During his professional career, Fisk has won numerous journalism awards, including a Jacob’s Award (1991); two Amnesty International UK Press Awards (1998 and 2000); a David Watt Prize (2001); the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (2002); and the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize (2006). He is also a seven-time recipient of the British Press Awards’ (BPI) International Journalist of the Year designation, and he twice won BPI’s “Reporter of the Year” award.