Awards Recipients
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Award Date: 2023
Award Name: The President’s Award 2023
Award Recipient: Christiane Amanpour
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2023
Award Name: The President’s Award 2023
Award Recipient: Christiane Amanpour
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: President's Award
The following are remarks from OPC President Scott Kraft from the 2023 issue of Dateline magazine:
“We selected CNN’s Christiane Amanpour as the recipient of the 2022 President’s Award for her dogged work holding truth to power in a career that has spanned more than four decades. A journalistic force of nature, Christiane has delivered sober and penetrating reporting from every corner of the world.”
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2022Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko, Lori Hinnant and AP StaffThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 01 The Hal Boyle Award 2022
Award Recipient: Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko, Lori Hinnant and AP Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Erasing Mariupol”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 01 The Hal Boyle Award 2022
Award Recipient: Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko, Lori Hinnant and AP Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Erasing Mariupol”
Best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad
Even in a year that featured some of this generation’s most compelling and essential war correspondence from the frontlines in Ukraine, the judges felt The Associated Press’s coverage of the siege of Mariupol stood apart both for its bravery and its impact. The AP team bore witness to atrocities that would have otherwise gone untold, acts that shocked the international community and put paid to Russian propaganda aimed at convincing global opinion of the Kremlin’s good intentions. In the view of the judges, the AP’s coverage was courageous, harrowing and indispensable, and serves as a model of what war reporting should aim to achieve.
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Citation for Excellence:
Yaroslav Trofimov and James Marson
The Wall Street Journal
“Dispatches from Ukraine’s Front Lines” -
2022Nicolas Pelham1843 magazine, The Economist
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 02 The Bob Considine Award 2022
Award Recipient: Nicolas Pelham
Award Recipient Affiliation: 1843 magazine, The Economist
Award Honored Work: “MBS: Despot in the Desert”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 02 The Bob Considine Award 2022
Award Recipient: Nicolas Pelham
Award Recipient Affiliation: 1843 magazine, The Economist
Award Honored Work: “MBS: Despot in the Desert”
Best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs
The jury was impressed by the combination of on-the-ground reporting and analysis. With three decades of experience in the Middle East, Pelham produced a story on Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia that is both authoritative and highly personal. It offers an excellent briefing on the politics of the Saudi kingdom, while fully capturing the contradictions in a leader who on the one hand presents himself as a royal modernizer, giving women the right to drive, while at the same time presiding over brutal human rights abuses, including the murder
of Jamal Khashoggi.Award Page (with link to the honored work) >>
Citations for Excellence:
Mari Saito, Maria Tsvetkova, Anton Zverev and Polina Nikolskaya
Reuters
“How Russia is waging its war in Ukraine”and
Didi Kirsten Tatlow
Newsweek
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2022Marcus YamLos Angeles Times
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2022
Award Recipient: Marcus Yam
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: “The First 30 Days of the War in Ukraine”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2022
Award Recipient: Marcus Yam
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: “The First 30 Days of the War in Ukraine”
Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium
Marcus Yam unflinchingly captures the devastation of the war in Ukraine with nuance and poetry. His photographic reporting on the cruelty of the conflict is carefully curated, displaying the terrors of human loss and mourning tempered with quiet moments of survival among people who carry on even though their world has been upended. Yam’s is an exceptional example of the power of photography to expand our collective conscience.
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Citation for Excellence:
Adriana Zehbrauskas
The New York Times
“Gang Warfare Cripples Haiti’s Fight Against Cholera” -
2022Justyna MielnikiewiczThe Wall Street Journal
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 04 The Olivier Rebbot Award 2022
Award Recipient: Justyna Mielnikiewicz
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: “The War in Ukraine: Portraits of Resilience and Resistance”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 04 The Olivier Rebbot Award 2022
Award Recipient: Justyna Mielnikiewicz
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: “The War in Ukraine: Portraits of Resilience and Resistance”
Best photographic news reporting from abroad published in any medium
Justyna Mielnikiewicz’s coverage of the war in Ukraine shows us strength, resilience, the devastation of loss, humor, and, above all, humanity. In a conflict that has been covered by dozens if not hundreds of photographers, Mielnikiewicz’s visual and storytelling style is uniquely her own. She expertly manages the most difficult challenge of news photography: her work is both an intimate view of the lives of Ukrainians and a showcase of the larger geopolitical implications of the war.
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Citation for Excellence:
Oded Balilty
The Associated Press
“The Separation Barrier” -
2022Laetitia VanconThe New York Times
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 05 The Feature Photography Award 2022
Award Recipient: Laetitia Vancon
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Odesa is Defiant. It’s also Putin’s Ultimate Target”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 05 The Feature Photography Award 2022
Award Recipient: Laetitia Vancon
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Odesa is Defiant. It’s also Putin’s Ultimate Target”
Best feature photography on an international theme published in any medium
A group of dancers in the middle of the road. Street salesmen sharing a glance. A woman posing in a pool for a snapshot. Each of Laetitia Vancon’s images from Odesa, Ukraine during the first year of the war feels like its own universe. Each is filled with details that emerge, layer by layer, and urge the reader to witness the beauty of humanity that perseveres through the violence and destruction.
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Citation for Excellence:
Philip Cheung
Maclean’s Magazine
“Russian Invasion of Ukraine” -
2022Ike Sriskandarajah, Neroli Price, Brett Myers and Andy DonohueReveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 06 The Lowell Thomas Award 2022
Award Recipient: Ike Sriskandarajah, Neroli Price, Brett Myers and Andy Donohue
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
Award Honored Work: “My Neighbor the Suspected War Criminal”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 06 The Lowell Thomas Award 2022
Award Recipient: Ike Sriskandarajah, Neroli Price, Brett Myers and Andy Donohue
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
Award Honored Work: “My Neighbor the Suspected War Criminal”
Best radio, audio, or podcast coverage of international affairs
This piece about the failure of U.S. Department of Justice officials to pursue accused international human rights violators inside the U.S. tells a riveting and surprising story in a highly accessible way. The scope is at once both human and global; it has compelling characters and a personal connection for the reporter, Ike Sriskandarajah. Among the highlights are interviews with federal officials who were asked whether the government had ever charged anyone with a war crime. Their stumbling response is a great example of journalists holding public officials to account.
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Citation for Excellence:
Shima Oliaee and Staff
ESPN’s 30-for-30
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Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 07 The David Kaplan Award 2022
Award Recipient: CNN Worldwide
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Russian Invasion of Ukraine”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 07 The David Kaplan Award 2022
Award Recipient: CNN Worldwide
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Russian Invasion of Ukraine”
Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad
The CNN Worldwide team of numerous correspondents and producers, photographers, and translators, took us live into the depths of the world unleashed by Russia’s army from the moment the first shots were fired — giving us a front-line seat as we watched the tanks roll and artillery rounds land, tearing villages and families apart.
Award Page (with a link to the honored work) >>
Citation for Excellence:
Nick Schifrin, Jack Hewson, Simon Ostrovsky, Eric O’Connor and Ed Ram
PBS NewsHour, with support from
the Pulitzer Center
“War in Ukraine” -
2022Jeremy Young, Femi Oke, Laila Al-Arian, Neil Brandvold, Jeremy Dupin, Abdulai Bah and Warwick MeadeAl Jazeera English
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 08 The Edward R. Murrow Award 2022
Award Recipient: Jeremy Young, Femi Oke, Laila Al-Arian, Neil Brandvold, Jeremy Dupin, Abdulai Bah and Warwick Meade
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera English
Award Honored Work: “Al Jazeera Fault Lines - No Country for Haitians”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 08 The Edward R. Murrow Award 2022
Award Recipient: Jeremy Young, Femi Oke, Laila Al-Arian, Neil Brandvold, Jeremy Dupin, Abdulai Bah and Warwick Meade
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera English
Award Honored Work: “Al Jazeera Fault Lines - No Country for Haitians”
Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs with a run time up to 30 minutes
Al Jazeera ventures into the perilous anarchy in Haiti to report a sorely under-covered story, one with high political stakes for the U.S. In one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, the correspondent captures the daily terror and trials of her characters, showing how they are caught in a Kafkaesque immigration trap, which she contrasts with the outpouring of support for Ukraine’s refugees. Scenes of Haiti’s calamitous upheaval leave the anodyne explanations from the State Department official interviewed sounding bafflingly disconnected from the reality on the ground.
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Citation for Excellence:
Ben C. Solomon, Adam Desiderio, Zachary Caldwell, Julia Kochetova and Ilaria Polsonetti
VICE News
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Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 09 The Peter Jennings Award 2022
Award Recipient: Daniel Roher
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN Films, HBO Max
Award Honored Work: “Navalny”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 09 The Peter Jennings Award 2022
Award Recipient: Daniel Roher
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN Films, HBO Max
Award Honored Work: “Navalny”
Best TV, video or documentary about international affairs with a run time over 30 minutes
The judges found “Navalny,” which chronicles the efforts of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to investigate his own poisoning, compelling from beginning to end. The film captures an agent of Vladimir Putin revealing how Russian security apparatchiks attempted to murder Navalny by Novichuk poisoning. Along with director Daniel Roher, the judges wish to honor Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist with Bellingcat, and Maria Pevchikh, who heads Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. In real time, the cameras filmed them as they pored over passport databases, flight records and cell phone bills to uncover the assassination plot. The footage is riveting and illuminating.
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Citation for Excellence:
Gesbeen Mohammad, Vasiliy Kolotilov and Sasha Odynova
FRONTLINE PBS, ITV
“Putin’s War at Home” -
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award 2022
Award Recipient: Lynzy Billing
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica
Award Honored Work: “The Night Raids”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award 2022
Award Recipient: Lynzy Billing
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica
Award Honored Work: “The Night Raids”
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story
In an astounding piece of storytelling that is, simultaneously, a personal history and a revelatory work of current events reporting, Billing skillfully introduces the readers to a series of unforgettable characters and fills in the human drama that comprised one of the darkest legacies of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. Billing’s own mysteries remain unsolved, as the violence that touched her family gets subsumed, through reporting and storytelling, by the larger tragedy of modern Afghanistan.
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Citation for Excellence:
Juliet Macur
The New York Times Magazine
“The Keeper” -
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 11 The Best Cartoon Award 2022
Award Recipient: Adam Zyglis
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Buffalo News
Award Honored Work: Best Cartoons
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 11 The Best Cartoon Award 2022
Award Recipient: Adam Zyglis
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Buffalo News
Award Honored Work: Best Cartoons
Best print or digital graphic journalism, including cartoons, on international affairs
Adam Zyglis sums up Putin’s war on Ukraine in one terrifying image. The cartoon is an homage to Francisco Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son” and perfectly captures the horrors of Putin’s war crimes. Though that one cartoon won over the judges, Zyglis didn’t stop there, targeting China, Iran and the European Union with his biting satire. He submitted a portfolio of consistently high quality cartoons tackling a myriad of issues with spark and ingenuity. Employing simple ink lines, impressive caricatures and minimal dialogue, Zyglis brilliantly channels the old masters of art and editorial cartooning to take on the global crises of today.
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Citation for Excellence:
Nora Krug
Los Angeles Times
“Diaries of War” -
2022David Scott, Cho Park, Evan Simon, John Carlos Frey, Cindy Galli, Candace Smith Chekwa and Eman VaroquaABC News
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 12 The Morton Frank Award 2022
Award Recipient: David Scott, Cho Park, Evan Simon, John Carlos Frey, Cindy Galli, Candace Smith Chekwa and Eman Varoqua
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work: “Impact x Nightline: Caffeine Jungle”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 12 The Morton Frank Award 2022
Award Recipient: David Scott, Cho Park, Evan Simon, John Carlos Frey, Cindy Galli, Candace Smith Chekwa and Eman Varoqua
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work: “Impact x Nightline: Caffeine Jungle”
Best international business news reporting in TV, video, radio, audio or podcast
Not many American coffee drinkers think about how the purchase of “ethically certified” coffee actually improves the lives of those on the plantations. The ABC team, led by correspondent David Scott, journeyed to the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico to see if conditions at “certified” farms matched the pledges made to consumers by Fairtrade International and the Rainforest Alliance. Three Rainforest farms where ABC documented coffee picking by child labor lost their certifications. At Fairtrade farms, the investigation showed that even the hardest working farmers struggled to get fair prices for their coffee, despite Fairtrade’s efforts to establish a minimum price. This story highlights the gap between selling consumers idealism and real life at the beginning of the coffee supply chain.
