17th Annual
17th Annual
17th Annual
The Cyber Journalism Award recognizes excellence in reporting on cyber security across all journalistic categories.
The 2022 competition covers journalistic work published from 1 September 2021 through 31 August 2022. The award is open to journalists doing work for independent news organizations around the globe. Entries must be readily accessible to the public and originally published in one of the following formats: Print (newspaper or magazine), Online publication, Radio broadcast or Podcast, or Television broadcast.
This competition accepts nominations from individuals interested in cybersecurity as well as self-nominations from authors, creators, and producers.
The judging process considers accuracy, initiative, originality, clarity of interpretation, and value in fostering a better public understanding of cyber security.
Faculty and researchers from the NYU Center for Cybersecurity vote to determine the winner.
2021 winner
Dina Temple-Raston is a senior correspondent at The Record, a cyber and intelligence news service, where she writes about China's digital prowess and is hosting and creating a series of podcasts for The Record and its parent company Recorded Future.
Previously, she had spent 15 years at NPR covering terrorism, cyber security, and was part of the network's award-winning investigations team. She's written about the mysterious death of hacker Adrian Lamo, how the NSA hacked ISIS, and the Microsoft Exchange attack. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post and she is the author of four non-fiction books.
In 2017, she created and hosted an Audible podcast called "What Were You Thinking" about how the latest discoveries in neuroscience can begin to explain the adolescent decision-making process. She also created and hosted an NPR podcast called "I'll Be Seeing You," about the technologies that watch us.
She has degrees from Northwestern University and Columbia University School of Journalism.
Image: Zoë van Dijk for NPR
2020 winner
Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter based in New York. She writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives, particularly when it comes to our privacy.
She joined The New York Times in 2019, after having worked as an investigative reporter at Gizmodo Media Group and as a writer and editor at Fusion, Forbes Magazine, and Above the Law. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post.
In 2018, she gave a TED talk—"What your smart devices know (and share) about you"—in which she described what happened when she transformed her apartment into a smart home and monitored the data being sent out of it.
She has degrees from Duke University and New York University, where she studied journalism.
Image: Adam Ferriss
2018 winner
Jen Wieczner is a senior writer at Fortune and co-founding editor of The Ledger, covering the intersection of finance and technology. Her recent writing includes an award-winning investigation into Paul Singer's activist hedge fund Elliott Management; a cover story on the Bitcoin bubble; and profiles of controversial business titans—from billionaire Steve Cohen to Mylan CEO Heather Bresch to former HP chief Meg Whitman. She has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Fast Company, The Atlantic, New York and Glamour. Born in Boston, Jen earned a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Mt. Gox and the Surprising Redemption of Bitcoin’s Biggest Villain
April 19, 2018, Fortune magazine
2017 winner
Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED, covering security, privacy, information freedom,
and hacker culture. He’s the author of the book Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. Greenberg's reporting on Ukraine's cyberwar (including an excerpt from Sandworm) has won a Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting and two Deadline Club Awards from the New York Society of Professional Journalists. Before coming to WIRED Greenberg worked as a senior reporter for Forbes magazine. He works in WIRED's New York office.
Lights Out: How An Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab for Cyberwar
October 13, 2017, Wired magazine