2012 Mirror Awards Finalists Announced
The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has unveiled the 2102 Mirror Awards finalists. Winners will be announced June 13, at an event hosted by Anderson Cooper.
Below is the complete list of finalists.
Best Single Article, Traditional/Legacy Media
- Jodi Enda, “Politico, Act II” (American Journalism Review)
- Felix Gillette, “The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace” (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Adam Lashinsky, “How Apple works: Inside the world’s biggest startup” (Fortune)
- Gabriel Sherman, “The Elephant in the Green Room” (New York)
- Emily Steel and Geoffrey A. Fowler, “Big Brands Like Facebook, But They Don’t Like to Pay” (Wall Street Journal)
Best Single Article, Digital Media
- Joshua Benton, “That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times’ paywall to come tumbling down” (Nieman Journalism Lab)
- Paul Ford, “Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?” (New York)
- Lauren Kirchner, “AOL Settled with Unpaid ‘Volunteers’ for $15 Million” (Columbia Journalism Review)
- Mallary Jean Tenore, “In real-time, journalists’ tweets contribute to a ‘raw draft’ of history” (Poynter)
- Rhonda Roland Shearer and Malik Ayub Sumbal, “Mrs. Bhutto’s Murder Anniversary Part 1: Troubling Double Standard, American photojournalism’s different treatment of foreign victims” (iMediaEthics)
Best Profile, Traditional/Legacy Media
- Ken Auletta, “Changing Times” (The New Yorker)
- Felix Gillette, “Demand Media’s Planet of the Algorithms” (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Maharishi Arianna” (New York)
- Evan Osnos, “The Han Dynasty” (The New Yorker)
Best Profile, Digital Media
- Danny Gold, “The Man Who Makes Money Publishing Your Nude Pics” (The Awl)
- Joe Pompeo, “The road ahead for The Huffington Post: Nine months and a merger later, ‘Capital-J Journalism’ is still a work in progress” (Capital New York)
- Rachel Sklar, “Chelsea Handler Has It Covered” (Change The Ratio)
Best Commentary, Traditional/Legacy Media
- Eric Alterman (The Nation)
- Syed Irfan Ashraf (The DAWN Media Group/Individualland)
- John Gapper (Financial Times)
- Anna Holmes (The New York Times, The Washington Post)
Best Commentary, Digital Media
- Gavin Polone (Vulture/New York)
- Rem Rieder (American Journalism Review)
- Jack Shafer (Reuters Blog)
- Mallary Jean Tenore (Poynter)
- Rebecca Traister (Salon.com, The New York Times)
John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting
- Jodi Enda, “The Bloomberg Juggernaut” (American Journalism Review)
- On The Media Team: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Katya Rogers, Nazanin Rafsanjani, Jamison York, Mike Vuolo, Sarah Abdurrahman, PJ Vogt, Alex Goldman, “Does NPR Have a Liberal Bias?” (NPR/On The Media)
- Peter Maass, “The Toppling” (The New Yorker and ProPublica)
- Seth Mnookin, “The Kingdom and the Paywall” (New York)
- Brian Rosenthal, “In Focus: Investigative Journalism students used questionably ethical reporting tactics, sources say” and “‘Dismantling of a legacy’: The rise and fall of David Protess” (The Daily Northwestern)
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