CBS Evening News managing editor and anchor Dan Rather won the Goldsmith Award last year.
Last night's ceremony also honored the investigative journalism of a team of reporters from the Miami Herald.
Manny Garcia, Dan Keating, Joseph Tanfani and Andres Viglucci won a $25,000 prize for their work on the series, "Dirty Votes: The Race for Miami's Mayor," which revealed corruption in Miami's city administration.