Pulitzer Prizes (6):

2025: Madeleine Baran, The New Yorker, In the Dark audio podcast series, on the massacre of Iraqi civilians in 2005 by U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq

2021: Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing, Christo Buschek, Buzzfeed News, Built to Last, on China’s network of re-education camps for the Uyghurs of Xinjiang

2021: Nadja Drost, California Sunday Magazine, “When Can We Really Rest?”, walking with migrants through the Darién Gap 

2020: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, The 1619 Project (with the Pulitzer Center as education partner)

2019: Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zekri, and Nariman El-Mofty, Associated Press, detailing atrocities of the war in Yemen

2017: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), The Panama Papers (with Pulitzer Center support of introductory animated video)

Emmy Awards (7):

2026: Kyra Darnton, Retro Report, What Japan’s Atom Bomb Survivors Have Taught Us About the Dangers of Nuclear War 

2024: Nikole Hannah Jones, The 1619 Project docuseries on Hulu (with the Pulitzer Center as education partner)

2022: Ed Ou, Will Miller, Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean Project for The Guardian, Get Away from the Target, on rescuing migrants from the Libyan coast guard

2022: Ben Mauk, Sam Wolson, The New Yorker, Reeducated, on repression of Xinjiang’s Uyghur people

2017: Jon Cohen, William Brangham, Jason Kane, PBS NewsHour, The End of AIDS?, on progress toward ending HIV-AIDS in the U.S. and Africa

2015: Larry C. Price, PBS NewsHour, “Hazardous Work: Diving into the Philippines' Dangerous Underwater Mines” 

2009: Kwame Dawes, Joshua Cogan, Kevin Simmonds, Pulitzer Center staff, LiveHopeLove, an interactive multimedia poetry project on HIV-AIDS in Jamaica

Peabody Awards (5): 

2026: Madeleine Baran, The New Yorker, In the Dark audio podcast series, on the massacre of Iraqi civilians in 2005 by U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq

2023: Ben Mauk, Sam Wolson, The New Yorker, Reeducated, a virtual-reality documentary on Xinjiang's secret detention camps.

2020: Amy Martin, Nick Mott, for Threshold’s The Refuge, a podcast series on threats posed to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

2021: Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico, PBS NewsHour, “Desperate Journey,” walking with migrants through the Darién Gap.

2018: Nick Schifrin, Zach Fannin, PBS NewsHour, Inside Putin’s Russia, a 10-part series on Russia under Vladimir Putin

Overseas Press Club (17)

2026: Ben Taub, The New Yorker, The Big Ice Is Sick, on the collapse of an Inuit society in remote Greenland due to climate change

2022: Jane Ferguson, PBS NewsHour, for reporting on the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan 

2022: Sandy Tolan, Reveal, for reporting on human rights violations by sugar companies in the Dominican Republic

2021: Cheryl Diaz Meyer, NPR, Lola: Survivors of Enslavement, on Filipinas forced into sexual service during World War II

2021: Maria Hinajosa, Latino USA, The Moving Border, on the challenges facing refugees seeking asylum on the U.S. southern border

2021: Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing, Christo Buschek, Buzzfeed News, Built to Last, on China’s network of reeducation camps for the Uyghurs of Xinjiang

2021: Abrahm Lustgarten, Meridith Kohut, The New York Times Magazine, Refugees from the Earth

2020: Staff team, The Associated Press, Outsourcing Migrants 

2019: Nariman El-Mofty, The Associated Press, Yemen: On the Edge 

2019: Shiho Fukada, Bloomberg Businessweek, For Many of Japan’s Elderly Women, Prison Is a Haven

2019: Jeffrey E. Stern, The New York Times Magazine, From Arizona to Yemen: The Journey of an American Bomb

2017: Elliott D. Woods, Virginia Quarterly Review, “The Fight for Chinko”, on the struggle to protect wildlife in the Central African Republic

2017: Malia Politzer, Emily Kassie, Huffington Post Highline, The 21st Century Gold Rush, on the exploitation of the global migration crisis for financial gain 

