Ian Urbina
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About
Ian Urbina is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author who has revolutionized…
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At the Intersection of Public Art and Journalism
At the Intersection of Public Art and Journalism
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Libya Closed Its Most Notorious Migrant Jail. Is That Good News?
Libya Closed Its Most Notorious Migrant Jail. Is That Good News?
By Ian Urbina
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We couldn't do the work we do were it not for the guidance and protection we get from Lawyers For Reporters (LRF). Here is a recent interview we did…
We couldn't do the work we do were it not for the guidance and protection we get from Lawyers For Reporters (LRF). Here is a recent interview we did…
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🔎 CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: OUTLAW OCEAN PROJECT 🌊 The Outlaw Ocean Project has been a client of our Lawyers for Reporters program for more than…
🔎 CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: OUTLAW OCEAN PROJECT 🌊 The Outlaw Ocean Project has been a client of our Lawyers for Reporters program for more than…
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An exciting update: On Friday, I wrapped up my time at the Outlaw Ocean Project, where I’m proud to have had a hand in some truly impactful…
An exciting update: On Friday, I wrapped up my time at the Outlaw Ocean Project, where I’m proud to have had a hand in some truly impactful…
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Experience
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The Outlaw Ocean Project
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Education
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Georgetown University
While at Georgetown, Urbina studied history and political theory. He also ran track and cross country.
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Activities and Societies: Fulbright Scholar
After completing his master’s degree, Urbina conducted doctoral work at the University of Chicago in a dual anthropology and history program. He did field work in Mexico. Then he was based in Havana for a year as a Fulbright scholar. He left the doctoral program before completing his dissertation to take a job writing for the New York Times.
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Urbina graduated from St. Albans School in 1990.
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Publications
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Is this deadly profession also among the most violent?
LA Times / The Outlaw Ocean Project
Crimes like this don’t often happen on land. A 10-minute slow-motion slaughter captured by a cellphone camera shows a group of unarmed men at sea, flailing in the water, shot and killed one by one, after which the culprits pose for celebratory selfies. The only thing more shocking than the footage was the government inaction that followed.
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The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
The New Yorker / The Outlaw Ocean Project
Hoping to stop migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias. The story was published in more than 50 venues in 11 countries and led to outcry from the UN officials, human rights advocates and parliamentarians. While reporting the piece in Tripoli, Urbina was taken captive and violently abused by a militia.
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Purgatory at Sea
The Atlantic / The Outlaw Ocean Project
Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the Mediterranean.
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Fish farming is feeding the globe. What's the cost for locals?
The New Yorker / The Outlaw Ocean Project
In the small coastal African country of Gambia, an exploding industry to produce a lucrative high-protein powder called fishmeal has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price. Nearly half of all fish pulled from the sea globally is not used for human consumption but instead is ground up, dried and fed as powder or pellets to livestock, most especially farmed fish. This piece explores the surprising way that fish farming - or aquaculture - which was meant to slow the amount…
In the small coastal African country of Gambia, an exploding industry to produce a lucrative high-protein powder called fishmeal has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price. Nearly half of all fish pulled from the sea globally is not used for human consumption but instead is ground up, dried and fed as powder or pellets to livestock, most especially farmed fish. This piece explores the surprising way that fish farming - or aquaculture - which was meant to slow the amount of fish being pulled from the ocean has actually accelerated it.
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A slaughter at sea, a grainy video and justice delayed
The Washington Post / The Outlaw Ocean Project
Among the investigations covered in The Outlaw Ocean book is that of the Murder at Sea story, which reveals a slow-motion slaughter of at least four men caught on camera. The grainy video began circulating in 2013 and the original investigation was published by The Outlaw Ocean in The New York Times in 2015. In late August, 2020, the man shouting on camera and suspected to have ordered these killings was arrested in Taiwan.
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The deadly secret of China's invisible armada
NBC News / The Outlaw Ocean Project
This piece revealed the largest fleet of illegal fishing ships ever discovered: more than 900 Chinese ships in North Korean waters in violation of U.N. sanctions that China had signed. These ships had played a role in desperate North Korean fishermen dying and washing ashore. The story won a Sigma Award and led to meetings at the UN and a sudden withdrawal of these ships.
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The Capricious Use of Solitary Confinement Against Detained Immigrants
The Atlantic
Based on hundreds of thousands of pages of documents acquired via open-records requests and a whistle-blower, this investigation uncovered how the Obama and Trump administrations used solitary in ways that critics say are arbitrary, cruel, and in violation of federal rules.
