International Correspondent Jacob Judah Named Recipient of Carter Journalism Institute’s 2024 Reporting Award

New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has named Jacob Judah, a prize-winning investigative reporter, the recipient of its 2024 Reporting Award.

The award, established in 2009, supports works of journalism in any medium on significant and underreported subjects in the public interest.

Judah will spend his time as a recipient of the award reporting on-the-ground in the Arctic, where he will focus on the Diomede Inuit, an American Indigenous community living on an island in the Bering Strait just three miles from Russia. The Diomede face twin rising challenges:

• They are the only Americans continuously living under the eyes of Russian soldiers-stationed at two military bases on a larger, sister island-and keeping watch on the movements of Putin's forces along the U.S border as tensions between the two nations intensify.
• They face the impact of accelerating climate change, with whale hunting becoming more dangerous and unpredictable as sea levels and temperatures rise-while the opening of northern seaways threatens to bring polluting commercial shipping and a greater foreign military presence in nearby waters.

Judah will embed himself in this community in order to give voice to an Inuit perspective and experiences of a warming and increasingly tense Arctic.

Stephen D. Solomon, Marjorie Deane Professor of Journalism and chair of the award committee, notes that continuing cutbacks in newsrooms and budgets endangers the most enterprising reporting.

"These reporting projects take time and financial resources that are not always available today," says Solomon. "But they are essential in providing a deeper public understanding of important issues."

Judah, the UK and Ireland correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), is a freelance journalist based in London. His work regularly appears in outlets including the New York Times, the Economist, the Financial Times, and Foreign Policy. He has broken stories that include the leaking of millions of sensitive US military emails and alleged Chinese cyberattacks on US allies in the Pacific. He has reported from across Europe, Africa, and Asia, including on the war in Ukraine, the Islamic State insurgency in Mozambique, and embedded with insurgents in the Sahel.

Judah, who previously worked with the Jewish Chronicle, won a Rockower Award for Excellence in Reporting on the war in Ukraine for on-the-ground reporting for JTA on the impact of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian Jewish communities. He writes regularly for think tanks, including the International Institute for Strategic Studies, for which he has written a chapter on Cypriot foreign policy for a forthcoming book on the eastern Mediterranean.

Sarah Stillman, the inaugural recipient of the Reporting Award, traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan to report on the abuse of third-world service workers on U.S. military bases there. Her piece, "The Invisible Army," which appeared in the June 6, 2011, issue of the New Yorker, won several of journalism's top prizes in 2012: the National Magazine Award in the category of "Public Interest"; the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism; the Overseas Press Club's Joe and Laurie Dine Award for International Human Rights Reporting; and the Michael Kelly Award for the "fearless pursuit and expression of truth."

For more on the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, please visit its website; for more on the Reporting Award, please visit its Carter Journalism Institute page. Applications for next year's award will be accepted beginning in mid-Jan. 2025.

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