Goldsmith Book Prize

The purpose of the Goldsmith Book Prize is to recognize works that " [improve] government through an examination of the intersection between press, politics, and public policy." The prize is awarded to the book published in the previous year that best exemplifies the fulfillment of this goal. The first such prize was awarded in 1993.

The Goldsmith Awards Program, launched in 1991, is based at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, a part of Harvard University. The program includes two separate book prizes, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Book Prize Winners

2007:Academic: Diana C. Mutz, "Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy":Trade: Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, "The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation"
*2006:Academic: James A. Stimson, "Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics":Trade: Geoffrey R. Stone, "Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism"

*2005:Academic: Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini, "Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics":Trade: Paul Starr, "The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications"

*2004:Academic: Scott L. Althaus, "Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People":Paul M. Kellstedt, "The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes" :Trade: Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson, "Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq"

*2003:Academic: Doris Graber, "Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age":Trade: Leonard Downie, Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser, "The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril"

*2002:Academic: Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki, "The Black Image in the White Mind":Trade: Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, "The Elements of Journalism"

*2001:Lawrence R. Jacobs & Robert Y. Shapiro, "Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness"

*2000:Robert McChesney, "Rich Media, Poor Democracy"

*1999:James Hamilton, "Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming"

*1998:Richard Norton Smith, "The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955"

*1997:No award given

*1996:Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar, "Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate"

*1995:William Hoynes, "Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market and the Public Sphere"

*1994:Cass R. Sunstein, "Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech"

*1993:Greg Mitchell, "Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics"

ee also

*List of American literary awards
*List of literary awards

External links

* [http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/goldsmith_awards/investigative_reporting.htm] About the award and a list of recipients
* [http://shorensteincenter.org] The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy's official Web site