Pulitzer Center grant for a journalism project called Death Traps of Havana. Invited Flagler College graduate Katherine Lewin to travel to Cuba to assist with the reporting. USA Today and the Tampa Bay Times published stories from the project, 2018
Pulitzer Center grant for a project called Bolivian Youth: In Harm’s Way. USA Today, NBC News and other outlets published material from the project, which examined child labor, teenage prostitution and other issues, 2018
Pulitzer Center grant for a project called Cuban Youth: A New Dawn? USA Today, NBC News and other outlets published stories from the project, 2016
Green Eyeshade Award. First place, politics reporting, for investigation of waste and abuse in federal government programs aimed at assisting Cuban immigrants. See Easy Money: U.S. Welfare Flows to Cuba, 2016
Finalist for Tom Renner Award, which recognizes outstanding watchdog reporting, for investigation into Cuban organized crime, Investigative Reporters & Editors. See Plundering America: The Cuban Criminal Pipeline, 2016
Second place, investigative reporting, for investigation of waste and abuse in federal government programs aimed at assisting Cuban immigrants, Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. See Easy Money: U.S. Welfare Flows to Cuba, 2016
Second place, Feature Writing, for a story about Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, 2014
$8,000 grant to conduct a six-month investigative project for the Center for Democracy in the Americas in Washington, D.C. The completed project included three short documentaries and more than 30 articles, 2013
First place, Feature Writing, for a story about Cuban spy Juan Pablo Roque, Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, 2013
Pulitzer Center grant for project, “Cuba: The Battle for Hearts and Minds,” which explored the fight for democracy in Cuba, 2010
Finalist, Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, for series about drug- related violence along the U.S.-Mexico border (shared $1,000 prize with Alfredo Corchado, Laurence Iliff and David McLemore), Center for Public Integrity, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, 2005
Fulbright grant, for study of myths and legends of indigenous groups in Ecuador, 1981
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