OPC Awards Past Recipients
Year |
Award | Award Recipient(s) | As appeared in/on | Honored for | Narrative | |
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| 2011 | The President's Award ** | Distinguished service in the field of journalism. | Bill Keller | The New York Times |
It is just days after four New York Times journalists walked out of captivity in Libya, and Bill Keller... Read more... |
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| 2010 | Web: Best Online Commentary | Best international affairs commentary or blog. | Christian Caryl, Stephanie Giry, Malise Ruthven | The New York Review of Books | Reports and Provocations from The New York Review of Books blog |
The three commentaries that make up this entry are unexpected and provocative. Just by choosing their subjects, the... Read more... |
| 2010 | Web: Best Use of Video | Excellence in original video on an international topic created specifically for a news web site. Entries can consist of a single video or up to three from a series. | Adam B. Ellick | The New York Times | Contradictions in Pakistan |
“Contradictions in Pakistan,” a series of videos by Adam B. Ellick, provides a riveting look at life in... Read more... |
| 2010 | Web: Online General Excellence | Best overall international coverage on a web site. Judges will evaluate how the site maximizes the multimedia capabilities of the web to cover key issues, how coverage goes beyond other platforms and brings the story to its readers. | Dafna Linzer, Chisun Lee, Krista Kjellman-Schmidt | ProPublica | The Detention Dilemma |
In a competitive category, the judges were impressed by the scope and breadth of ProPublica’s masterful reporting project... Read more... |
| 2010 | The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award | Best reporting in any medium on Latin America. | William Finnegan | The New Yorker | Silver or Lead |
Powerful reporting and writing that reveals the extent to which drug cartels have penetrated Mexican society, virtually... Read more... |
| 2010 | Web: Best Online Investigation of an International Issue or Event | Best original or exclusive reporting for a news web site that provides new insights into an event or trend of international significance. | Sebastian Rotella | ProPublica | Mumbai Terror Attacks |
After U.S. prosecutors won a guilty plea from an American who helped plot the... Read more... |
| 2010 | Web: Best Use of Multimedia | Best use of techniques such as interactive graphics, Flash and slideshows to report on international news or developments. | CFR.org | Council on Foreign Relations | Crisis Guide: Pakistan |
This piece stood out for its flawless... Read more... |
| 2010 | Web: Best Online Coverage of Breaking News | Best online coverage throughout a 72-hour period of a breaking news event. | Staff of NYTimes.com | The New York Times | An Earthquake in Haiti |
Comprehensive, vivid and imaginative, The New York Times coverage of the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti... Read more... |
| 2010 | The Whitman Bassow Award | Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues. | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | The Center for Public Integrity | Looting the Seas: How Overfishing, Fraud and Negligence Plundered the Majestic Bluefin Tuna |
This outstanding effort by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists exhaustively documents the... Read more... |
| 2010 | The Joe and Laurie Dine Award | Best international reporting in a print medium dealing with human rights. | Scott Pelley and Shawn Efran | CBS News -- 60 Minutes | The All-American Canal |
For more than 550 illegal immigrants seeking work in America, crossing the border ended in death in the “The All-American... Read more... |
