The 2024 Gold Keyboard Award, the highest honor among the New York Press Club’s Annual Journalism Awards, will be presented to Annika Pergament, Melissa Rabinovich, Leisha Maitan, Dan Keese, Kristie Lee Neuberger and Dan Komarinetz of Spectrum News NY1 News for their story, “In the Dark: New York’s Child Welfare Deaths,” which focused on a number of tragedies involving children in the care of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services.
The annual Nellie Bly Cub Reporter award was won by Maya Rosen for her Jewish Currents story, “Maya Rosen Covering Israeli Politics on Gaza” while the Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York award will go to three outlets in the newspaper, radio and online categories: Alex Vadukul of The New York Times for “Stories of New York,” Jennifer Vanasco, Ciera Crawford and Isabella Gomez of NPR for “Vibrating Haptic Suits Give Deaf People a New Way to Feel Live Music,” and Zulekha Nathoo, Ian McDonald, Carissa Quiambao of USA Today Humankind for “Nonnas Know Best: At This Restaurant, Grandmas to all the Cooking.”
The awards will be presented at the Press Club’s Annual Awards and Installation Dinner at The Cornucopia Majesty: Pier 81 (41st and 12th Ave/Hudson River) NYC on Monday, June 3, 2024, beginning at 7 pm. Tickets are $200 for members and $225 for non-members and may be purchased here.
Additional winners in more than 30 categories were selected from almost 600 entries submitted by TV, radio, newspapers, websites, magazines, and newswires in New York City and around the U.S.
New York Press Club President Debra Toppeta applauded all the award recipients and added that the level of entries attests to the critical work journalists do.
“Even the many challenges journalists face today, the work that so many do is outstanding,” said Toppeta. “They are a testament to the critical role the media plays in the U.S. and around the world. We are honored by this opportunity to laud all these reporters, editors, writers and producers.”
The Winners for 2024
Gold Keyboard
TV
“In the Dark: New York’s Child Welfare Deaths”
Annika Pergament, Melissa Rabinovich, Leisha Majtan, Dan Keese, Kristi Lee Neuberger, Dan Komarinetz
Spectrum News NY1
Nellie Bly Cub Reporter
Magazine
“Maya Rosen Covering Israeli Politics on Gaza”
Maya Rosen
Jewish Current
Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York
Newspaper
“Stories of New York”
Alex Vadukul
The New York Times
Radio
“Vibrating Haptic Suits Give Deaf People a New Way to Feel Live Music”
Jennifer Vanasco, Ciera Crawford, Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
NPR
Online
“Nonnas Know Best: At This Restaurant, Grandmas do all the Cooking”
Zulekha Nathoo, Ian McDonald, Carissa Quiambao
USA Today Humankind
Jordan Schuman Award for Excellence In Student Journalism
Online
“The Newest New Yorkers”
NYCity News Service Staff
NYCity News Service
Business Reporting – NYC Metro
Newspaper
“Wind Farm Windfall”
James T. Madore
Newsday
Online
Big Cannabis Comes to New York
Rosalind Adams
The City
Business Reporting – National
Mark Lieberman Memorial Award for Business Reporting Newspaper
“The New Banking Crisis”
Rachel Louise Ensign; Corrie Driebusch; Meghan Bobrowsky; Ben Foldy; Justin Baer; AnnaMaria Andriotis; Miriam Gottfried
The Wall Street Journal
Magazine
“The Crypto Whistleblower”
Tracy Wang
Rolling Stone
Online
“Wall Street’s Housing Hustle”
Heather Perlberg, Noah Buhayar, Ann Choi, Tom Schoenberg
Bloomberg News
Climate and Environment – NYC Metro
TV
“Seeking Higher Ground: America’s Climate Migration”
Spectrum News Digital Video Production Team, Zoe Slemmons, Josh Robin, Amrit Singh, Ybeth Bruzual, Digital Video Production Team
Spectrum News
Online
“Despite Immediate Delay, Hochul’s Climate Law Change Would Weaken State’s Aggressive Approach”
Marie J. French
Politico
Climate and Environment – National
Newspaper
“Why Maui’s Lahaina Burned”
Dan Frosch; Jim Carlton; Katherine Blunt; Zusha Elinson; Christine Mai-Duc
The Wall Street Journal
Climate and Environment – National (cont’d)
Online
“Water Grab in the U.S.”
