WSJ’s Horwitz and staff wins NY Press Club’s highest award

Jeff Horwitz

The New York Press Club announced Thursday that Jeff Horwitz and the staff of the Wall Street Journal are the 2022 recipients of the club’s highest award, The Gold Keyboard.

The Journal reporters were recognized for their series of investigative stories titled “The Facebook Files“ on the social media site’s “flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands.”

The award, along with the full complement for 2022 in 30 categories, will be presented at the club’s Annual Awards Dinner, Tuesday, June 7, 7 p.m., at the Water Club in Manhattan.

Other major awards went to Troy Closson of The New York Times who will receive the Nellie Bly Cub Reporter Award and the following winners of the Mychal Judge Heart of New York Award: Alex Vadukul of The New York Times for “Lives of New York” (Newspaper), Virginia Huie and Patrick Mantle of News 12 for “9/11 Birthday Roses” (TV) and Uli Buetter Cohen for “Subway Book Review.”

See all of the award winners here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.