Awards
National Magazine Awards (from the American Society of Magazine Editors)
2023 – Winner for General Excellence in Literature, Science and Politics
2022 – Nominee for General Excellence in Literature, Science and Politics
Online News Association’s Online Journalism Awards
2025 – Winner, Gather Award in Community Centered Journalism (Georgia PSC), Finalist, Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award (Misplaced Trust)
2024 – Winner, University of Florida Award in Investigative Data Journalism, Small/Medium Newsroom (Misplaced Trust)
2022 – Winner, Knight Award for Public Service (Ghosts of Polluters Past)
2022 – Finalist for Digital Video Storytelling Series, Small/Medium Newsrooms (Proof of Concept)
2022 – Finalist for Excellence in Social Justice Reporting (Ghosts of Polluters Past)
2022 – Finalist for Explanatory Reporting, Small Newsrooms (The Burning Issue)
2022 – Finalist for Feature, Small Newsrooms (Road to Ruin)
2022 – Finalist for the Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism (In the Shadow of the Refineries)
2021 – General Excellence, Small Newsroom
2021 – Best Topical Reporting on Climate Change (ahead of The New York Times)
2021 – Best Investigative Data Journalism (ahead of ProPublica)
Editor & Publisher EPPY Awards
2023 – Best use of data/infographics (Washed Away: How disaster relief leaves Kentucky’s landslide victims behind)
Livingston Awards
2024 – Finalists for Local Reporting, Anita Hofschneider and Jake Bittle (The libertarian developer looming over West Maui’s water conflict)
John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism
2025 – Finalists, Naveena Sadasivam & Lylla Younes (The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain)
2024 – Honorable Mention, Lois Parshley (As climate risks mount, the insurance safety net is collapsing)
Northwest Emmy Awards
2024 – Nominated, Environment/Science – Short Form Content (Nature can’t run without parasites)
James Beard Awards
2025 – Nominee for Beverage Reporting, L.V. Anderson, with Slate (The best coffee for the planet might not be coffee at all)
2024 – Winner for Foodways Reporting, Julia O’Malley, with FERN (Billions of snow crabs are missing. A remote Alaskan village depends on the harvest to survive.)
SEAL Awards
2025 – Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
2024 – Anita Hofschneider and Matt Simon
2023 – Kate Yoder
2022 – Shannon Osaka is one of top 12 environmental journalists
2020 – Shannon Osaka
2020 – Zoya Teirstein
2018 – Nathanael Johnson
AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award
2024 – Winner, Spot News/Feature Reporting (20 minutes or less), Gold Award, Jesse Nichols
LION Local Journalism Awards
2023 – Nominations for LION Business of the Year, Product of the Year (Parched newsletter), Accountability Award (Any Way the Wind Blows)
FOLIO: Eddie Awards
2022 – Winner for Investigative Journalism, Consumer (Road to Ruin)
2022 – Nominated for Investigative Journalism, Consumer (Road to Ruin)
2022 – Nominated for Website, Consumer/City & Regional
2022 – Nominated for Series of Articles: Consumer, News/Science & Technology/General Interest (The Burning Issue)
2022 – Nominated for Video, Consumer (Proof of Concept)
2021 – Winner for Editorial Use of Data
2021 – Winner for Single Article Editorial Excellence
2021 – Finalist for Best Analysis
2020 – Best Overall Consumer Website
2019 – Best Essay/Criticism, Kate Yoder
2018 – Best Overall Consumer Website and Rising Star Honoree, Jesse Nichols
Society of Environmental Journalists Annual Reporting Awards
2024 – Winner, Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting and Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, Small (Misplaced Trust)
2023 – Honorable mention for Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small (Zoya Teirstein for climate and disease reporting)
2022 – First place in the Outstanding Student Reporting (to Cameron Ogelsby for her Hogwash: Making fuel from pig poop sounds exciting — unless you live nearby.)
2022 – Third place for Outstanding Feature Story, Small (You Strike a Match)
2022 – Honorable mention for Outstanding Feature Story, Small (Shannon Osaka for Can ‘the people’ solve climate change? France decided to find out.)