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Citation for Excellence:
Neville Gillett, Matt Goldman, Katharina Glanz, Leila Hussain, William Clowes, Rubab Shakir and Simpa Sampson
Bloomberg News
“Black Snow: Nigeria’s Oil Catastrophe” -
2022Debbie Cenziper, Will Fitzgibbon, Eva Herscowitz and Delphine ReuterProPublica and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists with more than 50 international media organizations and Northwestern University
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 13 The Malcolm Forbes Award 2022
Award Recipient: Debbie Cenziper, Will Fitzgibbon, Eva Herscowitz and Delphine Reuter
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists with more than 50 international media organizations and Northwestern University
Award Honored Work: “Shadow Diplomats: The Global Threat of Rogue Diplomacy”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 13 The Malcolm Forbes Award 2022
Award Recipient: Debbie Cenziper, Will Fitzgibbon, Eva Herscowitz and Delphine Reuter
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists with more than 50 international media organizations and Northwestern University
Award Honored Work: “Shadow Diplomats: The Global Threat of Rogue Diplomacy”
Best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services, magazines or digital
It was a problem that spanned across 168 governments, reaching from Detroit to Finland to Paraguay. “Honorary consuls” have long operated with little oversight or checks around the world, and ICIJ discovered that more than 150 current or former consuls have been accused of tax evasion, fraud, bribery and money laundering, while others were tied to violent crimes and environmental abuses. The judges were impressed with the project’s ambition and scope, connecting court records, news reports, public policy documents and government reports from points around the globe. The project had impact, including moves by Paraguay, Finland and Brazil to investigate the consuls and the systems that had long protected their power.
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2022William NeumanSt. Martin's Press
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award 2022
Award Recipient: William Neuman
Award Recipient Affiliation: St. Martin's Press
Award Honored Work: “Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award 2022
Award Recipient: William Neuman
Award Recipient Affiliation: St. Martin's Press
Award Honored Work: “Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela”
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
William Neuman’s book is a devastating account of the collapse of the economy and political system of a once-wealthy Latin American petro-state. Prior to his 2013 death, strongman Hugo Chavez spent billions to buy and build industries, then starved them of investment. He allowed widespread corruption and soaring inflation. “Chavez’s socialism was all means and no production,” Neuman writes. “It was showcialismo.” Neuman’s vivid reporting never lets the reader forget how the lives of ordinary Venezuelans have been crushed by this manmade disaster and how the misrule of the current Maduro administration has corrupted Venezuela’s society to its very roots.
Award Page (with link to the book’s publisher page) >>
Citation for Excellence:
Louisa Lim
Riverhead Books
“Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong” -
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 15 The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2022
Award Recipient: Sarah Souli
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Atavist Magazine
Award Honored Work: “A Matter of Honor”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 15 The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2022
Award Recipient: Sarah Souli
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Atavist Magazine
Award Honored Work: “A Matter of Honor”
Best international reporting in the print medium or digital showing a concern for the human condition
With scant clues and ironclad determination, reporter Sarah Souli set off on a yearslong investigation into the execution-style killings of three Afghan refugee women on the Greek-Turkish border. This vividly told saga reveals how, at every step, the resilience and small acts of ordinary people kept the case active despite myriad hardships and geopolitical obstacles that easily could have rendered the women forgotten. Like the characters she encountered, Souli refuses to give up until the mystery is solved and the slain women receive some measure of justice.
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Citation for Excellence:
Juliet Linderman, Claire Galofaro and Martha Mendoza
The Associated Press
“Afghan Couple Accuse US Marine of Abducting their Baby” -
2022Ramita Navai, Karim Shah and Eamonn MatthewsFRONTLINE PBS
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 16 The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2022
Award Recipient: Ramita Navai, Karim Shah and Eamonn Matthews
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “Afghanistan Undercover”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 16 The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2022
Award Recipient: Ramita Navai, Karim Shah and Eamonn Matthews
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “Afghanistan Undercover”
Best international TV, video, radio, audio or podcast reporting showing a concern for the human condition
When the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the group said its government would respect women’s rights. In “Afghanistan Undercover,” a FRONTLINE documentary filmed over the subsequent year, correspondent Ramita Navai and director Karim Shah documented a very different — and harrowing — story. Often working covertly, they spoke to women jailed by the Taliban without trial, interviewed women in abusive marriages who had attempted suicide and uncovered evidence of Taliban soldiers forcibly marrying young girls. While much of the world’s attention has moved on from the story, “Afghanistan Undercover” documents the very real ongoing crisis for women inside one of the world’s cruelest totalitarian theocracies.
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Citation for Excellence:
Havovi Cooper, Insider News and
Documentary Video Staff
Insider
“Risky Business” -
2022New York Times StaffThe New York Times
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 17 The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2022
Award Recipient: New York Times Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “War Crimes at Bucha”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 17 The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2022
Award Recipient: New York Times Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “War Crimes at Bucha”
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
With compelling reporting, The New York Times unraveled a human rights tragedy, giving voice to the victims of the Ukraine war while exposing the ruthlessness of its perpetrators. The package of stories, including a meticulously reported 28-minute documentary, summoned the propulsive narrative style of courtroom drama to detail the murders of civilians. The journalists relied on data bases, cellphone videos, 4,000 intercepted phone calls and on-site investigation to reconstruct how Russian brigades unleashed a premeditated atrocity in Bucha. They found that the 234th Guards Air Assault Regiment killed dozens of innocents as Yablunska Street became a map of misery and death. The series linked victim and killer, with Russian soldiers calling home on the smartphones of Ukrainians they murdered. As a whole, the package makes an airtight war crimes case against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s soldiers.
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Citation for Excellence:
Staff
The Wall Street Journal
“War crimes in Ukraine” -
2022Max De Haldevang, Akshat Rathi, Natasha White, Demetrios Pogkas, Verity Ratcliffe, Ben Elgin and Sinduja RangarajanBloomberg Green
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 18 The Whitman Bassow Award 2022
Award Recipient: Max De Haldevang, Akshat Rathi, Natasha White, Demetrios Pogkas, Verity Ratcliffe, Ben Elgin and Sinduja Rangarajan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Green
Award Honored Work: “Exploiting Carbon Offsets”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 18 The Whitman Bassow Award 2022
Award Recipient: Max De Haldevang, Akshat Rathi, Natasha White, Demetrios Pogkas, Verity Ratcliffe, Ben Elgin and Sinduja Rangarajan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Green
Award Honored Work: “Exploiting Carbon Offsets”
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
The winning entry by Bloomberg Green took on the complex topic of carbon offsets, the system that allows companies to continue emitting their own greenhouse gases while paying others to reduce their emissions. The reporters analyzed more than 200,000 transactions to show how 0dozens of companies are using questionable accounting to claim “carbon neutral” status. One striking story shows how oil giant BP exploited workers in rural communities in Mexico by paying them very little and then using the savings to offset the company’s emissions. The reporters also revealed how organizers of the World Cup in Qatar attempted to compensate for that event’s enormous carbon footprint through a dodgy Doha-based certification body that would sign off on projects that fail to meet minimum standards anywhere else in the world. This project stood out as an eye-opening examination of an issue that could make or break the effort to slow climate change.
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Citation for Excellence:
Staff
Bloomberg Green
“Big Plastics” -
2022Terrence McCoy and Washington Post StaffThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2022
Award Recipient: Terrence McCoy and Washington Post Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “The Amazon, Undone”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2022
Award Recipient: Terrence McCoy and Washington Post Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “The Amazon, Undone”
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
Terrence McCoy and his team produced a courageously reported, beautifully written and compellingly presented six-part series showing that the destruction of the Amazon is approaching the point of no return. The stories combine on-the-ground reporting with data journalism and satellite imagery. We learn how beef illegally raised in the Amazon ends up on Americans’ dinner plates as ranchers and packers evade laws designed to protect the biome. McCoy vividly describes the lawlessness by settlers and the deadly consequences faced by those trying to stop it, among them his friend Dom Phillips, who was killed along with indigenous rights defender Bruno Pereira while investigating illegal fishing and logging. McCoy’s reporting represents the best of what foreign correspondents can do to address the world’s injustices.
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Citation for Excellence:
Catherine Porter, Matt Apuzzo,
Constant Méheut and Selam Gebrekidan
The New York Times
“The Roots of Haiti’s Misery” -
2022Jacqueline Charles, Jay Weaver, Antonio Delgado, Michael Wilner and StaffThe Miami Herald
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 20 The Kim Wall Award 2022
Award Recipient: Jacqueline Charles, Jay Weaver, Antonio Delgado, Michael Wilner and Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Miami Herald
Award Honored Work: “Made in Miami: How a plot to oust a president led to a murder in Haiti”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 20 The Kim Wall Award 2022
Award Recipient: Jacqueline Charles, Jay Weaver, Antonio Delgado, Michael Wilner and Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Miami Herald
Award Honored Work: “Made in Miami: How a plot to oust a president led to a murder in Haiti”
Best story or series of stories on international affairs using creative and dynamic storytelling techniques
The Miami Herald broke new ground with a sweeping and deeply reported package on what really happened before, during and after the assassination of Haiti’s president in July 2021. During multiple trips to Haiti, a country on the brink of chaos, Haiti correspondent Jacqueline Charles gained access to the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince to land the first extensive interviews with two key suspects in the killing. The Herald’s richly illustrated account relied on extensive interviews, police records, court filings and more to create an interactive graphic that allowed readers to click and see how and where suspects were connected.
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Citation for Excellence:
Sophia Jones, Nidžara Ahmetasević
and Milivoje Pantović
Rolling Stone and Starling Labs
“The DJ and the War Crimes” -
2022Erika Kinetz, Michael Biesecker, Richard Lardner, Beatrice DuPuy, Sarah El Deeb and AP Staff; Tom Jennings, Annie Wong and FRONTLINE PBS StaffThe Associated Press, FRONTLINE PBS
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 21 The Roy Rowan Award 2022
Award Recipient: Erika Kinetz, Michael Biesecker, Richard Lardner, Beatrice DuPuy, Sarah El Deeb and AP Staff; Tom Jennings, Annie Wong and FRONTLINE PBS Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press, FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 21 The Roy Rowan Award 2022
Award Recipient: Erika Kinetz, Michael Biesecker, Richard Lardner, Beatrice DuPuy, Sarah El Deeb and AP Staff; Tom Jennings, Annie Wong and FRONTLINE PBS Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press, FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes”
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story
Based on hundreds of hours of surveillance videos, audio recordings and interviews, this horrifying account documents in graphic detail atrocities committed by Russian troops on civilians in the suburban Kyiv town of Bucha. Supplementing the interviews, the Associated Press and FRONTLINE team used cutting edge open-source techniques — satellite and drone imagery, hours of CCTV footage and intercepted phone calls — to reveal the brutality of the Russian occupation. Russian soldiers indiscriminately shoot civilians — a man riding his bicycle, a 19-year-old boy taken from his home, a column of eight men, their hands tied behind them, being marched to their deaths. Among the most chilling revelations: transcriptions of telephone calls made by Russian soldiers to family and friends in Russia telling them about all the civilians they’ve killed.
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Citation for Excellence:
Paul Carsten, David Lewis, Reade Levinson
and Libby George
Reuters
“Nightmare in Nigeria” -
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 22 The Flora Lewis Award 2022
Award Recipient: Li Yuan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The New New World”
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: 22 The Flora Lewis Award 2022
Award Recipient: Li Yuan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The New New World”
Best commentary in any medium on international news
Li Yuan provided fascinating insight into how China’s zero-Covid policies affected the daily lives of people and the morale of a nation. Her clear-eyed reporting and interviews, combined with her astute commentary, offers an indispensable window into the consequences of a pandemic that changed the world, and has permanently altered Chinese society.
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Citation for Excellence:
Yaroslav Trofimov
The Wall Street Journal
“Explaining Russia’s War” -
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: The President’s Award 2022
Award Recipient: Jimmy Lai and staff of Apple Daily
Award Recipient Affiliation:
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2022
Award Name: The President’s Award 2022
Award Recipient: Jimmy Lai and staff of Apple Daily
Award Recipient Affiliation:
Award Honored Work: President's Award
OPC President Paula Dwyer’s remarks from the 2021 issue of Dateline: “Journalism isn’t for the fainthearted. For some of us, it results in great personal tragedy. Yet we carry on, because journalists are always going to be needed as a vital source of information — collected and produced without fear or favor. This seems to be true now more than ever as a growing number of governments churn out propaganda, turn away from democratic freedoms, and abandon civic institutions. Nowhere is this more glaringly obvious than in Hong Kong, which was forcibly converted from a thriving democracy to mainland China’s totalitarian system in a few short years. As part of that crackdown, the government arrested Jimmy Lai, the owner and founder of Apple Daily, one of the most widely read newspapers in Hong Kong and a vocal proponent of a free press. Government officials also arrested Apple Daily’s chief editor and five other executives, then froze the paper’s assets, leaving it unable to pay staff or buy newsprint. The paper closed for good last June. So I’m pleased to give this year’s President’s Award to Jimmy Lai and the entire staff of Apple Daily.”
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Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The President’s Award 2021
Award Recipient: Christopher Dickey
Award Recipient Affiliation:
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The President’s Award 2021
Award Recipient: Christopher Dickey
Award Recipient Affiliation:
Award Honored Work: President's Award
OPC President Paula Dwyer wrote in the 2021 issue of Dateline that in 2020, “we lost Christopher Dickey, a cherished OPC board member and colleague. While Chris was an accomplished magazine journalist and book author, he was also an avid photographer who captured the heart and soul of many of the cities he visited while on assignment and especially of Paris, where he last lived. To honor his memory, we worked with Photoville to create a traveling memorial to showcase Chris’ poetic images and his distinguished career spanning 40 years. We are also posthumously bestowing the OPC President’s Award on Chris this year.
