March 18, 2026
NEW YORK (March 18, 2026) — Bloomberg News won two 2026 Overseas Press Club Awards, which honor international journalism.
Bloomberg News won the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Spiers Benjamin 2026 award for “Erasing the Verdict,” an account of how former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was tried and convicted on drug-smuggling charges and later pardoned by President Donald Trump. The Robert Spiers Benjamin award recognizes the best reporting in any medium on Latin America, and goes to Bloomberg’s Monte Reel.
The OPC judges wrote, “Monte Reel illustrates how a notorious drug trafficker, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, won the backing of Trump-circle insiders who reversed what had been a major strike against the kind of crime in Latin America that U.S. law enforcement had long sought to curtail.”
Bloomberg News has also won the Kim Wall Award for “India’s Digital Dream, Hacked,” a piece on cyber scams in India. The Kim Wall Award honors the best story or series of stories in any medium on international affairs using creative and dynamic digital storytelling techniques. The award goes to Natalie Obiko Pearson, Suparna Sharma and Anand RK.
The judges wrote, “The graphic novel’s innovative blend of investigative rigor, striking art, and narrative flair not only deepens understanding of cyber scams, a critical digital-age threat, but does so in a way that resonates long after reading.”
The 87th Annual OPC Awards dinner will take place on April 20 at Cipriani in New York City.
View the full list of winners here.