Meridith Kohut Email & Phone Number

Meridith Kohut is a Texas-based photojournalist who has reported on health, humanitarian, and environmental issues in more than 35 countries.She embedded for months on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 22-page feature story that she photographed for TIME magazine about the psychological toll of the virus in an under-resourced hospital in Brooklyn, NY received the SPJ Deadline Award for Best Magazine Feature, the Best Magazine Special Event Reporting Award from The New York Press Club and an honorable mention for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma by the Dart Awards.Kohut reported and photographed The New York Times magazine’s cover story about racial and economic divides when Los Angeles, CA was the epicenter of the pandemic. The NYT Magazine series about Climate Migration that Kohut photographed across four countries was awarded Best Reporting on International Environmental Issues by the Overseas Press Club and the Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting. Her most recently photographed cover story for The NYT Magazine, written by Hannah Dreier, exposed the exploitation of migrant child labor in U.S. slaughterhouses. The story led the Department of Labor to cross-train USDA inspectors to identify child labor violations and was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism .She spent five years documenting the economic crisis in Venezuela for dozens of front-page stories for The New York Times. Her 5-month investigation and photo essay that exposed that hundreds of children had died from severe child malnutrition in public hospitals was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography in 2018. She earned a Courage in Journalism Award in 2018 from the International Women’s Media Foundation.Kohut is an advocate for trauma-informed journalism practices and has lectured on themes including compassionate photography and photojournalism ethics.She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Houston Landing. Her photographs have also been published by National Geographic, Leica, TIME Magazine, National Public Radio, The Washington Post and NBC News. Kohut is a graduate of the University of Texas' School of Journalism, the 2007 Eddie Adams Workshop and the 2015 World Press Photo Masterclass in Latin America.

Listed skills include Photojournalism, Photography, Editorial Photography, Journalism, and 13 others.

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  The University Of Texas At Austin

  Journalism And Communications Studies