The Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-Madison is seeking nominations for the 2022 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, the Center announced Monday. The deadline for submitting nominations is Jan. 18, 2022.
The Shadid Award, now in its 13th year, recognizes ethical decisions in reporting stories in any medium, including print, broadcast and digital, by journalists working for established news organizations or publishing individually. The award focuses on current journalism and does not include books, documentaries or other long-term projects.
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Previous winners of the award include:
- 2021: Margie Mason and Robin McDowell, Associated Press
- 2020: Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, and Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune
- 2019: Julie K. Brown and Emily Michot, Miami Herald
- 2018: Brian Grow and John Shiffman, Reuters
- 2017: Shane Bauer, Mother Jones
Winners of the Shadid Award receive a $1,000 prize and will be invited to accept the award and discuss their reporting at an awards ceremony in New York on May 17, 2022.
Anthony Shadid, a graduate of UW-Madison and former advisory board member of the Center for Journalism Ethics, died in 2012 on a reporting assignment in Syria for The New York Times. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for his courageous and insightful foreign correspondence.