2017: Ben Taub, The New Yorker, “War Crimes in Syria”

2017: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), The Panama Papers (with Pulitzer Center support of introductory animated video)

2015: Jason Motlagh, Atish Saha, Virginia Quarterly Review, “The Ghosts of Rana Plaza,” on fast fashion’s role in the deadly garment factory collapse in Bangladesh

2015: Nick Miroff, Gabe Silverman, The Washington Post, Pushing South, investigating palm oil and paramilitaries in Colombia

George C. Polk Awards (6):

2021: Ian Urbina, New Yorker: Outlaw Ocean Project, on European Union employment of Libyans to intercept African migrants at sea and hold them in secret prisons

2020: Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee, High Country News, Land-Grab Universities, exposing how the 1862 Morrill Act exploited 250 Native American tribes

2019: Ben Taub, The New Yorker, “Iraq’s Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge”

2019: Larry C. Price, Undark Magazine, Breathtaking, on the global crisis of particulate pollutants

2018: Iona Craig, The Intercept, Yemen: Death in al Ghayil, on civilian casualties from a U.S. Navy Seals attack in Yemen

2017: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), The Panama Papers 

National Magazine Awards (The Ellies) (3):

2019: Ben Taub, The New Yorker, “Iraq’s Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge”

2019: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, The 1619 Project (with the Pulitzer Center as education partner)

2017: Malia Politzer, Emily Kassie, Huffington Post Highline, The 21st Century Gold Rush, on the exploitation of the global migration crisis for financial gain 

Robert F. Kennedy Awards (7):

2018: Associated Press staff, “Rohingya Under Attack”

2018: Ty McCormick, Cameron Abadi, Peter Tinti, Nichole Sobecki, and Jill Filipovic, Foreign Policy, Europe Slams Its Gates

2017: Daniela Zalcman, “Signs of Your Identity” photography project on abuses in Canada’s residential school system for Indigenous peoples.

2017: Ben Taub, The New Yorker, The Assad Files, on war crimes by the Assad regime in Syria

2016: Matt Black, MSNBC, The Geography of Poverty, combining geotagged photographs with census data to portray poverty across the U.S.

2014: Robin Hammond,  Condemned: Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis

2009: Michael Kavanagh, WorldFocus, Crisis in the Congo, on rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) (2):

2020: Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee, High Country News, Land-Grab Universities, exposing how the 1862 Morrill Act exploited 250 Native American tribes

2018: Maggie Michael, Associated Press, War Crimes and Corruption in Yemen

World Press Photo Awards (6):

2025: Tatsiana Chypsanava, New Zealand Geographic, Tūhoe Rising, on an Indigenous group’s fight for the return of ancestral lands

2023: Alessandro Cinque, National Geographic, OjoPúblico, Alpaqueros, on the impact of climate change on alpaca herders in Peru

2022: Irina Werning, The Guardian, La Promesa, on a young Argentine girl’s journey through the pandemic year

2017: Paula Bronstein, Time, “The Silent Victims of a Forgotten War,” on civilian casualties of the war in Afghanistan

2013: Micah Albert, Pulitzer Center, Buried in Dandora: Voices of Nairobi’s Waste Management Disaster 

2012: Stephanie Sinclair, National Geographic, Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides

POYi World Understanding Awards (2):

2014: Robin Hammond, Condemned: Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis

2013: Kwame Dawes, Andre Lambertson, Lisa Armstrong, Voices of Haiti, on the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake in 2010

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (5):

2024: Claire Fieseler, Charleston Post and Courier, “Deep Sea Mining in the Atlantic”

2024: Alec Luhn, Scientific American, Why Are Alaskan Rivers Rusting?

