UsaNewsOnline.Com Desk, New York : The New York Times is the major winner in the latest New York Press Club Awards for Journalism. Times reporter Brian Rosenthal won the 2020 Gold Keyboard Award, the competition’s highest, for “Taken for a Ride,” an investigative series on corruption in the New York City taxi medallion business.
As previously announced, NY Times Writers Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor will receive this year’s “Gabe Pressman Truth to Power Award,” which recognizes the club’s late president, friend and supporter who was a
staunch supporter of the First Amendment.
Other major award winners were winners of the Mychal Judge Heart of New York Award. Those were: Alex Vadukul for “Stories of New York” in The New York Times (newspaper); Sara Fishko, Olivia Briley, Bill Moss, Karen Frillmann of WNYC for “Wright and the Guggenheim” (radio); “Pizza-Spinning Chef Helps Others Get a Slice of the American Dream” by Matt Frucci, Jill Billante, George Itzhak, Mohammed Syed, Terry Tousey of NBC
News/Nightly News with Lester Holt (TV) and “The Art of Surviving” from Elizabeth Van Brocklin of The Trace (online).
In addition, Claudia Irizarry Aponte, who covers Brooklyn for The City, was named the Nellie Bly Cub Reporter for 2020.
All winners were selected from hundreds of entries submitted by TV, radio, newspapers, websites, magazines and newswires in New York City and around the U.S.
New York Press Club President Jane Tillman Irving applauded all the award recipients and added that the high number of entries is a testament to the great reporting being done in New York even amid the significant
challenges being faced by journalists today, including budget cuts, lay-offs and restrictions imposed by government officials.

A decades-long tradition in New York media, the annual "New York Press Club Awards for Journalism" honor excellence by writers, reporters, editors, producers, photographers and multi-media journalists. Entries this
year were judged in 30 categories, including sub-categories for print, broadcast, and the Internet. Prominent journalists, former journalists and academics selected for their expertise in each category serve as judges.

The Winners for 2020
Gold Keyboard
“Taken for a Ride”
Brian M. Rosenthal
The New York Times
Nellie Bly Cub Reporter
“Claudia Irizarry Aponte”
Claudia Irizarry Aponte
THE CITY
Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York
Newspaper
“Stories of New York”
Alex Vadukul
The New York Times
Radio
“Wright and the Guggenheim”
Sara Fishko, Olivia Briley, Bill Moss, Karen Frillmann
Radio
WNYC
TV
“Pizza-Spinning Chef Helps Others Get a Slice of the
American Dream”
Matt Frucci, Jill Billante, George Itzhak, Mohammed
Syed, Terry Tousey,
NBC News/Nightly News with Lester Holt
Online
“The Art of Surviving”
Elizabeth Van Brocklin
The Trace
Business Reporting
Newspaper
“The WeWork Delusion”
Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell, Liz Hoffman, David Benoit
The Wall Street Journal
Magazine
“The Last Boys’ Club”
Claire Zillman
Fortune
Business Reporting (cont’d)
Radio
“Boeing’s Grounded 737 Max”
Bloomberg Radio
Bloomberg Radio
Online
“How MoviePass went from Hollywood Disrupter to Flat
Broke in 18 Months”
Jason Guerrasio
Business Insider
Commentary
Newspaper
“Bloomberg’s Biggest Liability: His Billions, Seen as a
Strength, are Actually a Weakness”
Dan Morrison
New York Daily News
Online
“The Reality-Defying Shame of Log Cabin Republicans”
Tim Teeman
The Daily Beast
Consumer Reporting
Newspaper
“How Amazon Puts Us at Risk”
Alexandra Berzon, Shane Shifflett, Justin Scheck,
Khadeeja Safdar, Denise Blostein, Jon Emont, Dana
Mattioli
The Wall Street Journal
Magazine
“The Real Tide Pod Challenge”
Jake Meth
Fortune
TV
“CBS Sunday Morning: Deal or No Deal?”
Allison Aubrey, Dustin Stephens, Mike Levine, Rand
Morrison
CBS News
Online
“The Fumes in South Portland”
Sabrina Shankman
InsideClimate News

