Awards &
RECOGNITION

Awards

Society of Professional Journalists

DC Finalist with POGO for immigration-detention stories, 2026.

Society of Professional Journalists

Forth Worth First Amendment Award
2024, with Public Health Watch and The Texas Tribune, for a story about access to diabetes care.

Pulitzer Finalist

"20 Acres and a Lie," Mother Jones, Reveal, Center for Public Integrity, IRW, 2025.

Pulitzer Prize

The Washington Post won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on Washington. IRW interns and AU graduate students received contributing credits.

Emmy Nomination

“The Healthcare Divide” nominated for Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic coverage, FRONTLINE and IRW, 2022.

Emmy Award

Outstanding Documentary, winner, “Years of Living Dangerously,” Showtime; Margaret Ebrahim, Jolie Lee, David Gelber, Joel Bach, 2015.

Emmy Award

Outstanding Longform Investigative Journalism “Big Sky, Big Money," FRONTLINE and IRW, 2012.

Overseas Press Club of America

“Trump’s Trade War,” best international business news reporting in TV, video, radio, audio or podcast, FRONTLINE and IRW, 2020.

Writer's Guild Awards

Rick Young, "Trump's Trade War," FRONTLINE and IRW, 2020.

Imagen Foundation

“Lost in Detention," FRONTLINE and IRW, 2012.

Yale 360

“The Great Divide,” third place, best environmental films, 2022.

Associated Press

"Assault on Justice," Reveal, WAMU, and IRW, 2016.

Society of Professional Journalists

Sigma Delta Chi Award for Research in Journalism “Global Teamwork: The Rise of Collaboration in Investigative Journalism,” Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, 2018.