Business Insider's work has won global recognition and some of the highest honors in journalism for its investigative and original reporting, its creative use of data and visual aids, and its deeply researched, evocative videos. Highlights include:
- A 2024 National Magazine Award in Video for How dogs are trained to attack US prisoners by Hannah Beckler, Olivia Nemec, Robert Leslie, Noah Lewis and Erica Berenstein
- A 2024 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award in Opinion for a package on AI's impact on the workforce by Aki Ito
- A 2024 Hillman Award in Newspaper Journalism for Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States and How dogs are trained to attack US prisoners by Hannah Beckler
- 3 2024 Emmy Award nominations: two for Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV and one for Moving Isa
- A 2022 Pulitzer Award in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for How I escaped a Chinese internment camp by Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams, and Walt Hickey
2024
2024 Front Page Awards
Online - Investigative Reporting
Armed and untouchable: ICE's history of deadly force and ICE agents 'don't fire warning shots' | Lila Hassan, Win
2024 SF Press Club Awards
Investigative Reporting
The predators' playground and An epidemic of sexual abuse in schools | Matt Drange, Esther Kaplan, Hannah Beckler, Narimes Parakul, Sophie Kleeman, Second Place
Hidden investors took over Corizon Health, a leading prison healthcare company. Then they deployed the Texas Two-Step, Inside a prison healthcare company's ownership shell game and Lawsuit alleges undisclosed relationship involving federal judge that could cloud Corizon bankruptcy deal | Nicole Einbinder, Dakin Campbell and Esther Kaplan, Third Place
Blog/commentary
Death by LLM: Stack Overflow's decline, and its plan to survive, shows the future of free online data in an AI world | Alistair Barr and Adam Rogers, First Place
OpenAI just admitted it can't identify AI-generated text. That's bad for the internet and it could be really bad for AI models | Alistair Barr, Third Place
Columns/Features
San Francisco's 'doom loop' is a warning for every American city. Here's how we can fix it — before it's too late, The hidden culprit driving America's apocalypse of boarded-up storefronts and I looked at the plans for the new city proposed by Silicon Valley elites. They're really terrible | Adam Rogers, First Place
Feature Story/Light Subject
It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird | Rob Price, Second Place
Series or Continuing Coverage
Women who work in Utah's Silicon Slopes share its dark side: 'I was traumatized,' Utah legislature passes a bill that makes company NDAs on sexual assault and harassment unenforceable and Domo CEO Josh James stepped down in 2022 after being accused of sexual assault, according to police reports and employees. No charges were filed | Rosalie Chan, First Place
2024 SPJ NorCal Awards
Interview
When your AI girlfriend says she loves you | Rob Price and Edith Honan, Win
2024 LA Press Club Awards
Personality Profile, TV Personalities
Rob McElhenney is betting on himself | Samantha Rollins and Lucia Moses, First Place
TV Feature
Michael Corleone Blanco is taking his mother Griselda's legacy legit | Jason Guerrasio, Third Place
Celebrity News on any celebrity-related issue
The celebrity divorce playbook | Libby Torres, Kirsten Acuna, and Samantha Rollins, Third Place
Commentary Analysis/Trend, Music
Taylor Swift's new era | Callie Ahlgrim, Second Place
2024 British Journalism Awards
Social Affairs, Diversity & Inclusion Journalism
Iran will pay for gender-transition surgery, but it comes at a cost — your dignity | Joshua Nelken-Zitser, Ida Reihani and Kit Gillet, Nominated
Online Video Journalism