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Piles of Dirty Secrets Behind a Model ‘Clean Coal’ Project
The New York Times
This investigation exposed worker safety and financial problems with a 20-billion-dollar project to build a plant in Kemper Mississippi that was supposed to be able to affordably convert coal into natural gas. A huge recipient of tax subsidies, the project was a centerpiece of President Obama’s climate plan even though it was plagued by problems that managers tried to conceal. The published story contributed to a federal investigation and the ultimate dismantling of the plant.
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The Outlaw Ocean (Series)
The New York Times
Seven of the stories in this series about lawlessness at sea were featured on the front page of The New York Times. An eighth piece ran in the New York Times Magazine. The series led to multiple arrests of captains for slavery and murder. It led to litigation against seafood companies and spurred corporate and government policy reforms. It also resulted in Congressional and State Department testimony. The reporting was awarded a half dozen awards and was optioned for film by Leonardo DiCaprio…
Seven of the stories in this series about lawlessness at sea were featured on the front page of The New York Times. An eighth piece ran in the New York Times Magazine. The series led to multiple arrests of captains for slavery and murder. It led to litigation against seafood companies and spurred corporate and government policy reforms. It also resulted in Congressional and State Department testimony. The reporting was awarded a half dozen awards and was optioned for film by Leonardo DiCaprio. Eventually it was the basis for a subsequent best-selling book and the founding of a journalism non-profit organization by the same name.
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The Secret Life of Passwords
The New York Times Magazine
We despise them – yet we imbue them with our hopes and dreams, our dearest memories, our deepest meanings. Turns out, passwords unlock much more than our accounts. A motivational mantra, a swipe at the boss, a hidden shrine to a lost love, an inside joke with ourselves, a defining emotional scar — many of our most prized passwords are also mental tchotchkes that carry our inner lives forward. Urbina spent 5 years convincing people to tell him their passwords and the rich stories hidden within…
We despise them – yet we imbue them with our hopes and dreams, our dearest memories, our deepest meanings. Turns out, passwords unlock much more than our accounts. A motivational mantra, a swipe at the boss, a hidden shrine to a lost love, an inside joke with ourselves, a defining emotional scar — many of our most prized passwords are also mental tchotchkes that carry our inner lives forward. Urbina spent 5 years convincing people to tell him their passwords and the rich stories hidden within many of them.
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Using Jailed Migrants as a Pool of Cheap Labor
The New York Times
This story revealed that the largest employer of undocumented immigrants in America is the U.S. government. As the federal government cracked down on immigrants where were in the country illegally and penalized businesses that hired them, the federal prison system employs tens of thousands of those same undocumented immigrants each year.
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Immigrants Held in Solitary Cells, Often for Weeks
The New York Times
Based on federal data, this piece showed that on any given day, about 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement at Immigration and Customs Enforcement centers, a practice psychiatrists worry is overly punitive.
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Drilling Down Series
The New York Times
This 11-part series exposed the environmental, worker safety, and financial risks of fracking, a drilling technique driving the U.S. oil and gas boom. Among its many findings, the series revealed that, with little oversight, oil and gas companies were routinely sending highly radioactive drilling waste to sewage plants that were unequipped to treat it before it was discharged into rivers, sometimes less than a mile upstream from drinking-water intake plants. Municipal authorities were routinely…
This 11-part series exposed the environmental, worker safety, and financial risks of fracking, a drilling technique driving the U.S. oil and gas boom. Among its many findings, the series revealed that, with little oversight, oil and gas companies were routinely sending highly radioactive drilling waste to sewage plants that were unequipped to treat it before it was discharged into rivers, sometimes less than a mile upstream from drinking-water intake plants. Municipal authorities were routinely using contaminated drilling waste to de-ice roads in winter and suppress dust in summer, sending millions of gallons of contaminated runoff into rivers. Senior E.P.A. officials bowed to political pressure and blocked research on some of the gas industry’s most hazardous practices. The focus of six Congressional hearings, the reporting also contributed to investigations of the fracking industry by the S.E.C., the New York Attorney General and the G.A.O.. The reporting won an award from The Society for Business Journalists, was the focus of an episode on Stephan Colbert’s show and became the basis for a Matt Damon and John Krasinski movie, Promised Land.
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Get Kony
Vanity Fair
This piece is a deep profile of Sam Childers, a former Hell's Angel and gun runner, turned born-again Christian preacher, who joined the guerrilla fighters in South Sudan. Urbina traveled with Childers, after he was ostensibly hired to kill a brutal warlord named Joseph Kony, leader of a group called the Lord's Resistance Army. In 2011, Childers' life story became the basis of a movie called Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler.
