Nadja Drost is a Canadian journalist who has worked from New York City and Bogotá, Colombia. She is a PBS Newshour special correspondent for Latin America and has been published in Time, Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail and Al Jazeera America, Her stories have been broadcast on the CBC, BBC, Radio Ambulante and National Public Radio.[1]
Nadja Drost | |
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| Born | Canada |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing |
| Website | nadjadrost |
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 America Ferrera Presents Desperate Journey with a Peabody Award, Peabody awards, June 18, 2021 |
In 2017, Drost was a co-recipient of The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award for "best reporting in any medium on Latin America" from the Overseas Press Club of America, for Fight for Peace, a PBS NewsHour piece reporting on FARC guerrillas in Colombia.[2]
In 2021, Drost won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for the story "When can we really rest?", published in the California Sunday Magazine (which closed in October 2020).[1][3] It is extremely rare for a freelance journalist to win a Pulitzer. For the story, Drost spent five days in the Darién Gap, an undeveloped area of rainforest and marshland on the border between Colombia and Panama, interviewing and following migrants who were crossing the region.[4] It is considered one of the longest and most dangerous human migration routes in the world.[5]
Drost is a co-recipient with the videographer Bruno Federico of a 2021 Peabody Award, for the report "Desperate Journey" on PBS NewsHour.[6] At the 87th National Headliner Awards she won The Best in Show Television award for "Desperate Journey" and first place for magazine feature writing by an individual on a variety of subjects for "When can we really rest?".[7] Drost also received an Honorable Mention from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) at the 2021 Annual Writing Awards for "When can we really rest?".[8]
Drost is a graduate of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b "Nadja Drost, freelance contributor, The California Sunday Magazine". The 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
- ^ "Overseas Press Club Announces 22 Award Winners". OPC of America. March 20, 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- "19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award". OPC of America. March 24, 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2021. - ^ Hare, Kristen (12 June 2021). "California Sunday Magazine closed last year. It just won a Pulitzer". Poynter. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
- ^ Fu, Angela (June 14, 2021). "Freelancers rarely win Pulitzers. But this year, two writers took home journalism's top prize". Poynter. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ "PBS NewsHour's Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic and from the Darien Gap Named Peabody Award Nominees". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ "Grantees Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico Win Peabody Award". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "7th National Headliner Awards winn" (PDF). Headliner Awards. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "ASJA's Annual Writing Awards". American Society of Journalists and Authors. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ "Nadja Drost - grantee". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 15 June 2021.