4 Gazans show how war devastated their coastline | Reem Makhoul, Robert Leslie, Clancy Morgan, Amelia Kosciulek, Matilda Hay, Liz Kraker, Dorian Barranco, Barbara Corbellini Duarte, Erica Berenstein, and Yasser Abu Wazna, Nominated
2024 Bartlett and Steele Awards
Global/National Category
Corizon's Troubled Two-Step | Nicole Einbinder and Dakin Campbell, Win (Silver)
2024 Murrow Awards
Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
How Millions are Trapped in Modern-Day Slavery at Brick Kilns in Pakistan| Olivia Nemec, Havovi Cooper, Robin Lindsay, Mark Abadi, Barbara Corbellini Duarte and Erica Berenstein, Win
2024 Online Journalism Awards
Excellence in Social Justice Reporting, Portfolio
The secret terror inside US prisons and How dogs are trained to attack US prisoners| Hannah Beckler, Esther Kaplan, Barbara Corbellini Duarte, Selima Hussain, Adam Miller and Erica Berenstein, Finalist
2024 News and Documentary Emmys
Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Long Form
Moving Isa | Barbara Corbellini Duarte, Selima Hussain, Adam Miller and Erica Berenstein, Honoree
2024 Headline Money Awards
B2B Story of the Year
Go Student | Tasmin Lockwood and Riddhi Kanetkar, Highly Commended
2024 Ringo Comic Book Awards
Best non-fiction comic work
The Odyssey of the Adriana | Walt Hickey, Anthony Del Col, Abdullah Hadia and Josh Adams, Nomination
2024 Emmys Awards
Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series
Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV | Kate Taylor, Joel Stonington, Nicholas Carlson, Mary Robertson, Emma Schwartz, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, Lisa Kalikow and Pamela E. Deutsch, Nomination
Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program
Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV | Daphne Gómez-Mena and Jane Jo with Business Insider, Nomination
2024 Singapore Press Club Awards
Young Journalist of the Year
Matthew Loh | Matthew Loh, Win
2024 Television Critics Association Awards
Outstanding Achievement in News and Information
Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV | Kate Taylor, Joel Stonington and Maxine Productions, Win
2024 Sigma Delta Chi Awards
Travel
Load of Ship | Kate Taylor and Brittany Chang, Win
2024 Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards
Opinion
AI is the great equalizer, 'This is the last opportunity for us to wake up': A leading economist warns we're headed for an AI-driven cataclysm and ChatGPT spells the end of coding as we know it | Aki Ito, Win
2024 NAREE Awards
Best collection of work by a commercial real estate reporter
Rural America is the new hotbed in the AI race as tech giants spend billions to turn farms into data centers, Matt Onofrio made $35 million helping everyday people invest in real estate. Then he was indicted. Was it all a scam? and Landlords who bought thousands of apartments are facing a reckoning | Daniel Geiger, Gold
Best Investigative Report or Investigative Series - Real Estate
Dark Side of the Data Center Boom: Series | Daniel Geiger, Ellen Thomas, Rebecca Ungarino, and Issie Lapowsky, Silver
- Inside AI's giant land grab
- Amazon built a data center empire in northern Virginia. Exclusive filings reveal it's using as much energy as a major city.
- Data centers are booming. Their need for power is causing utilities to retreat on green energy.
- Data centers have become an economic powerhouse. Now they're throwing their weight around in Virginia politics.
- Blackstone's data center gamble
- Rural America is the new hotbed in the AI race as tech giants spend billions to turn farms into data centers
Best collection of work by a residential real estate reporter
Gen Z is coming for the housing market, The multibillion-dollar lawsuits that could radically reshape how we buy and sell homes forever and The housing market's Ice Age | James Rodriguez, Bronze
Best online commercial real estate story
Gen Z is coming for the housing market | James Rodriguez, Bronze
2024 New York Press Club Awards