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Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2021
Award Recipient: New York Times Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Collapse of Afghanistan”
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2021
Award Recipient: New York Times Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Collapse of Afghanistan”
Best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad
Earlier than most news organizations, the Times reporting detailed the precarious hold the Ghani government had on the country and foretold the quick collapse of the Afghan security forces. Importantly, it also was at the forefront of holding the Biden administration to account for its botched exit — particularly its high-impact, forensic investigation that showed a U.S. drone strike on a suspected ISIS bomber was nothing of the sort. All of this was accomplished against the background of an unprecedented effort to exfiltrate Times reporters and Afghan staff from Kabul as the capital fell. Taken together, it was a model of covering a complex story in a dangerous environment, bringing two decades of journalistic expertise in Afghanistan to bear at the most crucial time.
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Citation for Excellence:
Staff
Reuters
“Shattered Ethiopia” -
2021Neil MunshiFinancial Times
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2021
Award Recipient: Neil Munshi
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: “The Consequences and Drivers of Conflict in West and Central Africa”
Neil MunshiAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2021
Award Recipient: Neil Munshi
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: “The Consequences and Drivers of Conflict in West and Central Africa”
Best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs
Munshi’s series combined the best of explanatory writing with meticulous on-the-ground reporting from a sorely under- covered part of the world. He explained complex layers of power and the personal impact of the conflicts in Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and the Central African Republic. At considerable personal risk, Munshi traveled to dangerous and remote places. He located and interviewed first-hand sources — among them migrants, gold miners, kidnapping victims and others caught in the turmoil that few casual readers have been able to comprehend.
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Citation for Excellence:
Nicolas Pelham
The Economist’s 1843 Magazine
“Banker, Princess, Warlord: The Many Lives of Asma Assad” -
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2021
Award Recipient: Anonymous
Award Recipient Affiliation: Getty Images
Award Honored Work: “Myanmar in Turmoil”
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2021
Award Recipient: Anonymous
Award Recipient Affiliation: Getty Images
Award Honored Work: “Myanmar in Turmoil”
Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium
The photographer, who must remain anonymous as protection against retaliation, showed exceptional courage and dedication while documenting brutal military violence and large- scale unrest in Myanmar. Despite facing great risk as a member of the press, the photographer stayed in Yangon as the junta cut lines of communication to the outside world, arresting and killing civilians who protested the return of military rule. With powerful, sensitive coverage of fellow citizens facing the consequences of a military coup, the photographer proved the value of local expertise and vision amidst conflict.
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Citation for Excellence:
Anonymous
The New York Times
“Myanmar’s Coup” -
2021Fatima ShbairGetty Images
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2021
Award Recipient: Fatima Shbair
Award Recipient Affiliation: Getty Images
Award Honored Work: “11 Days of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Gaza”
Fatima ShbairAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2021
Award Recipient: Fatima Shbair
Award Recipient Affiliation: Getty Images
Award Honored Work: “11 Days of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Gaza”
Best photographic news reporting from abroad published in any medium
Shbair’s unflinching reportage creates an important historical record of the physical, emotional, cultural, and psychological devastation of war for Palestinian families and communities in Gaza. Her raw report on the brutality of war is punctuated with tender moments of connection and mourning, serving as an exceptional example of the importance of an empathetic and tender eye for the quieter moments that speak to our collective humanity during times of conflict.
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Citation for Excellence:
Nicole Tung
The Washington Post
“Syria: War of Attrition” -
2021Dan BaliltyThe New York Times
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2021
Award Recipient: Dan Balilty
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Communities During COVID-19”
Dan BaliltyAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2021
Award Recipient: Dan Balilty
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Communities During COVID-19”
Best feature photography on an international theme published in any medium
Dan Balilty’s coverage of the impact of COVID-19 on an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community stands as the pinnacle of Feature Photography in 2021. Balilty was able to gain intimate access to the Haredim community in Jerusalem and spent weeks documenting their lives through the pandemic. His images portray moments of tenderness and sorrow with empathy and respect. It’s a truly immersive essay on one of the year’s most difficult topics.
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Citation for Excellence:
Muhammad Fadli
National Geographic
“Indonesia is a New COVID-19 Epicenter. The Peak has Yet to Come.” -
2021Lauren Frayer, Sushmita Pathak, Didrik Schanche and Nishant DahiyaNational Public Radio (NPR)
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2021
Award Recipient: Lauren Frayer, Sushmita Pathak, Didrik Schanche and Nishant Dahiya
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Public Radio (NPR)
Award Honored Work: “India’s Spring 2021 COVID-19 Wave”
Clockwise from upper left: Lauren Frayer, Sushmita Pathak, Didrik Schanche and Nishant DahiyaAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2021
Award Recipient: Lauren Frayer, Sushmita Pathak, Didrik Schanche and Nishant Dahiya
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Public Radio (NPR)
Award Honored Work: “India’s Spring 2021 COVID-19 Wave”
Best radio, audio or podcast coverage of international affairs
In their sustained COVID-19 coverage, reporter Lauren Frayer and producer Sushmita Pathak took listeners into the everyday anguish of Indians living through a pandemic made worse by massive health care shortcomings. Their very human stories also illuminated the politics and scientific issues affecting India’s response. Despite living under extraordinary lockdown conditions, the NPR journalists regularly delivered deep, nuanced stories, told through the voices of ordinary Indians and the health care professionals seeking to help them.
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Citation for Excellence:
Staff
Bloomberg Podcasts
“Foundering: The TikTok Story” -
2021Matthew Chance, Zahra Ullah and Jeffrey KehlCNN
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2021
Award Recipient: Matthew Chance, Zahra Ullah and Jeffrey Kehl
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Belarus — Inside a Manufactured Migrant Crisis”
Clockwise from upper left: Matthew Chance, Zahra Ullah and Jeffrey KehlAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2021
Award Recipient: Matthew Chance, Zahra Ullah and Jeffrey Kehl
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Belarus — Inside a Manufactured Migrant Crisis”
Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad
The CNN team brought us into the midst of a simmering migrant crisis fueled by Belarus and its autocratic leader, Alexander Lukashenko, that quickly boiled over into a full-scale humanitarian emergency. Camped against razor wire fences, more than 2,000 people, largely Kurds from Iraq, seeking refuge in Europe, found themselves marooned, in desperate conditions, in a political no-man’s land. Chance scored a rare interview with Lukashenko. As the crisis neared its peak, Chance, his cameraman and producer were live on CNN as violence erupted at the border checkpoint, capturing chaotic scenes — crowds of desperate migrants throwing rocks at Polish border guards, the Poles responding with tear gas and water cannons that hit Chance, who continued broadcasting, soaked and struggling to breathe. CNN, which stayed with the story until its final denouement, succeeded in putting a human face on a violent geopolitical crisis and humanitarian tragedy.
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Citation for Excellence:
Adam Desiderio, Ben C. Solomon, Amel Guettatfi, Nelson Ryland and Andrew Pattison
VICE News Tonight
“The Fall of Kandahar” -
2021Isobel Yeung, Amel Guettatfi, Javier Manzano and Ahmed BaidarVICE News
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2021
Award Recipient: Isobel Yeung, Amel Guettatfi, Javier Manzano and Ahmed Baidar
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News
Award Honored Work: “Yemen’s Children of War”
Clockwise from upper left: Isobel Yeung, Amel Guettatfi, Javier Manzano and Ahmed BaidarAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2021
Award Recipient: Isobel Yeung, Amel Guettatfi, Javier Manzano and Ahmed Baidar
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News
Award Honored Work: “Yemen’s Children of War”
Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs with a run time up to 30 minutes
VICE captures a complex, brutal war with deep humanity and moving storytelling. In a country where journalists face major obstacles, the team conveys the tragic cost of the conflict in just 18 minutes, portraying characters with insightful understanding. The correspondent’s empathy succeeds in getting people on both sides of the war to open up to her. The dogged investigation into one boy’s death includes skillful use of drone footage and geolocation technology, while the background explanation about the war does not slow the piece. A small former child soldier describing his trauma provides the poignant ending to the film.
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Citation for Excellence:
Mark Scialla, Laila Al-Arian, Monica Villamizar, Neil Brandvold and Warwick Meade
Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English
“Exit Honduras” -
2021Jane Ferguson, Sara Just, Morgan Till, Emily Kassie and Zach FanninPBS NewsHour, with support from the Pulitzer Center
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award 2021
Award Recipient: Jane Ferguson, Sara Just, Morgan Till, Emily Kassie and Zach Fannin
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS NewsHour, with support from the Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “The Fall of Afghanistan”
Clockwise from upper left: Jane Ferguson, Sara Just and Morgan TillAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award 2021
Award Recipient: Jane Ferguson, Sara Just, Morgan Till, Emily Kassie and Zach Fannin
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS NewsHour, with support from the Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “The Fall of Afghanistan”
Best TV, video or documentary about international affairs with a run time over 30 minutes
In years to come, students of history will be able to look back at these PBS NewsHour segments from Afghanistan by Jane Ferguson and team to understand what happened in the final year of America’s longest war. Throughout 2021, as most Americans’ attention had turned away, the team returned again and again to capture the final arc of the story — from the futile effort of Afghan government troops to defend their country, to the targeted assassinations of educated elites, to the desperate scramble to depart from Kabul airport, and to the humanitarian crisis once the Taliban took over. Just as important, they relayed these events from the perspective of the Afghan people and the fighters on the ground, not the safe confines of an American TV studio.
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Citation for Excellence:
Martin Smith, Marcela Gaviria, Brian Funck and Scott Anger
FRONTLINE PBS
“The Jihadist” -
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2021
Award Recipient: Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: “The Other Afghan Women”
Anand GopalAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2021
Award Recipient: Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: “The Other Afghan Women”
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story
Anand Gopal’s article is a brave and beautifully wrought tale, written with clarity and humanity, that challenges readers to think more broadly about the complicated interlacing of war and women’s rights. By speaking plainly about complex characters and the truth of their lives under U.S. occupation, Gopal introduced new, important and sometimes uncomfortable dimensions into the U.S. discussion of how Afghan women have been affected by waves of war.
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Citation for Excellence:
Staff
The Washington Post
“In the Shadow of the Towers: Five Lives and a World Transformed” -
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Best Cartoon Award 2021
Award Recipient: Michael Ramirez
Award Recipient Affiliation: Las Vegas Review-Journal
Award Honored Work:
Michael RamirezAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Best Cartoon Award 2021
Award Recipient: Michael Ramirez
Award Recipient Affiliation: Las Vegas Review-Journal
Award Honored Work:
Best print, digital or graphic journalism on international affairs
Michael Ramirez masterfully employs the full arsenal available to the visual satirist. He wields sharp caricature, pointed commentary, and slicing artistry with equal abandon. It is rare to find a cartoonist who deftly creates both dark moods and light humor with such skill and intelligence. His work effectively eviscerates sacred cows and makes us laugh, even as we sometimes grumble.
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Citation for Excellence:
Mike Thompson
USA TODAY -
2021Sandy Tolan, Euclides Cordero Nuel and Michael MontgomeryReveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, PRX and Mother Jones, with support from the Pulitzer Center
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2021
Award Recipient: Sandy Tolan, Euclides Cordero Nuel and Michael Montgomery
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, PRX and Mother Jones, with support from the Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “The Bitter Work Behind Sugar”
Clockwise from upper left: Sandy Tolan, Euclides Cordero Nuel and Michael MontgomeryAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2021
Award Recipient: Sandy Tolan, Euclides Cordero Nuel and Michael Montgomery
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, PRX and Mother Jones, with support from the Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “The Bitter Work Behind Sugar”
Best international business news reporting in TV, video, radio, audio or podcast
This comprehensive investigation took listeners deep into the sugar cane harvesting camps manned by Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic. Piecing together information from visits to 10 work camps (batayes), more than 100 interviews and numerous documents, the team traced sugar from the fields to American ports, sugar refineries and candy manufacturers. Their narrative was a strong, engaging probe into Central Romana Corporation, a privately held company controlled by the Cuban-American family, the Fanjuls. The story helps illustrate how the Fanjuls obscure, through offshore corporations, their ownership of the Dominican Republic’s largest employer and the largest importer of sugar to the U.S. The reporting, which has prompted scrutiny from Congress and the Department of Labor, documented workers enduring wages of $4 a day, staggering debt, substandard housing and woeful medical care while enhancing the company’s profitability.
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Citation for Excellence:
Robin Amer, Debbie Cenziper, Will Fitzgibbon and Ted Muldoon
The Washington Post and the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
“A Tax Haven in America’s Heartland” -
2021International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Washington Post, Miami Herald and nearly 150 media partnersInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Washington Post, Miami Herald and nearly 150 media partners
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2021
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Washington Post, Miami Herald and nearly 150 media partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Washington Post, Miami Herald and nearly 150 media partners
Award Honored Work: “The Pandora Papers”
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2021
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Washington Post, Miami Herald and nearly 150 media partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Washington Post, Miami Herald and nearly 150 media partners
Award Honored Work: “The Pandora Papers”
Best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services, magazines or digital
Another tour de force by ICIJ, “The Pandora Papers” brought together journalists from dozens of news organizations to rummage through a treasure trove of more than 11 million leaked documents showing how money and power operate in the 21st century. Their work looked at how hundreds of government officials and wealthy individuals, including King Abdullah of Jordan and the president of the Czech Republic, hid their assets in offshore havens from the British Virgin Islands to, more surprisingly, places like South Dakota. The judges were impressed by the scope, depth and impact of the project, which toppled politicians and inspired legislation to crack down on money laundering.