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For Youths, a Grim Tour on Magazine Crews
The New York Times
This story investigated so-called “mag crews” – traveling groups of teenagers, many of them runaways or from broken homes, who sell magazine subscriptions. It revealed an otherwise hidden industry prone to debt bondage, drug use and violence. The piece was adapted into the 2016 movie, American Honey, directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Shia LaBeouf.
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Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials
The New York Times
The piece revealed a proposed federal plan to use prisoners as test subjects for pharmaceutical drug trials, dredging up a painful history of medical mistreatment of inmates. After the story, the proposal was canceled.
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In the Treatment of Diabetes, Success Often Does Not Pay
The New York Times
Urbina was a member of the team of reporters that wrote a series about diabetes. Urbina’s story focused on the upside-nature of American health care and how insurance often pays to counter symptoms but not the causes of chronic diseases. The series, called Bad Blood, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received a public service award from the Society of Professional Journalists’ New York City chapter and a Society of Silurians award for science health reporting.
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Stars and Stripes
Harper’s Magazine
This piece revealed that the U.S. Department of Defense uses federal prison inmates, including convicted terrorists, to work in factories producing everything from soldier uniforms and helmets to missile parts and parachutes.
Projects
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1. The Outlaw Ocean (Reporting Adapted to Film)
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In 2015, Leonardo DiCaprio and several others collectively bought the scripted and non-scripted rights for The Outlaw Ocean book to produce a documentary series and a scripted feature about Urbina's reporting.
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2. American Honey (Reporting Adapted to Film)
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A 2007 Times investigation by Urbina about so-called "mag crews" — traveling groups of teenagers, many of them runaways or from broken homes, who sell magazine subscriptions — was adapted into the 2016 movie, American Honey, directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Shia LaBeouf.
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3. Promised Land (Reporting Adapted to Film)
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In interviews, Matt Damon and John Krasinski have said that their 2012 film Promised Land was partly inspired by the Times' investigative series, "Drilling Down".
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4. Deepwater Horizon (Reporting Adapted to Film)
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In 2011, Urbina’s reporting was part of a story optioned for the film, Deepwater Horizon with Mark Wahlberg.
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5. Machine Gun Preacher (Reporting Adapted to Film)
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In 2010, Urbina wrote a profile for Vanity Fair magazine on Sam Childers, a former Hell's Angel and gun runner, turned born-again Christian preacher, who joined the guerrilla fighters in South Sudan. Urbina traveled with Childers and a militia in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, after he was ostensibly hired to kill a brutal warlord named Joseph Kony, leader of a group called the Lord's Resistance Army. In 2011, Childers' life story became the basis of a movie called Machine Gun…
In 2010, Urbina wrote a profile for Vanity Fair magazine on Sam Childers, a former Hell's Angel and gun runner, turned born-again Christian preacher, who joined the guerrilla fighters in South Sudan. Urbina traveled with Childers and a militia in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, after he was ostensibly hired to kill a brutal warlord named Joseph Kony, leader of a group called the Lord's Resistance Army. In 2011, Childers' life story became the basis of a movie called Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler.
Honors & Awards
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01. Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Columbia University
Urbina was a member of the team of reporters that broke the story about then-New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer and his use of prostitutes. The story won the Pulitzer Prize in April 2009.
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02. George Polk Award for International Reporting
Long Island University
Awarded in 2022 for “The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe.” The article revealed that the European Union equipped and trained Libyans to intercept migrants from sub-Saharan Africa at sea and hold them in secret prisons. During their reporting, Urbina and his team were captured by Libyan agents, blindfolded and held at a black site for daily interrogations before being rescued. During captivity Urbina was beaten and sustained severe injuries.
See more:…Awarded in 2022 for “The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe.” The article revealed that the European Union equipped and trained Libyans to intercept migrants from sub-Saharan Africa at sea and hold them in secret prisons. During their reporting, Urbina and his team were captured by Libyan agents, blindfolded and held at a black site for daily interrogations before being rescued. During captivity Urbina was beaten and sustained severe injuries.
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03. George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting
Long Island University
Granted for excellence in reporting on The Outlaw Ocean in February 2016.
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04. Emmy Nomination for News and Documentary
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Nominated in 2015 for “The Secret Life of Passwords.”
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05. National Edward R. Murrow Award for Video
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Given by The Radio Television Digital News Association in 2016 for video work done tied to The Outlaw Ocean.