Staff of Bloomberg
Bloomberg Green
Commentary
Newspaper
“I Am the Last Barrier Between My Sister and New York City”
Hilary de Vries
The New York Times
Online
“A Woman Who Composed the First Draft of History Finds Herself Written Out of the History Books”
Allison Gilbert and Hilary Krieger
CNN.com
Consumer Reporting
Newspaper
“The iPhone’s Open Door for Criminals”
Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen
The Wall Street Journal
Magazine
“The Revolution Against Shady Landlords Has Begun”
Molly Crabapple
Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation
TV
“ABC News Live – Trashed: The Secret Life of Plastic Recycling”
Staff of ABC News Live
ABC News
Online
“In the Name of Protection”
Ronnie Greene and Holly Barker
Bloomberg Law
Online
“Death by Delay”
Suzy Khimm, Elizabeth Chuck, Kate Martin, Vicky Nguyen
NBC News Digital
Continuing Coverage – NYC Metro
Newspaper
“Teacher Misconduct on Long Island”
Jim Baumbach, Joie Tyrrell, Dandan Zou, Grant Parpan
Newsday
TV
“Nightmare Neighbor of Ebbets Field”
Melissa Russo, Courtney Copenhagen and Hilary Weissman
WNBC/NBC New York
Online
“Continuing Coverage of the Indictment of New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez”
Jonathan Dienst, Courtney Copenhagen, Tom Winter
WNBC/NBC New York and NBC News
Continuing Coverage – National
Newspaper
“The Ozempic Era”
Dani Blum
The New York Times
Magazine
“Dissent in the Jewish Community over Israel and Zionism”
Mari Cohen and Alex Kane
Jewish Currents
TV
“Scripps News Investigates: Ukraine’s Stolen Orphans”
Jason Bellini; Dmytro Horyevoy; Linda Pattillo; Scott McGhee; Alex Brauer; Max McClellan; Steve Turnham
Scripps News
Online
“Corizon’s Texas Two-Step”
Nicole Einbinder and Dakin Campbell
Business Insider
Courtroom Illustration
Online
“Sayfullo Saipov Sentencing Statement”
Elizabeth Williams
The Associated Press
Crime Reporting – NYC Metro
Newspaper
“Staten Island’s Youth Violence Crisis”
Kyle Lawson, Shaina McLawrence
Staten Island Advance/SILive.com
TV
“Crime Files: Gilgo Beach – Secrets in the Sand”
Annette Stellato, Angela Cascarano, Erin Colton, Antoinette Biordi, Glenn Garthwaite, Brian Jingeleski, Anthony Zito, Alain Tingue, Audrey Gruber, Kristin Malaspina
News 12
Crime Reporting – National
Magazine
“Eight Women Say the Same Man Raped or Assaulted Them. Now They’re Out for Justice”
Alex Morris
Rolling Stone
TV
“48 Hours “Lamar Johnson: Standing in Truth””
Erin Moriarty and 48 Hours Staff
CBS News
Online
“America, Global Gun Pusher”
Staff of Bloomberg
Bloomberg News
Critical Arts Review
Online
“David Fear for Film Criticism”
David Fear
Rolling Stone
Documentary – NYC Metro
Online
“Unbreakable: The Bond Between Fighter and Trainer”
Alejandra Villa Loarca; Gary Licker
Newsday
Documentary – National
TV
“ABC News 20/20 It Happened Here: A Year in Uvalde”
ABC News 20/20 Staff
ABC News
Documentary – National (cont’d)
Online
“Slaughterhouse Children”
Laura Strickler, Julia Ainsley, Didi Martinez, Damia Bonmati, Ala’a Ibrahim, Marshall Crook, Rachael Morehouse, Shalini Sharma, Peter Klein, Catherine Kim, Lara Fernandez
