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Pranav Dixit honored for H-1B reporting series in U.S.
Dixit moved to the United States from New Delhi in 2021 to join Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism as a fellow
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Pranavi Sharma - Thu, 14, May 2026
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Pranav Dixit / AAJA
Indian-origin journalist Pranav Dixit, based in San Francisco, won the Asian American Journalists Association’s 2026 Journalism Excellence Award for Excellence in Business and Tech Reporting for his Business Insider series, “Caught Between Countries: Tech Workers Navigate Trump's Visa Chaos.”
Dixit received the award for a three-part series published by Business Insider that examined how immigrant tech workers navigated uncertainty surrounding H-1B visa rules and travel disruptions during President Donald Trump’s administration. According to the award citation, the stories generated more than 1 million page views and brought in dozens of new subscriptions.
The series focused on immigrant workers in the technology sector, a group often absent from mainstream business coverage despite making up a significant portion of the U.S. tech workforce. The award citation noted that hundreds of thousands of people work in the United States on H-1B visas, most of them from India and China, but their experiences are rarely centered in business reporting.
One feature published Sept. 21 followed passengers preparing to board an India-bound Emirates flight at San Francisco International Airport amid fears over visa and immigration complications. The report included the account of a Salesforce engineer who shortened a vacation in Toronto and booked a last-minute $500 flight. It also detailed the experience of a Microsoft employee who had not visited India in three years and later left the plane after receiving an email from her immigration team.
Another report published in December detailed how Amazon allowed workers stranded in India because of rescheduled H-1B visa appointments to continue working remotely under strict limitations. According to the reporting, the employees were barred from coding, making strategic decisions or contacting customers while overseas.
The award citation said the series became widely circulated within Asian American and Pacific Islander technology communities through Slack groups, LinkedIn discussions and immigration support networks.
Dixit is the Meta correspondent at Business Insider and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His reporting covers Meta’s products, policies and internal operations, as well as the broader impact of the company’s decisions on global communication and online interaction.
Before joining Business Insider, Dixit worked as a technology correspondent for BuzzFeed News in India, where he reported on the influence of Silicon Valley companies across South Asia. He also served as a senior news editor at Engadget and led technology coverage at the Hindustan Times.
In 2019, Dixit won Syracuse University’s Mirror Award for a report examining how misinformation spread on WhatsApp contributed to lynchings in rural India. He has also reported from Kashmir, documenting the region’s prolonged internet shutdown.
His work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, Vox, Time, The Information and Al Jazeera. He has also appeared on BBC and Al Jazeera broadcasts and on podcasts including Vox Media’s ‘Land of the Giants.’
Dixit moved to the United States from New Delhi in 2021 to join Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism as a fellow, where he studied technology reporting and newsroom coverage of society and digital platforms.
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