The American Mosaic Journalism Prize was created in 2018 by the
Heising-Simons Foundation.[7][8][6] The winners are selected by ten judges who receive nominations from a confidential network of nominators.[9][10] Winners are awarded an unrestricted cash prize of $100,000 each,[4][3] making it a larger cash prize than the
Pulitzer Prize (which awards $15,000 to winners).[11]
In late February 2023, it was announced
Cerise Castle had signed with
CAA.[43] In late 2023, Cerise began reporting on the Temecula school district in California for
Capital & Main.[44]
Darcy Courteau (2020 Prize Recipient)
Darcy published a
piece about essential delivery workers for The Atlantic in June 2020.
David Dennis, Jr. (2021 Prize Recipient)
In June 2021, David joined
The Undefeated as a full-time senior writer covering music for the culture vertical of the
ESPN multimedia content initiative on sports, race, and culture.[45]
Valeria recently published a
personal story for PRI's “The World” about getting vaccinated for
COVID-19 while being pregnant in May, 2021. Additionally, in May 2021, she began airing a new radio show, “
Comadres al Aire”.
palabra., a growing multimedia platform supporting
National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) freelance journalist members, named Valeria editor in 2021.[47] In January 2022, Valeria was named a Fellow for the
Emerson Collective to launch Altavoz Lab, a collaborative project within palabra. to strengthen reporting at community outlets that serve people of color and immigrants.[48]
Michelle García (2021 Prize Recipient)
In June 2021, Michelle's piece, “
The Media Isn’t Ready to Cover Climate Apartheid”, which was among the pieces featured by the American Mosaic Journalism Award judges, was selected as a winner for the 2021 Covering Climate Now award.[49]
As of December 2021, Michelle is working on a book titled "Anima Sola" with
Viking Books.[50]
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah (2019 Prize Recipient)
In May, 2020,
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah entered into a book deal with
Random House.[51] The book, The Explainers and the Explorers, which is Rachel's first full-length work of non-fiction, will “be a two-volume, broad-sweeping work about the black experience in America, from its very beginnings to the current day,” according to Random House.[51]
Ryan Christopher Jones (2022 Prize Recipient)
As of April, 2022, Ryan has been accepted into a doctoral program in Social Anthropology at
Harvard University.[52] He will conduct visual research on how hostile environments, water, and air are impacting Latino communities across the American West.[53]
In 2022, Ryan served on the photography jury for the 2021-2022
Pulitzer photojournalism winners.[54]
The second season of
Rebecca Nagle's podcast series “
This Land,” for which she won the Prize in 2020, was released at the end of August 2021.[56] The podcast's second season focused on how the far right is using Native children to quietly dismantle American Indian tribes and advance a conservative agenda.
Rebecca was an awardee at the 2021 Women's Media Center Exceptional Journalism Awards in December 2021.[57]
Julian Brave NoiseCat is currently working on a book, "We Survived the Night", which will be published by
Knopf and is an account of contemporary
Indigenous life in the U.S. and Canada woven together with a personal narrative.[61]
Julian’s documentary, made in partnership with
Emily Kassie, Sugarcane premiered at the 2024
Sundance Film Festival.[63] At the festival, Julian and Emily Kassie won the Sundance Directing Award for the film.[64]
Abraham “Abe” Streep (2019 Prize Recipient)
In May 2021, Abe published a piece in The New Yorker exploring how violent police officers remain in law enforcement.[65]
In September 2021, Abe published his book "Brothers on Three" with
MacMillan Publishers.[66] The book is an expansion on one of the pieces Abe won the Prize for in 2019, “
What the Arlee Warriors Were Playing For”, and is the story of coming of age on Montana's
Flathead Indian Reservation and a
basketball team uniting a community during a
suicide epidemic. "Brothers on Three" won the 2021 Montana Book Award, and the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona General Nonfiction Book Award.[66]