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Journalism Awards

Michael Smith

2008 Maria Moors Cabot Prize winner

Michael Smith is responsible for coverage of Latin America for Bloomberg Markets magazine. Smith, a University of North Carolina graduate, has been with Bloomberg since 1992, covering financial and general news both domestically and abroad. Smith's awards include a George Polk award for Health Reporting and the Investigative Reporters and Editors prize for a 2005 story about the use of poor immigrants to test experimental pharmaceutical drugs. For a 2006 story on the use of slave labor to make materials that go into consumer goods, Smith received an Overseas Press Club citation, SPJ’s Sigma Delta Chi award, the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism award, as well as ten other national and international awards. Smith started his career in Chile as a freelance journalist covering the fall of General Augusto Pinochet's regime. He then went to the Daily Record in Morristown, New Jersey and then the Associated Press in Newark. Smith has three sons and lives in Santiago, Chile.

Michael Smith’s articles

The Secret World of Modern Slavery
Ethanol's Deadly Brew
Miami Test Center Lures Poor Immigrants as Human Guinea Pigs