Sirota was named a finalist for the 2015 Mirror Award from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Sirota won a “Best in Business” award for investigative journalism from the Society for American Business Editors and Writers.

David Sirota and Naomi Klein were named the 2015 winners of the Izzy Award from Ithaca College’s Park Center for Independent Media.

Newspaper editorial boards, columnists and magazines continue to cite Sirota’s investigative reporting for International Business Times on the public pension system.

Sirota appeared on CNN’s “Death Row Stories” episode about Colorado and the Nathan Dunlap case. The series is produced by Susan Sarandon, Robert Redford and Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney.

The New York Times credited Sirota’s investigative reporting about Wall Street with exposing how “secrecy can hide high fees, low returns, excess risk and the identity of politically connected dealmakers.”

Sirota appeared with Daniel Ellsberg, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and others in a New York Times op-doc about NSA surveillance.