Awards

Since 1971, NPR journalists and programming have won hundreds of awards for investigative reports, outstanding features and series, digital innovations and bodies of coverage. Among the highest honors: 31 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, 59 George Foster Peabody Awards and 20 awards from the Overseas Press Club of America.

The trophy case also includes Gracie (American Women in Radio & Television), Silver Gavel (American Bar Association), Edward R. Murrow (Radio Television Digital News Association), Salute to Excellence (National Association of Black Journalists) and Sigma Delta Chi (Society of Professional Journalists) awards.

Among NPR's digital honors are four Online Journalism Awards from the Online News Association, 23 Webby Awards and 70 Eyes of History Awards from the White House News Photographers Association.

George Foster Peabody Awards

• 2011: Laura Sullivan's Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families
• 2011: Lourdes Garcia-Navarro's coverage of the Arab Spring
• 2010: Julie McCarthy's coverage of Pakistan's war, flood, and social issues
• 2010: Seeking Justice for Campus Rapes
• 2010: Behind the Bail Bond System
• 2009: NPR.org for overall excellence
• 2009: Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson's coverage of Afghanistan
• 2008: "The Giant Pool of Money"
• 2008: Coverage of the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan Province, China
• 2008: "36 Years of Solitary: Murder, Death and Justice on Angola"
• 2007: Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me!
• 2006: StoryCorps
• 2006: "Mental Anguish and the Military"
• 2004: Coverage of Iraq invasion and aftermath
• 2004: On the Media
• 2002: "Yiddish Radio Project"
• 2002: "The Sonic Memorial Project"
• 2001: "The DNA Files"
• 2001: Jazz Profiles
• 2001: Coverage of September 11 and aftermath
• 2000: "Witness to an Execution"
• 2000: "The NPR 100"
• 1999: "Lost & Found Sound"
• 1999: Morning Edition
• 1998: "I Must Keep Fightin': The Art of Paul Robeson"
• 1998: Performance Today
• 1998: Coverage of Africa
• 1997: Jazz from Lincoln Center
• 1996: "Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse"
• 1995: "Wynton Marsalis: Making the Music"
• 1994: "Tobacco Stories"
• 1994: "Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Tradition"
• 1993: Fresh Air with Terry Gross
• 1993: Coverage of Health Reform
• 1992: Car Talk
• 1992: Daniel Schorr
• 1992: "Prisoners in Bosnia"
• 1992: American Folklife Radio Project
• 1991: "Joe Frank: Work in Progress"
• 1991: "The Case Against Women: Sexism in the Courts"
• 1990: Red Barber on Morning Edition
• 1990: Heat with John Hockenberry
• 1990: "Manicu's Story: The War in Mozambique"
• 1989: Scott Simon's radio essays on Weekend Edition
• 1988: "Cowboys on Everest"
• 1987: "Ryan Martin"
• 1985: "Breakdown and Back"
• 1985: "Liberation Remembered"
• 1984: "Bradbury 13"
• 1983: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
• 1982: The Bob and Ray Public Radio Show
• 1982: The Sunday Show
• 1982: Taylor-Made Piano: A Jazz History
• 1980: Jazz Alive!: "Jazzmobile Sunday Festival"
• 1978: Dialogues on a Tightrope: "An Italian Mosaic"
• 1977: Crossroads: "Sea Island Sketches"
• 1972: All Things Considered

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards

• 2011: Special Series: Behind the Bail Bond System
• 2010: The York Project: Race and the '08 Vote
• 2009: Coverage of the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan Province, China
• 2009: "Sexual Abuse of Native American Women"
• 2009: "The Giant Pool of Money"
• 2008: Series on PTSD and American soldiers
• 2007: Coverage of Iraq
• 2006: "Hidden Kitchens"
• 2005: "Mandela: An Audio History"
• 2004: Coverage of the Iraq War
• 2003: Coverage of September 11th and the War in Afghanistan
• 2002: Peter Overby: Campaign Finance Coverage
• 2001: American Radio Works, NPR and MPR: "Massacre at Cuska: Anatomy of a War Crime"
• 2000: "Emails from Kosovo"
• 2000: "The DNA Files"
• 1997: "Fifty Years After 14 August"
• 1997: Anne Garrels: Coverage of the Former Soviet Union
• 1996: Daniel Schorr: Overall career excellence
• 1996: Political Coverage
• 1995: Coverage of South Africa
• 1993: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition: Excellence in news and public affairs
• 1992: Coverage of the Gulf War
• 1991: "Horizons: And Justice for All"
• 1990: "AIDS and Black America: Breaking the Silence"
• 1989: Nina Totenberg: Coverage of Supreme Court
• 1986: "American Sanctuaries: The New Underground Railroad"
• 1984: "The Most Dangerous Game: Nuclear Face-Off in Europe"
• 1982: "Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown"
• 1981: Morning Edition and All Things Considered: International and Environment Reporting
• 1979: All Things Considered for reports on Edward R. Murrow, plutonium, nuclear regulation and censorship

Overseas Press Club Awards

• 2011: Lourdes Garcia-Navarro's coverage of the Arab Spring
• 2009: Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson for coverage of Afghanistan
• 2006: "Thembi's AIDS Story"
• 2002: "The Middle East: A Century of Conflict"
• 2001: Coverage of September 11 and its Aftermath
• 2000: "Massacre at Cuska: Anatomy of a War Crime"
• 1999: Fresh Air: "The Lemon Tree"
• 1999: Coverage of Kosovo
• 1998: "The Water Series"
• 1997: Coverage of the Asian economic crisis
• 1995: Weekend Edition: Live coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
• 1994: "Haiti: From Terror to Triumph"
• 1993: All Things Considered
• 1992: "From Marx to Markets"
• 1992: "The Journey Home: Cambodian Refugees on the Cusp of Return"
• 1991: "Two Villages"
• 1990: "Natasia Dudinska: Hope and Courage in Czechoslovakia"
• 1988: "The New Vietnam"
• 1984: "A Hotel Intrigue"
• 1978: Dialogues on a Tightrope: "An Italian Mosaic"