Bloomberg News and KFF News are among the 30 finalists for this year’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
The judges deemed the finalists to be of extremely high quality and in keeping with the Prize’s criteria for impact on U.S. government, public policy, or the practice of politics. In the coming weeks, the finalists for the Goldsmith Prize will be announced from this esteemed group, with the winner announced at the Goldsmith Awards Ceremony on April 9.
Here are the finalists with a business journalism focus:
Broken Rehab
Jordan Rau, Irena Hwang
KFF Health News
KFF Health News investigates where rehab falls short, leading to severe or even life-threatening injuries and exorbitant costs at specialized health care facilities.
Cancer Capitalism
Robert Langreth, Tanaz Meghjani, Caleb Melby, Anna Edney, John Tozzi, Rachael Dottle, Josyana Joshua, Henry Baker, Mathieu Benhamou
Bloomberg News
How cancer drugs have become a wildly lucrative business not just for pharma companies but hospitals and doctors, often without extending patients’ lives while exposing them to toxic harms and financial stress.
Deadly Dust
Michael Sallah, Mike Wereschagin, Jimmy Cloutier, Anavi Prakash, Jessie Nguyen, Victoria Malis, Tianyi Wang
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Northwestern University’s Medill Investigative Lab
During the worst epidemic of black lung disease in a generation, the Mine Safety and Health Administration – the federal agency entrusted to protect miners – failed at nearly every level, from missed inspections of mines and gaps in detecting dangerous levels of coal dust, to failing to crack down on operators when the dust levels soared beyond the bounds of safety.
Failed to Death
Joaquin Palomino, Cynthia Dizikes
The San Francisco Chronicle
This reporting team showed how California is committing more and more people to psychiatric hospitals run by for-profit companies, with devastating results.
RX Roulette: The FDA’s Dangerous Gamble on America’s Drugs
Debbie Cenziper, Megan Rose, Brandon Roberts
ProPublica
A secret group inside the Food and Drug Administration allowed dangerous drugmakers formally banned from the U.S. market to continue selling generic drugs to unsuspecting Americans, one in a series of failures to protect the public from unsafe or ineffective medication.
The Body Shops
Fred Schulte
KFF Health News, NBC News
The Body Shops series examines the rise of cosmetic surgery chains, many funded by private equity and selling thousands of patients low-cost body contouring procedures that have prompted numerous medical malpractice lawsuits alleging serious and painful medical complications, including more than a dozen deaths.
To see all of the finalists, go here.
