Emmys, Polk Award and other honors for the outlet

The outlet's video team picked up two wins at the 2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards for The Man Who Feeds Gaza's Children and The True Cost of Mining Electric Car Battery Metals. Its work has been recognised for investigative and original reporting, creative use of data and visual aids, and deeply researched, evocative videos.

Reporting and investigations have also earned top honors: a 2025 George K. Polk Award in Environmental Reporting for The True Cost of Data Centers, a 2024 National Magazine Award in Video for How dogs are trained to attack US prisoners, and a 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for How I escaped a Chinese internment camp.

The organisation won a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton for Satellite Images Track Four Gaza Businesses Upended by War and a Webby Award for The Man Who Feeds Gaza's Children, alongside multiple SABEW, NAREE, Deadline Club, NY Press Club, LA Press Club, and SF Press Club recognitions in investigative, feature, and commentary categories.

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