2023
🥇 GOLD Sigma Delta Chi Award for Immersion Journalism, for “Destroying Maya treasures to build a tourist train”
🥇 GOLD The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award, Best reporting in any medium on Latin America, for “The Amazon, Undone"
Comment from the judges: “The six-part series combines on-the-ground reporting with data journalism and satellite imagery to capture an array of destructive forces. We learn how beef illegally raised in the Amazon ends up on Americans’ dinner plates as ranchers and packers evade laws designed to protect the biome. McCoy vividly describes the lawlessness he encounters and the deadly consequences faced by those trying to stop it, among them his friend Dom Phillips, who was killed along with indigenous rights defender Bruno Pereira while investigating illegal fishing and logging.”
🥉 BRONZE Innovation, NPPA Best of Photojournalism, for “Destroying Maya treasures to build a tourist train”
2022
🥇 GOLD Online Journalism Awards, Explanatory Reporting, Large Newsroom, for Ukraine invasion coverage
🥇 GOLD The Kim Wall Award, Best story or series of stories on international affairs using creative and dynamic digital storytelling techniques, for Africa’s rising cities
Comment from the judges: “Beautiful interplay of writing, photography, video, and interactive data graphics that gives immediacy and urgency to an overlooked subject without falling into easy tropes about Africa. The stories and presentation were unique, ambitious, and inspiring in scope.”
🥇 GOLD Pictures of the Year International, Online Storytelling: Daily Life, for ‘You can’t get rid of the smell because they die in the walls’
🥇 GOLD Visa pour l’Image-Perpignan Visa d’or franceinfo, Best Digital News Story, for Africa’s rising cities
Comment from the judges: “There is a high-level of storytelling here and sense of place that gives it a well-rounded presentation. Overall extremely well-balanced.”
🥉 BRONZE SND, Infographics: Breaking News (unplanned), for How the Ever Given was freed from the Suez Canal: A visual analysis
🥉 BRONZE NPPA Best of Photojournalism, News and Issues – Visual Presentation, for Anatomy of a crackdown
⭐ Award of Excellence SND, Format: Use of Animation, for How the pandemic set back women’s progress in the global workforce
2021
Comment from the judges: “not only did the team produce excellent journalism, but they offered tools for others to use. Taken together, it was exceptional data journalism.”
🥇 GOLD American Journalism Awards, Best data visualization for The COVID Tracking Project, for The Covid Tracking Project
One of the judges called it a “stunning display of citizen journalism” which will “inform reporting for years to come.”
2020
⭐ Award of Excellence, SND, Use of Original/Commissioned Illustration (single), for Inside the Iowa caucuses