His reporting contributed to coverage that won the Overseas Press Club Award and an Alfred I. In the months following the attacks of September 11, Burnett reported from New York City, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Also in 2003, Burnett won a first place National Headliner Award for investigative reporting about corruption among federal immigration agents on the U.S.-Mexico border. duPont-Columbia University Award honoring the network's overall coverage of the Iraq War. His work was singled out by judges for the Alfred I. Murrow Award for investigative reporting for his story on the accidental U.S.
In 2004, Burnett won a national Edward R. In that year, he also served as an Ethics Fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. In 2006, Burnett's memoir, Uncivilized Beasts & Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent, was published by Rodale Press. His 2007 three-part series "The Forgotten War," which took a critical look at the nation's 30-year war on drugs, won a Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award for Excellence in Reporting on Drug and Alcohol Problems. Murrow Award for the accompanying website. His reports are heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.īurnett's 2008 groundbreaking four-part series "Dirty Money"-which examined how law enforcement agencies have gotten hooked on and, in some cases, corrupted by seized drug money-won three national awards: a Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for Investigative Reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists Award for Investigative Reporting, and an Edward R. His special reporting projects have included working in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina, as an embedded reporter with the First Marine Division during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and continuing coverage of the U.S. In 2012, he spent five months in Nairobi as the East Africa Correspondent, followed by a stint during 2013 as the network's religion reporter. He has filed stories from more than 30 countries since joining NPR in 1986. Though he is assigned to the National Desk, his beat has sometimes stretched around the world. In December 2018, Burnett was invited to participate in a workshop on Refugees, Immigration and Border Security in Western Europe, sponsored by the RIAS Berlin Commission. In 2020, Burnett along with other NPR journalists, were finalists for a duPont-Columbia Award for their coverage of the Trump Administration's Remain in Mexico program. Murrow Awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association for continuing coverage of the immigration beat. In 2018, 2019 and again in 2020, he won national Edward R. As NPR's Southwest correspondent based in Austin, Texas, John Burnett covers immigration, border affairs, Texas news and other national assignments.
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