Continuing Coverage
Newspaper
“Climate of Fear”
Will Van Sant, Victor Manuel Ramos
Newsday
Magazine
“New Red Scare”
Peter Waldman
Bloomberg Businessweek
Radio
“The Victim Compensation Fund”
WCBS News Team
WCBS NewsRadio 880 AM
TV
“Richard Engel  Continuing  Coverage Syria 2019”  
David Verdi, Richard Engel, Jennifer Suozzo, Matt Frucci,
Ian Sherwood, Chris Strathman, Wesley Oliver, Claire
Duffy, Marc Smith, Ammar Cheikhomar, Nico Hameon,
Miguel Toran, Randy Brown, Gabriel Chaim, Ziad Jaber,
Susan Archer, Yuka Tachibana, Mac Bishop, Jackie Pou,
Richards, Carl Sears, Mary Beth Toole, Mo Abbas,
Charlotte Gardiner, Julie Cerullo, Hatice Soyal, Sue Kroll,
Nikolai Miller, Charlie Ede, Richard O’Kelly, Barry
Silverman, Tom Whittaker, Maggie Kassner, Rob Kaplan,
Marshall Hausfeld; Delara Shakib
NBC News
Online
“Viral lies: Facebook’s Health Misinformation Problem”
Brandy Zadrozny; Aliza Nadi
NBC News Digital
Crime Reporting
TV
“Justice for Junior: Terror of the Trinitarios”
Anthony Carlo, Michelle Ross, Eric Steltzer, Anthony
Circosta, Brooke Rothenberg, Jony Hurtado, Jose
Sanchez, Juan De Jesus, Salomon Sarmiento, Chade
Newton, Thuvia Jones, Pratik Parija
News 12 The Bronx
Online
“The NYPD’s Mental Illness Breakdown”
Rachel Holliday Smith, Ese Olumhense and Greg B. Smith
THE CITY
Critical Arts Review
Newspaper
“Dance Critic”
Gia Kourlas
The New York Times
Magazine
“Critic’s Notebook: ‘Some Like it Hot’ Turns 60, as Fresh
and Frisky as Ever”
Simi Horwitz
The Hollywood Reporter
Radio
“Warhol’s Work”
Sara Fishko, Olivia Briley, Wayne Shulmister, Karen
Frillmann
WNYC
TV
“Roma Reviews”
Roma Torre
Spectrum News NY1
Online
“Moments/Stories – Paintings by Peter Beston”
Alix Cohen
Woman Around Town
Documentary
Newspaper
“An Innocent Man?”
Thomas Maier
Newsday
Radio
“Shell Shock 1919: How the Great War Changed Culture”
Sara Fishko, Olivia Briley, Ed Haber, Karen Frillmann
Radio
WNYC
TV
“Amazon on Fire”
Subrata De, Beverly Chase, Ruben Davis, Craig Thomson,
Seb Walker, Juanita Ceballos, Adam Desiderio, Lee Doyle,
Daniel Vergara, Agnes Walton, Cameron Dennis, Ryo
Ikegami, Kelly Kendrick, Joe Matoske, Javier Manzano,
Daniel Vergara, Adam Desiderio, Lee Doyle, Zach
Caldwell, Erik Whitestone, Lunae Parracho, Roberta
Fortuna, Alan Lima, Lyle Kendrick
Investigations by VICE (Hulu)

Documentary (cont’d)
Online
“Did Marsha P. Johnson Start the 1969 Stonewall Riots?”
Sal Bono, Rich Sullivan, Mara Montalbano, John Ostojic
and IE staff
Inside Edition
Entertainment News
Newspaper
“Students and Cosplay”
Dave Paone
Campus News
Magazine
“Theatre’s Front Lines: For House Managers and Theatre
Service Directors the Work is Invisible but Rewarding”
Simi Horwitz
American Theatre
Radio
“Oscar and Nat”
Sara Fishko, Olivia Briley, Wayne Shulmister, Karen
Frillmann
WNYC
TV
“On Stage: Network”
Kevin Dugan, Frank DiLella, Roma Torre, Cody Williams,
Ariella Weintraub, Adam Paul Verity, Jose Duran, Thibaut
Rigeot
Spectrum News NY1
Feature Reporting
Newspaper
“In the Shadows”
Victor Manuel Ramos
Newsday
Magazine
“They Call Her the Savant”
Jessica Pels, Andrea Stanley, Meredith Bryan
Cosmopolitan
TV
“CBS Sunday Morning: All Her Sons”
Seth Doane, Dustin Stephens, Steven Tyler, Rand
Morrison
CBS News
Feature Reporting (cont’d)
Online
“Richard White Was a Homeless Kid. Then, with a Tuba,
He Made Music History”
Tim Teeman
The Daily Beast
Feature-Science Medicine & Technology
Newspaper
“Going Under the Knife to Heal a Lifelong Wound”
Pam Belluck
The New York Times
Magazine
“The Face of Change”
Jamie Ducharme
TIME
Radio
“Event 201: Preparing for a Pandemic”
Janet Wu
Bloomberg Radio
TV
“Climate in Crisis Coverage”
NBC News Group Staff
NBC News Group
Online
“Heartless Hospital”
Caroline Chen
ProPublica
Feature Sports
Magazine
“How Much is a Little Girl Worth?”
Mary Pilon
Fortune
TV
“Paper Super Bowl 3”
Kevin Maher, Daniel Scaturro, Dave Dodds, Gregory
Stevens
News 12 Long Island
Online
“Whatever Happened to Villanova Basketball Star Shelly
Pennefather?”
Elizabeth Merrill
ESPN

