Impact Award Winners

Impact Award Winners In 2019 the New York Financial Writers’ Association created the Impact Award 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:

• 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.