NBC News and Noticias Telemundo
Entertainment News – NYC Metro
Newspaper
“Strong Island’s In the House: When hip-hop ruled Long Island”
Rafer Guzman
Newsday
TV
“Wicked – 20 Years of Defying Gravity”
Frank DiLella, Melissa Rabinovich, Ariella Weintraub. Adolfo Mena Cejas, Roberto Araujo, Kristi Lee Neuberger, Stephen Shepherd, Anthony Paska, Frederick McKoy, Nate Brown, Luis Rodriguez, Victor Caridade
Spectrum News
Entertainment News – National
Newspaper
“Museums That No Longer Exhibit Pain”
Julia Jacobs, Kayla Gahagan and Zachary Small
The New York Times
Magazine
“Person of the Year: Taylor Swift”
Sam Lansky
Time
TV
“CBS Sunday Morning: Mancini”
Rand Morrison, John D’Amelio, Tracy Smith, Steven Tyler
CBS News
Online
“How Wendell Pierce ‘Communed’ With His Dead Mother on Broadway”
Tim Teeman
The Daily Beast
Feature Photo
Newspaper
“The Throwbacks, Vintage ‘Base Ball’ on Long Island”
Thomas A. Ferrara
Newsday
Feature Reporting – NYC Metro
Newspaper
“Rebuilding Sandy Ground”
Tracey Porpora, Jessica Jones-Gorman, Giavanni Alves, Jason Paderon, Jan Somma-Hammel
Staten Island Advance/SILive.com
TV
“Her Story: Leading the Way”
Tara Rosenblum, Alan Flamenhaft, Jean Salzarulo, Audrey Gruber
News 12 Network
Online
“In New York, Migrants Crowd Into Hotels Seeking Shelter — Just Like Jewish Refugees Did After WWII”
Andrew Silverstein
The Forward
Feature Reporting – National
Newspaper
“‘Why Do So Many Working Americans Live in Their Cars?”
Rukmini Callimachi
The New York Times
Magazine
“This Will End in Blood and Ashes”
Jason Motlagh
Rolling Stone
TV
“Life After War: Iraq 20 Years After the Invasion”
Engel Unit Staff
NBC News NOW
Radio
“Hate Crimes Surge in Wake of Gaza War”
Stephen Carroll, Christopher Pitt, Maruful Hossain
Katia Porzecanski, Jenny Che, Michael Cohen, Eamon Farhat, Caroline Alexander
Bloomberg Radio
Feature Reporting – National (cont’d)
Online
“When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row”
Keri Blakinger
The Marshall Project and The New York Times Magazine
Feature-Science Medicine & Technology – NYC Metro
TV
“Exploring Your Health: PTSD”
Erin Billups, Colleen McKown, Shanel Dawson, Brianne Barry, Madeline Quinn, Sean Dahlberg, Lee Weisenfeld
Spectrum News
Feature-Science Medicine & Technology – National
Newspaper
“Family Business”
Amy Dockser Marcus
The Wall Street Journal
Magazine
“Zantac’s Maker Kept Quiet About Cancer Risks for 40 Years”
Anna Edney and Susan Berfield
Bloomberg Businessweek
TV
“CBS News: Hospitals in Peril”
Dr. Jonathan LaPook, Michael Kaplan, Sheena Samu, Matthew Mosk, Greg Hotsenpiller
CBS News
Online
“The Rise of ‘Gas Station Heroin”
Manisha Krishnan and Christina Sterbenz
Vice News
Feature Reporting-Sports – NYC Metro
Newspaper
“Pride Pioneer: LI’s Sue Wicks was First Player in a Team Sport to Come Out Over 20 Years Ago”
Barbara Barker
Newsday
Feature Reporting-Sports – National
Newspaper
“’I Can’t Continue This Fight Any Longer”
Jonathan Abrams
The New York Times
Magazine
“The Burden of Being Aaron Judge”
