Nadja Drost is a Pulitzer Prize, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and filmmaker, and a Special Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour reporting mostly from Latin America. Her first independently-produced documentary, Between Midnight and the Rooster’s Crow (2005) won awards at Hot Docs (Best Canadian Documentary), Montreal International Film Festival (Audience Award), Bogotá Film Festival (Golden Prize) and others. In 2021, Nadja was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a longform story in the California Sunday Magazine about migration through the Darién Gap along the Colombia –Panama border, among other prizes. Throughout the decade she lived in Colombia, she thrived off carrying out deep, nuanced stories that illuminated how the myriad aspects of the civil war manifested and affected communities. Nadja writes and produces radio, television and long-form magazine stories for outlets such as ProPublica, The Economist, The Atavist, TIME, the California Sunday Magazine , the BBC and the CBC. A radio documentary for Radio Ambulante was awarded Colombia’s national journalism prize, the Premio Simón Bolívar. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, and is currently a professor of Journalism at Princeton University. She is Czech-Canadian and resides in New York City.