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06. Scripps Howard Award for Excellence in Innovation in Journalism
The Scripps Howard Foundation
The 69th Scripps Howard Awards judges – a panel of veteran journalists and media leaders – selected the 2021 winners from more than 800 entries across 15 categories. The Outlaw Ocean Music Project was awarded for Excellence in Innovation in Journalism. Launched in 2020, this project is a global effort to collaborate with musicians for the purpose of disseminating The Outlaw Ocean Project reporting to a younger and more diverse audience.
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07. Picture of the Year Award for Documentary Journalism
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism
Awarded in 2022 for First Place in Documentary Journalism in 2021. Granted to Ed Ou and The Outlaw Ocean Project for "Unsafe Passage," a documentary capturing reporting from the Libya story, "The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe."
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08. Sigma Award for Excellence in Data Journalism
The Sigma Awards
Granted in 2020 for a collaboration with NBC News that revealed the world's largest illegal fishing fleet (more than 900 Chinese squid ships in North Korean waters in violation of UN sanctions).
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09. The Best of Photojournalism
National Press Photographers Association
Awarded for Documentary of the Year and Short Form by The Best of Photojournalism 2022 committee, celebrating the best of visual journalism. Granted to Ed Ou and The Outlaw Ocean Project for "Unsafe Passage," a documentary capturing reporting from the Libya story, "The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe."
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10. The Christopher Dickey Award for Journalism Excellence
FilmAid International
Given by FilmAid International for career accomplishment in human rights journalism, this award was presented in a ceremony in New York City by the actor Mark Ruffalo in October 2021.
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11. Tom Renner Award
Investigative Reporters and Editors
Granted in 2022 for "The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe." This project showed how European nations attempt to curb immigration from Africa in dozens of languages and multiple formats, ensuring it was widely accessible not only to those who participate in the system but those who are subject to it, serving as a warning.
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12. Human Rights Press Award
Foreign Correspondents Press Club
Granted in May 2016 for Urbina’s reporting on sea slavery.
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12. The Peter Benchley Ocean Award for Media Excellence
Blue Frontier Campaign
Granted for impact and reach of The Outlaw Ocean reporting in 2016.
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13. James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism
Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
Awarded in 2022 for “The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe,” an investigation of the European Union’s shadow immigration system that sends migrants to Libyan detention centers before reaching European shores. During their reporting, Ian Urbina and his colleague, a videographer named Pierre Kattar, were captured by Libyan agents, blindfolded and held at a black site for daily interrogations before being rescued. During captivity Urbina was beaten and sustained severe…
Awarded in 2022 for “The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe,” an investigation of the European Union’s shadow immigration system that sends migrants to Libyan detention centers before reaching European shores. During their reporting, Ian Urbina and his colleague, a videographer named Pierre Kattar, were captured by Libyan agents, blindfolded and held at a black site for daily interrogations before being rescued. During captivity Urbina was beaten and sustained severe injuries.
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14. Overseas Press Club Award for Best International Reporting for Any Medium Dealing with Human Rights
Overseas Press Club Award
Granted in 2022 for "The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe." At great personal risk, Ian Urbina exposed the horrors of Libyan detention camps where African migrants are held as they attempt to travel to Europe. Through a tacit and unsavory agreement, the European Union essentially pays Libya to catch and imprison the migrants so that Europe does not have to face problems on their borders.
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15. National Magazine Award for Reporting (Finalist)
American Society of Magazine Editors
"The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe" was a finalist for the award in 2022.
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16. Dart Award (Honorable Mention)
Dart Center
The Outlaw Ocean Project received an honorable mention for "The Secretive Prisons that Keep Migrants Out of Europe," an investigation and multimedia project that examines the European Union's shadow immigration system that captures migrants arriving from Africa, and sends them to brutal detention centers run by militias in Libya (Team: Ian Urbina, Director; Mea Dols de Jong, Documentary Filmmaker and Reporter; Joe Galvin, OSINT Editor; Joe Sexton, Senior Editor; Pierre Kattar, Videographer and…
The Outlaw Ocean Project received an honorable mention for "The Secretive Prisons that Keep Migrants Out of Europe," an investigation and multimedia project that examines the European Union's shadow immigration system that captures migrants arriving from Africa, and sends them to brutal detention centers run by militias in Libya (Team: Ian Urbina, Director; Mea Dols de Jong, Documentary Filmmaker and Reporter; Joe Galvin, OSINT Editor; Joe Sexton, Senior Editor; Pierre Kattar, Videographer and Photographer).
