NBC News is Winner of “Gold Keyboard” Award in the 2026 New York Press Club Journalism Awards Competition
Truth to Power Award to Bill Owens, former “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Who Resigned in Protest of Journalistic Interference
The NBC News staff has won the prestigious Gold Keyboard Award from the New York Press Club in the 2026 Journalism Awards Competition for its story, “The Children’s Pastor,” on a group of women who allege they were sexually abused by their former pastor as children. The story and the women led to the arrest of the pastor. He’s awaiting charges.
The club’s signature glass statue will be presented at the Annual Awards and Installation Dinner on Monday, June 1, 7 pm (presentations begin at 8 pm) aboard the Cornucopia Majesty: Pier 81 (41st Street and 12th Avenue), which will remain docked for the evening. The dinner’s MC will be Press Club Board Member Beth Karas, Legal Analyst and Host of ID’s “Curious Case Of… “, streaming on HBO Max.
The Press Club’s annual Gabe Pressman Truth to Power Award will be presented to former CBS News “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Bill Owens who resigned from the company after 37 years citing undue influence on his journalistic independence brought on by reported interference from the Trump Administration. Owens will speak at the dinner.
Also winning top awards are the Nellie Bly Cub Award to Susanti Sarkar of The Imprint for “New York Child Welfare Reporting by The Imprint.” The Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York Award will be presented in three categories to: Hannah Kliger of CBS New York for “Charlie’s Ripples of Kindness” (TV); Alex Vadukul of The New York Times for “The Last Lucille Roberts” (Newspaper), and Hunter Walker of Talking Points Memo for “Life Inside the Undocumented Underground” (Online).
All the winners in more than 30 categories were selected from almost 600 entries submitted by TV, radio, newspapers, websites, magazines, and newswires in New York City and around the U.S. (See below for full list.) Tickets, priced at $200 for members and $225 for non-members can be purchased here.
New York Press Club President David Cruz of Newsday applauded all the award recipients, saying, “Journalists continue to be faced with challenges as they do crucial work during a time when the First Amendment is challenged and the market shrinks. We are honored to present these awards to these journalists who perservere despite the hurdles.”
The New York Press Club Awards For Journalism Winners for 2026
Gold Keyboard
TV
“The Children’s Pastor”
NBC News Staff
NBC News
Nellie Bly Cub Reporter
Online
“New York Child Welfare Reporting by The Imprint”
Susanti Sarkar
The Imprint
Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York
TV
“Charlie’s Ripples of Kindness”
Hannah Kliger
CBS News New York
Newspaper
“The Last Lucille Roberts”
Alex Vadukul
The New York Times
Online
“Life Inside the Undocumented Underground”
Hunter Walker
Talking Points Memo
Jordan Schuman Award for Excellence In Student Journalism
Radio
“Taking It To The Streets”
Evan Fay, Brycen Pace, Cate Collins, Alex Grondin, and Sean Tessler
Syracuse University
Business Reporting – NYC Metro
Online
“The Moped King: How an Ex-Delivery Worker Upended the Streets of New York City”
Jesse Coburn, Gersh Kuntzman, Sophia Lebowitz
Streetsblog
Business Reporting – National
Mark Lieberman Memorial Award for Business Reporting Newspaper
“Toxic Aircraft”
Benjamin Katz, John West, Andrew Tangel and Peter Champelli
The Wall Street Journal
TV
“CBS Sunday Morning: Risky Business?”
Ted Koppel, Dustin Stephens, Ed Givnish, Rand Morrison
CBS News
Radio
“DeepSeek AI Model Sparks Market Turmoil”
Bloomberg Radio
Bloomberg Radio
Magazine
“Shayne Coplan’s Big Bet Is Paying Off”
Jen Wieczner
New York Magazine
Online
“AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring”
Josh Saul, Leonardo Nicoletti, Demetrios Pogkas, Dina Bass, Naureen S. Malik, Kayla Shea, Daniel Kim
Bloomberg News
Climate and Environment
Newspaper
“Trump’s War on Renewable Energy”
David Uberti, Jennifer Hiller, Ryan Dezember, Ed Ballard
The Wall Street Journal
TV
“ABC News Live in Partnership with Global Conservation: Last Lands”
ABC News Live
ABC News
Radio
“Trump Supports This Climate Solution: Is That A Bad Thing?”
