Journalism awards
   Pulitzer Prize
        • Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, 2009.

            Citation: “Awarded to Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin of the East
            Valley Tribune, Mesa, Ariz., for their adroit use of limited resources to
            reveal, in print and online, how a popular sheriff’s focus on immigration
            enforcement endangered investigation of violent crime and other
            aspects of public safety.”

    George Polk Award
        • George Polk Award for Justice Reporting, 2009.
            Citation: “The George Polk Award for Justice Reporting will go to Ryan
            Gabrielson and Paul Giblin for their five-part series, 'Reasonable Doubt,' published in Mesa, Arizona’s
            East Valley Tribune. Gabrielson,
            still a reporter at the Tribune, and Giblin, who now reports for The Arizona Guardian, scrutinized Sheriff
            Joe Arpaio’s campaign against illegal immigrants in Phoenix and other parts of the state’s Maricopa
            County. They reported blatant violations of federal regulations intended to prevent racial profiling, and
            they exposed slow responses to emergencies, lax criminal enforcement and suspiciously high rates of
            overtime by the police department. While Arpaio continues to appear on the Fox Reality Channel’s
            'Smile … You’re Under Arrest!' the Tribune report is being used by the Arizona state legislature to
            review anti-immigrant policies.”

    Investigative Reporters and Editors
        • Finalist (100,000 and less circulation), 2009.

    Best of the West
        • First place investigative reporting, 2009.
            Citation: “The judges lauded this as a brave and hard-hitting series and saluted the courage of The
            Tribune to go after this story with such clear-eyed determination. The impact of these stories and the
            changes they inspired were very impressive. Said one judge: 'At a time when our resources are
            shrinking, it is wonderful to see newspapers go after stories like these.' Said another: 'This is exactly
            the kind of reporting you want your local newspaper to be doing.'”

    Society of Professional Journalists, Valley of the Sun Chapter
         • First Amendment Award, 2009.

    National Council on Crime and Delinquency
        • PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award, 2009.

    Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors
        • Third place deadline reporting, third place business reporting, 2007.
        • Third place (group) enterprise reporting, 2006.
        • Honorable mention deadline news, 2005. 
        • First place news columns, first place feature columns, 2004. 
        • Honorable mention news columns, 2003.
        • Third place news columns, honorable mention feature columns, 2002.

        • Honorable mention beat reporting, honorable mention sports enterprise, 2001.
        • First place (group) sports deadline news, honorable mention beat reporting, 1999.

        • Second place (group) deadline news, 1996.

    Arizona Press Club
        • First place Don Bolles Award for investigative reporting (with Gabrielson), first place creative online
            (group), 2008.
        • First place John Kolbe Award for politics and government reporting (group), third place sports
            enterprise, 2005.
        • Second place deadline business news (group), 2004.
        • Second place deadline news, 2001.

        • First place business deadline news, honorable mention beat reporting, 2000.

        • Third place business deadline news, honorable mention business non-deadline news, 1999.

        • Second place business deadline news, 1998.

        • Second place and honorable mention (group) business deadline news, honorable mention
            (group) deadline news, 1997. 
        • First place (group) deadline news, second place short-form features, 1996.
        • First place business deadline news, 1995.