Awards

With The Washington Post

  • 2023, Pulitzer Prize, Finalist, Public Service, with the staff of The Washington Post, “for exposing “the government’s failure to address the epidemic of addiction.”
  • 2020, Pulitzer Prize, Finalist, Public Service, for using “previously hidden government records and confidential company documents to provide unprecedented insight into America’s deadly opioid epidemic.”
  • 2017, Polk Award, Medical Reporting, with the staff of The Washington Post, for tracing lax regulation of the distribution of narcotic painkillers by the DEA.
  • 2016, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, with the staff of The Washington Post, for its revelatory initiative in creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why the police shoot to kill and who the victims are most likely to be.
  • 2016, The Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, with the staff of The Washington Post, for their investigative reporting on the DEA’s lax regulation on opioid distribution.
  • 2012, Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, with the staff of The Washington Post, for “Capitol Assets.”
  • 2012, Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, with the staff of The Washington Post.
  • 2005, Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc., First Place, Large Newspapers
  • 2005, Pulitzer Prize, Finalist, National Reporting, with the staff of The Washington Post, “for its relentless, unflinching chronicle of abuses by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.”
  • 2002, Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, with Horwitz and Cohen of The Washington Post, for a series that exposed the District of Columbia’s role in the neglect and death of 229 children placed in protective care between 1993 and 2000, which prompted an overhaul of the city’s child welfare system.
  • 2002, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (Grand Prize and Domestic Print), with Horwitz and Cohen of The Washington Post, for “The District’s Lost Children.”
  • 2002, Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc., IRE Medal.
  • 2002, Associated Press Managing Editors Award.
  • 2002, Heywood Broun Award, with Horwitz and Cohen of The Washington Post, for “The District’s Lost Children.”

With 60 Minutes

  • 2019, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, a joint investigation into the opioid epidemic with “60 Minutes.”
  • 2018, Emmy Award, the joint investigation with “60 Minutes.”
  • 2018, Peabody Award, with the staff of The Washington Post and CBS News 60 Minutes, for “The Whistleblower,” the joint investigation into how the Drug Enforcement Administration was hobbled in its attempts to hold Big Pharma accountable during the opioid epidemic.”
  • 2018, The Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism, with the staff of The Washington Post and CBS News 60 Minutes, for “The Whistleblower” and “Too Big to Prosecute”
  • 2018, Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, Public Service, the joint investigation with “60 Minutes.”
  • 2018, Loeb Award, Finalist, the joint investigation with “60 Minutes.”
  • 2018, Edward R. Murrow Award, the joint investigation with “60 Minutes.”

    Note: “The Whistleblower” and “Too Big to Prosecute” also were finalists for the Gerald Loeb Award and the Scripps Howard Journal Award.

Other Awards

  • 2011, Edgar Award, Mystery Writers of America, Finalist.
  • 1998, Times Mirror Journalist of the Year.
  • 1994, Pulitzer Prize, Finalist, Feature Writing, with April Witt at The Miami Herald.
  • 1993, Pulitzer Prize, Finalist, Spot News Reporting, with the staff of Miami Herald.