Jacob Judah

2024 Winner

Jacob Judah is a freelance journalist based in London. His work regularly appears in outlets including The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, and Foreign Policy. He has broken stories that include the leaking of millions of sensitive U.S. military emails and on alleged Chinese cyberattacks on U.S. allies in the Pacific. He has reported from across Europe, Africa, and Asia, including on the war in Ukraine, the Islamic State insurgency in Mozambique, and embedded with insurgents in the Sahel. Judah previously worked with the Jewish Chronicle and is the U.K. and Ireland correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He won a Rockover Award for Excellence in Writing on the War in Ukraine for a series of on-the-ground reports on the impact of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian Jewish communities. He has a B.A. and MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He writes regularly for think-tanks, including the International Institute for Strategic Studies, for whom he has written a chapter on Cypriot foreign policy for a forthcoming book on the eastern Mediterranean.

Judah will spend his time as a recipient of the Reporting Award reporting on the changing Arctic from the Bering Strait and the Diomede Islands, where a remote community of Americans only three miles from Russia have a unique – but often overlooked – vantage point on the tectonic shifts affecting the north.