Robert Alston Davis

The annual Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting honors investigative reporting that best promotes ethical conduct of our major governmental, business, and other national institutions. The first-place winner receives $25,000. and five finalists receive $10,000.

Financial support for the Goldsmith Awards Program is provided by Harvard University. The program is administered by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

This year's prize for investigative reporting were awarded to Douglas Frantz and Murray Waas for their series in the Los Angeles Times on U.S. government policy toward Iraq. Second place went to David Boardman and Eric Pryne of The Seattle Times for a series on allegations of sexual misconduct against Brock Adams, a former senator from Washington. Frantz and Waas were also finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for the very same stories.