Nadja Drost is a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker who works across print, radio, television, and documentary film. Based in New York following a decade in Bogotá, Colombia, she continues to report from Latin America, often as a Special Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour.

Her reporting on global migration has won various accolades. A longform piece she wrote for the California Sunday Magazine was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, as well as the Michael Kelly Award, first place for Magazine Feature Writing from the National Headliner Awards, and the One World Media Refugee Reporting Award. A television series, ‘Desperate Journey,’ she reported with videographer Bruno Federico for the PBS NewsHour, was recognized with an Emmy and Peabody award, and received the Best in Show for television from the National Headliner Award in 2021.

Nadja also makes documentary films — she independently produced the award-winning Between Midnight and the Rooster’s Crow (2005), and is currently in the sixth year of production with  Bruno Federico on Alias La Mona, a feature documentary about a FARC guerrilla fighter and mother who lays down arms in Colombia’s peace deal. Their PBS NewsHour series, ‘Fighting for Peace’ on Colombia’s FARC rebels was awarded an Overseas Press Club Award for Best Reporting on Latin America in 2017.

Nadja’s stories have been published in Maclean’s Magazine, TIME, GlobalPost, Al Jazeera America and The Globe and Mail among others, and heard on CBC Radio, the BBC, Radio Netherlands Worldwide and Deutsche Welle Radio. The Devil Underground, an investigation into how gold mining has fueled Colombia’s armed conflict, was published by The Atavist, and is available as a Kindle Single. A story she produced with Radio Ambulante won the Premio Simon Bolívar, Colombia’s premier journalism prize, in the radio documentary category.

Nadja is a graduate of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She is from Toronto.

Please contact her at nadjadrost at gmail.com