Nadja Drost is a Pulitzer Prize, Emmy, and Peabody Award–winning journalist and filmmaker who works across documentary film, magazines, radio, and television. Her debut documentary, Between Midnight and the Rooster’s Crow, won Best Canadian Feature at Hot Docs, among other honors.
She has been a Special Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour since 2016, reporting primarily from Latin America with a focus on human rights, migration and conflict. In 2021, she received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her longform story on migration through the Darién Gap, published in California Sunday Magazine.
A graduate of Columbia University’s Journalism School, she has taught journalism at Princeton University. A Czech-Canadian, she now lives in NYC after a decade in Bogotá.
She has been a Special Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour since 2016, reporting primarily from Latin America with a focus on human rights, migration and conflict. In 2021, she received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her longform story on migration through the Darién Gap, published in California Sunday Magazine.
A graduate of Columbia University’s Journalism School, she has taught journalism at Princeton University. A Czech-Canadian, she now lives in NYC after a decade in Bogotá.