2012 Mirror Award Winners Announced
June 14, 2012
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