A stellar track record:
Barlett & Steele Award Winners
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Since their inception in 2007, the Barlett & Steele Awards have blazed a high-visibility path of excellence in rewarding incisive business reporting that “tells us something we don’t know.”
The awards are named for the illustrious investigative business journalist team of Don Barlett & Jim Steele, who have worked together more than four decades, receiving two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Magazine awards, and a long list of other journalism awards.
Administered by The Reynolds Center for Business Journalism, the Barlett & Steele awards for Gold, Silver and Bronze each fall honor journalists and news organizations ranging in size from local to international.
“We’ve been so impressed with the quality of these stories that year after year have delved into the stories that nobody knew about–or shed light on areas they thought they knew about,” said Jim Steele.
Best in Investigative Business
2020
Silver
Best in Investigative Business
2020
Bronze
Best in Investigative Business
2019
Gold
Best in Investigative Business
2019
Silver
Best in Investigative Business
2019
Bronze
Best in Investigative Business
2018
Gold
Best in Investigative Business
2018
Silver
Best in Investigative Business
2018
Bronze
Best in Investigative Business
2017
Gold
About Donald Barlett & James Steele
Donald Barlett and James Steele worked together for more than four decades, first at The Philadelphia Inquirer (1971-1997), where they won two Pulitzer Prizes and scores of other national journalism awards, then at Time magazine (1997-2006), where they earned two National Magazine Awards, becoming the first journalists in history to win both the Pulitzer and its magazine equivalent, and most recently were contributing editors at Vanity Fair (2006-2017).
The Washington Journalism Review said of Barlett and Steele: “They are almost certainly the best team in the history of investigative reporting.”
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