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==Prizes== In 1990, Kristof and his wife, [[Sheryl WuDunn]], won a [[Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting]] for their reporting on the pro-democracy student movement and the related [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Nicholas D. Kristof Biography and Interview|website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://www.achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/#interview|access-date=February 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608012110/https://achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/#interview|archive-date=June 8, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> They were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism. Kristof has also received the [[George Polk Award]] and an award from the [[Overseas Press Club]] for his reporting which focuses on human rights and environmental issues. Kristof was a finalist for the [[Pulitzer Prize for Commentary]] in 2004 and again in 2005 "for his powerful columns that portrayed suffering among the developing world's often forgotten people and stirred action." In 2006 Kristof won his second Pulitzer, the [[Pulitzer Prize for Commentary]] "for his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world." Kristof was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize again in 2012 and 2016; altogether, he has been a Pulitzer finalist seven times. In 2008, Kristof received the Golden Plate Award of the [[American Academy of Achievement]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=2008 |title= Nicholas Kristof Biography Photo | url= https://achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/ |quote= The President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, in a lighter moment with Academy of Achievement members Archbishop Desmond Tutu and journalist Nicholas Kristof during the International Achievement Summit in Hawaii.}}</ref> In 2009, Kristof and WuDunn received the [[Dayton Literary Peace Prize]]'s 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2009-finalists-press_release.htm|title=Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Press Release Announcing 2009 Finalists|first=D. Verne Morland, Digital Stationery International|last=LLC|website=www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org|access-date=September 22, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926215844/http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2009-finalists-press_release.htm|archive-date=September 26, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> Together, they also received the 2009 World of Children Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=2009 Lifetime Achievement Award - World of Children Award|url=http://www.worldofchildren.org/honoree/nicholas-kristof-and-sheryl-wudunn/|publisher=World of Children Award|access-date=2014-08-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826114629/http://www.worldofchildren.org/honoree/nicholas-kristof-and-sheryl-wudunn/|archive-date=August 26, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> He has also won the 2008 Anne Frank Award, the 2007 Fred Cuny Award for Prevention of Deadly Conflict, and the 2013 Advancing Global Health Award (from [[Seattle Biomed]]). Commentators have occasionally suggested Kristof for the [[Nobel Peace Prize]], but when Media Web named Kristof its "print journalist of the year" in 2006 and asked him about that, it quoted him as saying: "I can't imagine it going to a scribbler like me. That's a total flight of fancy."<ref>Jon Friedman, "Kristof is Media Web's Print Journalist of the Year," December 1, 2006.</ref> In 2011, Kristof was named one of seven "Top American Leaders" by the Harvard Kennedy School and ''[[The Washington Post]]''. "His writing has reshaped the field of opinion journalism", ''The Washington Post'' explained in granting the award.<ref name="Melissa Stefan"/> That same year, he was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Nicholas+D.+Kristof&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-04-02|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> Earlier, in 2007, [[U.S. News & World Report]] named Kristof one of "America's Best Leaders".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/features/best-leaders-2007 |title=America's Best Leaders |work=U.S. News & World Report |year=2007 |access-date=December 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111210072728/http://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/features/best-leaders-2007 |archive-date=December 10, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2013, Kristof was awarded the Goldsmith Award for Career Excellence in Journalism by Harvard University. Alex Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning director of Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center, declared in presenting the award that "the reporter who's done more than any other to change the world is Nick Kristof."<ref>{{cite news |first=Roy J. |last=Harris |title=Nicholas Kristof Accepts Goldsmith Career Award |url=http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/206323/kristof-accepts-goldsmith-career-award/ |work=[[Poynter Institute|Poynter]] |date=March 6, 2013 |access-date=March 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310031205/http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/206323/kristof-accepts-goldsmith-career-award/ |archive-date=March 10, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the same year, Kristof was named an International Freedom Conductor by the [[National Underground Railroad Freedom Center]], largely for his work exposing human trafficking and linking it to modern slavery. The last person named to receive the title, two years earlier, was the [[Dalai Lama]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Underground Railroad Freedom Center announces 2021 International Freedom Conductor Award honorees |url=https://freedomcenter.org/voice/press_release/national-underground-railroad-freedom-center-announces-2021-international-freedom-conductor-award-honorees/ |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=National Underground Railroad Freedom Center}}</ref> In 2021, the [[National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences]] awarded Kristof and ''[[The New York Times]]'' opinion video team an [[Emmy Awards|Emmy award]] for their video, "Heartache in the Hot Zone: The Front Line Against Covid-19."<ref>{{Cite web|title=NATIONAL TELEVISION ACADEMY 42nd ANNUAL NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS - WINNERS|url=https://theemmys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/news-42nd-news-programming-winners.pdf}}</ref>
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