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Citation for Excellence:
Staff
The Wall Street Journal
“Inside China’s Corporate Crackdown” -
2021Joe Parkinson and Drew HinshawHarperCollins
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2021
Award Recipient: Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw
Award Recipient Affiliation: HarperCollins
Award Honored Work: Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls
Joe Parkinson, left, and Drew HinshawAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2021
Award Recipient: Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw
Award Recipient Affiliation: HarperCollins
Award Honored Work: Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
Bring Back our Girls is a tour de force of reporting, insight and clear and compelling writing. It tells the story of the search for 276 Nigerian teenage schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram Islamic extremists, and features revealing individual accounts by the girls themselves. But the book is about much more: the power of social media to galvanize international attention around a single crisis; the lengthy global negotiations needed to free the girls; and the cultures and motivations of Boko Haram and Nigerians themselves. This book highlights the crushing repression of women and girls in parts of the developing world and the resilience with which they pursue their hopes. The work is bolstered by extensive field reporting, by the reporters’ expertise in African politics and culture, and by the diary of one survivor.
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Citation for Excellence:
Geoffrey Cain
PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future -
2021Annalise Jolley and Zahara Gomez LuciniAtavist Magazine
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2021
Award Recipient: Annalise Jolley and Zahara Gomez Lucini
Award Recipient Affiliation: Atavist Magazine
Award Honored Work: “A Feast for Lost Souls”
Annalise Jolley, left, and Zahara Gomez LuciniAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2021
Award Recipient: Annalise Jolley and Zahara Gomez Lucini
Award Recipient Affiliation: Atavist Magazine
Award Honored Work: “A Feast for Lost Souls”
Best international reporting in the print medium or digital showing a concern for the human condition
“A Feast for Lost Souls” is a visceral journey through the interminable sorrow and astonishing resilience of Mexican women who dig for their missing relatives and confront loss through lovingly prepared meals. The writing and videography are stunning, with an ethereal quality that makes this story unforgettable.
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Citation for Excellence:
Drew Hinshaw, Joe Parkinson and Vipal Monga
The Wall Street Journal
“Abandoned at Sea” -
2021David Mora, Jika Gonzalez, Jose Flores and Craig ThomsonVICE News Tonight
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2021
Award Recipient: David Mora, Jika Gonzalez, Jose Flores and Craig Thomson
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight
Award Honored Work: “After the Flood”
Clockwise from upper left: David Mora, Jika Gonzalez, Jose Flores and Craig ThomsonAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2021
Award Recipient: David Mora, Jika Gonzalez, Jose Flores and Craig Thomson
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight
Award Honored Work: “After the Flood”
Best international TV, video, radio, audio or podcast reporting showing a concern for the human condition
VICE News devoted a full year to following the journey of Renato, a Guatemalan who had lost everything in two back-to-back hurricanes in the mountainous region of Alta Verapaz. In 2020, Renato and three other migrants embarked on a thousand-miles long trek to the United States. VICE tracked their harrowing path through Mexico, where they endured kidnapping and the demands of corrupt police officers and violent cartels. Only three of the migrants made it the United States. Renato was forced to return home. “After the Flood” portrays global climate migration at its most intimate level, documenting migration and its devastating intersection with violence and organized crime. The result is a powerful and intimate portrayal of the real-life consequences of climate change.
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Citation for Excellence:
Evan Williams and Dan Edge
FRONTLINE PBS
“Escaping Eritrea” -
2021Ian UrbinaThe New Yorker, in collaboration with the Outlaw Ocean Project
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2021
Award Recipient: Ian Urbina
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker, in collaboration with the Outlaw Ocean Project
Award Honored Work: “The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe”
Ian Urbina | Photo: Eric T. WhiteAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2021
Award Recipient: Ian Urbina
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker, in collaboration with the Outlaw Ocean Project
Award Honored Work: “The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe”
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
At great personal risk, Ian Urbina exposed the horrors of Libyan detention camps where African migrants are held as they attempt to travel to Europe. Through a tacit and unsavory agreement, the European Union essentially pays Libya to catch and imprison the migrants so that Europe does not have to face problems on their borders. The result is a network of semi-hidden camps run by different Libyan militias where migrants are beaten, tortured, sexually abused, sometimes randomly shot at and denied basic rights that should be guaranteed under international migration agreements. Urbina’s arrest, described in the middle of the article, adds drama to his searing and unforgettable long-form piece.
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Citation for Excellence:
Raffi Khatchadourian, Ben Mauk, Sam Wolson and Matt Huynh
The New Yorker with support from the Pulitzer Center
Xinjiang Package: “Ghost Walls” and “Reeducated” video and interactive -
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2021
Award Recipient: New York Times Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Race to the Future”
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2021
Award Recipient: New York Times Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Race to the Future”
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
In a competitive year for international environmental journalism, many stories explored the causes and effects of a warming climate. The New York Times took a different approach. It sent more than a dozen reporters and photographers around the globe to document the little-known human and environmental costs of the race to find a solution. They found a frenzy of mining underway in Africa, South America, the Caribbean, the western Pacific and elsewhere for lithium, cobalt, nickel and other rare minerals and metals needed to produce batteries for electric vehicles. The disturbing series showed how a key element of the so-called clean energy revolution — the push to phase out gas-guzzling cars and trucks — relies in part on child labor, government corruption and deadly pollution in some of the world’s poorest countries. The seven stories — crisply written, vividly photographed and extensively documented — drew attention at the White House and led to the ouster of an allegedly corrupt senior official in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Citation for Excellence:
Eric Weinrib, Alzo Slade, Andrea Davis,
Chris Iversen and Bnernardo Garcia Elguezabal
VICE Media
“Jamaica for Sale” -
2021Jake Spring, Stephen Eisenhammer, Ueslei Marcelino and Reuters colleagues ReutersReuters
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2021
Award Recipient: Jake Spring, Stephen Eisenhammer, Ueslei Marcelino and Reuters colleagues Reuters
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Brazilian Rainforest”
Clockwise from upper left: Jake Spring, Stephen Eisenhammer and Ueslei MarcelinoAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2021
Award Recipient: Jake Spring, Stephen Eisenhammer, Ueslei Marcelino and Reuters colleagues Reuters
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Brazilian Rainforest”
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
The seven-part package is an effective blend of investigative reporting, vivid writing, data analysis and explanatory journalism, enhanced by compelling graphics. It not only exposed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s signature response to destruction of the Amazon rainforest — sending in the army — as a costly failure. The series also documented his work to incapacitate the country’s system for fining environmental offenders. Reuters journalists delivered a nuanced portrayal of the Amazon’s indigenous tribes as they choose between conservation and development. Like the runner- up for this award, the Reuters series underscores the outsized impact that Brazil’s management of its rainforest has on the global challenge of climate change.
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Citation for Excellence:
Jessica Brice and Michael Smith
Bloomberg BusinessWeek with support from the Pulitzer Center
“The Amazon Is Fast Approaching a Point of No Return” -
2021Max Bearak, Dylan Moriarty and Júlia LedurThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2021
Award Recipient: Max Bearak, Dylan Moriarty and Júlia Ledur
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “Africa’s Rising Cities”
Clockwise from upper left: Max Bearak, Dylan Moriarty and Júlia LedurAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2021
Award Recipient: Max Bearak, Dylan Moriarty and Júlia Ledur
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “Africa’s Rising Cities”
Best story or series of stories on international affairs using creative and dynamic storytelling techniques
The series is a beautiful interplay of writing, photography, video, and interactive data graphics that give immediacy and urgency to an overlooked subject without falling into easy tropes about Africa. The stories and presentation were unique, ambitious, and inspiring in scope. It resonated with those who lived in Africa and those have no clue what cities on the continent are like. Between the existential threats caused by climate change and current and future global pandemics, understanding the projected population growth of these five African cities is fundamental to the future of public health and climate security.
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Citation for Excellence:
Rhiona-Jade Armont, Ali Fowle, Drew Ambrose,
Aun Qi Koh and Nick Olle
Al Jazeera English
“101 East — Myanmar: State of Fear” -
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Roy Rowan Award 2021
Award Recipient: New York Times staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Airstrikes Gone Wrong”
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Roy Rowan Award 2021
Award Recipient: New York Times staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Airstrikes Gone Wrong”
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story
A powerful investigation that revealed how a highly touted and ostensibly sophisticated remote warfare system developed by the Pentagon was riddled with flaws and beset by faulty decision-making, leading to the bombing deaths of innocent civilians in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. The heart of the series was the remarkable work of Azmat Khan, who over years painstakingly assembled a unique trove of military reports on civilian casualties caused by U.S. bombings and then along with her Times colleagues interviewed bombing survivors and witnesses, often at great personal risk. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, hospital records, death certificates, even tombstones, in visits to more than 100 civilian casualty sites, Khan and her colleagues were able to construct the story of air strikes that had gone terribly wrong.
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Citation for Excellence:
Staff
The Associated Press
“Myanmar in Crisis” -
Award Date: 2021
Award Name: The Flora Lewis Award 2021
Award Recipient: Rana Ayyub
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “The New, New World”
Rana AyyubAward Date: 2021
Award Name: The Flora Lewis Award 2021
Award Recipient: Rana Ayyub
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “The New, New World”
Best commentary in any medium on international news
Democracy is under attack around the world, not least in the country that likes to bill itself as the world’s largest democracy. At grave personal risk, Rana Ayyub of The Washington Post has called out Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s systematic persecution of the Muslim minority. As one juror noted, “Her stories are truly frightening, and India’s slide into religious nationalism does not get nearly enough attention.”
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(No Citation for Excellence given)
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Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2020
Award Recipient: Andrew Quilty
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Intercept
Award Honored Work: “The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads”
Andrew QuiltyAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2020
Award Recipient: Andrew Quilty
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Intercept
Award Honored Work: “The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads”
Best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad
In nearly two years of painstaking reporting, Andrew Quilty exposed a U.S.-backed “campaign of terror against civilians” in Afghanistan. Detailing evidence of massacres, executions, mutilation, forced disappearances and airstrikes, he meticulously documented how 10 CIA-backed raids in Wardak province killed 51 civilians. Some were boys as young as eight; most of these raids had never previously been reported.
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Citation for Excellence:
Katrin Bennhold
The New York Times
“Outing Germany’s Far Right” -
2020Mary Beth Sheridan and Kevin SieffThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2020
Award Recipient: Mary Beth Sheridan and Kevin Sieff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “Losing Control”
Mary Beth Sheridan, left, and Kevin SieffAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2020
Award Recipient: Mary Beth Sheridan and Kevin Sieff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “Losing Control”
Best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs
The state capture of Mexico’s government by narcotraffickers could not be a more important story, but it is also one whose telling is fraught with danger. By uncovering the shocking truths of how pervasive corruption and violence has become in Mexico, the series epitomized great foreign correspondence: it tackled an important truth authorities have worked hard to hide and showed great bravery in exposing it. Importantly, the judges also felt the series was compellingly told, with each installment exposing a new horror in a clear narrative that kept readers glued to the end. Online, it was beautifully presented with innovative design elements and graphics that only enhanced the more traditional journalistic elements.
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Citation for Excellence:
The New York Times Staff
“Behind the Curve” -
2020Kiana HayeriThe New York Times Magazine
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2020
Award Recipient: Kiana Hayeri
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work: “Where Prison Is a Kind of Freedom”
Kiana HayeriAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2020
Award Recipient: Kiana Hayeri
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work: “Where Prison Is a Kind of Freedom”
Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium
Kiana Hayeri’s unprecedented look into the Herat Women’s Prison in western Afghanistan exemplifies the photographer’s extraordinary courage and enterprise: not only to overcome physical and access barriers at personal risk, but to challenge the status quo in the visual portrayal of underrepresented communities. Hayeri’s work sets the highest standard for upholding the dignity of her subjects while modeling the power of photographic reportage.
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Citation for Excellence:
Nariman el Mofty
The Associated Press
“Fleeing War”Citation for Excellence:
Nariman el Mofty
The Associated Press
“Fleeing War” -
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2020
Award Recipient: Nanna Heitmann
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work: “COVID Russia”
Nanna HeitmannAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2020
Award Recipient: Nanna Heitmann
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work: “COVID Russia”
Best photographic news reporting from abroad published in any medium
One of the many challenges for photographers in 2020 was how to capture the seismic shifts all around us, and the profound fear and loss that accompanied them, from a distance, with faces covered, through layers of plastic and hazmat suits. Heitmann’s stunning photographs documented the ravages and contradictions of the pandemic in Russia with a powerful but sensitive visual voice, pairing images of crowded churches, with portraits of isolated elderly, and mournful, surreal scenes of hospitals battling the virus. The gentle, intimate approach to the painful subject matter was a testament to the way that a light touch can produce a resounding impact.
