Awards & Recognition
Recognition for excellence in journalism and human rights reporting
- • Blake-Dodd Prize for Non Fiction — The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2020
- • Bernard Lown Alumni Humanitarian Award — University of Maine Alumni Association, 2020
- • Guggenheim Fellowship, Non Fiction (one of five recipients in 2019 cycle) — John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2016
- • International Impact Award — University of Iowa, 2017
- • Helen Bernstein Book Award, Excellence in Journalism Shortlist — New York Public Library, 2017
- • May Chidiac Foundation Engaged Journalist Award — May Chidiac Foundation, 2017
- • Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship — Council on Foreign Relations, 2016-2017
- • Hay Festival Prize for Prose - The Morning They Came For Us — Hay Festival, 2016
- • Hay Medal for Prose — Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, 2016
- • Courage in Journalism Award — International Women's Media Foundation, 2016
- • Ida Beam Distinguished Professor — The Iowa Writers' Workshop (Alumni - Journalists Program), 2016
- • Pakis Fellow — The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 2015-2016
- • Named one of 100 Influential People Reducing Armed Violence — Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), 2013
- • The Nation Investigation Fund (two times recipient) — The Nation, 2012, 2013
- • Spears Memoir of the Year - Ghosts by Daylight — Spear's Magazine, 2011
- • President of Jury, Prix Bayeux Prize for War Reporters — Prix Bayeux, France, 2010
- • Stillwater Alumni Award — University of Maine, 2008
- • National Magazine Award for 'Madness Visible' in Vanity Fair — American Society of Magazine Editors, 2000
- • Foreign Correspondent of the Year (Britain) — Granada Television's What the Papers Say (UK Media Awards), 2000
- • Amnesty Media Prize (twice awarded, once shortlisted) — Amnesty International, 2000, 2001, 2012
- • Headliner Award for Excellence in Journalism (work in Syria) — National Headliner Awards, 2016