The Boston Globe has received numerous national and international honors recognizing excellence in journalism, including Pulitzer Prizes, George Polk Awards, Peabody Awards and Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards. This list includes the organization's most prominent awards.
Pulitzer Prizes The Boston Globe has won 27 Pulitzer Prizes since 1966.
Year Category Work Recipient(s) 2021 Investigative Reporting Blind Spot Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen and Brendan McCarthy 2016 Commentary Sarah Stockman 2016 Feature Photography Jessica Rinaldi 2015 Editorial Writing Restaurant Workers Kathleen Kingsbury 2014 Breaking News Marathon Bombing coverage 2012 Criticism Wesley Morris 2011 Criticism Sebastian Smee 2008 Criticism Mark Feeney 2007 National Reporting Charlie Savage 2005 Explanatory Reporting Gareth Cook 2003 Public Service Boston Globe Staff 2001 Criticism Gail Caldwell 1997 Commentary Eileen McNamara 1996 Criticism Robert Campbell 1995 Beat Reporting David Shribman 1985 Feature Photography Stan Grossfeld 1984 Local Investigative Specialized Reporting, Specialized Reporting Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitz Gerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary McMillan, Kirk Scharfenberg and David Wessel 1984 Spot News Photography Stan Grossfeld 1983 National Reporting Boston Globe Staff 1980 Local Investigative Specialized Reporting Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi and Robert M. Porterfield 1977 Editorial Cartooning Paul Szep 1975 Public Service Boston School Desegregation Crisis 1966 Public Service Campaign to prevent confirmation of Francis X Morrissey as a Federal District Judge in Massachusetts
George Polk Awards This section applies to publications published by Boston Globe Media, including STAT and Boston magazine.
Year Category Publication Work Recipient(s) 2026 Local Reporting The Boston Globe The Education of Rümeysa Öztürk Giulia McDonnell, Nieto del Rio and Mark Arsenault 2026 Health Reporting STAT American Science, Shattered Lizzy Lawrence, STAT staff 2024 Health Reporting STAT Health Care’s Colossus 2021 Medical Reporting STAT Inside ‘Project Onyx’: How Biogen used an FDA back channel to win approval of its polarizing Alzheimer’s drug Adam Feuerstein, Matthew Herper and Damian Garde 2012 Legal Reporting The Boston Globe For delving into a high acquittal rate in Massachusetts drunk driving cases Thomas Farragher, Marcella Bombardieri, Jonathan Saltzman, Matt Carroll and Darren Durlach 2002 Foreign Reporting The Boston Globe Anthony Shadid 2002 National Reporting The Boston Globe 1998 Medical Reporting The Boston Globe Robert Whitaker and Dolores Kong 1994 Metropolitan Reporting The Boston Globe David Armstrong, Shelley Murphy and Stephan Kurkjian 1986 Financial Reporting The Boston Globe Peter G. Gosselin 1985 Business Reporting The Boston Globe Spotlight/Business Team
Peabody Awards Year Category Honor Work Recipient(s) 2024 Documentary Nominee Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, Reckoning The Boston Globe and HBO
Alfred I. duPont–Columbia Awards Year Category Work Recipient(s) 2025 Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, Reckoning The Boston Globe and HBO
Online journalism awards Year Category Work Recipient(s) 2025 Innovation in Revenue Strategy The Boston Globe 2024 Feature Nightmare in Mission Hill 2024 General Excellence in Online Journalism The Boston Globe 2023 Large Newsroom Feature Katie Price remembers something terrible 2023 Online Commentary Jeneé Osterheldt 2022 General Excellence in Online Journalism The Boston Globe 2020 Explanatory Reporting Seeing Red The Boston Globe 2019 Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling Last Seen WBUR and The Boston Globe 2019 Feature Losing Laura 2013 Knight Award for Public Service 68 Blocks
Gerald Loeb Awards This section applies to publications published by Boston Globe Media, including STAT and Boston magazine.
Year Category Publication Work Recipient(s) 2025 Local Category The Boston Globe Extensive Spotlight Team investigation into Steward Health Care The Boston Globe and Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project 2025 Explanatory Reporting STAT The War on Recovery Lev Facher 2024 Investigative Reporting STAT Denied by AI: Consequences for Sick and Vulnerable Americans Casey Ross and Bob Herman 2018 Commentary STAT The Pharmalot View Ed Silverman
National Emmy Awards Year Category Work Recipient(s) 2024 Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, Reckoning The Boston Globe, HBO
National magazine awards This section applies to publications published by Boston Globe Media, including STAT and Boston magazine.
Year Category Publication Work Recipient(s) 2025 General Excellence STAT STAT Staff
Other awards and honors In addition to the awards listed above, The Boston Globe and its journalists have received recognition from numerous journalism, media, photography, design, and press organizations, including:
Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) Awards Association of Health Care Journalists Awards Boston/New England Emmy Awards Education Writers Association National Awards Eppy Awards Edward R. Murrow Awards Goldsmith Prize Hillman Prizes INMA Global Media Awards Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Awards Livingston Awards National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Salute to Excellence Awards National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) Awards National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) Journalism Awards National Headliner Awards New England Newspaper & Press Association Better Newspaper Competition Rhode Island Press Association Awards Scripps Howard Journalism Awards Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) Best in Business Awards Society for Features Journalism Awards Society for News Design Awards Sigma Delta Chi Awards Webby Awards White House News Photographers Association Awards Worth Bingham Prize
This list is limited to the organization's most prominent awards. A more comprehensive and regularly updated record of awards and honors received by The Boston Globe and Boston Globe Media publications is maintained on the organization's official awards website.
See also
George Polk Awards Peabody Awards Gerald Loeb Award
References