Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
Award Year: 2025
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2025-2026
Recipient: Ben Taub
Affiliation: The New Yorker, with support from the Pulitzer Center
Honored Work: “The Big Ice Is Sick”
Taub’s stunningly beautiful portrayal of an Inuit society in a remote corner of Greenland, and its collapse due to climate change, colonization and global pollution, is journalism at its finest. He doesn’t dazzle readers with scientific data so much as focus on how individual lives are affected.
Winning work:
One of the Greatest Polar-Bear Hunters Confronts a Vanishing World
Citation for Excellence:
Will Fitzgibbon and Peter S. Goodman
The Examination and The New York Times
“The Poisonous Lead Trade”