We are honored to have had our work recognized with awards from journalism organizations across the globe.
2025
- Society For News Design 45
- Bronze medal, Illustration and Multimedia: Digital Divinity
- Bronze medal, Page design, Politics: 2024 AI Election Tracker
- Bronze medal, Staff Portfolio: Rest of World, Cengiz Yar, Munira Mutaher and Joanne Lee
- Award of Excellence, User Input Design: 2024 AI Election Tracker
- Award of Excellence, Illustration and Multimedia: The changing face of protest
- Edward R. Murrow Award
- Winner, Excellence in Video, small digital organization: South Africa’s migrant delivery workers find safety in numbers, in partnership with Context
- Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA)
- Winner, Excellence in Reporting on the Environment, Regional: Riders in the smog: Pollution is poisoning gig workers, Zuha Siddiqui, Samriddhi Sakunia, Faisal Mahmud
- Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award
- Foreign Correspondent: Nilesh Christopher
- Telly Awards
- Bronze Winner, Series-Video Journalism: Gig Workers Rising
- South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA)
- Winner, Outstanding international reporting: Riders in the smog: Pollution is poisoning gig workers, Zuha Siddiqui, Samriddhi Sakunia, Faisal Mahmud
2024
- Online Journalism Awards (From ONA)
- Winner, Topical Reporting: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Identity, small newsroom: How AI reduces the world to stereotypes
- Finalist, Visual Storytelling, small newsroom: portfolio
- Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA)
- Honorable Mention, Excellence in Reporting on the Environment, Regional: The race to put Indigenous land on the map, Liani MK
- Honorable Mention, Excellence in Technology Reporting, Regional: Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India, Nilesh Christopher, Viola Zhou
- Honorable Mention, Excellence in Photography, Regional: The race to put Indigenous land on the map, Muhammad Fadli
- Society For News Design 45
- Bronze medal, Design: Social Issues: How AI reduces the world to stereotypes, Joanne Lee, Anna Rasshivkina, Lily Lou, Cengiz Yar
- Award of Excellence: 40 companies that are beating the West, China, the World’s Shopping Cart, Portfolio
- ASME – National Magazine Awards 2024
- Winner, Design: 40 Companies that are Beating the West, How AI Reduces the World to Stereotypes, and China, the World’s Shopping Cart
- Finalist, General Excellence in Literature, Science, and Politics
- Pictures of the Year International
- Award of Excellence, Documentary Daily Life: At home with Asia’s shopping influencers, Seth Dalton
- SABEW Best in Business Awards
- Winner, Feature: Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India, Nilesh Christopher, Viola Zhou
- Winner, Retail: China: the world’s shopping cart, Peiyue Wu, Daniela Dib, Viola Zhou, Caiwei Chen, Lais Martins, Ester Christine Natalia, Damilare Dosunmu
2023
- South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA)
- Winner, Outstanding arts, culture, and lifestyle reporting: How a YouTube channel is transforming a remote village in Bangladesh, Nilesh Christopher and Faisal Mahmud
- Winner, Outstanding international reporting: The sextortion scammers of rural India, Kapil Kajal
- American Illustration 41 – American Photography 39 (AI-AP)
- Winner: Carlo Cadenas: Buy or get bought: African tech is on a mergers and acquisitions spree, The global downturn is real, but the allure of Africa’s digital markets hasn’t changed
- Winner: Muhammad Fadli: The dirty road to clean energy: How China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment
- Winner: Nipun Prabhakar: YouTube is bringing viral fame to one of Delhi’s oldest markets
- Winner: Yuri Kozyrev: Nothing could slow inDriver’s rise from Siberian startup to global Uber competitor. Then Russia invaded Ukraine
- Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA)
- Winner, Excellence in Feature Writing, Regional: The dirty road to clean energy: How China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment, Antonia Timmerman
- Winner, Excellence in Reporting on the Environment, Regional: The dirty road to clean energy: How China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment, Antonia Timmerman
- Society for News Design 44
- Best in Show winner, small newsrooms: How Chinese citizens use puns to get past internet censors, Meaghan Tobin, Katherine Lee, Anna Rasshivkina
- Gold medal, Portfolio: Story Page Design (individual): Katherine Lee, Visual & UX designer
- Bronze medal, Design: Social Issues: How Chinese citizens use puns to get past internet censors, Meaghan Tobin, Katherine Lee, Anna Rasshivkina
- Award of Excellence: In the dark, Welcome to the Ambaniverse, Inside the world’s biggest tech bazaars, India’s tech sector has a caste problem, and An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code?
- SABEW Best in Business Awards
- Honorable Mention, Technology: Sea change: Google and Meta’s underwater cables up the stakes on internet control, Carey Baraka, Andrew Blum, and Abubakar Idris
- Honorable Mention, Energy/Natural Resources: The dirty road to clean energy: How China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment, Antonia Timmerman
- ASME – National Magazine Awards 2023
- Finalist, Design: In the Dark, How Chinese Citizens Use Puns to Get Past Internet Censors, and Welcome to the Ambaniverse
- True Story Award
- Shortlist: Meet the fact-checkers decoding Sri Lanka’s meltdown, Nilesh Christopher
2022
- South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA)
- Winner, Arts & Culture: Why minorities are abandoning India’s trailblazing queer forums, Ankur Paliwal
- Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)
- Winner, Journalism Excellence in Written Reporting, Features: Tune in, drop out, Ann Babe
- Winner, Excellence in Arts & Culture / Entertainment Reporting: China’s subtitle army, Zeyi Yang, Meaghan Tobin
- Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA)
- Winner, Excellence in Business Reporting, Regional: How Asia’s supply chain kept churning (Package): How Shein beat Amazon; Samsung in Vietnam, Louise Matsakis, Meaghan Tobin, Wency Chen; Lam Le
- Winner, Excellence in Technology Reporting, Regional: The gig economy keeps growing, but the algorithm isn’t benefiting everyone: The global gig workers, Peter Guest, Youyou Zhou
- Society of Publication Designers Awards 57 (SPD)
- Digital Medal Finalist, Original Digital Photography, Feature, Portfolio: Cengiz Yar, photo editor: Step into my (home) office
- American Illustration 40 – American Photography 38 (AI-AP)
- Winner: Emile Ducke: Fighting brain drain and creeping authoritarianism in Russia’s techno-utopian village
- Winner: Jean Chung: Step into my (home) office
- Winner: George Etheridge: The cleric has uploaded a new video
2021
- Society for News Design 43
- Award of Excellence: Design, Business: The Global Gig Workers
- Award of Excellence: Use of Animation: Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare
- Award of Excellence: Use of Commissioned Illustration: Fact-checking Modi’s India
- Award of Excellence: Use of Photography: Step into my (home) office
- Award of Excellence: Portfolio, Art Direction: Cengiz Yar
- American Illustration – American Photography (AI-AP)
- Winner: Brendan Hoffman: Gram by Gram
- Winner: Nicole Tung: Delivery Wars
2020
- Society for News Design 2020 (SND)
- Award of Excellence: Experimental Design: Stat of the Day, Anna Rasshivkina, Michael Donohoe, Jody Mak
- Award of Excellence: Social Media Design: Stat of the Day, Anna Rasshivkina, Michael Donohoe, Jody Mak
- Award of Excellence: Portfolio, Art Direction: Cengiz Yar