Impact Award Winners

In 2019 the New York Financial Writers’ Association created the Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism to honor a distinguished story or body of work by reporters whose work spurred change, irrespective of when the story or stories were published. The award honors stories that have a demonstrable impact on the world, whether by spurring investigations, changing laws or holding the powerful to account. 

Past Winners:

• 2022 – Jeff Horwitz, Deepa Seetharaman, Emily Glazer and Justin Scheck of The Wall Street Journal, for The Facebook Files, a package of articles that demonstrated Facebook’s knowledge of the toxicity of Instagram for teenage girls. (“Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show” “The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It” “Facebook Says AI Will Clean Up the Platform. Its Own Engineers Have Doubts“)
• 2021 – Cam Simpson, Michael Smith & Nacha Cattan of Bloomberg News, for a series that exposed how leading U.S. chemical companies fuel the narcotics labs flooding America with deadly drugs. (“Heroin’s Hidden Ingredient Is a Chemical Made by U.S. Companies” “U.S. Chemical Companies Face Few Legal Risks, and the Cartels Bank On It.”  “Narcos Are Waging a New Drug War Over a Texas Company’s Basic Chemical.”)
• 2020 – Dan McCrum, Stefania Palma, Olaf Storbeck & John Reed, Financial Times, for a series on the Wirecard fraud. (View the 2020 Impact Award Presentation & Panel Discussion Here)
• 2019 – Carrick Mollenkamp & Mark Whitehouse, The Wall Street Journal, for “Bankers Cast Doubt on Key Rate Amid Crisis” and follow up articles.