Nadja Drost

{{Short description|Canadian journalist}} {{Infobox person | name = Nadja Drost | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date =  | birth_place = Canada | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Journalist | awards = [[Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing]] | spouse = | website = {{URL|Nadjadrost.com}} }} {{external media | width = 210px | float = right | video1 = [https://vimeo.com/564787189 America Ferrera Presents Desperate Journey with a Peabody Award], [[Peabody awards]], June 18, 2021 }} '''Nadja Drost''' is a Canadian journalist who has worked from New York City and [[Bogotá, Colombia]]. She is a ''[[PBS Newshour]]'' special correspondent for Latin America and has been published in ''[[TIME (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Maclean’s]]'', ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' and ''[[Al Jazeera America]]'', Her stories have been broadcast on the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]], [[BBC]], [[Radio Ambulante]] and [[National Public Radio]].<ref name="2021PPrizes">{{cite web |title=Nadja Drost, freelance contributor, The California Sunday Magazine |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/nadja-drost-freelance-contributor-california-sunday-magazine |website=The 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref>

In 2017, Drost was a co-recipient of The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award for "best reporting in any medium on Latin America" from the [[Overseas Press Club of America]], for ''Fight for Peace'', a ''PBS NewsHour'' piece reporting on [[FARC]] guerrillas in Colombia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Overseas Press Club Announces 22 Award Winners |date=March 20, 2017 |url=https://opcofamerica.org/2016-opc-award-winners/ |publisher=OPC of America |access-date=25 June 2021}}<br>- {{cite web |title=19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award |date= March 24, 2017 |url=https://opcofamerica.org/Awardarchive/19-the-robert-spiers-benjamin-award-2016/ |publisher=OPC of America |access-date=25 June 2021}}</ref>

In 2021, Drost won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for [[Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing|feature writing]] for the story "When can we really rest?", published in the ''[[California Sunday Magazine]]'' (which closed in October 2020).<ref name="2021PPrizes"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Hare |first=Kristen |title=California Sunday Magazine closed last year. It just won a Pulitzer |url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/california-sunday-magazine-closed-last-year-it-just-won-a-pulitzer/ |website=Poynter |access-date=15 June 2021 |date=12 June 2021}}</ref> It is extremely rare for a freelance journalist to win a Pulitzer. For the story, Drost spent five days in the [[Darién Gap]], an undeveloped area of rainforest and marshland on the border between [[Colombia]] and [[Panama]], interviewing and following migrants who were crossing the region.<ref>{{cite web |last=Fu |first=Angela |title=Freelancers rarely win Pulitzers. But this year, two writers took home journalism's top prize |url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/freelancers-rarely-win-pulitzers-but-this-year-two-writers-took-home-journalisms-top-prize/ |website=Poynter|date=June 14, 2021 |access-date=26 June 2021}}</ref> It is considered one of the longest and most dangerous human migration routes in the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=PBS NewsHour's Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic and from the Darien Gap Named Peabody Award Nominees |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/press-releases/pbs-newshours-coverage-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-from-the-darien-gap-named-peabody-award-nominees |website=PBS NewsHour |access-date=26 June 2021}}</ref>

Drost is a co-recipient with the videographer Bruno Federico of a 2021 [[Peabody Award]], for the report "Desperate Journey" on ''PBS NewsHour''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Grantees Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico Win Peabody Award |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/grantees-nadja-drost-and-bruno-federico-win-peabody-award |publisher=Pulitzer Center |access-date=25 June 2021}}</ref> At the 87th National Headliner Awards she won The Best in Show Television award for "Desperate Journey" and first place for magazine feature writing by an individual on a variety of subjects for "When can we really rest?".<ref>{{cite web |title=7th National Headliner Awards winn |url=https://www.headlinerawards.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-headliner-winners-print-photo-winners-1.pdf |publisher=Headliner Awards |access-date=25 June 2021}}</ref> Drost also received an Honorable Mention from the [[American Society of Journalists and Authors]] (ASJA) at the 2021 Annual Writing Awards for "When can we really rest?".<ref>{{cite web |title=ASJA's Annual Writing Awards |url=https://asja.org/for-writers/annual-writing-awards |publisher=American Society of Journalists and Authors |access-date=26 June 2021}}</ref>

"Desperate Journey" also received an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 2021,<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 28, 2021 |title=News Release: Winners for the news caterories of the 42nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards announced |url=https://theemmys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/news-42nd-news-programming-winners.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=December 31, 2025 |website=theemmys.tv}}</ref> https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/emmys-honor-grantees-reports-deadly-migrant-trek making Drost the only Canadian journalist to have won all three of the prestigious Pulitzer, Peabody and Emmy awards.

Drost is a graduate of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Nadja Drost - grantee |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/people/nadja-drost |publisher=Pulitzer Center |access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://nadjadrost.com/about-2/ Official website]

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