The American Society of Magazine Editors named ProPublica as a finalist for five 2026 National Magazine Awards.
ProPublica is nominated in the general excellence category.
“Status: Venezuelan,” a documentary directed by ProPublica’s Mauricio Rodríguez Pons in partnership with PBS FRONTLINE, is nominated in the video category.
Three articles by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy — “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera”; “Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis”; and “The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive” — are nominated in the reporting category.
“Now That They’re Free,” published with The Texas Tribune, Alianza Rebelde Investiga and Cazadores de Fake News; “‘I Lost Everything’: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime,” published with Block Club Chicago and FRONTLINE; and “Status: Venezuelan,” published with FRONTLINE, are nominated in the public interest category.
“The H-2A Visa Trap,” by Max Blau and Zaydee Sanchez, with illustrations by Dadu Shin, is nominated in the best illustrated stories category.
