awards

• Emmy for Investigative Journalism
• Amnesty International Media Award
• International Investigative Journalism Award (now the Daniel Pearl Award) - winner and twice nominated
• Peabody Award
• duPont Columbia Journalism Award
• Columbia Graduate School of Journalism John B Oakes Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting
• One World International Documentary Award
• Grierson International Documentary Award runner-up (as reporter/writer)
• Overseas Press Club of America Whitman Bassow Award for Reporting on International Environmental issues
• Tom Renner Award for crime reporting
• Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal
• Investigative Reporters and Editors Collaboration Award
• Overseas Press Club citation for Best Online Investigation of an International Issue
• Royal Television Society Current Affairs Award citation
• One World Journalist of the Year Award nomination
• Chris Award - Columbus International Film Festival

Most of these awards were shared with Steve's BBC, ICIJ and tve colleagues.

In 2002 Steve was invited to become a member of the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a project of the Center for Public Integrity.