Winners announced in Newhouse School’s 11th annual Mirror Awards competition

Winners in the 11th annual Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting were announced June 13 at a ceremony in New York City, hosted by Syracuse University’s SI Newhouse School of Public Communications. “Today” show contributing correspondent Jenna Bush Hager emceed the luncheon event, which was held at Cipriani 42nd Street. The winners, chosen by a group of journalists and journalism educators, are:

Best Profile: Sarah Esther Maslin, “A light in the underworld” for Columbia Journalism Review
Best Single Story: Soraya Chemaly and Catherine Buni, “The secret rules of the internet” for The Verge
Best Commentary: Eric Alterman, “How False Equivalence Is Distorting the 2016 Election Coverage” for The Nation
John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting: Gabriel Sherman for New York magazine