Joshua E. S. Phillips has reported from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, and Central America. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Nation, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among other publications. He has produced broadcast features for NPR, PRI, the BBC, Reveal, PRX, and Al Jazeera. Phillips won a Heywood Broun Award and Alfred I. DuPont–Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism for his American Radio Works documentary, What Killed Sergeant Gray.