Continuing Coverage - National
Corizon's Texas Two-Step | Nicole Einbinder, Dakin Campbell, Win
Infographics
Modern Loneliness | Hilary Brueck, Annie Fu, Win
2024 Medill John Barlow Martin Awards
John Barlow Martin Award
The truth behind the experimental therapy that kids say starts with 'legalized kidnapping' | Erica Berenstein, Mark Adam Miller, Amelia Kosciulek, Olivia Gentile, Cassi Feltman, Esther Kaplan, Honorable Mention
2024 Digiday Awards
Best Original Programming
Risky Business | Havovi Cooper, Barbara Corbellini Duarte, Selima Hussain, Olivia Nemec, Tyler Merkel, Adam Miller, Edris Lutfi, Erica Berenstein, Win
Video Producer of the Year
Graham Flanagan | Graham Flanagan, Win
Best Use of Generative AI
Collaboration with Paper Cup, | Video Team, Win
2024 Silurians Press Club Awards
Silurians Press Club Awards
Inside the tawdry, drug-fueled, violent world of America's top life insurance salesmen | Susan Antilla, Win
2024 Hillman Awards
Newspaper Journalism
Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States and How dogs are trained to attack US prisoners | Hannah Beckler, Win
Locked Out | Cecilia Reyes, Win
2024 SABEW Awards
Distinguished Achievement Award
Bethany McLean | Bethany McLean, Win
2024 Headliner Awards
Online investigative reporting for digital partnerships with other news outlets
The truth behind the experimental therapy that kids say starts with 'legalized kidnapping' | Olivia Gentile, Erica Berenstein, Adam Miller and Esther Kaplan, First Place
News video (10 to 30 minutes)
The secret terror inside US prisons | Hannah Beckler, Olivia Nemec, Robert Leslie, Noah Lewis and Erica Berenstein, First Place
2024 IRE Awards
Video (Division I)
The truth behind the experimental therapy that kids say starts with 'legalized kidnapping' | Olivia Gentile, Erica Berenstein, Adam Miller and Esther Kaplan, Finalist
2024 Webby Awards
Public Service & Activism
Moving Isa | Barbara Corbellini Duarte, Selima Hussain, Adam Miller and Erica Berenstein, Honoree
2024 Livingston Awards
National
The predators' playground | Matt Drange, Finalist
National
The secret terror inside US prisons | Hannah Beckler, Finalist
2024 NATJA Awards
Sports, Recreation, and Adventure
Death on the Savage Mountain: What really happened on K2, and why 100 climbers stepped over a dying man on their way to the summit | Matthew Loh, Win (Silver)
2024 National Magazine Awards
Video
How dogs are trained to attack US prisoners | Hannah Beckler, Olivia Nemec, Robert Leslie, Noah Lewis and Erica Berenstein, Win
2024 GLAAD Awards
Outstanding Online Journalism (Video OR Multimedia)
Moving Isa | Barbara Corbellini Duarte, Selima Hussain, Adam Miller and Erica Berenstein, Nomination
2023
2023 LA Press Club
Diversity in the TV/Streaming Industry (Online)
Warner Bros. Discovery nearly axed the TV writers workshop known as its own 'farm team,' then rushed to announce a new plan amid Hollywood backlash | Elaine Low, First Place
Business, Tech/Arts related (Print/Online)
Nonstop partying, lavish spending, and sexual harassment accusations: Inside the self-destruction of Pollen, the music startup once worth $800 million | Melkorka Licea, Second Place
Soft News, TV/Streaming (Online)
Contestants say the Miss USA 2022 pageant was rigged, and the entire organization is descending into chaos | Anneta Konstantinides, Third Place
Personality Profile, Film Personalities (Online)
Diane Guerrero is in bloom | Libby Torres, Third Place
2023 GLAAD Awards
Outstanding Online Journalism – Video or Multimedia
Deaths in the Family | Investigations Team, Nominee
2023 Front Page Awards
Feature (Online)
The Cult of Emily Oster | Sarah Todd, Win
Investigative Reporting (Online)
Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States and How dogs are trained to attack US prisoners | Hannah Beckler, Win
2023 National Magazine Awards
Video
The True Cost of Crisis Pregnancy Centers | Katie Nixdorf, Noah Lewis and Robert Leslie, Finalist