2022 – Honorable mention for Outstanding Beat Reporting (Nate Johnson on wildfires)
2020 – Third Place for Outstanding Feature Story
2020 – Honorable Mention for Outstanding Beat Reporting and Outstanding Explanatory Reporting
2020 – Heroes of Environmental Journalism, Yvette Cabrera & Naveena Sadasivam
Institute for Nonprofit News Awards
2023 – Nominations for Insight Award for Visual Journalism (Austyn Gaffney and Martha Park) and Emerging Leader of the Year (Nikhil Swaminathan)
2022 – Nominated for Journalism Collaboration of the Year Award (Ghosts of Polluters Past)
2022 – Winner, Breaking Barriers Award (Road to Ruin)
2021 – Finalist for Explanatory Journalism
Edward R. Murrow Awards from Radio Television Digital News Association
2025 – Winner in Region 8, Overall Excellence for BPR’s Hurricane Helene coverage; Winner in Region 7, Excellence in Sound (Izzy Ross)
2024 – Winner in Region 13, Feature Reporting (Mining Debate Brings Personal Ties to the Okefenokee Swamp into Focus)
2022 – Winner in Overall Excellence among small digital news organizations
2022 – Winner in Investigative Reporting category among small digital news organizations (Abandoned Wells)
Covering Climate Now Awards
2025 – Winner, International Relations (‘We Lost’: How COP29 Ended With a Deal That Made the Whole World Unhappy), Winner, Business and Economics with The Fuller Project (The world’s garment workers are on the front lines of climate impacts)
2024 – Winner, Journalist of the Year (Tristan Ahtone) and winner, business and economics writing (Lois Parshley)
2023 – Nomination for Writing, Long Form (The Cochise County Groundwater Wars)
2022 – Winner in Emerging Journalist category (Shannon Osaka)
2022 – Two nominations for Industry Innovation (Climate Fiction and Uproot Project)
Indigenous Media Awards
2025 – Winner, 2025 Richard LaCourse Award for Investigative Journalism; First Place, Best Environmental Coverage; Third Place, Best Environmental Coverage
2024 – Winner, Best Feature Story; Third Place, Best Feature Story; Winner, Best Longform / Magazine Story; First Place, Best Environmental Coverage; Second Place, Best Environmental Coverage; First Place, Best International Indigenous Coverage; Third Place, Best International Indigenous Coverage
Green Eyeshade Awards
2025 – Second Place, Specialized Writing or Coverage (Ayurella Horn-Muller, Collection)
Outdoor Writers Association of America
2022 – First Prize for Column Writing (Derrick Z Jackson, for Grist and UCS)
Sigma Awards for Data Journalism
2025 – Short-listed
2024 – Winner (Any Way the Wind Blows)
2023 – Winner (Ghosts of Polluters Past)
2022 – Short-listed
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications
2025 – Science Journalist: Early Career (Jesse Nichols)
Solutions Journalism Network Awards
2024 – Winner, Words, Medium-Sized Newsroom (Joseph Winters)
John Bartlow Martin Awards for Magazine Journalism
2025 – Second Place (Misplaced Trust)
Alaska Press Club Awards
2024 – Winner, Best Long Feature (Max Graham)
Society of Professional Journalism Sunshine State Awards
2025 – Winner, Beat Reporting, Science and Technology; Winner, Beat Reporting, Food & Travel Reporting; Finalist, Non-Deadline News Reporting — State & National, Ayurella Horn-Muller
SABEW Best in Business Awards
2023 – Winner, Small Division, Jake Bittle
2022 – Winner, Small Division, Jake Bittle
NIHCM Awards in Journalism and Research
2022 – Finalist in Digital Media Category
Peter Lisagor Awards from Chicago Headline Club
2022 – Nominee for Best Reporting on Race and Diversity
Webby Awards
2022 – Honorable Mention for News and Politics
Society of News Design: Best of News Design
2025 – Award of Excellence – Environment and Science
2021 – Gold Medal – New site, page, app or other product
NYU American Journalism Online Award
2021 – Best Twitter Thread
Digiday Media Awards
2021 – Finalist for Most Innovative Publisher
2021 – Finalist for Editorial Team of the Yearr
2020 – Finalist for Best Newsletter and Best Single Article
Drum Awards for Online Media
2021 – Finalist for Best Specialist News Site
2021 – Finalist for Editor of the Year (Nikhil Swaminathan)
2020 – Finalist for Editor of the Year, Specialist News Site, and Content Creator of the Year
Scripps-Howard Award
2021 – Excellence in Opinion Writing (Derrick Z. Jackson)
Society for Professional Journalists, Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards
2019 – Best Reporting Series Video, Jesse Nichols
2018 – Best Column, Eve Andrews
