Awards

2016: Online Journalism Award

Category: Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Small Market

Winner

To ICN's Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2016: Society of Environmental Journalists

Category: Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting, Small Market

Winner

To ICN's Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2016: John B. Oakes Award

Winner

To ICN's Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2016: Pulitzer Prize

Category: Public Service

Finalist

To ICN's Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2016: Robert F. Kennedy Award

Category: New Media Winner

Winner

To ICN's Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2016: White House Correspondents' Association

Category: Edgar A. Poe Award for news coverage of regional or national importance

Winner

To ICN's Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2016: Society of Professional Journalists

Category: Sigma Delta Chi Award for Informational Graphics

Winner

To ICN's Paul Horn

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2016: Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award

Category: Digitial Investigative, Division I

Co-Winner

To ICN's Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2016: National Press Foundation

Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy Writing

Winner

To ICN's Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2016: The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

Finalist

To ICN's Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2016: The Izzy Award

Winner

To ICN's Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2016: Scripps Howard Awards

Category: Environmental Reporting

Winner

To ICN's Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2016: The Knight-Risser Prize

Category: Western Environmental Journalism

Winner

For: Big Oil, Bad Air

2016: Society of Environmental Journalists

Category: Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting, Large Market

Winner

For: Big Oil, Bad Air

2015: John B. Oakes Award

Finalist

To ICN's Lisa Song, David Hasemyer, CPI's Jim Morris and The Weather Channel's Greg Gilderman

For: Big Oil, Bad Air

2015: Society of Environmental Journalists

Category: Outstanding Feature Story

Second Place

For: Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World

2015: Loeb Awards

Category: Explanatory Reporting

Finalist

For: Big Oil, Bad Air

2015: Livingston Awards

Category: National Reporting

Finalist

For: Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World

2015: Society of Professional Journalists

Sigma Delta Chi Award for Informational Graphics

Winner

To ICN's Lisa Song and Paul Horn

For: Big Oil, Bad Air

2015: National Press Foundation

Thomas L. Stokes Award for Energy Writing

Winner

To ICN's Lisa Song, David Hasemyer, CPI's Jim Morris and The Weather Channel's Greg Gilderman

For: Big Oil, Bad Air

2015: Investigative Reporters & Editors Award

Category: Large Multimedia

Finalist

To ICN's Lisa Song, David Hasemyer, Susan White, Zahra Hirji, Paul Horn, Lance Rosenfield, Sabrina Shankman, Marcus Stern, John Bolger, Hannah Robbins

For: Big Oil, Bad Air

2015: Association of Health Care Journalists Award

Category: Large Investigation

Winner

To David Hasemyer, Lisa Song and Jim Morris

For: Big Oil, Bad Air

2015: San Diego Press Club

Category: Daily newspapers and websites, General News

Winner

To David Hasemyer

For: Fired: Texas Oil and Gas Regulators Say They Tried to Enforce Rules, Lost Jobs

2015: San Diego Press Club

Category: Daily newspapers and websites, Environment

Winner

To David Hasemyer, Zahra Hirji

For: In Fracking's Wake: Open Pits Offer Cheap Disposal for Fracking Sludge, but Health Worries Mount

2014: Editor & Publisher EPPY Award

Category: Best Investigative/Enterprise Feature on a Wesite

Winner

To David Hasemyer, Lisa Song and Jim Morris

For: Big Oil, Bad Air

2014: Deadline Club, NYC Chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists

Category: Reporting by Independent Digital Media

Winner

To Katherine Bagley and Maria Gallucci

For: Bloomberg's Hidden Legacy: Climate Change and the Future of New York City

2013: Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Winner

To Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song, and Dave Hasemyer

For The Dilbit Disaster

2013: Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, Society of Environmental Journalists

Winner

To Elizabeth McGowan and Lisa Song

For The Dilbit Disaster

2013: Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Pro Chapter

Category: Daily Reporting and Writing, Environmental Story

Winner

To David Hasemyer

For "Nation's First Tar Sands Mine Stirs Water, Environmental Fears Out West"

2013: Deadline Club, NYC Chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists

Category: Reporting by Independent Digital Media

Winner

To Elizabeth McGowan and Lisa Song

For The Dilbit Disaster

2012: The Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism

Winner

To Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song, and Dave Hasemyer

For The Dilbit Disaster

2012: John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism

Honorable Mention

To Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song, and Dave Hasemyer

For The Dilbit Disaster

2012: Scripps Howard Foundation

Category: Environmental Reporting

Finalist

To Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song, and Dave Hasemyer

For The Dilbit Disaster