2026 Toner Prize for Political Reporting
White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working.
Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”
2023 Ethics in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists
2023 Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media
2023 Michael Kelly Award Finalist
Series: Dying for Help
‘What if Yale finds out?’
Suicidal students are pressured to withdraw from Yale, then have to apply to get back into the university.
An autistic teen needed mental health help. He spent weeks in an ER instead.
Zach Chafos languished for a total of 76 days in a Maryland ER waiting for a psychiatric bed – part of a growing mental health treatment crisis for teens across the country.
A suicidal son, an iconic bridge and the struggle to keep people from jumping.
Dozens of people have leaped to their deaths from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge since it opened in 1952. Cheryl Rogers fought to keep her son from becoming one of them.
‘Is this what a good mother looks like?’
After struggling to get treatment for her mentally ill son, a mother’s act of desperation — giving up custody.
2021 NIHCM Health Care Journalism Award
2021 National Headliner Award for pandemic coverage
2021 Features Award from the Association of Health Care Journalists
2021 Public Service Award from the American Association of Suicidology
Series: Shadow Pandemic
Pandemic isolation has killed thousands of Alzheimer’s patients while families watch from afar:
One man fights from doorway of nursing home to save his wife
For months, he helped his son keep suicidal thoughts at bay. Then came the pandemic.
Cries for help’: Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic is pushing America into a mental health crisis
Follow-up: Pandemic relief bill delivers $4.25 billion for mental health services.
Podcast: The invisible public health crisis
2020 SAVE Award for Excellence in Reporting On Suicide
2020 NIHCM Health Care Journalism Award Finalist
2015 National Headliner Award for International News
2015 Livingston Award for International News Finalist
2015 Human Rights Press Award from Foreign Correspondents’ Club
Series: Dying for Justice
Armed and Dangerous
China ends its ban on officers carrying guns, and a string of suspicious shootings follows
Blog: Newly armed police in China say they fear their guns as much as public
Escape from Execution
In China, a rare criminal case in which evidence made a difference
The Wronged Officers Club
A Chinese tale of abuse and a craving for justice
Blog: Days after we interviewed these former cops, Chinese authorities arrested two of them
Party Justice
How the secretive, powerful agency in charge of investigating corrupt Chinese officials works
2014 Hugo Shong Reporting on Asia Award from Boston University
2014 Award for Excellence from Asian American Journalists Association
2014 Human Rights Press Award from the Foreign Correspondents’ Club
Series: Parenting in a Party State
To talk, or not, about Tiananmen
Witnesses to Tiananmen Square struggle with what to tell their children
One Child, One Death
Parents’ pain is magnified by China’s one-child rule
An Education in Corruption
Parents bribe to get students into top schools, despite campaign against corruption
Left Behind
China’s ‘left-behind children’ reflect toll of labor migration
2011 American Society of News Editors Award for Distinguished Writing on Diversity
2011 Religion Writer of the Year
Serving his country, testing his faith
After the Fort Hood shootings, a Muslim American soldier battles on friendly ground
Need a blessing with that bread?
Preacher offers shoppers something they never bargained for
In the midst of crisis, a bedrock of faith
Seminarians still devoted to scandal-scarred vocation
2010 Pulitzer finalist team for breaking news on Fort Hood shooting
Unassuming on the surface, but roiling within
Suspect in Fort Hood rampage had deeply held religious and political beliefs
In aftermath of Fort Hood, community haunted by unheeded clues
As in Detroit case, trail of unnoticed clues reinforces troubling questions
2010 Religion Writer of the Year from Religion Newswriters Association
