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2024 GOLD KEYBOARD AWARD TO SPECTRUM NEWS NY1 TEAM FOR STORY ON CHILD WELFARE DEATHS IN NEW YORK FULL SLATE OF JOURNALISM AWARDS ANNOUNCED

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
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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

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