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The Outlaw Ocean Project

Appearances

On the record.

Explaining the issues from the world’s most overlooked realm.

  • 200Appearances
  • 165Outlets
  • 21Countries

  1. Mayamada

    StoryXStory: Rhapsody on the Outlaw Ocean

     — Podcast

  2. Corriere Della Sera

    The “invisible” Chinese squid, from human rights violations to our tables: this is how it ends up in Italian restaurants and fishmongers.

     — Video

  3. European Parliament

    Committee on Fisheries: Tackling fisheries-related crimes and protecting EU fishers and fisheries from such crime and IUU fishing

     — Talk

Everything else

  1. World Association of News Publishers

    Winner Best Use of Audio

     — Award

  2. Tangle News

    Why Hundreds of Chinese Ships Are Off Argentina’s Coast

     — Video

  3. NPR

    The World: Off the coast of Argentina, squid fishing carries a cost

     — Broadcast

  4. eM&M

    The AnteSocial: The reporting behind the Outlaw Ocean Podcast

     — Video

  5. Maxxie, Suzzee & Cinema

    Europe's New Faces (2025) Official Trailer

     — Print & web

  6. Reef Raff

    Crime and governance at sea

     — Podcast

  7. Bingeworthy

    “Decidedly Slow Journalism” With The Outlaw Ocean Project

     — Podcast

  8. The Institute for Human Rights and Business

    Voices Podcast: Conversations on Business and Human Rights

     — Podcast

  9. NPR

    The Brian Lehrer Show: 2025 DuPont Award Winners

     — Broadcast

  10. Columbia Journalism School

    The Dupont Columbia Awards: The Outlaw Ocean Project receives DuPont-Columbia Award for investigation on China

     — Award

  11. USA Today

    The Excerpt: The High Seas are Rife with Lawlessness

     — Podcast

  12. WKNY Radio Kingston

    Green Radio Hour with Jon Bowermaster: Interview with Outlaw Ocean Project Fellow Pete McKenzie

     — Broadcast

  13. Asia Society

    2024 Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia: Ian Urbina Receives 2024 Osborn Elliott Prize and Discusses China’s Role in Global Seafood Industry

     — Award

  14. Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific?

    Why Should We Care About The Outlaw Ocean

     — Podcast

  15. PBS

    PBS Newshour: The North Koreans Behind Global Seafood

     — Broadcast

  16. Vox Media

    GastroPod: The history and labor behind all-you-can-eat shrimp

     — Podcast

  17. Overseas Press Club

    Overseas Press Club of America presents the Roy Rowan Award to the Staff of The Outlaw Ocean Project

     — Award

  18. Intrafish

    Behind the damning report on forced labor in China’s seafood sector

     — Podcast

  19. ABC Listen

    Radio National Breakfast: North Korean workers abused and trapped in China

     — Podcast

  20. NPR

    All Things Considered: The North Korean Forced Labor Program

     — Broadcast

  21. Firing on all Syllables

    Interview with The Outlaw Ocean Project

     — Podcast

  22. Ocean Elders

    Dive In: The Chinese Squid Industry

     — Video

  23. CBC News

    The Broadcast: China’s Distant Water Fleet

     — Broadcast

  24. University of South Carolina

    The Crux: Ian Urbina on The Outlaw Ocean

     — Podcast

  25. NJ Spotlight News

    Human Rights Abuses in China’s Seafood Industry

     — Broadcast

  26. BBC

    BBC World Business Report: Forced Labor in China's Seafood Industry

     — Podcast

  27. United States Congress

    Congressional-Executive Commission on China: Testimony by Ian Urbina about The Outlaw Ocean Project's investigation on forced labor in China's seafood industry

     — Talk

  28. VICE News

    Exposing the Truth Behind This Brutal Murder

     — Video

  29. Dart Center

    Reporting Advice from The Outlaw Ocean Project: 2022 Dart Award Honoree

     — Print & web

  30. EFE:Verde

    Environmental Crimes and Crimes Against Human Rights Go Hand in Hand

     — Print & web

  31. TemMais

    TemMais features The Outlaw Ocean Project’s Emmy Win

     — Print & web

  32. National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

    2022 Emmy Awards: Emmy for Outstanding Crime and Justice Coverage awarded to The Outlaw Ocean Project

     — Award

  33. Los Angeles Times

    L.A. Times Today: The Outlaw Ocean Podcast Exposes Criminal Activities on the High Seas

     — Broadcast

  34. The Ocean Ball Foundation

    Ocean Ball: Ocean Ball 2022

     — Talk

  35. Soceity of Environmental Journalists

    Oceans of Solutions: Covering 'Blue Climate' and Ocean-Based Climate Strategies

     — Talk

  36. Pulitzer Center

    Interconnected: Reporting the Climate Crisis

     — Talk

  37. Foreign Correspondence Podcast

    Ian Urbina - The Outlaw Ocean Project

     — Podcast

  38. Human Rights Watch

    Festival of Ideas: Sea Blindness

     — Talk

  39. Yale Law School

    E.U.’s Citizenship Apartheid: A Reconceptualization of the Mediterranean Migrant Crisis

     — Talk

  40. Central Michigan University

    Abel Endowed Lecture Series: A Discussion of E.U. Efforts to Build a Virtual Wall Across the Mediterranean

     — Talk

  41. Overseas Press Club

    Award for Human Rights Reporting Granted to Ian Urbina

     — Award

  42. Daily Maverick

    Rough Seas: The E.U., Libyan Jails And Migrant Human Rights Abuses

     — Talk

  43. Foreign Policy Research Institute

    Chain Reaction: Europe’s Big Secret: Funding Offshore Migrant Prisons

     — Podcast

  44. Penn Arts & Sciences

    Middle East Center: The Migration Crisis Off the Coast of Libya

     — Talk

  45. The Listen Podcast

    Ian Urbina on The Outlaw Ocean

     — Podcast

  46. The Jerusalem Post

    Ian Urbina is transforming investigative reporting on environmental crimes

     — Print & web

  47. Pictures of the Year

    “Unsafe Passage” Awarded First Place in the Documentary Journalism Category

     — Award

  48. Book Dreams

    Dangers on our ungoverned oceans

     — Podcast