Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story AWARD YEAR: 2023 AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 2023 RECIPIENT: Heidi Blake AFFILIATION: The New Yorker HONORED WORK: “The Fugitive Princesses of Dubai” Blake masterfully weaves together the many pieces and people of this complicated and little understood saga of the…
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The Ed Cunningham Award 2022
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story WARD YEAR: 2022 AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 2022 RECIPIENT: Lynzy Billing AFFILIATION: ProPublica HONORED WORK: “The Night Raids” In an astounding piece of storytelling that is, simultaneously, a personal history and a revelatory work of current events reporting, Billing skillfully…
The Ed Cunningham Award 2021
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story AWARD DATE: 2021 AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 2021 AWARD RECIPIENT: Anand Gopal AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New Yorker AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Other Afghan Women” AWARD SPONSOR: Michael S. Serrill Anand Gopal’s article is a brave and beautifully wrought tale,…
The Ed Cunningham Award 2020
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story AWARD DATE: 2020 AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 2020 AWARD RECIPIENT: Sarah Topol AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New York Times Magazine AWARD HONORED WORK: “Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter.” AWARD SPONSOR: Michael S. Serrill Read the…
The Ed Cunningham Award 2019
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story. AWARD DATE: 2019 AWARD NAME: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award 2019 AWARD RECIPIENT: Alex Perry AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Outside AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Last Days of John Allen Chau” AWARD SPONSOR: Michael S. Serrill Award Page (with links to the winning work) >> Citation for Excellence: Citation…
The Ed Cunningham Award 2018
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story AWARD DATE: 2018 AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 2018 AWARD RECIPIENT: Anand Gopal AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New Yorker AWARD HONORED WORK: “Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom” AWARD SPONSOR: Michael S. Serrill “Tell the story of your village,” the Italian novelist Andrea Camilleri once said. “If…
The Ed Cunningham Award 2017
Best magazine reporting in print or digital on an international story AWARD DATE: 2017 AWARD NAME: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award AWARD RECIPIENT: Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New York Times Magazine AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Uncounted” AWARD SPONSOR: Michael S. Serrill Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal spent almost two years…
The Ed Cunningham Award 2016
Best magazine reporting in print or digital on an international story AWARD DATE: 2016 AWARD NAME: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award AWARD RECIPIENT: Anand Gopal AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Atlantic AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Hell After ISIS” AWARD SPONSOR: Ford Motor Company Anand Gopal’s “The Hell After ISIS” is a beautifully written account of the…
The Ed Cunningham Award 2015
Best magazine reporting in print or online on an international story AWARD YEAR: 2015 AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 2015 RECIPIENT: Tristan McConnell AFFILIATION: Foreign Policy HONORED WORK: “Close Your Eyes and Pretend to Be Dead” Through dozens of interviews and forensic detail, McConnell delivers an epic retelling of the Westgate Mall massacre in…
The Ed Cunningham Award 2014
In the best tradition of wartime storytelling, Aikins’s vivid characters offer a truly fresh window into the Syrian conflict. The wisecracking, passionate young men, a volunteer rescue team in Aleppo, remain with us long after reading. In an inspirational and even funny story, Aikins captures the friends’ longings and doubts with astute empathy. Despite intense risks to himself, Aikins keeps himself out of his understated prose, which is enriched by the quiet photographs of Tomada. A reminder that the essence of war lies in these intimate moments, far from the halls of diplomatic power. Aikins is a freelance journalist and Schell Fellow at the Nation Institute.