We are incredibly thrilled to receive the Dupont Award for the investigation on China and human rights and environmental crimes tied to its dominance of global seafood. This award, sometimes called the Pulitzer of Broadcast media, is credit to 4-years of incredible reporting by

We are incredibly thrilled to receive the Dupont Award for the investigation on China and human rights and environmental crimes tied to its dominance of global seafood. This award, sometimes called the Pulitzer of Broadcast media, is credit to 4-years of incredible reporting by

Jelani Cobb, the Dean of the Columbia University Journalism School, was interviewed today on NPR about the state of broadcast journalism and this year’s winners of the DuPont Award. He cited 3 winners to discuss more fully, among them the Outlaw Ocean Project’s investigation.

Topic that rarely gets covered. A movie well worth seeing. Fatal Watch is a feature-length doc film about the mysterious disappearance of several fishery observers and the dangers of this obscure but vital type of work. Monday screening in DC and stage appearance with the

Exciting development: Digiday, which is a trade magazine focussed on the media profession announced this week that The Outlaw Ocean Project has won the “Media Company of the Year” award for 2025. Really exciting news and testament to amazing work done by the OO team.

Great news: The Outlaw Ocean Project won the 2025 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Investigative Reporting for two stories. The first was “The Whistleblower” about labor abuse and food safety concerns at a shrimp processing plant in India. The award for this story was

Really lucky to have worked with the Human Trafficking Legal Center. Kudos to them for this recent success story. mailchi.mp/htlegalcenter/… The Human Trafficking Legal Center

It would have been just another investigative story were it not for the work of the Human Trafficking Legal Center. We exposed forced labor on a Chinese squid ship called Zhen Fa 7. Then, The Human Trafficking Legal Center took the reporting and pushed the U.S. government to take action. Earlier

The Saya de Malha Bank, one of the ocean’s vital carbon sinks, is rapidly losing its shark population. These apex predators play a critical role in maintaining ecosystem balance, but overfishing, especially by gillnetters, is driving their numbers down at an alarming rate. I

Worth taking a look at this substack article from what I'd submit is the best researcher in the business of journalism today: Margot Williams.  open.substack.com/pub/margotwill…

Podcast guru and CBC standout, Daemon Fairless, sat down to ask about the risks, goals and guilt involved in the reporting for the Outlaw Ocean Podcast Season 2: cbc.ca/1.7598507

U.S. lawmakers are pushing to eliminate China-sourced seafood from military supply chains as part of a renewed legislative effort to address the Chinese government’s repression and abuse of the Uyghur minority. According to Seafood Source, the move is a direct response to

Thrilled to share that for the second year in a row, The Outlaw Ocean Project has won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). Last year’s recognition was for our investigation into China’s role in the