Honours and awards

• Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, May 2020 .
  • Member of Washington Post team whose series “2C:Beyond the Limit” explored the impact of climate change around the globe.
    My own story looked at retreating sea ice and the dwindling salmon catch in the Sea of Okhotsk, located between Japan and Russia.
  • The climate chain reaction that threatens the heart of the Pacific
  • Pulitzer announcement

• AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards, 2020
  • Science Reporting – In-Depth. Silver Award.
  • 2°C: Beyond the Limit (series)
  • With Chris Mooney, Steven Mufson, Juliet Eilperin, Salwan Georges, John Muyskens and Carolyn Van Houten.

• National Headliner Award for International Coverage, 2020.
  • First Place, International News Beat Coverage.
    “Japan’s uneasy relationship with whales and dolphins,” a series of stories on Japan’s whaling, whale-watching and dolphin-hunting industries.
  • In Japan’s ‘city of whales,’ an uncertain future after last Antarctic hunt
  • At Japan’s dolphin hunt, a struggle between local traditions and global anger
  • Japan still hunts whales. But now it’s more profitable to watch them.
  • Whaling video
  • Dolphin hunt video

• Hong Kong Human Rights Press Award, 2019.
  • Merit, Multimedia (English).
    “Too Many Men,” an examination of the gender imbalance in China and India. With Annie Gowen and Jasu Hsu.
    

• Overseas Press Club Bob Considine Award, 2016.
  • Best Newspaper, News Service or Digital Coverage of International Affairs.
    “Behind the Firewall,” a series of stories on China’s system of digital surveillance and censorship.
  • China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works
  • The Internet was supposed to foster democracy. China has different ideas.
  • Internet activists are finding ways around China’s Great Firewall
  • China’s plan to organize its society relies on ‘big data’ to rate everyone
    

• National Headliner Award for International Coverage.,2016  
  • First Place, International News Beat Coverage.
    “Voices from Tibet,” a series exploring human rights and environmental issues under Chinese rule in Tibet.
  • Tibetans in anguish as Chinese mines pollute their sacred grasslands
  • A woman’s gruesome hanging shocked Tibet — but police have silenced all questions
  • ‘Himalayan Viagra’: Tibet’s gold rush may be coming to an end
  • China says tourism is Tibet’s best hope. But can its culture survive the onslaught?
  • China tried to drive a furry mammal to extinction. Maybe that wasn’t such a good idea.
  • China prepares for Dalai Lama’s death by looking to its own top Tibetan cleric
  • Facebook Live from Potala Square in Lhasa

• Hong Kong Human Rights Press Award, 2016 .
  • Winner, English Spot News,.
    “A woman’s hanging in Tibet turns political,” a story from China’s western Sichuan province.
  • A woman’s gruesome hanging shocked Tibet — but police have silenced all question

• Reuters Best Story at 2008 Beijing Olympics.
  • “Sharp as lightning, Bolt brings glamour back”
    Voted by fellow Reuters Olympics correspondents.

• Reuters Best Political and General News Story, 2003.
  • “Musharraf ready to meet India halfway on Kashmir.”
    Interview with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, December 18, 2003.

• President, Foreign Correspondents Club of South Asia, 2011-2013

• Co-chair, Press Freedom Committee, Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, 2020-21