Best Digital Cover
Serena's next serve | Kazi Awal, Skye Gould, Liane Radel, Joshua Kissi, Finalist
2023 NATJA Awards
Long-Form Narrative/Personal Essay
The Ayahuasca Diaries | Mattathias Schwartz, Win (Gold Award)
Long-Form Narrative/Personal Essay
Disaster at 18,200 feet | Kelsey Vlamis, Win (Bronze Award)
Travel Tips & Advice
My family has lived in Ireland for as far back as the record books go. Here are my 6 favorite under-the-radar places around the country | Kathy Mangan, Win (Silver Award)
2023 SABEW Awards
Explanatory - Large Division
Warehouse Nation | Katherine Long, Emma Cosgrove and Aki Ito, Win
Retail - Large Division
Inside Nike’s High-Profile Gender Discrimination Lawsuit | Mathew Kish, Honorable Mention
2023 Digiday Awards
Video Executive of the Year
Erica Berenstein | Erica Berenstein, Win
Best editorial package
Deaths in the Family | Investigations Team, Win
Best editorial package
Warehouse Nation | Katherine Long, Emma Cosgrove and Aki Ito, Finalist
Best use of video
The United States of Automation | Insider Studios, Finalist
Best Snapchat Show
Deep Cleaned | Deep Cleaned Team, Nominated
Best Use of Stories
Insider's Instagram | Morgan Goldwich, Tyler Murphy, Claire Banderas, and Virginia Alves, Nominated
Best Use of YouTube
Insider's YouTube Channel | Video Team, Nominated
2023 Overseas Press Club Awards
David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award
Risky Business | Risky Business Team, Runner-Up
2023 Webby Awards
Video - Video Series & Channels - News & Politics
True Cost | True Cost Team, Honorable Mention
Video - Video Series & Channels - Reality
How Crime Works | How Crime Works Team, Nominated
2023 AAJA Awards
Excellence in Video Storytelling, Short-Form Award
Why People Risk Their Lives To Make Millions Of Bangles In India | Sara Khan, Amar Gurung, Pryanka Mukherjee, Havovi Cooper, Olivia Nemec, Noah Lewis, and Barbara Corbellini Duarte, Win
Excellence in Video Storytelling, Long-form & Programs
How Sewer Diving Became One Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In India and Pakistan | Sara Khan, Kashif Khan, Bhavaan Goswami, Zainab Nasir, Havovi Cooper, Barbara Corbellini Duarte, Amelia Kosciulek, and Erica Star Domena, Win
2023 Headliner Awards
Single day photo story
Tell everyone what they have done to us': A month of terror in Bucha, Ukraine | Erin Trieb, Win (Third Place)
Online news video 3 to 10 minutes
Why People Risk Their Lives Hunting For Deadly Explosives In Afghanistan | Risky Business Team, Win (Third Place)
Digital presentation of a single features topic
Warehouse Nation | Katherine Long, Emma Cosgrove and Aki Ito, Win (Third Place)
2023 SOPA Awards
Excellence in Video Reporting (Global)
Why Miners Risk Their Lives To Get Sulfur From An Active Volcano | Risky Business Team, Win (Third Place)
2023 New York Press Club Awards
Commentary (Internet)
The Stock Market Had It Coming | Linette Lopez, Win
Feature-Science Medicine & Technology (Internet)
Kids with 'Bubble Boy' Disease are Dying — Even Though Drug Companies Have Found a Cure | Andrew Dunn, Win
Feature Video (Internet)
Ukrainian Mountain Weavers Refuse To Surrender Their Traditions In War Or Peace | Ganna Varavva, Reem Makhoul, Oleksii Pydsosonnyi, Amelia Kosciulek, Barbara Corbellini Duarte and Liz Kraker, Win
Infographics (Internet)
America's Lost Chinatowns | Annie Fu, Win
Spot News Photo (Internet)
Tell everyone what they have done to us': A month of terror in Bucha, Ukraine | Erin Trieb, Win
Travel Writing (Internet)
Disaster at 18,200 feet | Kelsey Vlamis, Win
Feature Reporting-Sports National (Internet)
MLB Used at Least Two Types of Balls Again This Year, and Evidence Points to a Third | Bradford William Davis, Win
2023 Silurian Press Club Awards
Environmental Reporting
A New Law Could Clean Up One of America's Most Polluted Neighborhoods | Elizabeth McCauley, Abby Narishkin, Mark Adam Miller, Will Storey, Daniel Allen and Erica Berenstein, Win
