# Nadja Drost > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nadja_Drost > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nadja_Drost.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadja_Drost > Source revision: 1339797602 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Canadian journalist Nadja Drost Born Canada Occupation Journalist Awards Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing Website nadjadrost.com External videos 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](/source/Bogot%C3%A1%2C_Colombia). She is a *[PBS Newshour](/source/PBS_Newshour)* special correspondent for Latin America and has been published in *[Time](/source/TIME_(magazine))*, *[Maclean’s](/source/Maclean%E2%80%99s)*, *[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)* and *[Al Jazeera America](/source/Al_Jazeera_America)*, Her stories have been broadcast on the [CBC](/source/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation), [BBC](/source/BBC), [Radio Ambulante](/source/Radio_Ambulante) and [National Public Radio](/source/National_Public_Radio).[1] 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](/source/Overseas_Press_Club_of_America), for *Fight for Peace*, a *PBS NewsHour* piece reporting on [FARC](/source/FARC) guerrillas in Colombia.[2] In 2021, Drost won the [Pulitzer Prize](/source/Pulitzer_Prize) for [feature writing](/source/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Feature_Writing) for the story "When can we really rest?", published in the *[California Sunday Magazine](/source/California_Sunday_Magazine)* (which closed in October 2020).[1][3] It is extremely rare for a freelance journalist to win a Pulitzer. For the story, Drost spent five days in the [Darién Gap](/source/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap), an undeveloped area of rainforest and marshland on the border between [Colombia](/source/Colombia) and [Panama](/source/Panama), interviewing and following migrants who were crossing the region.[4] It is considered one of the longest and most dangerous human migration routes in the world.[5] Drost is a co-recipient with the videographer Bruno Federico of a 2021 [Peabody Award](/source/Peabody_Award), for the report "Desperate Journey" on *PBS NewsHour*.[6] 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?".[7] Drost also received an Honorable Mention from the [American Society of Journalists and Authors](/source/American_Society_of_Journalists_and_Authors) (ASJA) at the 2021 Annual Writing Awards for "When can we really rest?".[8] "Desperate Journey" also received an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 2021,[9] [https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/emmys-honor-grantees-reports-deadly-migrant-trek](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](/source/Columbia_University_Graduate_School_of_Journalism).[10] ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-2021PPrizes_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-2021PPrizes_1-1) ["Nadja Drost, freelance contributor, The California Sunday Magazine"](https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/nadja-drost-freelance-contributor-california-sunday-magazine). *The 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing*. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 15 June 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Overseas Press Club Announces 22 Award Winners"](https://opcofamerica.org/2016-opc-award-winners/). OPC of America. March 20, 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2021. - ["19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award"](https://opcofamerica.org/Awardarchive/19-the-robert-spiers-benjamin-award-2016/). OPC of America. March 24, 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Hare, Kristen (12 June 2021). ["California Sunday Magazine closed last year. It just won a Pulitzer"](https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/california-sunday-magazine-closed-last-year-it-just-won-a-pulitzer/). *Poynter*. Retrieved 15 June 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Fu, Angela (June 14, 2021). ["Freelancers rarely win Pulitzers. But this year, two writers took home journalism's top prize"](https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/freelancers-rarely-win-pulitzers-but-this-year-two-writers-took-home-journalisms-top-prize/). *Poynter*. Retrieved 26 June 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["PBS NewsHour's Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic and from the Darien Gap Named Peabody Award Nominees"](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/press-releases/pbs-newshours-coverage-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-from-the-darien-gap-named-peabody-award-nominees). *PBS NewsHour*. Retrieved 26 June 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Grantees Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico Win Peabody Award"](https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/grantees-nadja-drost-and-bruno-federico-win-peabody-award). Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 25 June 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["7th National Headliner Awards winn"](https://www.headlinerawards.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-headliner-winners-print-photo-winners-1.pdf) (PDF). Headliner Awards. Retrieved 25 June 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["ASJA's Annual Writing Awards"](https://asja.org/for-writers/annual-writing-awards). American Society of Journalists and Authors. Retrieved 26 June 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["News Release: Winners for the news caterories of the 42nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards announced"](https://theemmys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/news-42nd-news-programming-winners.pdf) (PDF). *theemmys.tv*. September 28, 2021. Retrieved December 31, 2025.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: url-status ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_url-status)) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Nadja Drost - grantee"](https://pulitzercenter.org/people/nadja-drost). Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 15 June 2021. ## External links - [Official website](https://nadjadrost.com/about-2/) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF National United States Other Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Nadja Drost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadja_Drost) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadja_Drost?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.