Victoria Estrada, Andrea López-Cruzado, Fernanda Echavarri, Maria Hinojosa, Peniley Ramírez, Roxana Aguirre
Latino USA
Magazine
“How the Next Big Thing in Carbon Removal Sunk Without a Trace”
Alexandra Talty
WIRED
Online
“Climate and energy reporting by Colin Kinniburgh, New York Focus”
Colin Kinniburgh
New York Focus
Commentary
TV
“CBS Evening News Plus: Reporter’s Notebook, John Dickerson”
John Dickerson
CBS News
Magazine
“The War Crimes in Plain Sight”
Suzy Hansen
New York Magazine
Online
“Prospect Heights Ghost Story”
Noah Fischer
Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Hyperallergic
Consumer Reporting
Newspaper
“Overmedicated America”
Shalini Ramachandran, Betsy McKay and Staff of The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
TV
“CBS Sunday Morning: Critical Care”
Erin Moriarty, Sari Aviv, Sheena Samu, Carol Ross, Rachel Gold
CBS News
Continuing Coverage – NYC Metro
Newspaper
“Heroes get Zeroes”
Katherine Donlevy
New York Post
Online
“Tracking turnout: Early voting analysis of Mamdani’s rise”
Brigid Bergin, Joe Hong, Elizabeth Kim, Stephen Rex Brown, Christopher Werth
WNYC/Gothamist
Continuing Coverage – National
Newspaper
“Exposing Trump’s Secrets and the Epstein’s Files”
The Wall Street Journal for work led by Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo
The Wall Street Journal
TV
“CBS News: Israel/Gaza Coverage”
CBS News
CBS News
Magazine
“The DOGE Takeover”
WIRED Newsroom
WIRED
Online
“Jill Barshay’s beat reporting: How Trump gutted education research”
Jill Barshay
The Hechinger Report
Crime Reporting – NYC Metro
TV
“Under the Gun: Pulling the Trigger”
Tara Rosenblum, Audrey Gruber, Alan Flamenhaft, Jean Salzarulo, Lee Danuff, Scott McGee, James DiGregorio
News 12 Network
Magazine
“The Crypto Maniacs and the Torture Townhouse”
Ezra Marcus and Jen Wieczner, additional reporting by Isabella Sepahban and Franziska Wild
New York Magazine
Online
“How community activists, police and residents drove down shootings in East Harlem”
Brittany Kriegstein
WNYC/Gothamist
Crime Reporting – National
Newspaper
“I’ve Written About Loads of Scams. This One Almost Got Me.”
Michael Wilson
The New York Times
TV
“CBS Sunday Morning: Cracking the Code”
Erin Moriarty, Michelle Kessel, George Pozderec
CBS News
Magazine
“My Best Friend’s Murder”
Mary Jane Gibson
Rolling Stone
Online
“A Trace Analysis of 150 U.S. Cities Shows One of the Greatest Drops in Gun Violence — Ever”
Olga Pierce
The Trace
Critical Arts Review
Newspaper
“Kavalier & Clay”
Talya Zax
The Forward
Magazine
“The Disappointment of Downtown Brooklyn”
Justin Davidson
New York Magazine
Online
“The Year We Blamed the Mothers”
Chandra Bozelko
Pop Autopsy
Documentary – NYC Metro
TV
“Hamilton: Ten Years — A Legacy”
Ariella Weintraub, Frank DiLella, Tara Alexander, Roberto Araujo, Adolfo Mena Cejas, Dan Komarinetz, Gabriel Lugo Ortiz, Chelsea Katz, Melissa Rabinovich
Spectrum News NY1
Documentary – National
TV
“48 Hours “Joe Hunter’s Mission”
48 Hours
CBS
Online
“Filmed in Gaza”
NBC News
NBC News
Entertainment News – NYC Metro
TV
“Close Up: Sunset Blvd. – an in-depth look at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s reimagined revival of Sunset Blvd.”
