• The Post’s five-part investigative series on Native American deaths and abuses at Indian boarding schools won six major awards in 2025, including:

• Poynter Institute's Dori Maynard Justice Award. Judges called it “a series that stays with you forever -- haunting, beautifully done, searing, probing, important, with stunning findings and writing.”

• Online Journalism Awards -- Topical Reporting: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Identity. The OJA judges commented on the series:

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“A definitive example of watchdog journalism at its best. The investigation combined heartbreaking storytelling with meticulous data reporting, outstanding use of digital tools, and a deep sense of care for the children at the heart of the story."

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“The team’s creative use of AI in the reporting process and their rare, commendable attribution of other reporters and experts in the methodology. This work not only exemplifies what digital investigative reporting can achieve – it inspires other newsrooms to aim higher.”

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"A revelatory and visually arresting series that harnessed deep, primary-source reporting and novel storytelling to present the fullest accounting yet of the impact of the U.S. government’s 150-year boarding school program.”

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• Indigenous Journalists Association

  • ​First Place for Best News Story.

  • Second Place for Best Feature Story.

• Finalist for the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for impact on the bishops’ group and the presidents’ apologies.

• Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

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• 2008 finalist for the Gerald Loeb/UCLA Anderson Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism Best Writing Category for a project called “The Cost of Contracting” on national security.

• 2008 Pulitzer Prize nomination for work on Blackwater, a secretive government contracting operation.