OPC Awards Current Recipients

Congratulations to our awards recipients for this year!
Award Date Award Award Recipient(s) As appeared in/on Honored for Narrative
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, left, and Joshua Partlow 2010 The Hal Boyle Award Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad. Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Joshua Partlow The Washington Post Afghanistan

With great writing and deep reporting, The Washington Post series captured the war in Afghanistan, from the seeming futility of the U.S. offensive and the challenges American soldiers...

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Clifford Levy and Ellen Barry 2010 The Bob Considine Award Best newspaper or wire service interpretation of international affairs. Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry The New York Times Russia: Above the Law

Clifford Levy and Ellen Barry broke through the veil of secrecy and fear that shrouds Russia’s legal system in this series of superbly reported pieces about...

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Agnes Dherbeys 2010 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise. Agnes Dherbeys Freelance for The New York Times Violence Erupts in Thailand

Agnes Dherbeys took great risk to photograph violent anti-government riots in Thailand. Her images are close-up, powerful and direct. She worked day and night, photographing...

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Lynsey Addario 2010 The Olivier Rebbot Award Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines and books. Lynsey Addario National Geographic Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women

Lynsey Addario’s photographs give us a comprehensive and intimate look at a largely unseen aspect of Afghan society — its women. Her images are unvarnished, intimate and far-...

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Daniel Berehulak 2010 The John Faber Award Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers and wire services. Daniel Berehulak Getty Images Pakistan Floods

Daniel Berehulak’s images provide both the intimate details of individual struggles as well as the vast scale of devastation of the floods in Pakistan. He captures multiple homes...

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Rodrigo Abd 2010 Feature Photography Award Feature Photography Award Rodrigo Abd Associated Press Guatemala ER

Rodrigo Abd’s powerful and moving images show us a variety of situations from a very busy hospital and convey a surprising range of emotions, from despair and grief to dark humor...

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From left: Sheri Fink, David Baron, Patrick Cox. 2010 The Lowell Thomas Award Best radio news or interpretation of international affairs. Sheri Fink, David Baron, Patrick Cox PRI's The World Rationing Health: Who Lives? Who Decides?

Fink, Baron, and Cox showed tremendous enterprise in an impactful series, which entailed more than...

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Richard Engel 2010 The David Kaplan Award Best TV spot news reporting from abroad. Richard Engel, Bredum Edwards, Madeleine Haeringer, Ghazi Balkiz, Patrick Burkey, James Novogrod NBC Nightly News Afghanistan: From the Front Lines to the Home Front

In this series of three reports from Afghanistan by NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and his long-time cameraman Bedun Edwards, the toll of war...

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From left: Lesley Stahl with producers Richard Bonin and Shachar Bar-On 2010 The Edward R. Murrow Award Best TV interpretation or documentary on international affairs. Lesley Stahl with producers Richard Bonin and Shachar Bar-On CBS News -- 60 Minutes "Unfinished Business” and “City of David”
Powerful and evocative treatments of the two poles of the Middle East — simmering crises that represent unfinished...
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Alma Guillermopreito and Shaul Schwarz 2010 The Ed Cunningham Award Best magazine reporting from abroad. Alma Guillermopreito and Shaul Schwarz National Geographic Trouble Spirits

In “Troubled Spirits,” Alma Guillermoprieto is working at top form and...

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