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Citation for Excellence:
Chris McGrath
Getty Images
“In the Aftermath of the Blast” -
2020Cheryl Diaz MeyerNPR with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Yunghi Kim
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2020
Award Recipient: Cheryl Diaz Meyer
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Yunghi Kim
Award Honored Work: “Comfort Women”
Cheryl Diaz MeyerAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2020
Award Recipient: Cheryl Diaz Meyer
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Yunghi Kim
Award Honored Work: “Comfort Women”
Best feature photography on an international theme published in any medium
The jury was immediately moved by Cheryl Diaz Meyer’s powerful and emotional work documenting the survivors of World War II sexual enslavement. She captured heartbreak, humanity and healing in the expressions of this incredible community of survivors. This body of work is the perfect example of an impactful story amplified through the caring and intentional eye of the photographer.
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Citation for Excellence:
Emilio Morenatti
The Associated Press
“Covid: Devastation and Death on Spain’s Elderly” -
2020Maria Hinojosa, Julieta Martinelli, Fernanda Camarena, Benjamin Alfaro and Marlon BishopLatino USA with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2020
Award Recipient: Maria Hinojosa, Julieta Martinelli, Fernanda Camarena, Benjamin Alfaro and Marlon Bishop
Award Recipient Affiliation: Latino USA with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “The Moving Border”
Clockwise from upper left: Maria Hinojosa, Julieta Martinelli, Fernanda Camarena, Benjamin Alfaro and Marlon BishopAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2020
Award Recipient: Maria Hinojosa, Julieta Martinelli, Fernanda Camarena, Benjamin Alfaro and Marlon Bishop
Award Recipient Affiliation: Latino USA with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “The Moving Border”
Best radio, audio or podcast coverage of international affairs
This series captures not only how U.S. border policies have had a terrifying and lethal impact on asylum seekers and migrants, but also how Mexico has militarized its own southern border and blocked the free movement of people from Central America. Maria Hinojosa and team tell the human stories and connect the policy dots to show how the Mexican government is no longer bowing to economic pressure from the U.S. on immigration but instead, has its own new harsh stance that criminalizes the quest for safe haven across the Americas and exposes the continent’s most vulnerable people to unprecedented dangers.
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Citation for Excellence:
Keegan Hamilton, Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, Annie Avilés and Kate Osborn
VICE Audio
“Painkiller” -
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2020
Award Recipient: David Culver
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Coronavirus Outbreak in China”
David CulverAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2020
Award Recipient: David Culver
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Coronavirus Outbreak in China”
Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad
David Culver and producer Yong Xiong were first on the scene in Wuhan, China, at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, scoring a world- beat with the only interview of Chinese whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, who died of the disease, then braving the government lockdown to get the story out to the world.
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Citation for Excellence:
Elizabeth Palmer, Agnes Reau, Seyed Rahim Bathaie and Andrew Stevenson
CBS News
“US and Iran on the Brink of War” -
2020Isobel Yeung, Jackie Jesko and Ahmer KhanVICE on Showtime
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2020
Award Recipient: Isobel Yeung, Jackie Jesko and Ahmer Khan
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE on Showtime
Award Honored Work: “India Burning”
Clockwise from upper left: Isobel Yeung, Jackie Jesko and Ahmer KhanAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2020
Award Recipient: Isobel Yeung, Jackie Jesko and Ahmer Khan
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE on Showtime
Award Honored Work: “India Burning”
Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs with a run time up to 30 minutes
Moving and illuminating, VICE captures this underreported story with humanity and clarity, in just 15 minutes. By venturing deep into remote communities, the team exposes the disconnect between millions of Muslim Indians at risk of losing their citizenship, and the denials of top officials. The film portrays characters pitted against a bureaucracy with the power to unravel their lives. Dogged investigative reporting and probing interviews result in a work of real impact.
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Citation for Excellence:
John Holman, Pablo Perez, Amparo Rodriquez, Andalucia Knoll and Vanessa Gomez Viniegra
Al Jazeera English
“Frontline Mexico: The Fight Against COVID” -
2020James Bluemel and Jo AbelFRONTLINE PBS
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award 2020
Award Recipient: James Bluemel and Jo Abel
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “Once Upon a Time in Iraq”
James Bluemel and Jo AbelAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award 2020
Award Recipient: James Bluemel and Jo Abel
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “Once Upon a Time in Iraq”
Best TV, video or documentary about international affairs with a run time over 30 minutes
A searing documentary narrated exclusively by the most authoritative of experts: ordinary Iraqis who survived the tumultuous history unleashed after the fall and execution of Saddam Hussein. In intimate interviews, these men and women share the brief joy, then the long disillusionment, grief and terror they experienced as their country moved from the Saddam era through frightening periods of street warfare, sectarian violence and the ruthless occupation of ISIS. Countless stories have reported the details of those years, often with a focus on the actions and policies of the U.S. But the producers of this film have shown us how little we understood of how Iraqis experienced the impact of those policies. In telling us how they endured, these Iraqis have brought a new depth of understanding to America’s legacy in their country.
No citation awarded.
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2020Sarah TopolThe New York Times Magazine
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2020
Award Recipient: Sarah Topol
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work: “Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter.”
Sarah TopolAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2020
Award Recipient: Sarah Topol
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work: “Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter.”
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story
With intimate and meticulous reporting and elegant prose, Topol creates a haunting depiction of a family tragedy, shedding light on the little-understood plight of China’s Uighurs.
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No citation awarded.
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2020Kevin “KAL” KallaugherThe Economist, The Baltimore Sun, Counterpoint
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Best Cartoon Award 2020
Award Recipient: Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Economist, The Baltimore Sun, Counterpoint
Award Honored Work:
Kevin “KAL” KallaugherAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Best Cartoon Award 2020
Award Recipient: Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Economist, The Baltimore Sun, Counterpoint
Award Honored Work:
Best print, digital or graphic journalism on international affairs
Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher seems like a cartoonist transported from a bygone era, while still creating compelling work that resonates with today’s audience. His impeccable pen and ink cross-hatching and weaponized bobble-headed caricatures might look at home on newspaper editorial pages of a century ago, which seems fitting since that was the last time we saw a global pandemic on the scale of Covid. With his crow quill aimed like a syringe at China, Putin, climate change and deadly conspiracies, Kal’s incisive commentary serves as the perfect shot in the arm for today’s pandemic-weary world.
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Citation for Excellence:
Michael Ramirez
Las Vegas Review-Journal/Creators Syndicate
“Michael Ramirez 2020 Editorial Cartoons” -
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2020
Award Recipient: Monte Reel and Topher Forhecz
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Green
Award Honored Work: “Blood River”
Monte Reel and Topher ForheczAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2020
Award Recipient: Monte Reel and Topher Forhecz
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Green
Award Honored Work: “Blood River”
Best international business news reporting in TV, video, radio, audio or podcast
Through dramatic storytelling and deep reporting into the murder of an environmental activist in the Honduras, Bloomberg Green reveals (in a 7-part audio series) how corrupt corporate and government forces will do anything to get an international development project launched in that country.
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Citation for Excellence:
Alan Jeffries, Austin Carr, Michael Smith and Jordan Oplinger
Bloomberg Businessweek
“Inside Carnival’s Coronavirus Nightmare” -
2020Dan McCrum, Paul Murphy, Sam Jones and Olaf StorbeckFinancial Times
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2020
Award Recipient: Dan McCrum, Paul Murphy, Sam Jones and Olaf Storbeck
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: “Inside Wirecard”
Clockwise from upper left: Dan McCrum, Paul Murphy, Sam Jones and Olaf StorbeckAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2020
Award Recipient: Dan McCrum, Paul Murphy, Sam Jones and Olaf Storbeck
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: “Inside Wirecard”
Best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services, magazines or digital
The remarkable multiyear takedown of a European fintech high-flyer, Wirecard, by a Financial Times investigative team culminated in 2020 with stories detailing the rot – not only at the Dax 30 firm, but in the German financial establishment that had sought to protect it. Dan McCrum laid out for readers the campaign by Wirecard and its hired guns to discredit and even prosecute him for unearthing the scandalous accounting, actions which earlier prompted the FT to suspend its efforts while it completed an internal probe. The work resumed with stories on the shady leaders of Wirecard and on the Big Four auditing firm, EY, whose professionals were complicit in the fraud. From this courageous and resourceful journalism have followed arrest warrants, resignations and a gaping insolvency.
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Citation:
Cam Simpson, Michael Smith and Nacha Cattan
Bloomberg News
“Addicted to Profit” -
2020Declan WalshW.W. Norton & Company
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2020
Award Recipient: Declan Walsh
Award Recipient Affiliation: W.W. Norton & Company
Award Honored Work: The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State
Declan WalshAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2020
Award Recipient: Declan Walsh
Award Recipient Affiliation: W.W. Norton & Company
Award Honored Work: The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
Walsh’s deep knowledge of Pakistan, lively writing, his ability to mesh certain kinds of stereotypes with the reality of the situation, his gorgeous descriptions of the scenery and historical and intellectual asides and tangents, along with his personal commitment to the story, give the book the weight of truth. His portrait of the Karachi police chief who will use any measure—no matter how brutal or corrupt—to police his beat shows how Pakistan’s forces of order control, or fail to control, the country. Each of his other portraits of Pakistani figures brings into focus another aspect of the way things keep falling apart in a critically situated nuclear-armed regional power.
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Citation:
Joshua Yaffa
Crown Publishing Group
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia -
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2020
Award Recipient: Danielle Paquette
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “Life in West Africa”
Danielle PaquetteAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2020
Award Recipient: Danielle Paquette
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “Life in West Africa”
Best international reporting in the print medium or digital showing a concern for the human condition
The series “Life in West Africa” is remarkable in its breadth of time and place, showing how powerful forces from colonialism to social media shape lives throughout West Africa. Each story is exquisitely told through the ordinary people confronting those forces: rubber plantation workers in Liberia, a teenage dancer from Mali. The standout tale of a Black American who moves to Ghana to flee racism is a reminder that overseas reporting can serve as both window and mirror.
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Citation:
Ryan Lenora Brown
The Christian Science Monitor
“Congo Ebola crisis: To fight disease, an anthropologist heals distrust” -
2020StaffThe Wall Street Journal Staff and Gimlet Media
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2020
Award Recipient: Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal Staff and Gimlet Media
Award Honored Work: “Vale Ignored Warnings”
The Wall Street Journal Staff and Gimlet MediaAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2020
Award Recipient: Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal Staff and Gimlet Media
Award Honored Work: “Vale Ignored Warnings”
Best international TV, video, radio, audio or podcast reporting showing a concern for the human condition
In 2019, a dam owned by Brazil- based Vale S.A. collapsed near the Brazilian town of Brumadinho, releasing three billion gallons of mud and mining waste and leveling buildings, homes and farms. The disaster killed 270 people. In its aftermath, Wall Street Journal reporters relentlessly investigated the dam’s failure, even as Vale denied fault. The company refused interview requests and site access; Vale workers and business partners were warned not to talk. Nonetheless, the Journal found that Vale had ignored warnings about the dam’s stability and uncovered a conflict of interest in how the company conducted inspections and audits. One year after the collapse, reporters Samantha Pearson and Luciana Magalhaes narrated an episode of The Journal podcast that told the story of the dam, its vulnerabilities and the double-edged sword of Vale’s compensatory payments to the mostly poor victims of the disaster. Ultimately, the Journal’s work helped pave the way for regulatory changes in Brazil, strengthened industry guidelines world-wide and gave voice to the countless people whose lives were upended by the collapse.
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Citation for Excellence:
Fariba Nawa, James Gordon Meek, Aaron Glantz, Pete Madden and Chris Harland-Dunaway
ABC News in partnership with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting
“Justice for Halla” -
2020Margie Mason and Robin McDowellThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2020
Award Recipient: Margie Mason and Robin McDowell
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Fruits of Labor”
Margie Mason, left, and Robin McDowellAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2020
Award Recipient: Margie Mason and Robin McDowell
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Fruits of Labor”
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
“Fruits of Labor”A powerful story of exploitation, slavery, human trafficking, sexual harassment, and greed in the making of palm oil – and ubiquitous ingredient which Americans consume daily. As one source interviewed for the series put it: “When Americans and Europeans see palm oil is listed as an ingredient in their snacks,” he said, they should know “it’s the same as consuming our sweat and blood. The detailed and often risky reporting connected the chilling abuses on the palm oil plantations directly to the reader and explained why the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) stamp of approval is not enough. Indeed, these labels can be misleading to consumers who then believe a product is free from unsustainable and inhumane practices. Verification and auditing is always difficult, but the reporters made the case that Roundtable is used for greenwashing. The horrific practices that go into making palm oil in Indonesia and elsewhere are not new, but these stories helped bring the problems to light yet again and captured the attention of everyone from U.S. Senators to Girl Scouts.
