At an awards ceremony in New York City June 8, Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications announced the winners in the 2022 Mirror Awards competition for excellence in media industry reporting.
Among those attending the Mirror Awards ceremony were Chancellor Kent Syverud; Mary Calvi ’90, co-anchor at WCBS; Newhouse Associate Dean Joel Kaplan; Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times; Chris Licht ’93, Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide, and Alumnus and Trustee Larry Kramer ’72.
Chosen by a group of journalists and journalism educators, the winners are:
Best Single Article/Story
Janell Ross
“The Key Role a Local Newspaper Played in the Trial Over Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder”
Time
Best Profile
Jaeah Lee
“The Courts Beat”
Columbia Journalism Review
Best Commentary
Alexandria Neason
“On Atonement”
Columbia Journalism Review
John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting
Robert Mackey
“Meet the riot squad: right-wing reporters who use viral videos to smear BLM”
The Intercept
Best Story on Media Coverage of the Insurrection and the ‘Stop the Steal’ Movement
Jen Wieczner
“Dominion Voting: Big Lies vs. Big Lawsuits”
Fortune
Best Story on Media Coverage of Disinformation/Misinformation Regarding Vaccine and Mask Mandates
Sheera Frenkel and Tiffany Hsu
“Despite Outbreaks Among Unvaccinated, Fox News Hosts Smear Shots”
“The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online”
“How Local Media Spreads Misinformation From Vaccine Skeptics”
The New York Times
In addition to the juried journalism awards, the Newhouse School presented the Fred Dressler Leadership Award to Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times. Managing editor Joseph Kahn, who will succeed Baquet as executive editor this month, presented the award. The 19th News was honored with the Lorraine Branham IDEA Award, which was presented by Sunny Hostin, three-time Emmy Award-winning co-host of ABC’s “The View,” and accepted by editor-at-large Errin Haines.
The ceremony was held at French Institute Alliance Française. Newhouse associate dean Joel Kaplan presided over the ceremony, filling in for Dean Mark J. Lodato, who had tested positive for COVID earlier in the week and was unable to attend. Newhouse alumni Contessa Brewer ’96 of CNBC and Ghael Fobes ’22 of NBC News served as co-hosts.
The Mirror Awards are the most important awards for recognizing excellence in media industry reporting. Established by the Newhouse School in 2006, the awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit. For information about the awards, visit newhouse.syr.edu/mirrorawards or email mirrorawards@syr.edu.
