Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University

The Reporting Award

Reporting Award Recipients

Lisa Armstrong

Lisa Armstrong is an award-winning journalist with credits in several publications, including The Washington Post, Parade, National Geographic, Essence, and O, The Oprah Magazine.  In addition to an M.A. in journalism from NYU, Armstrong has a master’s degree in urban planning with a concentration in international development.

Armstrong grew up in Nairobi, Kenya and has worked in Ethiopia, India, Zimbabwe, Tajikistan and several other countries, writing stories mostly about humanitarian issues. She has written about teenage prostitution in the IDP camps in Haiti, and former child soldiers in Liberia. She won an award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors for an article about a Kenyan village formed by women who were allegedly raped by British soldiers, and subsequently banished by their husbands.

In February 2010, Armstrong received a grant from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for a yearlong reporting project in Haiti.

 

Jina Moore

Moore is a freelance journalist and recipient of The Reporting Award for 2011. A correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, she writes most frequently on human rights, foreign affairs, and Africa. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Newsweek, The Columbia Journalism Review, and on National Public Radio’s World Vision Report, and other venues. Her “Reading the Wounds,” about doctors who treat torture survivors, was included in Best American Science Writing (2009). A summa cum laude graduate of Boston University, Moore earned master’s degrees from the School of International and Public Affairs and the Graduate School of Journalism, both a Columbia University. She is a recent Fulbright Fellow in Journalism and a two-time grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

 

Sarah Stillman

Stillman, a freelance journalist who was an embedded journalist in Iraq, is the inaugural recipient of The Reporting Award. In 2008, Stillman traveled to Iraq as a foreign correspondent for TruthDig, where she embedded with the 116th Military Police Company. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Nation, The New Republic, the Dallas Morning News, and other outlets. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, Stillman went on to pursue her doctorate as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford. More recently, she traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan for The New Yorker to report on the false recruitment and human trafficking of third-world workers on U.S. military bases.  Her Reporting Award story prompted Congressional hearings and an amendment to the Defense Department Appropriations Bill prohibiting the use of Department funds for human trafficking; the piece was a finalist for the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting.