 Leopold is an Emmy nominated producer, the recipient of the FOI Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors and a member of the team awarded the Tom Renner Award in 2018 from Investigative Reporters and Editors, and a member of the team named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.Leopold was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame by the Newseum Institute in 2016.His stories have appeared three times on Project Censored's top-25 under-reported stories of the year