Finalist: Tampa Bay Times, by Laura Reiley
For lively restaurant reviews, including a series that took on the false claims of the farm-to-table movement and prompted statewide investigations.
Nominated Work
April 17, 2016
April 24, 2016
September 4, 2016
December 18, 2016
August 14, 2016
July 20, 2016
August 3, 2016
December 21, 2016
July 18, 2016
December 9, 2016
Biography
Laura Reiley is the Tampa Bay Times' restaurant critic and a former critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Baltimore Sun. She is the author of four books in the Moon Handbook series: Florida Gulf Coast; Walt Disney World and Orlando; Tampa and St. Petersburg; and the Paradise Coast. She has cooked professionally and is a graduate of the California Culinary Academy.
Winners
Prize Winner in Criticism in 2017:
Hilton Als
For bold and original reviews that strove to put stage dramas within a real-world cultural context, particularly the shifting landscape of gender, sexuality and race.
Criticism
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Criticism in 2017:
Ty Burr
For a wide range of finely cut reviews of films and other cultural topics written with wit, deep sensibility and a refreshing lack of pretension.
The Jury
The Jury
Madeleine Blais(Chair)*
Professor of Journalism
Adam Cohen
Co-Editor
Danielle Henderson
freelance writer
Manuela Hoelterhoff*
retired cultural critic
Jay Stowe
Editor-in-Chief
Winners in Criticism
Emily Nussbaum
For television reviews written with an affection that never blunts the shrewdness of her analysis or the easy authority of her writing.
Mary McNamara
For savvy criticism that uses shrewdness, humor and an insider's view to show how both subtle and seismic shifts in the cultural landscape affect television.
Inga Saffron
For her criticism of architecture that blends expertise, civic passion and sheer readability into arguments that consistently stimulate and surprise.
Philip Kennicott
For his eloquent and passionate essays on art and the social forces that underlie it, a critic who always strives to make his topics and targets relevant to readers.
2017 Prize Winners
C. J. Chivers
For showing, through an artful accumulation of fact and detail, that a Marine’s postwar descent into violence reflected neither the actions of a simple criminal nor a stereotypical case of PTSD.
Peggy Noonan
For rising to the moment with beautifully rendered columns that connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the nation’s most divisive political campaigns.
Hilton Als
For bold and original reviews that strove to put stage dramas within a real-world cultural context, particularly the shifting landscape of gender, sexuality and race.
Art Cullen
For editorials fueled by tenacious reporting, impressive expertise and engaging writing that successfully challenged powerful corporate agricultural interests in Iowa.