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Citation for Excellence:
Drew Ambrose, Ashish Malhotra, Savitri Choudhury and Rhiona Jade-Armont
“India’s Child Sex Highway” -
2020Abrahm Lustgarten and Meridith KohutThe New York Times Magazine and ProPublica with support from the Pulitzer Center
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2020
Award Recipient: Abrahm Lustgarten and Meridith Kohut
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine and ProPublica with support from the Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “Refugees From the Earth”
Abrahm Lustgarten, left, and Meridith KohutAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2020
Award Recipient: Abrahm Lustgarten and Meridith Kohut
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine and ProPublica with support from the Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “Refugees From the Earth”
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
Lustgarten spent two years reporting in places as far-flung as Guatemala and Eastern Russia, for this sweeping series about climate migration. It’s a rich tapestry of individual voices, computer modeling and essay writing, including a meditation on whether it’s time to flee from fires engulfing his home in Northern California. We meet Jorge A., a Guatemalan farmer driven by drought to cross the border into the U.S., and a Chinese man named Dima who moves north into Russia to grow soybeans. The writing is spellbinding, the scope ambitious and the result scary, as Lustgarten contemplates a not-too- distant future in which one-fifth of the world’s surface area will be uninhabitable and tens of millions of people are forced to leave their homes. Kohut’s photography brings into sharp focus the people and the ways in which a changing climate is driving their movements.
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Citation for Excellence:
Drew Ambrose, Rhiona Jade-Armont, Nick Olle and Sharon Roobol
Al Jazeera English in collaboration with Mongabay, The Gecko Project and Korea Center for Investigative Journalism
“101 East – Selling West Papua” -
2020Kate Morrissey, Lauryn Schroeder, Nelvin Cepeda and Alejandro TamayoThe San Diego Union-Tribune
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2020
Award Recipient: Kate Morrissey, Lauryn Schroeder, Nelvin Cepeda and Alejandro Tamayo
Award Recipient Affiliation: The San Diego Union-Tribune
Award Honored Work: “Returned”
Clockwise from upper left: Kate Morrissey, Lauryn Schroeder, Nelvin Cepeda and Alejandro TamayoAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2020
Award Recipient: Kate Morrissey, Lauryn Schroeder, Nelvin Cepeda and Alejandro Tamayo
Award Recipient Affiliation: The San Diego Union-Tribune
Award Honored Work: “Returned”
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
This whip-smart series offered a fresh, reader-friendly exploration – by a regional newspaper working its own backyard – into what really happens to those seeking the promise of asylum at America’s doorstep. The stories focused not on economic migrants but those fleeing political violence back home – from paramilitaries in Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua – who were stranded in Tijuana. We knew the immigration and asylum courts were overwhelmed in 2020, but reporter Kate Morrissey and colleagues showed, with deep data dives and shoe-leather reporting in the courtrooms, how capricious and unjust the system can be.
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Citation for Excellence:
Max Baring, Anastasia Moloney and Dan Collyns
Thomson Reuters Foundation
“The Adventures of Wonder Woman – Inside Peru’s War against Illegal Gold Mining” -
2020Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo BuschekBuzzFeed News with support from the Pulitzer Center
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2020
Award Recipient: Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek
Award Recipient Affiliation: BuzzFeed News with support from the Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “Built to Last”
Clockwise from upper left: Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo BuschekAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2020
Award Recipient: Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek
Award Recipient Affiliation: BuzzFeed News with support from the Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “Built to Last”
Best story or series of stories on international affairs using creative and dynamic digital storytelling techniques
China has built hundreds of high-security internment camps to incarcerate Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities while publicly denying the existence of such detention facilities. In an area blacked out on Baidu, the Chinese equivalent of Google maps, BuzzFeed’s use of satellite images proved the existence of more detention facilities than previously known. BuzzFeed’s reporting was notable for its combination of hard-to-source interviews with innovative use of satellite images and 3D visualization. The result was a powerful project that showed conclusively that China is operating a massive and industrialized internment system.
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Citation for Excellence:
Martin Stabe, the FT Visual & Data Journalism team and FT Reporters
The Financial Times
“Coronavirus Tracker” -
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Roy Rowan Award 2020
Award Recipient: Dake Kang and AP Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “China Cracks Down”
Dake KangAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Roy Rowan Award 2020
Award Recipient: Dake Kang and AP Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “China Cracks Down”
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story
The AP disclosed how specific actions by China all but assured the spread of COVID-19 around the world and inflicted draconian human rights abuses on the nation’s Uighur minority. Led by AP Beijing reporter Dake Kang, the series revealed that for six days China’s leaders held off alerting the public as to the great danger posed by the virus, setting the stage for its global spread.
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2020Peter BeinartJewish Currents
Award Date: 2020
Award Name: The Flora Lewis Award 2020
Award Recipient: Peter Beinart
Award Recipient Affiliation: Jewish Currents
Award Honored Work: “Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine”
Peter BeinartAward Date: 2020
Award Name: The Flora Lewis Award 2020
Award Recipient: Peter Beinart
Award Recipient Affiliation: Jewish Currents
Award Honored Work: “Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine”
Best commentary in any medium on international news
Beinart writes a powerful essay with a lot of original thinking and draws on an impressive depth of knowledge about the history and politics of the conflict. The jury understands that his vision may be a fantasy, but it is a vision against which the likelier outcomes can be measured.
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Citation for Excellence:
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2019The Associated Press Staff, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis ReportingThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2019
Award Recipient: The Associated Press Staff, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Outsourcing Migrants”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2019
Award Recipient: The Associated Press Staff, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Outsourcing Migrants”
Best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad.
The AP series exposed how policies in Western and developed nations were creating a huge pool of languishing people.
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2019Isabel Coles and Rena EffendiThe Wall Street Journal
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2019
Award Recipient: Isabel Coles and Rena Effendi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: “Children of No Nation”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2019
Award Recipient: Isabel Coles and Rena Effendi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: “Children of No Nation”
Best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad.
The WSJ informed readers of the larger story about Europe, its homegrown Muslim foreign fighters and post-conflict Syria in a way that readers could relate to and engage with.
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2019Dieu Nalio CheryThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2019
Award Recipient: Dieu Nalio Chery
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Haiti: Nation on the Brink”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2019
Award Recipient: Dieu Nalio Chery
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Haiti: Nation on the Brink”
Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium.
Citation for Excellence: Nariman el Mofty
Affiliation: The Associated Press
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2019Moises SamanNational Geographic
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2019
Award Recipient: Moises Saman
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work: “El Salvador: A Country in Crisis”
Moises SamanAward Date: 2019
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2019
Award Recipient: Moises Saman
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work: “El Salvador: A Country in Crisis”
Best photographic news reporting from abroad in any medium.
Citation for Excellence: Natacha Pisarenko
Affiliation: The Associated Press
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2019Rena EffendiThe Wall Street Journal
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2019
Award Recipient: Rena Effendi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: "He lost a daughter to the Islamic State. Can he save his grandchildren?"
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2019
Award Recipient: Rena Effendi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: "He lost a daughter to the Islamic State. Can he save his grandchildren?"
Best feature photography on an international theme published in any medium
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Citation for Excellence recipient: Adam Ferguson
Affiliation: TIME Magazine
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2019Gregory Warner, Karen Duffin, Marianne McCune, Jess Jiang, Sebastian Meyer and teamNPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2019
Award Recipient: Gregory Warner, Karen Duffin, Marianne McCune, Jess Jiang, Sebastian Meyer and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast
Award Honored Work: “The Search: Parts 1 and 2”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2019
Award Recipient: Gregory Warner, Karen Duffin, Marianne McCune, Jess Jiang, Sebastian Meyer and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast
Award Honored Work: “The Search: Parts 1 and 2”
Best radio, audio, or podcast coverage of international affairs.
Most powerful are the voices of (the late) Kamaran Najm’s family and friends…in telling their story with such honesty and openness, NPR’s Rough Translation has helped us grasp the very human long-term legacy of conflict.
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2019Hind Hassan, Craig Thomson, Madeleine Haeringer, Julia Lindau and Joe HillVICE News Tonight
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2019
Award Recipient: Hind Hassan, Craig Thomson, Madeleine Haeringer, Julia Lindau and Joe Hill
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight
Award Honored Work: “Uganda: Orphanage, Inc.”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2019
Award Recipient: Hind Hassan, Craig Thomson, Madeleine Haeringer, Julia Lindau and Joe Hill
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight
Award Honored Work: “Uganda: Orphanage, Inc.”
Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad.
VICE revealed a horrendous story of unregulated orphanages in Uganda that bring in some $250 million in donations from rich countries like the U.S. for what turns out to be – at least in part – a corrupt business scam.
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2019Singeli Agnew, Rukmini Callimachi, Geoff O’Brien and Victor Tadashi SuarezThe New York Times
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2019
Award Recipient: Singeli Agnew, Rukmini Callimachi, Geoff O’Brien and Victor Tadashi Suarez
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Collision”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2019
Award Recipient: Singeli Agnew, Rukmini Callimachi, Geoff O’Brien and Victor Tadashi Suarez
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Collision”
Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs with a run time up to 30 minutes.
This episode tells a tale of poignant tragedy, through meticulous reporting and strong visual imagery. From the victim’s excited dispatches home, to the chilling cell phone videos from the killer, the film leaves the audience moved and disturbed, with a lot to contemplate.
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2019Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts and Dan Edge and Raney Aronson-RathFRONTLINE PBS
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award 2019
Award Recipient: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts and Dan Edge and Raney Aronson-Rath
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “For Sama”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award 2019
Award Recipient: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts and Dan Edge and Raney Aronson-Rath
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “For Sama”
Best TV, video or documentary about international affairs with a run time over 30 minutes.
A powerful personal story about a mother’s love for her young daughter, a city on the brink of destruction and a war that unleashes a terrible humanitarian disaster.
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Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2019
Award Recipient: Alex Perry
Award Recipient Affiliation: Outside
Award Honored Work: “The Last Days of John Allen Chau”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2019
Award Recipient: Alex Perry
Award Recipient Affiliation: Outside
Award Honored Work: “The Last Days of John Allen Chau”
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story.
Perry weaves a deeply humanizing portrait…and illuminates the ongoing effects of missionary work, adventurism and the exoticism of the world’s remote peoples.
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Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Best Cartoon Award 2019
Award Recipient: Adam Zyglis
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Buffalo News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Best Cartoon Award 2019
Award Recipient: Adam Zyglis
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Buffalo News
Award Honored Work:
Best print or digital graphic journalism, including cartoons, on international affairs.
An impressive caricaturist, Zyglis is the kind of cartoonist who would have to be jailed immediately if he lived abroad. That’s the standard by which all great political cartoonists should be judged.
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2019Rick Young, Emma Schwartz, Laura Sullivan and Fritz KramerFRONTLINE PBS
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2019
Award Recipient: Rick Young, Emma Schwartz, Laura Sullivan and Fritz Kramer
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “Trump’s Trade War”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2019
Award Recipient: Rick Young, Emma Schwartz, Laura Sullivan and Fritz Kramer
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “Trump’s Trade War”
Best international business news reporting in TV, video, radio, audio or podcast.
The report did an excellent job of guiding viewers through an up-close understanding of the places, from Wenzhou, China to cities in Ohio, and the people, including President Trump himself, who forged this confrontation between the United States and China.
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2019Nick Kostov and Sean McLainThe Wall Street Journal
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2019
Award Recipient: Nick Kostov and Sean McLain
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: “The Fall of Carlos Ghosn”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2019
Award Recipient: Nick Kostov and Sean McLain
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: “The Fall of Carlos Ghosn”
Best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services, magazines or digital.
Kostov and McLain’s persistent enterprise over the course of the year helped Journal readers solve a great mystery.
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2019Katherine EbanEcco/HarperCollins
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2019
Award Recipient: Katherine Eban
Award Recipient Affiliation: Ecco/HarperCollins
Award Honored Work: “Bottle of Lies: Inside the Generic Drug Boom”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2019
Award Recipient: Katherine Eban
Award Recipient Affiliation: Ecco/HarperCollins
Award Honored Work: “Bottle of Lies: Inside the Generic Drug Boom”
Best non-fiction book on international affairs.
Eban documents the massive fraud by which Indian drug makers have evaded a fumbling U.S. FDA to sell billions of dollars in unsafe and ineffective drugs to the U.S. This is a book that should inform and alarm the many millions of Americans (and their doctors) who use generic drugs.
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2019Karla ZabludovskyBuzzFeed News
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2019
Award Recipient: Karla Zabludovsky
Award Recipient Affiliation: BuzzFeed News
Award Honored Work: "The Fight for Women’s Rights in Latin America."
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2019
Award Recipient: Karla Zabludovsky
Award Recipient Affiliation: BuzzFeed News
Award Honored Work: "The Fight for Women’s Rights in Latin America."
Best international reporting in the print medium or digital showing a concern for the human condition.
Zabludovsky wrote with great passion and a sense of urgency about ordinary women in Latin America whose lives were upended by the restrictive – and sometimes deadly – reproductive health laws that are the norm in the region.
