Our Impact

The War Horse reports on the U.S. military and veterans issues, exposing the true cost of military service and rebuilding America’s reporting ecosystem to inspire an informed citizenry that holds the military-industrial complex accountable. Since 2016, our journalism has been recognized with top industry awards, and our education programs are the preeminent professional development program for veterans and military families in journalism. In an era of disappearing independent newsrooms, The War Horse has emerged as the most trusted source for military reporting in human context to understand military actions.

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Awards & Honors

We’re proud of the work we do, and we’re honored to have it recognized by our peers. The War Horse and members of our staff have been honored for the quality of our work, the ethics of our journalists, and the innovative spirit of our newsroom. Since we began publishing in 2016, The War Horse has received multiple awards:

2025: National Press Foundation, Audio Reporting Award
2025: Military Reporters & Editors Association, Best TV/Video Documentary
2025: Women Veterans Rock, Legendary Leadership Award
2025: We The Veterans, Patriotic Programming Award
2025: Overseas Press Club, The Ed Cunningham Award for Excellence in Feature Writing
2024: Military Veterans in Journalism, Top 10 Veterans in Journalism
2024: Edward R. Murrow Awards, Feature Reporting
2024: Columbia University, First Decade Award
2023: Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, Gen. John A Lejeune Award for Exceptional Leadership
2023: We Are The Mighty, Mighty25
2022: Edward R. Murrow Awards, Feature Writing
2022: Military Veterans in Journalism, Top 10 Veterans in Journalism
2022: Edward R. Murrow Awards, Investigative Reporting
2022: Military Reporters and Editors Association, Investigative Reporting
2022: Military Veterans in Journalism, Top 10 Veterans In Journalism
2021: Kennedy Human Rights Center, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award
2018: Edward R. Murrow Awards, Investigative Reporting
2017: American Legion, Fourth Estate New Media Award
2017: Society for Features Journalism, Features Writing
2017: HillVets 100

I love The War Horse News because it’s a lot of people that have served and trained people who have actually experienced the military. The media are often excited to embed, but coverage focuses on sensationalized aspects, and not daily challenges and sacrifices faced.

-Jon Stewart, Host of The Daily Show and The Weekly Show With Jon Stewart

Featured In

ABC News

Columbia Journalism Review

Defense News

Esquire

Face the Nation

McClatchy

Military.com

Mother Jones

NBC News

NPR

PBS NewsHour

ProPublica

Texas Tribune

The 19th

The Boston Globe

The Center for Investigative Reporting

The Daily Show

The New York Times

The Washington Post

The Weekly Show Podcast

Vanity Fair

Vox

The War Horse team continues to increase awareness and lead solutions-oriented dialogues about sexual assault, mental health, and veteran transition. I admire The War Horse’s willingness to confront the most difficult issues facing our community.

-Killjan Anderson, Former Executive Director, Pat Tillman Foundation

Ultimately, what The War Horse has is a commitment to being thoughtful and placing resources into the hands of storytellers closest to the issues they cover. And that is an excellent cornerstone for building an institution.

-Angilee Shah, Listening Post Collective

I would say simply that [The War Horse’s story] is a piece that Vanity Fair is proud to have run, and that it exemplifies the highest values both of journalism and of national service.

-Cullen Murphy, Former Editor-at-Large, Vanity Fair

A lot of times, veterans don’t think their own stories are remarkable—especially women veterans within that—so to be able to share your story in a safe space when it’s in the nascent phase and to see it completely resonate with the other women that are there is very encouraging to want to get it out and share it with more people.

-Elizabeth O’Herrin, 2018 War Horse Fellow

Hearing other people say the words that I have about my own experience was ground shaking. … I will always be grateful for the environment The War Horse created. There is real work that goes into this organization and this retreat, and one of the transformative notions is that someone would do this for me.

-Gretel Weiskopf, 2019 War Horse Fellow

The War Horse reaches across the civil-military divide and shows the public the emotional landscape of the people who must bear the burdens of America’s longest war, and forces them to consider the human consequences of warfare.

-Drew Pham, Army Veteran and War Horse writer