Judged described this project as “an incredible, daring feat of journalism” which took us “to the heart of a huge policy issue,” “uncovering the details of abuse and holding authorities to account.” They praised the team for its “vivid precision of detail” in painting a “full picture” of Candé’s life, “his hopes and dreams” and “who he was outside of the atrocities he endured.” They commended the reporting team for “zeroing in on a governmental entity that can do violence to so many people” – calling the project “heartbreaking and damning for the European Union” – while zooming out to “the climate migration crisis, one of the biggest stories of our time.”
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17. Desmond Wettern Media Award for Best Journalistic Contribution
The Maritime Foundation
Awarded in London in October 2016 for accomplishment in reporting offshore.
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18. The Sigma Delta Chi Award for International Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists
Granted in May 2016.
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19. The Michael Kelly Award (Finalist)
The Atlantic Magazine
Sponsored by The Atlantic Magazine, the award is granted to a writer whose work demonstrates a fearless pursuit of truth. For his Outlaw Ocean reporting, Urbina was a finalist in May 2016.
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20. Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting (Finalist)
University of California, Los Angeles
Chosen in July 2016 for international reporting done for The Outlaw Ocean.
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21. The Society of Publishers in Asia Award for Excellence in Digital News
Journalism & Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong
Granted in July 2016 for reporting on The Outlaw Ocean.
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22. The Anthony Lewis Prize for Exceptional Rule of Law Journalism (Honorable Mention)
The World Justice Project
The Outlaw Ocean earned an Honorable Mention for this award in July 2016.
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23. Trace International Prizes for Investigative Reporting (Honorable Mention)
Trace
Granted by Trace in July 2016, a global anti-bribery NGO, for Urbina’s reporting about the dangerous work of maritime repo men who steal or repossess ships on behalf of bank, mortgage lenders, insurers or ship owners.
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24. Best in Business Award for Feature Writing
Society of American Business Editors and Writers
Granted for “The Outlaw Ocean” series in 2015.
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25. Best in Business Award
Explanatory Reporting
Granted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for the “Drilling Down” series in 2011.
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26. Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting (Finalist)
University of California, Los Angeles
Urbina received an Honorable Mention in 2014 for the Times story about the deaths of thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh.
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27. The New York Times Best Seller List for Hardcover Nonfiction
The New York Times
The Outlaw Ocean was added to the NYT Best Seller list for September 2019, within the first month after its publication.
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28. Best Books of 2019
Amazon
Amazon editors ranked The Outlaw Ocean as among the top ten “must reads” of August.
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Organizations
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1. The Outlaw Ocean Project
Director and Founder
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Founded in 2019, The Outlaw Ocean Project is a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington D.C. that produces investigative stories about human rights, environment and labor concerns on the two thirds of the planet covered by water. This organization’s journalism is distinct not just in its focus, but also in how the reporting is conducted and distributed. Most of the stories are reported at least partially at sea. In the United States, the non-profit publishes its stories in various news outlets, including the New Yorker, NBC News, The Atlantic and The Washington Post. The reporting is also translated into a half dozen languages and further disseminated abroad in partnership with dozens of foreign newspapers and magazines. To reach a younger and more international audience, the organization leverages non-news platforms, collaborating with artists to convert the reporting into other forms such as music, animation, mural art, stage performances, and podcasts. To subscribe to the newsletter, email: [email protected] https://urbina.io/2vOsWBh
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2. The Outlaw Ocean Music Project
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Launched in 2020, this project is a global effort to collaborate with musicians for the purpose of disseminating The Outlaw Ocean reporting to a younger and more diverse audience. The logic in this tactic is that too often worthy journalism goes unknown because traditional news outlets wait for people to come to their platforms. The music project tries to take this urgent content out to a wider public using non-news platforms like Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Play. From classical to hip hop…
Launched in 2020, this project is a global effort to collaborate with musicians for the purpose of disseminating The Outlaw Ocean reporting to a younger and more diverse audience. The logic in this tactic is that too often worthy journalism goes unknown because traditional news outlets wait for people to come to their platforms. The music project tries to take this urgent content out to a wider public using non-news platforms like Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Play. From classical to hip hop to electronic, hundreds of musicians have joined the effort. The albums they create are emotionally inspired by stories produced by The Outlaw Ocean Project. Many of the artists use recorded readings of the written stories and sound samples from field recordings taken at sea. The music is paired with videos and album art using material shot during the reporting. The albums are then released on dozens of music platforms globally. A portion of the listeners to the music and viewers of the related videos discover the reporting on these non-news platforms and click their way over to the fuller stories to learn more. The Outlaw Ocean Music Project has been widely covered by NPR, Billboard Magazine, GQ, San Francisco Classical Voice, The Pulitzer Center and elsewhere. To join the project, email [email protected] https://urbina.io/2Si7sHM
