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The award is meant to recognize works that " mprovegovernment through an examination of the intersection between press, politics, and public policy." The prize is awarded to the book published in the previous year that best exemplifies the fulfillment of this goal. The first such prize was awarded in 1993. The program was expanded in 2002 to include two separate book prizes, for trade and academic works. The Goldsmith Awards Program, launched in 1991, is based at the

Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center that explores the intersection and impact of media, politics and public policy in theory and practice. Among other activities, the center ...

at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, a part of

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. The center also gives out the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Book Prize winners

*2020 :No award given *2019 :Academic: Matthew Hindman, ''The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy''
Margaret E. Roberts, ''Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall'' :Trade: Steven Levitsky and

Daniel Ziblatt Daniel Ziblatt (born 1972) is an American political scientist and a professor at Harvard University with a research focus on comparative politics, democracy and democratization as well as the politics and political history of Western Europe. Since ...

, ''

How Democracies Die ''How Democracies Die'' is a 2018 comparative politics book by Harvard University political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about how elected leaders can gradually subvert the democratic process to increase their power. In 2021, '' ...

'' * 2018 :No award given * 2017 :Academic: James T. Hamilton, ''Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism'' :Trade: David Greenberg, ''Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency'' * 2016 :Academic: Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril and Claes H. de Vreese, ''Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective'' :Trade: Harold Holzer, '' Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion'' * 2015 :Academic: Daniela Stockmann, ''Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China'' :Trade:

Andrew Pettegree Andrew D. M. Pettegree is a British historian and an expert on the European Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations. he holds a professorship at St Andrews University, where he is the director of the Universal Short Title C ...

, ''The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself'' * 2014 :Academic: Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson, ''Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice'' : Matthew Levendusky, ''How Partisan Media Polarize America'' :Trade: Jaron Lanier, '' Who Owns the Future?'' * 2013 :Academic: Jonathan M. Ladd, ''Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters'' :Trade:

Rebecca MacKinnon Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is an author, researcher, Internet freedom advocate, and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later ...

, '' Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom'' * 2012 :Academic: Jeffrey E. Cohen, ''Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age'

:Trade:

Evgeny Morozov Evgeny Morozov ( Russian: Eвге́ний Моро́зов; be, Яўгені Марозаў; born in 1984) is an American writer, researcher, and intellectual from Belarus who studies political and social implications of technology. He was name ...

, ''The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom'' * 2011 :Academic: Tim Groeling, ''When Politicians Attack: Party Cohesion in the Media'' :Patrick J. Sellers, ''Cycles of Spin: Strategic Communication in the U.S. Congress'' :Trade:

Jack Fuller Jack William Fuller (October 21, 1946 – June 21, 2016)Biography at th was an American journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers and was the author of seven novels and two books on journalism. Biography Fuller was born in Ch ...

, ''What Is Happening to the News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism'' * 2010 :Academic: Matthew Hindman, ''The Myth of Digital Democracy'' :Trade: John Maxwell Hamilton, ''Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting'' *2009 :Academic: Markus Prior, ''Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections.'' :Trade:

Jane Mayer Jane Meredith Mayer (born 1955) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' since 1995. She has written for the publication about money in politics; government prosecution of whistleblowers; the Uni ...

, '' The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals'' *2008 :Academic: John G. Geer, ''In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns'' :Trade:

Ted Gup Ted Gup (born September 14, 1950) is an author, journalist and professor known for his work on government secrecy, free speech and journalistic ethics. He is the author of three books, including ''The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Dea ...

, ''Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life'' *2007 :Academic: Diana C. Mutz, ''Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy'' :Trade: Gene Roberts and

Hank Klibanoff Hank Klibanoff (born March 26, 1949 in Florence, Alabama) is an American journalist, now a professor at Emory University. He and Gene Roberts won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History for the book '' The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Str ...

, '' The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation'' *2006 :Academic: James A. Stimson, ''Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics'' :Trade:

Geoffrey R. Stone Geoffrey R. Stone (born 1946) is an American law professor and noted First Amendment scholar. He is currently the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Biography Stone completed a B.S. d ...

, '' Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism'' *2005 :Academic: Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini, ''Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics'' :Trade:

Paul Starr Paul Elliot Starr (born May 12, 1949) is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also the co-editor (with Robert Kuttner) and co-founder (with Kuttner and Robert Reich) of ''The American Prospect'', a notabl ...

, ''The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications'' *2004 :Academic: Scott L. Althaus, ''Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People'' : Paul M. Kellstedt, ''The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes'' :Trade: Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson, ''Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq'

*2003 :Academic: Doris Graber, ''Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age'' :Trade: Leonard Downie, Jr. and

Robert G. Kaiser Robert G. Kaiser (born 1943) is an American journalist and author. He retired from ''The Washington Post'' in early 2014 after a career of more than 50 years on the paper. During his career he served as managing editor (1991–98) and associate e ...

, ''The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril'

*2002 :Academic: Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki, ''The Black Image in the White Mind'

:Trade: Bill Kovach and

Tom Rosenstiel Tom Rosenstiel is an American author, journalist, press critic, researcher and academic. He is the Eleanor Merrill Visiting Professor on the Future of Journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He was fo ...

, ''The Elements of Journalism'

*2001 :

Lawrence R. Jacobs Lawrence R. Jacobs (born March 6, 1959) is an American political scientist and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance (CSPG) at the University of Minnesota. He was appointed the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Cha ...

& Robert Y. Shapiro, ''Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness'' *2000 : Robert McChesney, ''Rich Media, Poor Democracy'

*1999 :James Hamilton, ''Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming'' *1998 :

Richard Norton Smith Richard Norton Smith (born October 2, 1953) is an American historian and author, specializing in U.S. presidents and other political figures. In the past, he worked as a freelance writer for '' The Washington Post'', and worked with U.S. Senato ...

, ''The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955'' *1997 :No award given *1996 :

Stephen Ansolabehere Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere is a professor of government at Harvard University. He is the younger brother of animator Joe Ansolabehere. Education Ansolabehere received his B.A. in political science and B.S. in economics from the University of ...

and

Shanto Iyengar Shanto Iyengar is an American political scientist and professor of political science at Stanford University. He is also the Harry & Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford, the director of Stanford's Political Communication Lab, an ...

, ''Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate'' *1995 : William Hoynes, ''Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market and the Public Sphere'' *1994 : Cass R. Sunstein, ''Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech'' *1993 : Greg Mitchell, ''Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics''

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