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Inside the Cabot Prizes: A Conversation with 2025 Winners Nora Gámez Torres & Omaya Sosa Pascual
Meet two of the 2025 Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners, leading investigative reporters: Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, based in Miami, and Omaya Sosa Pascual, Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI), from Puerto Rico in conversation with Prof. Elena Cabral, Assistant Dean, Student and International Programs at Columbia Journalism School. They will discuss the challenges and opportunities facing investigative reporters today and take your questions.
Also learn about programs at Columbia Journalism School from Tarin M. Almanzar, Associate Dean, Admissions and Financial Aid.
The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes at Columbia Journalism School recognize journalists and news organizations with a distinguished body of work covering the Americas and the Caribbean annually at Columbia University.
More about the 2025 Cabot Prize winners:
- For more than a decade, Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald correspondent Nora Gámez Torres has provided deeply reported, compelling coverage of Cuba, becoming the most authoritative voice on the island nation in the U.S. media. With Cuban media under tight government control, many Cubans also learn about events in their own country through her reporting. Before joining El Nuevo Herald in 2014, she taught journalism in Havana, and earned a PhD in Sociology from City University of London. Since the Obama administration, she has provided essential coverage of U.S.-Cuba relations and historic developments on the island, often beating Havana-based competition although she has not been allowed in Cuba for nine years.
- For almost three decades, Omaya Sosa Pascual has forged a distinguished journalistic career in Puerto Rico and abroad, becoming one of the Caribbean’s foremost reporters and editors, full of energy, ideas and resolution. In 2007, she co-founded the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI), the region’s first nonprofit investigative journalism center. Under her leadership, the CPI became a leading force, revealing government corruption, the true death toll from Hurricane Maria in 2017, electoral irregularities, and many other highly sensitive issues.
The Cabot Prizes honor journalists and news organizations for career excellence and coverage of the Western Hemisphere that furthers inter-American understanding. Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston founded the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes as a memorial to his wife in 1938. They are the oldest international journalism awards.