The Mirror Awards, handed out today by the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, honored journalistic work including investigations by the New York Times, New Yorker and Washington Post that focused on Harvey Weinstein and Charlie Rose. The lunchtime awards gala at New York’s Cipriani 42nd Street, which also…

Hoaxers who fool online readers by packaging fabrications as serious news pose “the most profound and pernicious threat to our profession and democracy,” NBC News’ Tom Brokaw said today at a gathering of the media elite in New York where he won an award for his lifetime of work in journalism. Distributors of so-called…

Syracuse University’s Newhouse School feted alum and Turner President David Levy today in its annual event to celebrate the media elite — as well as journalists who in 2015 produced stories about the industry. Levy won the Fred Dressler Leadership Award at a New York City luncheon. The school treated him to a…

The author of an in-depth exploration into the events that led to the 2003 toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad won the first John M. Higgins award for enterprise reporting at today’s Mirror Awards reception in New York. Peter Maass, who wrote the piece for The New Yorker with support from Pro Publica…