Steve Mahler

Steve Mahler is a journalism educator and curator of two journalism awards.

Investigative reporters who uncovered information about U.S. policy toward Iraq and who reported charges of sexual misconduct by a former senator were rewarded last night at the Kennedy School of Government.

The second annual Goldsmith Awards were given to those achieving excellence in the fields of investigative reporting, book writing and media research.

The Goldsmith Awards "bring together the world of scholarship and the world of practice...enhancing the work of both," said Kennedy School Dean Albert Carnesale. The awards are given by the Kennedy School's Joan Shorentein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

The prizes for investigative reporting were awarded to Douglas Frantz and Murray Waas of The Los Angeles Times for their series on U.S. government policy toward Iraq-- known as Iraqgate--- and to David Boardman and Eric Pryne of The Seattle Times for reporting allegations of sexual misconduct against former Senator Brock Adams.

The investigative reporting prizes were presented by Tom Wicker, columnist emeritus of The New York Times. "Investigative reporting represents individual enterprise in a craft that is moving inexorably towards mass effort," Wicker said.