She is a PBS Newshour special correspondent for Latin America and has been published in Time, Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail and Al Jazeera America, Her stories have been broadcast on the CBC, BBC, Radio Ambulante and National Public Radio.
[1] In 2017, Drost was a co-recipient of The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award for "best reporting in any medium on Latin America" from the Overseas Press Club of America, for Fight for Peace, a PBS NewsHour piece reporting on FARC guerrillas in Colombia.
For the story, Drost spent five days in the Darién Gap, an undeveloped area of rainforest and marshland on the border between Colombia and Panama, interviewing and following migrants who were crossing the region.
[5] Drost is a co-recipient with the videographer Bruno Federico of a 2021 Peabody Award, for the report "Desperate Journey" on PBS NewsHour.
[7] Drost also received an Honorable Mention from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) at the 2021 Annual Writing Awards for "When can we really rest?".