2012 Mirror Award Winners Announced

Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications presented seven journalism awards at the sixth annual Mirror Awards ceremony.

The winners, chosen by a group of journalists and journalism educators, are:

  • Best Single Article, Traditional/Legacy Media: Adam Lashinsky, "How Apple works: Inside the world's biggest startup" (Fortune)
  • Best Single Article, Digital Media: 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)
  • Best Profile, Digital Media: 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)
  • Best Commentary, Traditional/Legacy Media: Anna Holmes, "The Disposable Woman"; "Anna Holmes on Donald Trump's Sexism"; "The best TV criticism's ink is pink, but powerful" (The New York Times, The Washington Post)
  • Best Commentary, Digital Media: Rebecca Traister, "The Soap Opera Is Dead! Long Live The Soap Opera!"; "30 Rock' takes on feminist hypocrisy--and its own"; "Seeing 'Bridesmaids' is a social responsibility" (Salon, New York Times Magazine)
  • John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting: Peter Maass, "The Toppling" (The New Yorker and ProPublica)

2012 Mirror Award Winners Announced