internet Radio "Photo from Tysha Jones' Vigil" "Amid Summer Crime Spike, Police in Ben Fractenberg Newark Reach Out to Its Residents" DNAinfo.com Mirela Iverac, Karen Frillmann, Jennifer Munson, Rob Granniss Newspaper WNYC-FM "Marisa: A Little Girl's Fight To Live" Alejandra Villa TV Newsday "Inside the House of Horrors: The Barbara Sheehan Interview" Feature Reporting Kirstin Cole, Peter Ruello, Thomas Cassidy, Newswire Ken Pelczar "Our Piece of History" WPIX-TV Adam Geller Associated Press Entertainment News Newswire Internet "From South Dakota to the Bolshoi: A "Military Children Left Behind: Dancer's Leap" Decrepit Schools, Broken Promises" Jocelyn Noveck Kristen Lombardi, Emma Schwartz Associated Press Center for Public Integrity
TV Magazine "Billy Joel Defends Long Island" "The Accidental Sex Offender" Jill Wagner, David Leibowitz Abigail Pesta News 12 Long Island Marie Claire
Newspaper "Punched Out" John Branch New York Times
Feature Reporting cont'd Newspaper TV "Congressional Tracking" "Fighting Spirit" Naftali Bendavid Virginia Huie, David Garden Wall Street Journal News 12 Long Island Regularly Scheduled Local News Radio TV "In Upstate NY, Gas Drilling Debate "News 12 Brooklyn: Leiby" Gets Local" Berta Castaner, Scott Levy, Lisa Allen, Dave Maria Scarvalone, Karen Frillmann, Wayne Balsome, Betty Yu, Dana Arschin, Erin Shulmister, Paul Schneider Natalicchio, Liz Wagner WNYC-FM News 12 Brooklyn
Feature Video Special Event Reporting TV Newswire "Music Comes From the Street" "Maxwell House Haggadah Shines on for Michael DelGiudice Passover" WNBC-TV Leanne Italie Associated Press News Special TV Magazine "Triangle Shirt Waist Fire: 100 Years" "Why Bin Laden Lost" Andrew Whitman, Richard French III, Brendan Greeley Ralph Kebrdle, Mike Bruno Bloomberg BusinessWeek WRNN-TV TV Political Coverage "We Witnessed 9/11 Through Their Lenses" Magazine Rebecca Davis "End of Mail" New York Daily News Website Devin Leonard Bloomberg BusinessWeek Newspaper "Federal Offenses" TV Gary Fields, John Emshwiller "60 Minutes: The Insiders" Wall Street Journal Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Steve Kroft, Ira Rosen, Gabrielle Schonder, Andy Soto , Paul Radio Dougherty, Aaron Tomlinson, Matthew "9/11: 10 Years Later" Magratten, Tom Staton, Tadd J. Lascari, Jack The WCBS News Team Weingart, Laura Kuhn WCBS-AM 880 Newsradio CBS News
Newswire "Secret U.S./Taliban Talks" Missy Ryan, Warren Strobel, Mark Hosenball Reuters
Sports Reporting Internet Newswire "Hurricane Irene News Coverage" "College Sports Trump Education" Jim Scott, Michael Ventura, Julie Shapiro, Curtis Eichelberger, Oliver Staley, Aaron Serena Solomon, Tom Liddy, Jill Colvin, Kuriloff, David Mildenberg Andrea Swalec Bloomberg News DNAinfo.com
Sports Reporting cont'd TV Magazine "Tough Streets" "Industry of Fear" Tetiana Anderson Peter Keating NY1 News ESPN the Magazine Newspaper TV "The Day That Changed Japan" "The Perfect Play" The Wall Street Journal staff Kevin Maher, Daniel Scaturro, Daniel Wall Street Journal Jacobsen News 12 Long Island Radio "Earthquake in the Tri-State" Newspaper The WCBS News Team "School Of Hard Knocks" WCBS-AM 880 Newsradio Tom Rock, Stephen Haynes Newsday Spot News Photo Internet Radio "Photo of Occupy Wall Street Rally" "61 is 50: Remembering Roger" Paul Lomax Kyle Kesses DNAinfo.com WFUV-FM Newspaper Internet "His Hero" "Mickey Mantle - Reluctant Hero" Joe Marino Charlene Giannetti New York Daily News WomanAroundTown.com Spot News Video Spot News TV Newswire "Irene Blows Ashore" "Japan Quake" Michael DelGiudice Associated Press staff WNBC-TV Associated Press
Magazine "Nothing to Do But Start Over Again" Charles Graeber Bloomberg BusinessWeek