The 2024 Shireen Abu Akleh Award, OPC of America
Best reporting on a continuing international conflict or crisis in any medium
“Vividly conveyed and assiduously reported, The Washington Post tore at official narratives through accountability journalism that centered the human costs of Israel’s war in Gaza. The package is a masterclass of innovative, rigorous and empathetic storytelling.”
“This entry offered memorable reporting describing how a multinational telecommunications company was attempting to deal with a highly violent terrorist group and how the firm paid to smuggle equipment into ISIS areas. One of the pieces showed Ericsson’s disregard for its staff when it ordered an Ericsson Iraqi subcontractor worker to deliver a letter to ISIS to allow it to operate in an Iraqi city. The series contained an eye-popping array of details about how telecom titan Ericsson made tens of millions of dollars in suspicious payments in Iraq. The investigation reveals financing of slush funds, trips abroad for defense officials and pay-offs to local corporate executives.”
The 2025 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in International Reporting
“For haunting accountability journalism that documented Israeli atrocities in the Gaza strip and investigated the killings of Palestinian journalists, paramedics and a 6-year-old girl whose recorded pleas for help touched a nerve around the world.”
The 2019 Bob Considine Award, OPC of America
Best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs.
The Washington Post
“After the Caliphate”
The 2023 Courage in Journalism Award, IWMF
“The Washington Post’s Ukrainian bureau and rotating reporting team of women illuminated transgressions otherwise shrouded by the chaos of war while covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” the IWMF wrote in honoring the Post journalists. “The Post’s coverage included exclusive reporting and content from the frontlines of Ukraine, including information from sources that were cultivated for months. The Post team’s reporting also included how Ukrainian forces were able to repel Russian occupiers using covert resistance fighters, drone-guided artillery fire and traditional trench warfare. Collectively, their reporting depicted – gravely and comprehensively – the human toll of war on a civilian population.”