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3. The Noam Chomsky Music Project
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A historical touchstone that reflects the many ways in which the world has evolved across his lifetime, Noam Chomsky’s lectures span from ethics and political philosophy to geo-politics and linguistics. Among his distinctions is the measured and plainspoken way that he delivers his uniquely independent and unflinching perspective. The goal of this project is to commemorate Chomsky’s thinking by melding with music samples from some of his more incisive social commentary. These samples include…
A historical touchstone that reflects the many ways in which the world has evolved across his lifetime, Noam Chomsky’s lectures span from ethics and political philosophy to geo-politics and linguistics. Among his distinctions is the measured and plainspoken way that he delivers his uniquely independent and unflinching perspective. The goal of this project is to commemorate Chomsky’s thinking by melding with music samples from some of his more incisive social commentary. These samples include searing criticisms of US foreign policy and sober insights on the intimate relationship between capitalism and, what he calls, the ‘climate catastrophe’. A diverse group of more than 50 musicians from all corners of the globe and a variety of genres including classical, electronic and jazz, have joined the effort. To join the project, email: [email protected] https://urbina.io/34Sn2nz
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4. The Outlaw Ocean Mural Project
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Journalism explains the world. Art makes people feel. In melding the two, our goal is to refocus global attention offshore and to stoke urgency and curiosity about this often-overlooked domain. Painters from around the globe have come together to render the worry and wonder of what is happening at sea. A vast realm of astounding beauty, the oceans are also a dystopian frontier. They are home to dark inhumanities and dire industrial activities, where everything from murder and slavery to…
Journalism explains the world. Art makes people feel. In melding the two, our goal is to refocus global attention offshore and to stoke urgency and curiosity about this often-overlooked domain. Painters from around the globe have come together to render the worry and wonder of what is happening at sea. A vast realm of astounding beauty, the oceans are also a dystopian frontier. They are home to dark inhumanities and dire industrial activities, where everything from murder and slavery to dumping and drilling routinely go unchecked. Not unlike a literacy campaign, this project uses public art to raise cultural awareness and to offer fluency about the watery two thirds of the planet. The oceans supply 50 percent of the air we breathe. They are a workplace to more than 50 million people. And yet, the journalism about this sprawling and vital place is a rarity. In their own aesthetic, through imagery that is at once captivating and critical, muralists in dozens of cities internationally have leveraged their talents to amplify the stories we report. Their paintings are meant as an onramp into a set of issues that need attention. https://urbina.io/3JZB31S
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5. The Outlaw Ocean Podcast
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There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. Perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans. Too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. The Outlaw Ocean Podcast is a seven-part series that explores a gritty and lawless realm rarely seen, populated by traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and…
There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. Perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans. Too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. The Outlaw Ocean Podcast is a seven-part series that explores a gritty and lawless realm rarely seen, populated by traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways. Relying on more than eight years of reporting on all seven oceans and in more than three dozen countries, the podcast brings all of The Outlaw Ocean Project's journalism together as an immersive podcast series. https://urbina.io/3W8XZCb
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6. The Outlaw Ocean Institute
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"Hope springs eternal." These three words from the poet Alexander Pope speak to the necessity of stubborn optimism. This phrase is also the motto of The Outlaw Ocean Institute. With founding support from the 11th Hour Project and Schmidt Marine Technology Partners, the aim of the Institute is to improve the fate of the oceans and the people who work out there. Each year, we select several young journalists to train and support. We target talent in those countries -- typically outside the…
"Hope springs eternal." These three words from the poet Alexander Pope speak to the necessity of stubborn optimism. This phrase is also the motto of The Outlaw Ocean Institute. With founding support from the 11th Hour Project and Schmidt Marine Technology Partners, the aim of the Institute is to improve the fate of the oceans and the people who work out there. Each year, we select several young journalists to train and support. We target talent in those countries -- typically outside the U.S. and E.U. -- that are most directly impacted by the human rights and environmental concerns that we cover. The Institute is also meant to scout promising reporters in the very places where our organization needs more language skills and local knowledge. https://urbina.io/3BtWer7
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