Best international reporting in the print medium or digital showing a concern for the human condition
Award Year: 2025
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2025-2026
Recipient: Elliott Woods
Affiliation: Texas Monthly, The Food and Environment Reporting Network and The Economic Hardship Reporting Project
Honored Work: “Inside the Deadliest Immigration-Related Disaster in U.S. History”
The reporter spent more than two years reconstructing in vivid detail the lives and deaths of 53 migrants who were discovered in the back of a sweltering tractor trailer in Texas. The haunting story of a survivor gives voice to millions of displaced people around the world who face exploitation and violence in the search for safety.
Links to winning work:
Citation for Excellence:
Drew Philp
The Atavist Magazine
“There Will Be No Mercy”