Awards

Truthout is on the cutting edge of publishing principled, accurate and impactful journalism. These are some of the awards our stories and writers have won over the years.

2024 Anthem Award
“Remaking the Exceptional” — a series of explainer videos made through a collaboration between Truthout, Zealous and Teen Vogue won in the News & Journalism category. The videos unpacked myths about policing and incarceration, and proposed alternatives.

2022 Donald F. Erickson Synapses Award
The Crossroads Fund, which supports movements for social and economic justice, presented Truthout this award for our independent reporting and commentary.

2021 Izzy Award
Truthout was awarded a second Izzy in four years; this time for “outstanding achievement in independent media.” The judges recognized Truthout’s “Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19” series, which included over 250 articles covering the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020 First Amendment Award
Staff writer Candice Bernd won a First Amendment Award from the Fort Worth, Texas, chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in the “Defending the Disadvantaged” category. Bernd reported on a South Texas tribe’s pledge to defend their sacred sites from President Trump’s border wall.

2018 Izzy Award
Truthout contributing writer Dahr Jamail was given the award for his reporting on climate change and environmental issues, and his Climate Disruption Dispatches, a monthly round-up of the latest climate research and trends. The judges wrote: “There is an urgency and passion in Dahr Jamail’s reporting that is justified by the literally earth-changing subject matter. And it’s supported by science and on-the-scene sources, whether covering ocean pollution, sea level rise, deafening noise pollution or Fukushima radiation.”

2018 San Francisco Press Club Journalism Awards
America’s Toxic Prisons, a joint Truthout and Earth Island Journal investigation by Truthout staff reporter Candice Bernd, Zoe Loftus-Farren and Maureen Nandini Mitra, was awarded second place in two categories: environment/nature reporting and investigative magazine reporting.

2016 Media Accountability Award
Truthout staff reporter Candice Bernd won the award given annually by the Dallas Peace and Justice Center.

2016 Native American Journalists Association Award
Jason Coppola’s chronicle about the epidemic of youth suicides on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation — “Suicide on the Great Sioux Nation” — won third place in the feature story category.

2013 Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Awards
Truthout’s then editor-in-chief Maya Schenwar won the award in the Online Column Writing category for her writings on incarceration.

2012 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism
Truthout writer Gareth Porter won this prize for his stories exposing the Obama administration’s military strategy in Afghanistan. “In a series of extraordinary articles, Gareth Porter has torn away the facades of the Obama administration and disclosed a military strategy that amounts to a war against civilians,” judges wrote.