“NYU Langone Fired a Nurse Battling Cancer. Her Story Isn’t the Only One.”
AMEJA Awards
2025 Winners & Finalists
Honoring journalism that sharpened understanding, deepened accountability, and expanded how Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African communities are covered.
Awards for work that moved the field
This year’s winners and finalists represent reporting, criticism, visual storytelling, and audio work that pushed beyond simplification. The work here challenged stale assumptions, documented violence with rigor, and expanded what ambitious coverage of our communities can look like.
About the awards These honors recognize excellence across investigative reporting, opinion, culture, visual journalism, audio, emerging voices, and member work. Winners are listed first in each category, followed by finalists.
Best Investigative Reporting
Winner
“The Gaza Family Torn Apart by IDF Snipers from Chicago and Munich”
An Anonymous Gaza Journalist, Hoda Osman, Emma Graham-Harrison, Maria Retter, Daniel Laufer, Frederik Obermaier & Maria Christoph
The Guardian | ARIJ | Paper Trail Media
Finalists
Excellence in Opinion & Analysis (Tie)
Finalists
“Covering Columbia’s Student Protests Gave Me Hope About Journalism’s Future”
“Coverage of Israel's War on Gaza, and its Domestic Fallout”
Best Culture & Lifestyle Reporting
Winner
“Finding My Grandmother’s Ma’amoul Cookie in Brooklyn: A Story of Palestinian Survival”
Nadine Apelian Dobbs
Zeteo
Finalists
Best Visual Journalism
Finalists
Best Audio Journalism
Winner
Alaa Elassar, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Way Mullery, Byron Manley, Matt Dempsey, Nadeem Muaddi, Janie Boschma & Alex Newman
CNN
Finalists
Emerging Voices Award
Finalists
Walid El-Gabry Memorial Award
Finalists
“A Palestinian Editor's Sample Portfolio”
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