2023 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism

Bari Weiss and The Free Press won the 2023 Dao Grand Prize, $100,000, with Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi for their Twitter Files. You can find the reporting here.

Weiss is the host of the podcast Honestly, and is the winner of the LA Press Club’s 2021 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. She is also the winner of the Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat Prize, which honors writing that “best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence.” In 2019, Vanity Fair called Weiss the Times’s “star opinion writer.”

Weiss is a proud Pittsburgh native. Her first book, “How to Fight Anti-Semitism,” was the winner of a 2019 National Jewish Book Award. She lives with her wife and daughter in Los Angeles.