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This year, we received nearly 300 applications and awarded 15 ������Ƶ Fellowships. With this dynamic Fellows class, ������Ƶ is supporting 12 book projects, two films, and one podcast. Meet the Class of 2024 and learn more about the applicant pool by reading our Class of 2024 Who Applied? report.

Katie Engelhart was awarded the for her work in the . Keri Blakinger was nominated for her work with .

Sugarcane, a film by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, was shortlisted for the Best Documentary Feature Film Oscar by the . The film won the Directing Award: U.S. Documentary at the . The film also won Best Political Documentary and Best True Crime Documentary at the . The film has been nominated for many other awards, including six other , four , three , and a award. The film has been reviewed in numerous publications, including the , the , , , the , and . listed the film as one of the “25 Best Films of 2024.” The film was also one of "Favorite Movies of 2024." Sugarcane was purchased by National Geographic for distribution and is now available to stream on Disney+.

JoeBill Muñoz’s film, The Strike, was an official selection for the , where it premiered in March. The film was reviewed in , and Muñoz and his co-director, Lucas Guilkey, were interviewed about the film on , on , and in . The film will premiere on in February 2025.

Xinyan Yu’s film, Made in Ethiopia, was an official selection at the in June, where it was awarded the Special Jury Mention for a Documentary Feature. The film was reviewed in , , and . Yu and her co-director, Max Duncan, were interviewed about the film in .

This year, ������Ƶ’s Fellows published six books and one podcast. The projects focused on fascinating topics, including climate change, sex testing in sports, constitutional sheriffs, and endangered languages. As always, our ������Ƶ Fellows bring challenging issues to the forefront of public discourse.

Jonathan Blitzer published Everyone Who is Gone is Here in January, and the book was reviewed in the , the , and , among others. The book was named one of the “10 Best Books of 2024” by the , listed as one of the “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2024” by the , and included on . Everyone Who is Gone is Here was also longlisted for the and the .

Ross Perlin’s book, Language City, was published in February and reviewed widely, including in the , the , the , and . Perlin was interviewed about the book in , on , and on podcast. The book was awarded the .

Abraham Lustgarten’s book, On the Move, was also published this year in March. The book was excerpted in and reviewed in the , , and . Lustgarten was interviewed about the book on , , , and .

Rose Eveleth released their podcast, Tested, in collaboration with NPR and the CBC in July. The podcast was reviewed in the Eveleth was interviewed about the podcast on ���Ϸ���’s ; Scientific American’s podcast, ; and on WESA’s . The podcast was included on list of “5 insightful podcasts you may have missed this summer.”

Christine Rosen published The Extinction of Experience in September. The book was reviewed in the and the among others, and was listed as one of the “Best Nonfiction Books of 2024” by . Rosen was interviewed on about the book.

In October, The Highest Law in the Land was published by Jessica Pishko. The book was excerpted in and reviewed in the , the , and the . Pishko was interviewed in many outlets about the book, including Fresh Air, �´�����’s , the , and .

Atossa A. Abrahamian published The Hidden Globe in October, and the book was named one of the “10 Best Books of the Year” by the and one of the “100 Notable Books of 2024” by the . The book was reviewed in , the , the , and the , among others. The Hidden Globe received a starred review in . Abrahamian was interviewed about the book on KPCW’s and on .

• Patricia Evangelista’s book, Some People Need Killing, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. The book was also for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
• Tanisha C. Ford an NAACP Image Award for her book, Our Secret Society.
• Zeke Faux’s book, Number Go Up, for an Edgar Award in Best Fact Crime.
• Caitlin Dickerson wrote “Seventy Miles in the Darién Gap,” a cover story for , about migrants’ harrowing journey through Columbia and Panama.
• Rozina Ali wrote “Raised in the West Bank, Shot in Vermont” for the about Palestinian students shot in 2023.
• Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe by FX. The book one of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” by the New York Times.