SPJ’s New America Award honors public service journalism that explores and exposes an issue of importance to immigrant or ethnic communities currently living in the United States. Although not required, collaboration with ethnic media is taken into account.
2023 Honorees
Audio
“Foretold,” by the Los Angeles Times
Television
“Generations Stolen,” by Retro Report
Print/online
“The Air We Breathe,” by Cicero Independiente and MuckRock
Previous winners
2022
• Audio: “In Trust,” by Bloomberg News
• Television: “The Reckoning: An American Genocide,” by Lisa Cavazuti, Cynthia McFadden, Maite Amorebieta and Yasmine Salam of NBC News
• Print/online: “Isolated in America. What happened to Rezwan Kohistani?” by Matti Gellman, The Kansas City Star and Kartikay Mehrotra, ProPublica
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2021: “Predication: Bias” by The Markup and Gizmodo
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2020: “In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic” by Eric Boodman, STAT
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2019: “Brown Water for Brown People: California’s Overlooked Drinking Water Crisis” by Jose A. Del Real, The New York Times
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2018: “Poisoned Cities, Deadly Border” by The Desert Sun, The Arizona Republic and USA Today
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2017: “The Wall” by The Arizona Republic & USA Today Network
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2016: “To Build a Home: The Navajo Housing Tragedy” by The Arizona Republic
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2015: “Where are the children?” by Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker
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2014: “The Real Death Valley” and
“Muriendo por Cruzar (Dying to Cross)” by John Carlos Frey, Marisa Venegas, Solly Granatstein, Esther Kaplan, Neil Katz, Shawn Efran and Greg Gilderman
Investigative Fund/Weather Channel/Telemundo/Efran Films
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2013: “Changing America: The 2013 immigration fight,” by Benjy Sarlin, MSNBC
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2012: “Center of Detention” series, by Lewis Kamb, News Tribune, and Carol Smith, InvestigateWest
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2010: “Civil War Kids: Young Somalis in Minnesota,” series, by Minnesota Public Radio News
2009: The Phoenix New Times, KGTV 10 (San Diego) News I-Team
2008: Stephanie Czekalinski, Jill Riepenhoff and Todd Jones, The Columbus Dispatch
2007: Karen Frillmann and Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska
2006: Segunda Juventud