Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An ba Sanger, a cikin 2004, kyautar Weintal don rahoton diflomasiyya don ɗaukar rikicin Iraki da Koriya. Ya kuma lashe kyautar Aldo Beckman don ɗaukar hoto na shugabancin. A duka 2003 da 2007, an ba shi kyautar Merriman Smith Memorial Award don ɗaukar shirin dabarun tsaro na ƙasa. Ya kuma raba babbar lambar yabo ta American Society of Newspaper Editors don rubuce-rubuce na ƙarshe a cikin 2004, don ɗaukar hoto na ƙungiyar bala'in Columbia. A shekara ta 2007, "The New York Times" ya sami lambar yabo ta DuPont daga Makarantar Jarida ta Columbia don "Nuclear Jihad: Shin 'Yan Ta'adda Za Su Iya Samun Bam?", wani shirin da ya nuna shi da abokin aikinsa William J. Broad, da kuma binciken da suka yi game da cibiyar sadarwa ta nukiliya ta A.Q. Khan. Bayyanar da suka yi a cikin "Times" game da cibiyar sadarwar ta zama ta ƙarshe don Kyautar Pulitzer. A shekara ta 2011, Sanger ya kasance wani ɓangare na wata ƙungiyar da ta kasance ta ƙarshe ta Pulitzer Prize don Rahoton Kasa da Kasa don ɗaukar hoto game da tsunami na Japan
da kuma bala'in nukiliya. A cikin 2012, Sanger ya karya labarin cewa Shugaba Obama a farkon shugabancinsa ya ba da umarnin ɓoye ɓoye na Stuxnet a kan wuraren nukiliya na Iran; an nuna rahotonsa a cikin fim din "Zero Days" (2016).