2024: Miguel Dobrich, Amenaza Roboto, The Impact on Labor in the Coastal Zones of Uruguay, on climate change and coastal workers in Uruguay

2017: Jon Cohen, William Brangham, Jason Kane, PBS NewsHour, and Science, The End of AIDS?, on progress toward ending HIV-AIDS in the U.S. and Africa

2014: Craig Welch, The Seattle Times, “Ocean Acidification,” on the sea impacts of climate change

National Press Club (4):

2023: NewsHour staff and freelancers, PBS NewsHour, “Russia Invades Ukraine”

2023: Andy Lehren and Anton Delgado, NBC News and Southeast Asia Globe, “How the Race for a COVID Vaccine Enriched Monkey Poachers and Endangered Macaques”

2018: Nick Schifrin, Zach Fannin, PBS NewsHour, Inside Putin’s Russia, a 10-part series on Russia under Vladimir Putin

2011: Kwame Dawes, Lisa Armstrong, Andre Lambertson, Voices of Haiti, video poetry and reporting on the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake

National Press Foundation:

2009: Excellence in Online Journalism Award for The Pulitzer Gateway, a precursor to the Pulitzer Center’s current K-12 and Campus Consortium programs that connected high school and college students to international journalism and journalists.

Online News Association (ONA) (7):

2025: Monica Jha, Shamsheer Yousaf, and Sriram Vittalamurthy, The Wire, Breaking the Nets, on fisherwomen in India

2024: Tristan Ahtone and Bobby Lee, Grist, Misplaced Trust, on how land expropriated from Indigenous Americans through the Morrill Act of 1862 is still used as a source of funds for 14 public universities in the United States

2024: Bram Ebus and Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) team, InfoAmazonia (Brazil), La Liga Contra el Silencio (Colombia), and Armando.info (Venezuela), Amazon Underworld, on organized crime groups operating in the rainforest basin

2024: Student journalists at the University of Florida and the Missouri School of Journalism, Missourian and WUFT, The Price of Plenty, on abuses in the fertilizer industry

2022: Clayton Aldern, Jason Resneck, Eric Stone, Coast Alaska, KRBD, and Grist, Road to Ruin, on the clear-cutting of old-growth forest in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

2021: Tom Laffay, The New Yorker, Siona: Amazon’s Defenders Under Fire

2014: Craig Welch, Seattle Times, Sea Change, detailing the threats of ocean acidification

Global Investigative Journalism Network:

2025: Alexa Vélez Zuazo, Mongabay Latam, Death Flights, on illegal airstrips in Brazil (Global Shining Light Award)

Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) (3):

2025: S. Vinothaa and Aidila Razak, Malaysiakini, interactive storytelling on iron ore mining in rural Malaysia

2025: Emily Fishbein and staff, Frontier Myanmar, Myanmar: Epicenter of a Global Cyber-Scamming Crisis on cyber crime and human trafficking

2025: Shamsheer Yousaf, Monica Jha, and Sriram Vittalamurthy, The Wire, Breaking the Nets, on fisherwomen in India

American Association for the Advancement of Science:

2025: Anna Louie Sussman, The New York Times, The Future of the Embryo, on defining personhood and creating life through modern science

Campus Consortium (Student Reporting Fellows): Select Awards

Robert F. Kennedy Award for College Journalism

2014: Varsha Ramakrishnan (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health), Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine, “Broken Promise: Dowry Violence in India”

Society of Professional Journalists

2012: Anna Van Hollen (Davidson College): National First Place Mark of Excellence Award in Feature Writing, The Atlantic, “The West Bank’s Green Intifada”

2021: Imran Mohammad Fazal Hoque (City Colleges Chicago), National First Place Mark of Excellence Award for In-Depth Reporting, Rohingya Diaspora in the U.S.

BAFTA Student Film Award for Documentary

2019: Ingrid Holmquist and Sana Malik (Columbia Journalism School). Guanajuato Norte

Best Director LA Doc Film Festival

2019: Erin McGoff (American University), This Little Land of Mines

Spotlight Documentary Film Award

2020: Brett Forrest and Brian Ryu (Columbia Journalism School). Victoria’s Foil, about a young athlete’s struggle to reach the paralympics amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

College Filmmakers Festival

2024: Ankita M. Kumar (Medill School of Journalism), Best Debut Film, Best Director, Best Editing and Best Cinematography. Far From Home, about Afghani refugees searching for a better life abroad after the fall of Kabul in 2021

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