Ariella Weintraub, Frank DiLella, Roberto Araujo, Adolfo Mena Cejas, Gabriel Lugo Ortiz, Melissa Rabinovich
Spectrum News NY1
Entertainment News – National
Newspaper
“Ian McKellen: Closeted Hollywood Actors Should Come Out”
Tim Teeman
The Times of London
TV
“Michelle Obama: The Style, The Power, The Look – A Conversation with Robin Roberts”
ABC News 20/20
ABC News
Magazine
“Bruce Springsteen’s Long Journey Home”
Eric Cortellessa
Time
Online
“One was born a Catholic, another a West Virginia Protestant — now they’re all making Jewish art”
Simi Horwitz
The Forward
Feature Photo
Magazine
“Sudan’s Crisis in the Shadows”
Moises Saman
TIME
Feature Reporting – NYC Metro
Newspaper
“The Housing Barrier”
Shannon Chaffers and Damaso Reyes
New York Amsterdam News
TV
“Free Blacks in Connecticut”
Rebecca Surran and Keith Sunthorn
News 12 Connecticut
Radio
“A Brooklyn school backed by Jay-Z said students could graduate debt-free. Now they’re buried in it.”
Ramsey Khalifeh
WNYC/Gothamist
Magazine
“There is No Safe Word”
Lila Shapiro
New York Magazine
Online
“The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur”
Debbie Nathan and Alyssa Katz
THE CITY
Feature Reporting – National
Newspaper
“How a Single Overdose Unraveled an Empire of Heroin”
Ben Weiser
The New York Times
TV
“How Shaken Baby Syndrome convictions tear families apart”
Janelle Rodriguez, Jill Billante, Hallie Jackson, Dan Slepian, Jordan Malter, Kevin Portilla, Vruti Venkatesan, Alana Miller
Hallie Jackson NOW/NBC News NOW
Magazine
“Erasing the Verdict”
Monte Reel
Bloomberg Businessweek
Online
“80 Over 80”
Noah Sheidlower
Business Insider
Feature-Science Medicine & Technology – NYC Metro
TV
“Return to Football after Brain Surgery”
Jim Murdoch and Christopher Logan
News 12 New Jersey
Feature-Science Medicine & Technology – National
TV
“In the Shadows: Drone War Medics”
Jason Bellini, Dmytro Kovalchuk, Linda Pattillo, Steve Turnham, Matt Simon, Nick Refuerzo
Scripps News
Magazine
“The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?”
Emi Nietfeld
WIRED
Online
“Cancer Capitalism”
Robert Langreth, Tanaz Meghjani, Anna Edney, Rachael Dottle
Bloomberg News
Feature Reporting-Sports – NYC Metro
TV
“Ryder Cup 101”
Kevin Maher, Tom Schnaars, Jasmine Hallen
News 12
Online
“In the wake of a fatal shooting, a college coach shows the essence of true leadership”
Ian O’Connor
The Athletic
Feature Reporting-Sports – National
Newspaper
“How the Unruly Black Market for High School Athletes Tore a Family Apart”
Harriet Ryan
The Wall Street Journal
TV
“CBS Sunday Morning: Reaching for the Sky”
Lee Cowan, Sari Aviv, Remington Korper, Rand Morrison
CBS Sunday Morning
Magazine
“The Bookie at the Center of the Ohtani Betting Scandal Is Ready to Talk”
David Amsden
Rolling Stone
Online
“Pablo Torre Finds Out: The Goalie Who Disappeared”
Pablo Torre, Paola Ramos, Chris Tumminello, Matt Sullivan, Patrick Kim, Neely Lohmann, Juan Galindo, Maxwell Carney, Walter Avaroma, Juliet Warren, Robert McRae, Ryan Cortes, Clare Taylor, Andrew Bercik, Samantha Dewig, Bailey Carlin, Andrew Northern
Meadowlark Media
Feature Video – National
TV