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2019Gregory Warner, Jane Arraf, Marianne McCune, Michael May, Sana Krasikov and teamNPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The David A. Andelman And Pamela Title Award 2019
Award Recipient: Gregory Warner, Jane Arraf, Marianne McCune, Michael May, Sana Krasikov and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast
Award Honored Work: “D.I.Y. Mosul”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The David A. Andelman And Pamela Title Award 2019
Award Recipient: Gregory Warner, Jane Arraf, Marianne McCune, Michael May, Sana Krasikov and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast
Award Honored Work: “D.I.Y. Mosul”
Best international TV, video, radio, audio or podcast reporting showing a concern for the human condition.
Jane Arraf (and her Rough Translation team) tells these stories of grassroots civic action with uncommon sensitivity and insight into Iraqi culture – insight born of long years covering a very complicated country.
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2019Angus Berwick, Sarah Kinosian, Brian Ellsworth, Mayela Armas, Carlos García Rawlins and Reuters’ Venezuela BureauReuters
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2019
Award Recipient: Angus Berwick, Sarah Kinosian, Brian Ellsworth, Mayela Armas, Carlos García Rawlins and Reuters’ Venezuela Bureau
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Maduro’s Venezuela”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2019
Award Recipient: Angus Berwick, Sarah Kinosian, Brian Ellsworth, Mayela Armas, Carlos García Rawlins and Reuters’ Venezuela Bureau
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Maduro’s Venezuela”
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights.
Against all odds, a team of Reuters reporters reported an indispensable account of the corruption inside (President) Maduro’s government and the physical dangers faced by Venezuelan citizens, many of whom have had to flee the ravaged country.
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2019Tom Warren and Katie J.M. BakerBuzzFeed News
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2019
Award Recipient: Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker
Award Recipient Affiliation: BuzzFeed News
Award Honored Work: “World Wildlife Fund’s Secret War”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2019
Award Recipient: Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker
Award Recipient Affiliation: BuzzFeed News
Award Honored Work: “World Wildlife Fund’s Secret War”
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues.
BuzzFeed’s stories led the WWF to overhaul its human rights guidelines even as Congress investigated how the U.S. government could have unwittingly helped fund such atrocities.
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2019Azam AhmedThe New York Times
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2019
Award Recipient: Azam Ahmed
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Kill or Be Killed: Latin America’s Homicide Crisis”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2019
Award Recipient: Azam Ahmed
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Kill or Be Killed: Latin America’s Homicide Crisis”
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America.
Ahmad’s stories have vivid scenes, with unforgettable characters, that propel readers forward. Judges were also deeply impressed by the photography, graphics and forensic mapping that accompanied the work.
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2019Malachy Browne, Evan Hill, Christiaan Triebert, Whitney Hurst, Dmitriy Khavin and the Visual Investigations TeamThe New York Times
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2019
Award Recipient: Malachy Browne, Evan Hill, Christiaan Triebert, Whitney Hurst, Dmitriy Khavin and the Visual Investigations Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Russia Tapes: Health Care and Civilians Under Attack in Syria”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2019
Award Recipient: Malachy Browne, Evan Hill, Christiaan Triebert, Whitney Hurst, Dmitriy Khavin and the Visual Investigations Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Russia Tapes: Health Care and Civilians Under Attack in Syria”
Best story or series of stories on international affairs using creative and dynamic digital storytelling techniques.
The New York Times team approached this under covered story with innovative use of digital tools – not just to enhance the storytelling but to report the story itself.
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2019Michael Schwirtz, Dionne Searcey, David Kirkpatrick and the Visual Investigations teamThe New York Times
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Roy Rowan Award 2019
Award Recipient: Michael Schwirtz, Dionne Searcey, David Kirkpatrick and the Visual Investigations team
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Russia’s Shadow War”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Roy Rowan Award 2019
Award Recipient: Michael Schwirtz, Dionne Searcey, David Kirkpatrick and the Visual Investigations team
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Russia’s Shadow War”
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story.
The analysis of the cockpit recordings, the digital forensics, the deciphering of the Russian military codes was unlike anything any of us had seen before by a news organization. It brought us a view of Russia much darker and sinister than we’d seen before.
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Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Flora Lewis Award 2019
Award Recipient: Li Yuan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The New, New World”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The Flora Lewis Award 2019
Award Recipient: Li Yuan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The New, New World”
Best commentary in any medium on international news.
Li Yuan’s pieces on China and Hong Kong were informative, insightful, and delightful to read; a great mix of vivid reporting with restrained but knowing perspective, and much of it entailing personal risk.
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Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The President’s Award 2019
Award Recipient: Maggie Steber
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Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The President’s Award 2019
Award Recipient: Maggie Steber
Award Recipient Affiliation:
Award Honored Work: President's Award
OPC President Pancho Bernasconi, in his remarks in Dateline magazine said “I am delighted that Maggie Steber is here in person to accept the President’s Award for lifetime achievement. I have always believed that the very best photographers have a preternatural ability to get into a story subject’s life in a way that most cannot. This gift allows Maggie to tell the most thoughtful, impactful and empathetic stories on a range of subjects that have brought her to more than 60 countries in her career.”
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2018Sudarsan RaghavanThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2018
Award Recipient: Sudarsan Raghavan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Yemen’s War & Humanitarian Crisis”
Sudarsan RaghavanAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2018
Award Recipient: Sudarsan Raghavan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Yemen’s War & Humanitarian Crisis”
Best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad
In an era where great reporting is often associated with mobilizing massive teams and multi-media packages, Sudarsan Raghavan’s Yemen package reminded us that sometimes all it takes to deliver outstanding work is one talented reporter with in-depth knowledge of the subject and the courage to go digging in the field. The breadth and scope of the stories—from inside a hospital to interviews with Houthi commanders and U.S. and regional allies funding and weaponizing the war—illustrated a complex and important conflict. Classic intrepid solo reporting matched with beautiful writing, human faces and big picture analysis.
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Citation for Excellence: Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty
The Associated Press, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2018
Award Recipient: Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo and colleagues
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Myanmar Burning”
Wa Lone, left, and Kyaw Soe OoAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2018
Award Recipient: Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo and colleagues
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Myanmar Burning”
Best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs
The courageous reporting by two Reuters reporters who were arrested while investigating a massacre in the Myanmar village of Inn Din, and the fierce commitment of their news organization to complete their journalistic mission, led to an outstanding series of articles exposing and explaining the government’s atrocities against the Rohingya. Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo and their colleagues discovered a mass grave, obtained photographs of the victims, interviewed family members and identified some of the perpetrators of the slaughter. They used the incident to open a window on the larger forces that enabled the massacre, including the infantry divisions that spearheaded the attacks, the use of social media to incite hatred, and government leaders who turned a blind eye. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo remain in prison. This award for “Myanmar Burning” is a tribute to their spirit.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: Tamer El-Ghobashy, Louisa Loveluck, Liz Sly and Alice Martins
Affiliation: The Washington Post
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2018Carolyn Van HoutenThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2018
Award Recipient: Carolyn Van Houten
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “The road to Asylum: Inside the migrant caravans”
Carolyn Van HoutenAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2018
Award Recipient: Carolyn Van Houten
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “The road to Asylum: Inside the migrant caravans”
Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium
Through a year of making monthly visits to document the stories of people at different stages of their trek north through Central America, Carolyn Van Houten brought a deep level of humanity and empathy to a story that saturated the news media. Courage in storytelling is not only defined by proximity to violence and danger, but also by having the guts to go where others are not, and to look beneath the surface to understand the true impact of these crises. Van Houten’s work demonstrates this, but more than that, she embodies this ethos as a storyteller and a person. This award is not just for her talent as a photographer, but for her compassion and courage in storytelling.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: Khalil Hamra
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2018Nariman El-MoftyThe Associated Press, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2018
Award Recipient: Nariman El-Mofty
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “Yemen: On The Edge”
Nariman El-MoftyAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2018
Award Recipient: Nariman El-Mofty
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “Yemen: On The Edge”
Best photographic news reporting from abroad published in any medium
The jury saw several strong portfolios from Yemen—a country that, until last year, had been severely neglected by the mainstream media. Nariman El-Mofty’s work stood out. We were moved by her clear commitment to the subject, but also by her thoughtful and surprising use of light, color and framing to capture a conflict zone that has almost always been depicted through a darker lens. The variety of scenes that El-Mofty documented—from malnourished children to crumbling infrastructure to snippets of daily life—convey the complexity of a country and a conflict that the world still struggles to understand.
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Citation for Excellence recipient: Spencer Platt
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2018Shiho FukadaBloomberg Businessweek, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2018
Award Recipient: Shiho Fukada
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “For Many of Japan's Elderly Women, Prison is a Haven”
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2018
Award Recipient: Shiho Fukada
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “For Many of Japan's Elderly Women, Prison is a Haven”
Best feature photography on an international theme published in any medium
Shiho Fukada’s quiet, intimate glimpse into the lives of elderly female Japanese prisoners is both striking and surprising. It presents a sweet, empathetic portrait of a group of women who had to be photographed under challenging circumstances to protect their identities. These photos are a humanizing point of entry into any number of broader conversations: about aging, about loneliness, about society’s role in caring for its elderly and the challenges we will increasingly face with growing elder populations. We don’t know these women, but through Shiho’s photos we understand them and their uncertain future.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev
Affiliation: The Washington Post, with support from Fondation Carmignac
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2018VICE News Tonight on HBOVICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2018
Award Recipient: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Honored Work: “The Killing Rooms of Mosul”
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2018
Award Recipient: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Honored Work: “The Killing Rooms of Mosul”
Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad
The VICE team brought us to a place nobody else went and found a story we had not heard. The first international news crew to film inside an apparent Iraqi execution room in the Old City of West Mosul, VICE News Tonight on HBO presented viewers with horrific video evidence of an atrocity that raised serious questions about how the battle for Mosul was fought and who should be held accountable for the killings. Despite intimidation from Iraqi military intelligence officers and stonewalling by the top Iraqi military commander on camera, Vice’s commitment and resourcefulness in getting the story led to even more international coverage and to international human rights observers obtaining access to the site themselves.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: Nic Robertson, Nima Elbagir, Nick Paton Walsh, Waffa Munayyer and Salma Abdelaziz
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2018Kavitha Chekuru, Adrienne Haspel, Laila Al-Arian and Teresa BoAl Jazeera English
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2018
Award Recipient: Kavitha Chekuru, Adrienne Haspel, Laila Al-Arian and Teresa Bo
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera English
Award Honored Work: “No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border”
(Top left to right) Kavitha Chekuru, Adrienne Haspel, (bottom left to right) Laila Al-Arian and Teresa Bo.Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2018
Award Recipient: Kavitha Chekuru, Adrienne Haspel, Laila Al-Arian and Teresa Bo
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera English
Award Honored Work: “No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border”
Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs with a run time up to 30 minutes
Al Jazeera offers a heartbreaking look into lives that have been ripped apart by U.S. immigration policies. With meticulous reporting and careful treatment, the documentary tracks every step of the process, detailing the confusion, cruelty and pain, without slipping into a tone of outrage or blame. Instead, viewers are drawn into the lives of real people faced with impossible choices as they try to flee violence. The three characters linger in viewers’ minds long after the documentary has ended.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Honored Work: “Rebuilding Mosul” -
2018Karen Edwards and Gemma AtwalHBO
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award 2018
Award Recipient: Karen Edwards and Gemma Atwal
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO
Award Honored Work: "Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram”
Karen Edwards (left) and Gemma AtwalAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award 2018
Award Recipient: Karen Edwards and Gemma Atwal
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO
Award Honored Work: "Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram”
Best TV, video or documentary about international affairs with a run time over 30 minutes
Four years in the making, this unique film tells the exclusive story of two groups of Nigerian girls who are trying to recover from their kidnapping and years of captivity by Boko Haram. Years after the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, the filmmakers share the young women’s stories with dignity and humanity, giving voice to these previously silent survivors.
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(No Citation of Excellence given for 2018 in this category)
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Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Best Cartoon Award 2018
Award Recipient: Patrick Chappatte
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Patrick ChappatteAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Best Cartoon Award 2018
Award Recipient: Patrick Chappatte
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Best print, digital or graphic journalism on international affairs
Patrick Chappatte’s cartoons for The New York Times were a model of the form. One, in particular, stood out: a scene inside a Saudi Arabian classroom that highlighted the changing face of that country and the dangers inherent in one particular profession – journalism. Like so much of Chappatte’s work, it economically and elegantly conveys the idea in a dynamic way—concisely and with nuance, illustrating the kinds of freedom that democracy needs and autocracy fears. It manages that feat with humor—no easy task, considering the seriousness of the topic and the gruesomeness of the event that inspired it. It is, simply, a remarkable accomplishment.
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(No Citation for Excellence in 2018)
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Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2018
Award Recipient: Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: “Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom”
Anand GopalAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2018
Award Recipient: Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: “Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom”
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story
“Tell the story of your village,” the Italian novelist Andrea Camilleri once said. “If you tell it well, you will have told the story of the world.” Anand Gopal is not from the war-torn Syrian village of Saraquib, but he immersed himself in the life and soul of the place during six years of brave and brilliant reporting. The result was a masterpiece. Gopal distilled the scope of the savagery and complexity of the Syrian war into a compelling, coherent narrative. He painted an unforgettable portrait of citizens who clung to their ideals amid death and devastation. Gopal’s elegant writing brought alive characters such as the accountant Osama al-Hossein, who withstood peril and suffering to lead the first election in Saraquib. This tragic yet heroic saga told an important story about a place and its people—and a larger story about humanity at its best and worst.
