Best newspaper, news service, newsletter or digital interpretation of international affairs
Award Year: 2025
Award Name: The William Worthy Award 2025-2026
Recipient: Staff
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “The Future of Warfare”
Reporters for The New York Times offered a terrifying glimpse of the future by traveling across Ukraine’s battlefields to detail a new war fought by AI-powered killer drones. In vivid, deeply reported stories, the Times revealed how the front lines have turned into a surreal video game where soldiers hunker, hide and die beneath a sky filled with a thousand snipers.
Citation for Excellence:
Staff
The Wall Street Journal
“The Race to Defend the Arctic”