Outlaw Ocean Project

Awards Received by The Outlaw Ocean Project

  1. 2026 Winner

    Digital Media Awards Americas

    Best Use of Audio

    World Association of News Publishers

    Awarded for The Outlaw Ocean Podcast (Season 2)
  2. 2026 Winner

    24th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment

    Outstanding Explanatory Reporting

    Society of Environmental Journalists

  3. 2026 Winner

    Dan Rather Medal for News and Guts

    Professional Award Winner

    The University of Texas as Austin

    Awarded for The Outlaw Ocean Podcast (Season 2)
  4. 2025 Winner

    Digiday Media Awards

    B50 Media Company of the Year

    Digiday

  5. 2025 Winner

    Online Journalism Awards

    Explanatory Reporting: Small Newsroom

    Online News Association

  6. 2025 Winner

    James Beard Journalism Award

    Investigative Reporting

    James Beard Foundation

    Awarded for The North Koreans Behind Global Seafood, The Whistleblower
  7. 2025 Winner

    46th Edition Award of Excellence in Page Design

    Investigative and International

    The Society for News Design (SND)

    Awarded for The Whistleblower
  8. 2025 Winner

    Best in Business

    Podcast/Audio

    Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing

    Awarded for The Outlaw Ocean Podcast (Season 2)
  9. 2025 Winner

    EPPY

    Best Podcast (With fewer than 1 million monthly unique visitor)

    Editor & Publisher

    Awarded for The Outlaw Ocean Podcast (Season 2)
  10. 2025 Winner

    Signal Awards

    Best Writing, True Crime

    Signal Awards

    Awarded for The Outlaw Ocean Podcast (Season 2)
  11. 2025 Winner

    2025 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards

    Silver Baton

    Columbia Journalism School

    Awarded for China: The Superpower of Seafood
  12. 2025 Winner

    National Edward R. Murrow Award

    Excellence in Innovation

  13. 2024 Winner

    Digiday Media Awards

    Best Design

    Digiday

    Awarded for China: The Superpower of Seafood
  14. 2024 Winner

    IAPA Excellence in Journalism

    Photography & Video

    Inter American Press Association

    Awarded for China: The Superpower of Seafood
  15. 2024 Winner

    Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards

    Visual Design

    NYSSCPA Financial Journalism Awards

    Awarded for China: The Superpower of Seafood
  16. 2024 Winner

    Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia

    Excellence in Journalism

    Asia Society

    Awarded for China: The Superpower of Seafood
  17. 2024 Winner

    National Edward R. Murrow Award

    Excellence in Innovation

    Awarded for China: The Superpower of Seafood
  18. 2024 Winner

    Sigma Delta Chi Award

    Investigative Reporting

    Awarded for China: The Superpower of Seafood
  19. 2024 Winner

    Book and Journalism Award

    International Print

    Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

    Awarded for China: The Superpower of Seafood
  20. 2024 Winner

    Digital Media Awards Americas

    Best Journalism Project

    World Association of News Publishers

    Awarded for China: The Superpower of Seafood
  21. 2024 Winner

    Overseas Press Club Award

    Roy Rowan Award for Best Investigative Reporting in any Medium on an International Story

    Awarded for A Fleet Prone to Captive Labor and Plunder
  22. 2023 Winner

    Best in Business

    International Reporting - Small Division

    Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing

    Awarded for China: The Superpower of Seafood
  23. 2023 Winner

    Digital Media Awards Americas

    Best Podcast

    World Association of News Publishers

    Awarded for The Outlaw Ocean Podcast (Season 1)
  24. 2023 Winner

    Grand Radio Award

    Narrative / Documentary Podcast

    New York Festivals

    Awarded for The Outlaw Ocean Podcast (Season 1)
  25. 2023 Winner

    Gold Radio Award

    Narrative / Documentary Podcast

    New York Festivals

    Awarded for The Outlaw Ocean Podcast (Season 1)
  26. 2023 Winner

    Book and Journalism Award

    Nontraditional Media Award

    Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

    Awarded for The Outlaw Ocean Podcast (Season 1)
  27. 2023 Winner

    Dan Rather Medal for News and Guts

    Professional Award Winner

    The University of Texas as Austin

    Awarded for The Outlaw Ocean Podcast (Season 1)
  28. 2022 Winner

    North American Digital Media Award

    Audience Engagement

    World Association of News Publishers

  29. 2022 Winner

    The Michael Kelly Award

    The Atlantic

    Awarded for Libya: The Invisible Wall
  30. 2022 Winner

    North American Digital Media Award

    Use of Online Video

    World Association of News Publishers

    Awarded for Libya: The Invisible Wall
  31. 2022 Winner

    Emmy

    Outstanding Crime & Justice Coverage

    National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

    Awarded for Libya: The Invisible Wall, “Get Away from the Target”—Rescuing Migrants from the Libyan Coast Guard
  32. 2022 Winner

    Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

    Online Journalism Awards

    Awarded for Libya: The Invisible Wall
  33. 2021 Winner

    The Christopher Dickey Award

    Journalism Excellence

    FilmAid

  34. 2021 Winner

    Overseas Press Club Award

    International Human Rights Reporting

    Awarded for Libya: The Invisible Wall
  35. 2021 Winner

    Best of Photojournalism

    Short Form & Documentary of the Year

    National Press Photographers Association

    Awarded for Libya: The Invisible Wall, “Get Away from the Target”—Rescuing Migrants from the Libyan Coast Guard
  36. 2021 Winner

    Picture of the Year Award

    Documentary Journalism

    Awarded for Libya: The Invisible Wall, “Get Away from the Target”—Rescuing Migrants from the Libyan Coast Guard
  37. 2021 Winner

    James Foley Medill Medal

    Courage in Journalism

    Awarded for Libya: The Invisible Wall
  38. 2021 Winner

    Scripps Howard Award

    Excellence in Innovation in Journalism

    Awarded for The Outlaw Ocean Music Project
  39. 2021 Winner

    Sigma Delta Chi Award

    Magazine Investigative Reporting

    Awarded for The Secretive Prisons that Keep Migrants Out of Europe, Purgatory at Sea, & The Smell of Money
  40. 2021 Winner

    Tom Renner Award

    Investigative Reporters & Editors

    Awarded for Libya: The Invisible Wall
  41. 2021 Winner

    George Polk Award

    International Reporting

    Awarded for Libya: The Invisible Wall
  42. 2020 Winner

    Sigma Award

    Excellence in Data Journalism

    Awarded for The Deadly Secret of China’s Invisible Armada