Finalist for Harvard Kennedy School Goldsmith Prize: “Poisoned Places” pollution investigation Epstein directed at CPI & NPR

Awarded Overseas Press Club of America award for “Cyber War”

Awarded 2008 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in Magazine category for BusinessWeek cover story, “Cyber-War.”

Investigative Reporters and Editors, for investigative reporting, “The New E-spionage Threat,” “Dangerous Fakes,” and “Security Breaches Plague Nasa” (BusinessWeek, 2009)

Overseas Press CLub of America, for best business reporting from abroad, “The New E-spionage Threat,” “Dangerous Fakes,” and “Security Breaches Plague Nasa” (BusinessWeek, 2009)

Barlett & Steele Award for Investigative Business Journalism, “Prisoners of Debt” and “The Ugly Side of Microlending” (BusinessWeek, 2008)

Folio Editorial Excellence Award, “The New E-spionage Threat” (BusinessWeek, 2008)

National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism, and James aronson award, for Social Justice Journalism, both for “The Poverty Business” (BusinessWeek, 2007)

Overseas Press Club of America, citation for international reporting, “The Ugly Side of Microlending” (BusinessWeek, 2007)

Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Best in Business Magazine Cover Story, “The Poverty Business” (BusinessWeek, 2007)

National Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting, “The Poverty Business” (BusinessWeek, 2007)

Society of Professional Journalists for Online Journalism Excellence, “No Life Untouched,” about 9/11 impact on ordinary people (The Tampa Tribune, 2003)

National Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting, “Drug Trials: Do People Know the Truth about Experiments?” (The Plain Dealer, 1996)

AP Society of Ohio Award for Investigative Reporting, “Deadly Delays,” on bureaucratic inertia contributing to airline tragedies (The Plain Dealer, 1993)

White House Correspondents Association Edgar A. Poe Award, for a series on misuse of U.S. military academies (The Plain Dealer, 1990)

National Press Club Award for Fiction, “Harsh Mistress,” about a man puzzling over a parachutist girlfriend’s death (2005)

National Press Club Award for Fiction, “Just Beyond the Door,” about how a couple copes with debilitating illness (2004)

National Press Club Award for Fiction, “Predator,” about a photographer’s obsession with killing in the animal world (2002)

National Press Club Award for Fiction, “Homecoming,” about a military pilot’s post-war adjustment to family life (1998)