Feature New Photography
The Next Generation of Chinatown | Jingyu Lin, Win
2023 SoCal Journalism Awards
Investigative
He was my high school journalism teacher. Then I investigated his relationship with teenage girls | Matt Drange, Win
Hard News Feature, General News
He was my high school journalism teacher. Then I investigated his relationship with teenage girls | Matt Drange, Win
Personality Profile, Film/TV Personalities
Tan France Finds His Joy | JP Mangalindan, Third Place
2023 SPJ Dateline Awards
Online Series
Red, White, and Gray | Staff, Win
2023 NABJ Awards
Digital Media: Online Project - News
Deaths in the Family | Investigations Team, Nominee
2023 Drum Awards
Best Campaigning / Investigative Journalism
He was my high school journalism teacher. Then I investigated his relationship with teenage girls | Matt Drange, Win
Best Use of Photography
The Next Generation of Chinatown | Yoonji Han, Jingyu Lin, Hollis Johnson and Trisha Gopal, Win
Outstanding Digital Team of the Year
News coverage of Ukraine | Insider News Division, Win
2023 Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards
Best 2023 Video (Large)
How Bread Became Unaffordable Across the World | Big Business Team, Win
Best 2023 Visual Design Award
Warehouse Nation | Katherine Long, Emma Cosgrove and Aki Ito, Win
2023 NYU American Journalism Online Awards
Best Data Visualization
Warehouse Nation | Katherine Long, Emma Cosgrove and Aki Ito, Win
Best Use of Public Records
Deaths in the Family | Investigations Team, Nominee
2023 NAREE Awards
Best Interior Design Story
A $25,000 refrigerator with 'that wow factor': Wealthy people like Kris Jenner are buying glass-door fridges that put their fancy drinks and colorful vegetables on display | Zoe Rosenberg, Win (Gold)
Best Online Commercial Real Estate Story
As families and 'Parrotheads' flock to campgrounds and RV parks, institutional real-estate investors see their next big score | Alex Nicoll, Win (Gold)
Best Investigative Report or Investigative Series - Commercial or Residential Real Estate
He's got 20 kids, a $4.4 billion real-estate fortune, and a trail of terrified nannies: Meet Stefan Soloviev | Kate Taylor and Daniel Geiger, Win (Silver)
Best Collection of Work by an Individual Covering Commercial Real Estate
Vishal Garg wants you to understand why he's still Better's CEO, even after getting ridiculed for brutally laying off 900 people via Zoom As families and 'Parrotheads' flock to campgrounds and RV parks, institutional real-estate investors see their next big score and A band of immigrant tenants went to war with their $31 billion landlord. It's a sneak peek at what's to come across America | Alex Nicoll, Win (Silver)
Best Architecture Story
Real-estate developers who hadn't even heard of pickleball until recently are rushing to build courts for the sport's 4.8 million US players | Zoe Rosenberg , Win (Bronze)
Best Investigative Report or Investigative Series - Commercial or Residential Real Estate
He's got 20 kids, a $4.4 billion real-estate fortune, and a trail of terrified nannies: Meet Stefan Soloviev | Alex Nicoll and Daniel Geiger, Honorable Mention
2023 Society of Publication Designers Awards
Original Digital Photography, Feature: Celebrity/Entertainment/Sports
Serena's next serve | Kazi Awal, Skye Gould, Liane Radel, Joshua Kissi, Win (Gold)
2023 SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Awards
Inequalities in Society (Television, Audio)
How Sewer Diving Became One Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In India and Pakistan | Sara Khan, Kashif Khan, Bhavaan Goswami, Zainab Nasir, Havovi Cooper, Barbara Corbellini Duarte, Amelia Kosciulek, and Erica Star Domena, Win
Digital Video
Why Miners Risk Their Lives To Get Sulfur From An Active Volcano | Risky Business Team, Win
2023 NW Excellence in Journalism Awards
Technology & Science Reporting
