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Bloomberg, WSJ, Economist each win two OPC awards

March 19, 2026

Posted by Chris Roush

Bloomberg News, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal each won two Overseas Press Club awards.

Bloomberg News won the Robert Spiers Benjamin award for reporting on Latin America, for an account of how former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández came to be tried and convicted on drug-smuggling charges and then pardoned by President Donald Trump. Its graphic novel on India’s sprawling cyber scams won the Kim Wall Award.

The Economist won the Lowell Thomas Award for a podcast on industrial-scale online scams. Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher won the Best Cartoon Award for his work in The Economist, The Baltimore Sun and Substack.

The Wall Street Journal won the Hal Boyle award for a series on the impact of Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine on citizens, soldiers and prisoners, and the Flora Lewis Award for Yaroslav Trofimov’s account of an international order teetering toward collapse.

See all of the winners here.

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