[1][2][3][4] In its 2013 description of PassBlue, the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies said on its website: "The articles and essays are written by top UN journalists, who include Barbara Crossette, a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and UN correspondent for The Nation; Irwin Arieff, who covered the UN, the White House and other assignments for Reuters; Helmut Volger, the editor of A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations; and Dulcie Leimbach, former editor of UNA's The InterDependent and "A Global Agenda: Issues Before the UN" and an editor/writer at The New York Times for more than two decades.
[11] PassBlue's resources and staff are often cited by other media, such as by The New York Times in a 2021 story about the resumption of the annual in-person meeting of the UN General Assembly since the COVID-19 pandemic[12] and another in 2018 about the US bans on diplomatic visas for foreign same-sex domestic partners.
[14] In 2020, Hillary Clinton sent a link via what was then Twitter to a PassBlue article regarding the progress for women's rights since the 1995 Beijing conference for gender equality.
[16] PassBlue frequently posts updates in real time from UN meetings, such as the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly, resulting in comments such as that of Adil Ahmad Haque, a professor at Rutgers Law School and executive editor of Just Security, during the introduction of draft text of a UN General Assembly Resolution ES-10/23 to upgrade Palestine's rights in the United Nations as an Observer State, who said "I probably won't live tweet the whole meeting, so follow @pass_blue" [17] PassBlue and FRANCE 24 won the silver Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize from the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) for three investigative stories on the 2023–2024 Israel–Hamas war in the Gaza Strip they co-published over the course of 2024.
FRANCE 24's Jessica Le Masurier and PassBlue's Dulcie Leimbach, Damilola Banjo and Fatma Khaled jointly won the award for their reporting.