Food Writing
Online
“In a Wheelchair and Hungry”
Robert Sietsema
Eater New York
Infographics
Newspaper
“The Shed, Unveiled”
Heather Jones
The New York Times
Online
“Wealth Detectives”
Tom Metcalf, Andrew Heathcote, Pei Yi Mak, Sophie
Alexander, Tom Maloney, Devon Pendleton, Venus Feng,
Yoojung Lee, Blake Schmidt, Jack Witzig, Steven Crabill,
Dave Merrill, Jeremy C.F. Lin, Andre Tartar, Blake
Schmidt, Chloe Whiteaker, Adrian Leung, and Demetrios
Pogkas
Bloomberg News
News Special
TV
“They Come for Us at Night: China’s Vanishing Muslims”
Madeleine Haeringer, Josh Tyrangiel, Shane Smith,
Subrata De, Beverly Chase, Nicole Bozorgmir, Isobel
Yeung, Titi Yu, T. Wang, Carina Wong, Paula Salhany
VICE News Tonight
Feature Photo
Newspaper
“Unstoppable”
Alejandra Villa Loarca
Newsday
Magazine
“Rohingya Living in a Nowhere Land”
James Nachtwey
TIME
Online
“‘They Will Remember Us’: The Miners of Black Harlan
Radcliffe Roye”
NYR Daily, The New York Review of Books
Feature Video
TV
“The Messages”
Michael DelGiudice
WNBC-TV
Online
“Street Level Photography”
Digital Photographers
Spectrum News
Podcast
Newspaper
“The WeWork Trilogy”
Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell, Kate Linebaugh, Ryan
Knutson, Annie Minoff, Rikki Novetsky, Sarah Platt, Willa
Rubin, Pia Gadkari, Annie-Rose Strasser, Griffin Tanner
and Jarrard Cole
The Wall Street Journal and Gimlet
Radio
“Trump, Inc.”
ProPublica and WNYC Staff
ProPublica and WNYC
TV
“Article II: Inside Impeachment”
Steve Kornacki, Ellen Frankman, Isabel Angell, Max
Jacobs, Claire Tighe, Preeti Varathan, Aaron Dalton,
Allison Bailey, Adam Noboa, Barbara Raab, Steve Lickteig
NBC News
Online
“The Shrink Next Door”
Joe Nocera, Krista Rypl, Francesca Levy, Jared Sandberg,
Katie Boyce, George Lavender, Marshall Lewy, Hernan
Lopez, Maya Kaufman
Bloomberg and Wondery
Political Coverage
Newspaper
“A Secretive Dinner Where $25,000 Buys Access to
Cuomo (and Filet Mignon)”
J. David Goodman
The New York Times
Magazine
“Fortune: Death by a Thousand Clicks”
Erika Fry and Fred Schulte
Fortune and Kaiser Health News

Political Coverage (cont’d)
TV
“Out of Service: NY1 Investigation Finds Chronic Elevator
Outages Plague NYCHA”
Rosa Cazares, Shanel Dawson, Courtney Gross, Lloyd Kim,
Dan Keese, Dan Komarinetz
Spectrum News NY1
Online
“Solitary Voices”
Reporting and Data Teams
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The
Intercept, NBC News, Univision, WNYC and Latin
American media partners
Special Event Reporting
Newspaper
“’Game of Thrones’ Final Season”
The Culture Desk Staff of The New York Times
The New York Times
TV
“Homeless, Not Nameless”
Stephen Clarke, Chantal Garcia, Courtney Gross, Dan
Keese, Kristi Lee Neuberger, Shanel Dawson, Dan
Komarinetz
Spectrum News NY1
Online
“Since Parkland”
The Trace, Miami Herald, and McClatchy
The Trace, Miami Herald, and McClatchy
Sports News
Radio
“Who Runs the World? THE USWNT”
Brianna Leverty
WFUV 90.7 FM
TV
“Foul Ball: Did a N.J. Man Get Duped into Buying $100K in
Bogus Sports Memorabilia?”
Kevin Monahan, Stephanie Gosk, Rich Schapiro, Kenzi
Abou-Sabe
NBC News Investigative Unit
Online
“Los Angeles Angels Employee Details Team’s Knowledge
of Tyler Skaggs’ Drug Use to Federal DEA Investigators”
T.J. Quinn and Arty Berko
ESPN
Spot News
Radio
“The Jersey City Shooting”
WCBS News Team
WCBS Newsradio 880
TV
“Midtown Helicopter Crash”
Spectrum News NY1 Staff
Spectrum News NY1
Spot News Video
Online
“QuickTake: Hong Kong on Edge”
Virginia Lau, Josie Wong, Simon Fuller and Stephanie
Chung
Bloomberg QuickTake
Spot News Photo
Newspaper
“Tears for the Fallen”
Steve Pfost
Newsday
Travel Writing
Newspaper
“Her Uncle Died with the French Resistance, and She had
to Visit the Spot”
Sylvie Bigar
Washington Post
Magazine
“Hot and Unbothered”
Anjali Khosla
Gossamer
Online
“Not Italian Enough: Christmas in Castelfranco”
Valarie D’Elia, John Rattazzi,
travelwithval.com Press Release.