Since its launch in 2020, The Markup has punched above its weight, winning awards like the Gerald Loeb award, Edward R. Murrow award, and Fast Company’s world changing ideas award for its journalism.
In 2022/2023 two major series won prizes from a slew of contests: Still Loading, a sprawling national investigation into inequities in internet access, and Pixel Hunt, The Markup’s series uncovering the full extent of how tech tracks people across the web.
During the 2021/22 awards season, we were honored by awards particularly highlighting our work in Amazon’s Advantage, our look into the online giant’s self-preferencing and its antitrust implications; Denied, which revealed racial disparities in practice by mortgage lenders; and Citizen Browser, a first-of-its-kind project that opened the black box of social media algorithms by building a nationwide representative panel of users who share data with The Markup.
Here are the awards and honorable mentions The Markup has received from some of journalism’s most prestigious contests.
2024
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Sisi Wei Recognized as a Freedom of the Press Rising Star in 2024 RCFP Awards
The awards honor the accomplishments of news and legal leaders whose work embodies the values of the First Amendment
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The Markup Wins ONA Awards for General Excellence and Community-Centered Journalism
The awards honor excellence in digital journalism around the world
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The Markup’s “Clear and Beautiful” Reporting Wins Online Journalism Award
Series on digital book banning wins first place for technology reporting — the Markup’s second win in a row in that category.
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CalMatters/The Markup Honored for Leadership in Diversity and Solidarity, Community Innovation, by Asian American Journalists Association
The awards honor thoughtful reporting, thorough coverage and strong storytelling and celebrate stories that would have gone untold without the cultural competence that AAJA journalists bring to the profession
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The Markup Wins AAJA Journalism Excellence Award
The awards honor thoughtful reporting, thorough coverage and strong storytelling and celebrate stories that would have gone untold without the cultural competence that AAJA journalists bring to the profession
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The Markup Wins Six Awards of Excellence from the Society for News Design
The global contest recognizes excellence in visual storytelling, design, and journalism
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The Markup Wins Sigma Award
The global contest recognizes excellence in data reporting
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The Markup Wins Philip Meyer Journalism Award
The award honors the best uses of social science research methods in journalism
2023
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The Markup Wins Scripps Howard Innovation Award
Our internet disparities investigation was “complex, intelligent and sophisticated,” judges said
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The Markup Wins ONA Award in Technology Reporting
ONA judges said our ongoing internet disparities investigation is “a nearly perfect example of what modern tech journalism can be.”
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The Markup Wins NABJ Salute to Excellence Award
The award recognizes the best journalism covering the Black experience or addressing issues affecting the worldwide Black community
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The Markup Wins National Press Club Award
Our investigative series into trackers from Facebook, Google won for its service to the public
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The Markup Honored by NAMLE for Media Literacy Work
The awards recognize organizations that advance media literacy education
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The Markup Wins Digiday Media Award
Our investigation into hospitals sending sensitive information to Facebook won “Best Story”
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The Markup Wins Two SND Best of News Design Awards
The global contest recognizes excellence in visual storytelling, design, and journalism
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The Markup Wins Sigma Award for Series on Internet Disparities
The global contest recognizes excellence in data reporting
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The Markup Wins Four SABEW Awards for Business Journalism
We were also awarded two honorable mentions
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The Markup Honored by AHCJ Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
Our investigation into hospitals sending sensitive information to Facebook won third place
2022
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The Markup Receives Honors from Adweek and the National Edward R. Murrow Awards
Our Pixel Hunt series, Citizen Browser project, and Prediction: Bias investigation all received recognition
Amazon’s Advantage
The Markup Wins Loeb Award for Amazon’s Advantage
Our series revealed that Amazon placed its own in-house and exclusive products ahead of third-party items with more reviews and higher ratings
The Markup also received the following honors in 2022:
- Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award
- SND Best of News Design Award, Multiple Categories including Best in Show
- Sigma Award For Data Journalism, Finalist
- Scripps Howard Award, Finalist
- Deadline Club Award
- SPJ New America Award
- National Headliner Award
- NABJ Salute to Excellence Award
- ONA Online Journalism Award, Finalist
2021
- Electronic Privacy Information Center's Champion of Freedom Award
- Loeb Award, Finalist
- Deadline Club Award, Finalist
- Sigma Award for Data Journalism, Finalist