“A Last Ride in NYC’s Disappearing Horse Elevators”
David Dominguez, Raymond Schillinger, Lauren Teo
Bloomberg Originals
Food Writing
Newspaper
“Pastrami Perfection”
Erica Marcus
Newsday
Magazine
“Land of Plenty”
Jeff Chu
Travel+Leisure
Infographics
TV
“Ranked Choice Lunch”
Melissa Karten, Misha Zilman, Luke Ronayne, Pete Carril, Giancarlo Mariutto, William Goodenough, Pat Kiernan, Fernando Gil
Spectrum News NY1
Online
“Scorching Cells”
Disha Raychaudhuri, Clare Farley, Travis Hartman, Adolfo Arranz
Reuters
News Special – NYC Metro
TV
“Brooklyn’s Legacy: Black History in the Borough”
Leisha Majtan, Tara Alexander, Chelsea Katz, Melissa Rabinovich, Dan Keese, Gabe Lugo Ortiz, Dan Komarinetz, Cheryl Wills, Ayana Harry, Rebecca Greenberg, Dean Meminger, Ariella Weintraub, Adolfo Mena Cejas, Roberto Araujo
Spectrum News NY1
News Special – National
TV
“The Children of Gaza”
ABC News Live | ABC News Studios
ABC News
Podcast – Scripted
“Bella’s Battles: The Activist and Icon Who Changed America”
Anthony Roman, Errol Louis, Bob Hardt, James Ascuitto
Spectrum News NY1
Podcast – Unscripted
“LISTEN: ‘They Closed the Door and Blocked the Glass and We Heard This Man Screaming in Agony”
Harry Siegel
THE CITY
Political Reporting – NYC Metro
Newspaper
“School bus camera controversy”
Payton Guion
Newsday
TV
“Inside New York City’s Historic Mayoral Race”
Tara Rosenblum, Alan Flamenhaft, Jean Salzarulo, Scott Cohen, Audrey Gruber, Lee Danuff
News 12 Network
Magazine
“All By Himself
Ben Terris
New York Magazine
Political Reporting – National
Newspaper
“Trump’s Privatization of American Power”
Staff of The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
TV
“ABC News Investigates: Protecting America’s Coal Miners”
ABC News Nightline
ABC News
Magazine
“DOGE-Pilled”
Susan Berfield, Margi Murphy, Jason Leopold
Bloomberg Businessweek
Online
“The Revenge of Donald Trump”
Ned Parker, Peter Eisler, Linda So, Mike Spector and the Reuters team
Reuters
Special Event Reporting – NYC Metro
Newspaper
“Dangerous Roads”
Newsday Staff
Newsday
Special Event Reporting – National
Newspaper
“Dyke March”
Nora Berman
The Forward
TV
“CBS News: Rob Reiner – Scenes From a Life”
48 Hours
CBS
Sports News – National
TV
“Football Sideline Collisions”
Lori Jane Gliha, Brittany Freeman, Nick Refuerzo, Matt Anzur, Mai Nolasco, Linda Pattillo, Steve Turnham, Matt Simon
Scripps News
Magazine
“Exclusive: After an Unparalleled Career, WNBA Star Diana Taurasi Announces Her Retirement”
Sean Gregory
TIME
Spot News – NYC Metro
TV
“Mass Shooting on Park Avenue”
Spectrum News NY1 Staff
Spectrum News NY1
Online
“Sept. 11 Judge Suppresses Confessions Due to CIA Torture”
John Ryan
Lawdragon
Spot News – National
Newspaper
“Terror at Blackstone’s Headquarters”
Staff of The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
TV
“ABC World News Tonight with David Muir: Los Angeles Burning”
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir
ABC News
Online
“New York’s Evening of Fear”
Staff of Bloomberg
Bloomberg News
Travel Writing
TV
“CBS Sunday Morning: Borderline”
Lee Cowan, Michelle Kessel, Chad Cardin
CBS News
Magazine
“Turning the Tide”
Jeff Chu
Travel+Leisure