Kate Woodsome was surrounded by about ten rioters at the Capitol steps... She stayed calm, stayed put, and continued to do her job...
— Martin Baron, Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos and THE WASHINGTON POST










Awards

  • 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for The Washington Post’s coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection.

  • “Throughout the long, cold, bleak day and night [of Jan. 6, 2021], they bore witness. And with their words, their photographs, their video, they conveyed to millions of Post readers around the country and around the world the history that was unfolding in the nation’s capital.”

  • 2021 Murrow Award for ‘Please Rise,” about how the NFL prioritized profit over true patriotism by banning National Anthem protests.

  • Top honors for multimedia explainers short docs from 2019-2022.