Award Winners

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Adam Willis (Photo Credit: Kirk McCoy/The Baltimore Banner)

Photo Credit: Kirk McCoy/The Baltimore Banner

Adam Willis

2023 Winner

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Astha Rajvanshi (Photo credit: Emma Kazaryan)

Photo credit: Emma Kazaryan

Astha Rajvanshi

2022 Winner

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The Indian Coal Mine That Razed a Village and Shrank a Forest

November 18, 2022

The New Yorker

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Caleb Gayle

Caleb Gayle

2021 Winner

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Maria Danilova (Photo by Iurii Konstantinov)

Maria Danilova

2020 Winner

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Russia Has an Opioid Crisis Too – One of Untreated Pain

September 2021

Vice

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Dan Xin Huang (Photo by Chris Jones)

Dan Xin Huang

2020 Runner-Up

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The Rutters of Athens County

Sept. 8, 2023

New York Magazine | Intelligencer

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Yi-Ling Liu

Yi-Ling Liu

2019 Winner

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How a Dating App Helped a Generation of Chinese Come Out of the Closet

March 5, 2020

The New York Times Magazine

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Alexander Clapp

Alexander Clapp

2019 Runner-Up

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Electric Crypto Balkan Acid Test

July 2020

The Baffler

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Jessica Camille Aguirre

Jessica Camille Aguirre

2018 Winner

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Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats

April 25, 2019

The New York Times Magazine

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Ben Mauk

Ben Mauk

2018 Runner-Up

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Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere Into the Center of the World Economy?

January 29, 2019

The New York Times Magazine

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Jeff Winkler

Jeff Winkler

2017 Winner

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The Troubling Business of Bounty Hunting

July 1, 2019

GQ

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Alison Stine

Alison Stine

2017 Runner-Up

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Summer Brennan

Summer Brennan

2016 Winner

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Susana Ferreira, by Tatiana Mora Liautaud

Susana Ferreira

2015 Winner

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Decriminalization: A Love Story

November 1, 2017

The Common Online

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Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

December 5, 2017

The Guardian

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