'How I Did It': Nadja Drost Reveals how she Reported and Wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning Story on Migrants Crossing the Darien Gap . Nadja Drost and editor Kit Rachlis will kick off the Overseas Press Club’s new series, “How I Did It,” which pairs freelance journalists with their editors or producers.
Moderating the discussion on February 3, 2022, will be Marina Walker Guevara, an OPC governor and executive editor at the Pulitzer Center.
Drost is a Pulitzer Prize- and Emmy Award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker who works in print, radio, television, and documentary film. Her reporting on the extraordinary journey of migrants from around the world who traverse the dangerous Darien Gap to reach the U.S. won several awards.
The Darien Gap is a road-less, mountainous jungle straddling the Colombia-Panama border.
A long-form piece she wrote for California Sunday Magazine was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, as well as first place for Magazine
Breakthrough Journalism Award. This $10,000 award, made possible through the generous support of Eva Lohrer, seeks to recognize and celebrate the achievements of Pulitzer Center-affiliated freelance journalists who report on under.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, Sonia Nazario, Nadja Drost and Molly O’Toole ’09, participated in a discussion about the unparalleled migration through the Americas, immigration policy and the role of journalism in relation to these topics.
Award-winning immigration journalists Sonia Nazario and Nadja Drost will discuss the role immigration reporting plays in U.S. politics in a conversation moderated by Molly O’Toole ’09.