Nieman Foundation | Awards | Awards at a Glance | Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

Winners

2012	Sam Dolnick The New York Times “Unlocked: Inside New Jersey’s Halfway Houses”	Press release »
2011	Michael Finnegan, Gale Holland and colleagues Los Angeles Times “Billions to Spend”	Press release » Remarks » Slideshow »
2010	Michael J. Berens The Seattle Times “Seniors for Sale: Exploiting the aged and frail in Washington's adult family homes”	Press release » Remarks » Slideshow »
2009	Raquel Rutledge The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Cashing in on Kids”	Press release » Remarks » Slideshow »
2008	Jim Schaefer, M.L. Elrick Detroit Free Press “A Mayor in Crisis”	Press release » Remarks » Slideshow »
2008	Honorable mention: Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry The Seattle Times "Victory and Ruins"
2007	Dana Priest, Anne Hull The Washington Post “Walter Reed and Beyond”
2006	Lisa Chedekel, Matthew Kauffman The Hartford Courant “Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight”
2005	Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi, R. Jeffrey Smith The Washington Post Lobbying practices and influence of Jack Abramoff
2005	Honorable mention: Marcus Stern, Jerry Kammer San Diego Union Tribune The fall of Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham and congressional corruption
2004	Diana Henriques The New York Times “Captive Clientele” – How insurance companies, investment firms and lenders have fleeced thousands of soldiers fighting for their country
2003	David Willman Los Angeles Times “Stealth Merger: Drug Companies and Government Medical Research”
2003	Honorable mention: Gannett New Jersey Staff Profiting from Public Service: How New Jersey Legislators Exploit the System (series)
2002	Staff The Boston Globe “Abuse in the Catholic Church”
2001	Ken Armstrong, Steve Mills, Maurice Possley Chicago Tribune “Cops and Confessions”
2001	Honorable mention: Ben Raines Mobile Register “Mercury taints seafood”
2000	Michael Grunwald The Washington Post Series on Army Corps of Engineers
1999	Sang-hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley, Martha Mendoza, Randy Herschaft The Associated Press Series on No Gun Ri project
1998	R. G. Dunlop, Gardiner Harris The Courier-Journal “Dust, Deception and Death” (series)
1997	Douglas Frantz The New York Times “Taxes and Tactics”
1997	Honorable mention: Staff Detroit Free Press “The Suicide Machine”
1996	Byron Acohido The Seattle Times Safety at Issue: the 737
1995	Two winners: Jenni Bergal, Fred Schulte Sun-Sentinel “The Medicaid HMO Game: Poor Care, Big Profits” (and other related articles)
1995	Chris Adams The Times-Picayune Profiteering of Louisiana Medicaid program (continued coverage)
1994	Two winners: Jeff Brazil Los Angeles Times Dangerous Delays at the FAA
	Ralph Blumenthal, Douglas Frantz The New York Times US Air (series)
	Honorable mention: Tim Heider, Joel Rutchick Plain Dealer SAFE Fund Investments
1993	Craig Flournoy, Randy Lee Loftis The Dallas Morning News “Race and Risk” (government plans to force thousands of poor black residents to live in a Superfund toxic site)
1992	David Boardman, Susan Gilmore, Eric Nalder, Eric Pryne The Seattle Times Sexual harassment investigation of U.S. Senator Brock Adams
1991	Richard Behar TIME Magazine Scientology: The Cult of Greed
1990	Keith McKnight, Bob Paynter, Andrew Zajac Akron Beacon Journal Secret campaign contributions in Ohio politics
1990	Honorary mention: Tom Knudson Sacramento Bee “Golden Land/Shattered Earth” (reform of 1872 mining law)
1989	Jenni Bergal, Fred Schulte Ft. Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel Crisis in Care: How HRS Fails Florida
1988	Bill Dedman The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “The Color of Money: lending practices discriminate against blacks”
1987	Staff and editors Newsday “The Rush to Burn: America’s Garbage Gamble”
1986	Robert Woodward The Washington Post Secrecy in Government (Reagan administration)
1985	David Ashenfelter, Laura Berman, Tom Hundley, Larry Kostecke, Michael Wagner Detroit Free Press Six-part series questioning Michigan Corrections Department’s practices on prisoner release
1984	Two winners: Brooks Jackson, David Rogers The Wall Street Journal; “Money and Politics”
1984	Chris Collins, John Hanchette Gannett News Service “The Vaccine Machine”
1983	Dennis Camire, Mark Rohner, Sharon Johnson Gannett News Service Series investigating fraud and mismanagement in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers Home Administration (FmHA)
1982	Alan Green, Bill Hogan, Diane Kiesel The New Republic “The New Slush Fund Scandal: How congressmen live high on campaign money”
1981	Patrick Oster, Bruce Ingersoll Chicago Sun-Times “Defense Dilemmas”
1980	Two winners: Ralph Soda Gannett Papers Series on an attempt by two brothers to corner the world’s silver market
1980	Ted Gup, Jonathan Neumann The Washington Post Five-part series exposing how companies bribed federal government officials for lucrative government consulting contracts
1979	John Fialka Washington Star Three-part series on U.S. military shortcomings as revealed by a secret military exercise in Europe called “Nifty Nugget”
1978	David Hess Akron Beacon Journal A body of work on problems with Firestone’s steel-belted radial tires
1977	Michael J. Sniffen, Richard E. Meyer The Associated Press Bert Lance used the same stock as collateral for two different loans
1976	Morton Mintz The Washington Post “The Medicine Business” (series): Why pharmaceutical disasters continue to occur
1975	James Risser The Des Moines Register Corruption in the grain-exporting business
1974	Maxine Cheshire The Washington Post Four-part series on whereabouts of state gifts to U.S. officials and their families from foreign leaders and dignitaries
1973	Jerry Landauer The Wall Street Journal Spiro Agnew series
1972	Carl Bernstein, Robert Woodward The Washington Post Bugging of Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate
1971	Frank Wright Minneapolis Tribune How dairy lobby applied financial weight to secure a favorable decision on price supports; implications in political process
1970	James Clayton The Washington Post Series of editorials criticizing President Nixon’s nominee to the Supreme Court, G. Harrold Carswell
1969	Seymour Hersh Dispatch News Service My Lai 4 incident (series of four articles)
1968	Special Assignment Team The Associated Press Collection of reports on various ways the federal government wasted taxpayers’ money
1967	William Lambert LIFE Senator Edward Long’s Help-Hoffa campaign