Amazon workers say minor aches suddenly became debilitating as they raced to meet speed targets | Katherine Long, Second Place
2023 Ringo Awards
Best Single Issue or Story
88 Days of Hell: One Ukrainian Man's Experience in the Russian Filtration| Nathan Wells, Anthony Del Col and Josh Adams, Nominated
Best Webcomic
88 Days of Hell: One Ukrainian Man's Experience in the Russian Filtration| Nathan Wells, Anthony Del Col and Josh Adams, Nominated
Best Webcomic
Offside: I Was a Pro Football Player. I Was Tricked into Going to Qatar to Work Construction | Deena Mohamed, Anthony Del Col and Josh Adams, Nominated
Best Non-fiction Comic Work
88 Days of Hell: One Ukrainian Man's Experience in the Russian Filtration| Nathan Wells, Anthony Del Col and Josh Adams, Nominated
Best Writer
Anthony Del Col | Anthony Del Col, Nominated
Best Artist or Penciller
Bulldozer Injustice: How an Indian Student Activist Was Targeted by her Government for Speaking Against It | Fahmida Azim, Nominated
2023 NY Emmys Awards
Investigative (Single Report)
A New Law Could Clean Up One of America's Most Polluted Neighborhoods | Elizabeth McCauley, Abby Narishkin, Mark Adam Miller, Will Storey, Daniel Allen and Erica Berenstein, Nominated
2023 NY Clarion Awards
Special Feature Section (Online Journalism)
Deaths in the Family | Investigations Team, Win
Press Photography - Photo Series/Essay
The Next Generation of Chinatown | Yoonji Han, Jingyu Lin, Hollis Johnson and Trisha Gopal, Win
Online Journalism - Special Feature Section
Warehouse Nation | Katherine Long, Emma Cosgrove and Aki Ito, Finalist
Online Journalism – Feature Article
He was my high school journalism teacher. Then I investigated his relationship with teenage girls | Matt Drange, Finalist
2023 National Press Club Awards
Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism
The rise of 'quiet quitting': How hustle culture got America addicted to work and My company is not my family | Aki Ito, Win
2023 Online Journalism Awards
Topical Reporting: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Identity (Large Newsroom Finalists)
Deaths in the Family | Investigations Team, Win
Digital Video Storytelling - Series, Large Newsroom Finalists
Risky Business | Risky Business Team, Win
Excellence in Technology Reporting (Large Newsroom Finalists)
Content Moderation | Tekendra Parmar, Finalist
2023 NABJ Awards
Television – Top 15 Markets: Feature: Long Form
A New Law Could Clean Up One of America's Most Polluted Neighborhoods | Elizabeth McCauley, Abby Narishkin, Mark Adam Miller, Will Storey, Daniel Allen and Erica Berenstein, Win
Television – Network: International
Why Shea Butter Makers In Ghana Are Fighting for Their Livelihoods | Nikita Grant, Reem Makhoul, Barbara Corbellini Duarte, Teresa Zhang and Erica Berenstein, Win
2023 LOEB Awards
Explanatory Reporting
The rise of 'quiet quitting': How hustle culture got America addicted to work and My company is not my family | Aki Ito, Finalist
2023 Murrow Awards
Excellence in Video
Why People Risk Their Lives Hunting For Deadly Explosives In Afghanistan | Risky Business Team, Win
2023 SPJ Sunshine State Awards
Online Video - 3 Minutes or Longer
Why Florida Oranges Had The Worst Harvest Since World War II | Abby Narishkin, Dylan Bank, Bima Mandic, and Douglas Mor, Win (Third Place)
2023 NJ-SPJ Excellence in Journalism Awards
Best In-Depth Reporting (Digital)
A New Law Could Clean Up One of America's Most Polluted Neighborhoods | Elizabeth McCauley, Abby Narishkin, Mark Adam Miller, Will Storey, Daniel Allen and Erica Berenstein, Win
2023 SATW Foundation Lowell Thomas Awards
Travel Video Story More Than 2 Minutes
How Singapore Airlines Makes 50,000 In-Flight Meals a Day | Abby Narishkin, Mark Adam Miller, Dorian Barranco, Jeremy Dreyfuss and Daniel Allen, Win (Bronze)
2023 Scripps Howard Awards
Distinguished Service to the First Amendment
Deaths in the Family | Investigations Team, Win