Esquire Staff
Esquire
Feature Video
TV
“It’s Amazing What You Find When You Look Down”
Darren McQuade
PIX11
Food Writing
Newspaper
“Desperately Seeking Da Silvano”
Alex Vadukul
The New York Times
Magazine
“The Unbearable Costs of an Extraordinary Meal”
Esquire Staff
Esquire
TV
“CBS Sunday Morning: Bittersweet”
Seth Doane, Sari Aviv, Ed Givnish, Thorsten Hoefle, Rand Morrison
CBS News
Online
“In a New War Over Middle Eastern Food, Eating Hummus and Shawarma has Become a Political Act”
Andrew Silverstein
The Forward
Infographics
Newspaper
“The World Is On the Move”
Rosie Ettenheim; Peter Champelli; Tom Fairless
The Wall Street Journal
Online
“Modern Loneliness”
Hilary Brueck and Annie Fu
Business Insider
News Special – NYC Metro
TV
“Crossing Borders: Inside the Migrant Crisis”
Leisha Majtan, Melissa Rabinovich, Debora Fougere, Dan Keese, Kristi Lee Neuberger, Dan Komarinetz, Kelly Mena, Victoria Manna, Gabriel Lugo-Ortiz, Jillian Jorgensen, Philip Klint, Errol Louis, Mariya Abedi, Richard Agostinoni, Chelsea Katz, Lloyd Kim
Spectrum News NY1
News Special – National
TV
“ABC News Studios IMPACT x Nightline: On the Brink”
IMPACT x Nightline
Hulu
Podcast – NYC Metro
Scripted
“Imminent Danger: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women”
Karen Shakerdge, Christopher Werth, Ave Carrillo, Jared Paul, Ethan Corey
WNYC & Gothamist
Podcast – National
Unscripted
“The Opinions”
Derek Arthur, Sophia Alvarez Boyd, Alison Bruzek, Vishakha Darbha, Phoebe Lett, Mary Marge Locker, Kaari Pitkin, Kristina Samulewski, Annie-Rose Strasser, Jillian Weinberger
The New York Times
Scripted
“ABC Audio: The King Road Killings”
ABC Audio Staff
ABC News
Political Reporting – NYC Metro
Online
“The Eric Adams Table of Success”
Christopher Robbins, Esther Wang, Katie Way, Adlan Jackson, Nick Pinto, Max Rivlin-Nadler
Hell Gate and Type Investigations
Political Reporting – National
Magazine
“Trump’s Killing Spree: The Inside Story of His Race to Execute Every Prisoner He Could”
Asawin Suebsaeng and Patrick Reis
Rolling Stone
TV
“CBS News: Biden Classified Documents”
Adriana Diaz and CBS News Staff
CBS News
Online
“Yahoo Finance Biden Energy Coverage”
Rick Newman
Yahoo Finance
Special Event Reporting – NYC Metro
TV
“The Phantom of the Opera – The Final Curtain”
Frank DiLella, Ariella Weintraub, Adolfo Mena Cejas, Roberto Araujo, Dan Keese, Kristi Lee Neuberger, Chelsea Katz, Melissa Rabinovich, Jeremy Campbell, Cheryl Wills, Shannan Ferry, Roger Clark, Philip Klint
Spectrum News NY1
Sports News – NYC METRO
Newspaper
“Death at the Racetrack”
Kevin Armstrong
The Star-Ledger
Spot News – NYC Metro
TV
“Orange County Bus Crash”
News 12
News 12
Spot News – National
TV
CBS News: Maui Wildfires
Norah O’Donnell, Tony Dokoupil, Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News Staff
CBS News
Travel Writing
Newspaper
“A Savory Stroll Under the Neon Lights of Singapore”
Christine Chung
The New York Times
TV
“CBS Sunday Morning: Dog Mountain”
Martha Teichner, Dustin Stephens, Emanuele Secci, Efrain Robles, Rand Morrison
CBS News
