2014 Award Sponsors and Judges

HAL BOYLE AWARD
Norman Pearlstine in memory of Jerry Flint
Dafna Linzer, MSNBC.com; Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica; Azmat Khan, Al Jazeera; Maralee Schwartz, Shorenstein Center

BOB CONSIDINE AWARD
William J. Holstein and Rita Sevell
Scott Kraft, Los Angeles Times; Keith Richburg, former Washington Post foreign correspondent; Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica;
Amy Wilentz, author and professor, University of California Irvine

ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD
Time Magazine

OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD
Newsweek

JOHN FABER AWARD

BUSINESS OF ENTERTAINMENT
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

Cyma Rubin
Judges for all 4 Photography Awards:

Pancho Bernasconi, Getty Images; Natasha Cholerton-Brown, Bloomberg News; Ruth Fremson, The New York Times;
Adrees Latif, Thomson Reuters; Alan Taylor, TheAtlantic.com; Sokes Young, NBCNews.com

Judges in the 4 previous categories recused themselves if their agency or media organization was in the final selection.

LOWELL THOMAS AWARD
Felice Levin
Abigail Pesta, freelance; Bob Dowling, freelance writer; John Koppisch, Forbes; Sarah Lubman, Brunswick Group;
Geraldine Sealey, NBC News Digital; Joel Whitney, Al Jazeera

DAVID KAPLAN AWARD
Ben and Karen Sherwood
Elizabeth Koraca, Thomson Reuters; Rita Cosby, CBS; Missie Rennie, media consultant

EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD
CBS
Mark Seibel, McClatchy; Paul Brandus, West Wing Report; Lindsay Krasnoff, U.S. State Department;
Muna Shikaki, al Arabiya television

ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD
Ford Motor Company
Farnaz Fassihi, Wall Street Journal; Kim Barker, ProPublica; Mohamad Bazzi, NYU;

Wendell Steavenson, New Yorker and Nieman Fellow

THOMAS NAST AWARD
Romesh Ratnesar, Bloomberg Businessweek; Aisha Labi, Chronicle of Higher Education and consultant, NBC News;

Joel Stein, Time magazine; Ward Sutton, freelance illustrator

MORTON FRANK AWARD
Marc Lemcke
Allan Dodds Frank, freelance; Walt Bogdanich, The New York Times; Richard Greenberg, NBC; Consuelo Mack, WealthTrack

MALCOLM FORBES AWARD
Forbes Magazine
William J. Holstein, business journalist and author; Pete Engardio, Boston Consulting Group;

Leah Nathans Spiro, Riverside Creative Management; Alex Taylor, Fortune

CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD
Friends of Richard Threlkeld
Dan Hertzberg, former editor at Bloomberg; John Bussey, Wall Street Journal; Neil Hickey, Columbia Journalism School

MADELINE DANE ROSS
Linda Fasulo
Vivienne Walt, Time; Celestine Bohlen, The New York Times; Jim Frederick, Time; Judith Matloff, Columbia Journalism School

DAVID A. ANDELMAN and PAMELA TITLE AWARD
David A. Andelman and Pamela Title
Minky Worden, Human Rights Watch; Ilan Greenberg, freelance; Alec McCabe, Bloomberg;

Jill Savitt, Center for Civil and Human Rights;

JOE and LAURIE DINE AWARD
Philip Dine
Anya Schiffrin, Columbia SIPA; Jonathan Birchall, OSF Justice Initiative; Nicole Pope, freelancer, former Le Monde correspondent; Allison Silver, Thomson Reuters

WHITMAN BASSOW AWARD
Citi
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica; David Biello, Scientific American; Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times;

Eric Roston, Bloomberg; Martin Smith, PBS

ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN AWARD
Didi Hunter in honor of her father Lester Ziffren
Gary Regenstreif, former Reuters editor; Andrew Bast, CBS; Tim Ferguson, Forbes; Scott Johnson, freelance writer

Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, Human Rights Watch; Abi Wright, Columbia School of Journalism

BEST MULTIMEDIA NEWS PRESENTATION
Google
Jennifer Bensko Ha, Federated Media; Lena Groeger, ProPublica; Tim Smith, Fortune; Robyn Tomlin, Digital First Media

BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Michael Serrill
Charles M. Sennott, GlobalPost; Tom Hundley, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting; Bob Ivry, Bloomberg News;

Sarah Stillman, New Yorker

BEST COMMENTARY
Mary Rajkumar, Associated Press; Marcy McGinnis, Al Jazeera; Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times; Robert Sullivan, freelance