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(No Citation of Excellence for this award given for 2018)
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2018Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe and NYT staffThe New York Times
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes and Morton Frank Award 2018
Award Recipient: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe and NYT staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Enablers”
Walt Bogdanich, left, and Michael Forsythe.Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes and Morton Frank Award 2018
Award Recipient: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe and NYT staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Enablers”
Best international business news reporting in any medium
It’s no secret that authoritarian regimes such as China, Russia and Saudi Arabia are gaining influence around the globe. The surprise is who is helping them: American consulting firms, British public relations shops and Western political operatives all looking to make a buck. With its intrepid series “The Enablers,” The New York Times exposed how the brightest minds in the West are linked to some of the darkest deeds of strongmen and plutocrats. In exchange for multi-million dollar paydays, these fee-seekers have helped Saudi Arabia jail dissidents at home and starve civilians in Yemen. They have strengthened China’s military, helped a Russian oligarch evade U.S. sanctions and assisted South Africa’s leaders in gutting the tax agency investigating them for tax evasion—just a few examples uncovered over months of reporting that was powerful, sobering and impressive in its sweep.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: Cam Simpson, Gavin Finch and Kit Chellel
Affiliation: Bloomberg
Honored Work: “The Brexit Short” -
2018Rania AbouzeidW. W. Norton & Company
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2018
Award Recipient: Rania Abouzeid
Award Recipient Affiliation: W. W. Norton & Company
Award Honored Work: “No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria”
Rania AbouzeidAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2018
Award Recipient: Rania Abouzeid
Award Recipient Affiliation: W. W. Norton & Company
Award Honored Work: “No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria”
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
“No Turning Back” is an extraordinary feat of reporting—a searing account of the lives of Syrians from all sides caught up in a catastrophic war. A fluent Arabic speaker, Abouzeid draws on her years of often dangerous reporting inside the conflict zone and the deep ties she has built up with people of all political and religious persuasions. This allows her to describe and explain in detail Syria’s tragic descent from the optimism of the first peaceful democratic uprisings in 2011 to the sectarian slaughter of civilians and brutal and misguided foreign interventions. Abouzeid spares nothing in describing the appalling torture and endless mass killings of civilians by the Assad regime. But her use of personal narratives and her fluid writing never let us lose track of the humanity of the Syrians suffering on all sides.
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Citation for Excellence recipient: Barbie Nadeau
Affiliation: Oneworld Publications
Honored Work: Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast -
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2018
Award Recipient: Mansi Choksi
Award Recipient Affiliation: Harper’s Magazine
Award Honored Work: “The Newlyweds”
Mansi ChoksiAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2018
Award Recipient: Mansi Choksi
Award Recipient Affiliation: Harper’s Magazine
Award Honored Work: “The Newlyweds”
Best international reporting in print or digital showing a concern for the human condition
This superbly written piece breathes new life into the timeless story of thwarted romance, taking readers into a daring young couple’s elopement in rural India and the myriad obstacles against them. The saga unfolds with a novel’s pacing and deep character development as the newlyweds fight through caste, custom, violence and exploitation in their quest for the most universal of human yearnings: love.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: Finlay Young, Kathleen Flynn
Affiliation: ProPublica and TIME
Honored Work: “Unprotected” -
2018VICE News Tonight on HBOVICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award
Award Recipient: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Honored Work: “Year of the Dog: Inside the World's Largest Human Migration”
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award
Award Recipient: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Honored Work: “Year of the Dog: Inside the World's Largest Human Migration”
Best international reporting in the broadcast media showing a concern for the human condition
Through an intimate portrait of one family, we experience the impact on 287 million Chinese migrant workers who live apart from their families. In a country known for restrictions on the media, VICE follows a couple working in a coastal city during their 40-hour journey home to their rural village for the Lunar New Year. We are with them as they sleep upright in a packed train car and during their reunion with their excited young son and sullen 15-year-old daughter, who refuses to embrace them after a year of separation. Through words (translated) and a camera (that is often close up and sometimes undercover), we recognize the tradeoffs forced on families by economic hardships— the regret of hardworking young parents missing their children, the weariness of a grandfather doing his best to raise them, and uncomfortable silences as the family pinches dough for dumplings for a once-a-year holiday meal. While many of us knew about this massive migration, we only came to understand it through this cinematic depiction of one family living a universal story.
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Citation for Excellence Recipients: Adam Ellick, Taylor Adams, Kristin Bye and Leah Varjacques
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “’It’s an Act of Murder’: How Europe Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown” -
2018Jeffrey E. SternThe New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2018
Award Recipient: Jeffrey E. Stern
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “From Arizona to Yemen: The Journey of an American Bomb”
Jeffrey E. SternAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2018
Award Recipient: Jeffrey E. Stern
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “From Arizona to Yemen: The Journey of an American Bomb”
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
In-depth reporting across continents traced the creation of a precision missile made by Raytheon in Tucson, Arizona, which was bought by the Saudi government and ultimately dropped on some innocent villagers in Yemen who had been outside celebrating a plan to dig a new well near their homes. Jeffrey Stern traced the missile from beginning to end: interviewing Raytheon workers, Human Rights Watch staff, explaining just how the Department of Defense helps U.S. corporations export deadly weapons and describing the business-as-usual tone of Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy on an earnings call with financial analysts. Stern returns to the Yemeni village where lives, bones and dreams were shattered. The forensic, thorough, diligent reporting of Stern brought home the human toll of all those actions and gave voice to people who are little-heard. With a calm sense of moral outrage, Stern shows us how the U.S. government and businesses have blood on their hands.
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Citation for Excellence Recipients: Associated Press Staff
Affiliation: The Associated Press
Honored Work: “China Clamps Down” -
2018Abrahm LustgartenProPublica and The New York Times Magazine
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2018
Award Recipient: Abrahm Lustgarten
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work: "Fuel to the Fire"
Abrahm LustgartenAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2018
Award Recipient: Abrahm Lustgarten
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work: "Fuel to the Fire"
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
A profoundly reported work on multiple levels, “Fuel to the Fire” dissects a man-made ecological disaster: how a U.S. biofuels policy engineered mainly to serve corporate interests combined with Indonesian political corruption to devastate Southeast Asian forests and trigger a surge in carbon emissions. Abrahm Lustgarten embraces a complex issue, attacks its many dimensions head on, lucidly enlightens the reader, and offers the public a possible roadmap for action.
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Citation for Excellence Recipients: Maurice Tamman, Matthew Green, Mari Saito, Sarah Slobin and Maryanne Murray
Affiliation: Reuters
Honored Work: “Ocean Shock” -
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2018
Award Recipient: Caracas Bureau
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Venezuela Coverage”
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2018
Award Recipient: Caracas Bureau
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Venezuela Coverage”
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
Venezuela is an extremely difficult country for journalist s right now. News organizations across the Americas produced gutsy, deep and harrowing coverage of Venezuela’s economic and social collapse. The Reuters’ Caracas bureau excelled in telling compelling stories of the wrenching decision taken by millions of Venezuelans to leave their country in order to survive. Also impressive was the Reuters investigation chronicling a Chinese company’s collaboration with the Maduro government on new, high-tech national ID cards that enable the regime to track citizens’ receipt of government services. Finally, the deep dive on the chaos within the country’s state-run oil company provided a road map to the country’s economic collapse. How a country that holds the world’s largest reserves of oil could be suffering a drop in oil production is one of the mysteries that confound outside observers; this Reuters analysis explains why, and makes it clear that increased military involvement in running the oil giant ties the armed forces ever closer to the Maduro administration.
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Citation for Excellence Recipients: David Luhnow, Samantha Pearson, Juan Forero and Jose de Cordoba
Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Honored Work: “Silent Slaughter”and
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2018David M. Halbfinger, Yousur Al-Hlou, John Woo, Malachy Browne and Iyad AbuheweilaThe New York Times
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2018
Award Recipient: David M. Halbfinger, Yousur Al-Hlou, John Woo, Malachy Browne and Iyad Abuheweila
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Death and Life of a Gaza Medic”
(Top, left to right) David M. Halbfinger, Yousur Al-Hlou, John Woo, (bottom, left to right) Malachy Browne and Iyad AbuheweilaAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2018
Award Recipient: David M. Halbfinger, Yousur Al-Hlou, John Woo, Malachy Browne and Iyad Abuheweila
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Death and Life of a Gaza Medic”
Best story or series of stories on international affairs using creative and dynamic storytelling techniques
When 20-year-old medic Rouzan al-Najjar was killed by an Israeli bullet in Gaza last June, she instantly became a symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this 5-month interactive investigation, the New York Times not only captured the complex life and death of a charismatic young woman from Gaza, but also revealed how the shot that killed her was potentially a war crime. Collecting and analyzing more than 1,000 images from the site of the killing, Times reporters partnered with the British research agency Forensic Architecture to create a 3D reconstruction of the fatal shot from six angles. Reporters made multiple trips to Gaza, visited Israeli sniper positions, analyzed ballistic evidence, and interviewed legal experts, government officials, eyewitnesses, and those who knew al-Najjar best. The resulting evidence challenged the Israel Defense Forces’ claim about the shot that killed al-Najjar, and prompted a criminal investigation. Judge Mansi Choksi, a friend and reporting partner of Kim Wall, said it was exactly “the kind of ambitious story Kim would have liked to do,” particularly because it “challenged gendered cliches about empowerment and victimization.”
Award Page (with links to stories) >>
Citation for Excellence Recipients: Michelle Mizner, Katie Worth, Carla Borras, Raney Aronson and Andrew Metz
Affiliation: FRONTLINE and GroundTruth
Honored Work: “The Last Generation” -
2018International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and media partnersInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and media partners
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Roy Rowan Award 2018
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and media partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and media partners
Award Honored Work: “Implant Files”
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Roy Rowan Award 2018
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and media partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and media partners
Award Honored Work: “Implant Files”
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story
For sheer breadth, depth of research and astonishing findings, Implant Files is in a class by itself. Reported by 350 journalists around the globe, the investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the Associated Press and NBC News Investigative Unit exposed deadly flaws in the global regulation of medical that have left thousands disfigured, disabled or dead. By mining buried U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) records, reporters reached the shocking conclusion that during the last decade alone defective implants have caused 83,000 deaths and 1.7 million injuries around the world. The investigation also showed how regulators are bowing to industry pressure to rush products to market and then covering up reports of injuries and deaths when those devices fail. Anecdotal stories have long surfaced about medical devices gone wrong. But the ICIJ-led probe showed that the failures are a systemic problem that authorities have refused to confront. The series sparked immediate pledges for reform from health authorities in North America and Europe.
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Citation for Excellence Recipients: Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty
Affiliation: The Associated Press, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Honored Work: “Yemen’s Dirty War” -
2018Trudy RubinThe Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Flora Lewis Award 2018
Award Recipient: Trudy Rubin
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Honored Work: “Stress test for Democracies: Populism, Autocrats, China and Trump”
Trudy RubinAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Flora Lewis Award 2018
Award Recipient: Trudy Rubin
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Honored Work: “Stress test for Democracies: Populism, Autocrats, China and Trump”
Best commentary in any medium on international news
Trudy Rubin had a splendid year, the latest in a run that deserves a lifetime achievement award. (And the Inquirer should get one for keeping a first-rate foreign affairs columnist on the staff when so many dailies have retrenched.) Rubin writes in clear, plain English informed by a career of travel, deep curiosity and calm analysis. In 2018 she was an excellent guide to the rising tide of populism and the lurches of the America-first president. As one juror put it, “Anyone who reads her regularly cannot help but have a clear and thoughtful understanding of the wider world.”
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(No Citation for Excellence)
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Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The President’s Award 2018
Award Recipient: Kathy Gannon
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: President’s Award
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The President’s Award 2018
Award Recipient: Kathy Gannon
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: President’s Award
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Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2017
Award Recipient: Associated Press Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Rohingya Exodus”
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2017
Award Recipient: Associated Press Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Rohingya Exodus”
Best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad
In a series of powerful and unforgettable stories, rich with detail and dogged reporting, a team of Associated Press journalists documented the horrific crimes unfolding against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. The AP brought together an impressive talent pool with different skills, from investigative reporter to narrative writer and local insight, to take readers to the front lines of this conflict. The stories exemplified foreign correspondence at its best: exposing and chronicling human rights violations, putting a human face on conflict and providing a road map for future investigations into what world powers are calling genocide. Simply put, it was an incredible package that you want to urge everyone to read.
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Citation Recipients: Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Manuel Mogato and Reuters team
Affiliation: Reuters
Honored Work: “Duterte’s War” -
2017New York Times StaffThe New York Times
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2017
Award Recipient: New York Times Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “North Korea, and the Unthinkable”
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2017
Award Recipient: New York Times Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “North Korea, and the Unthinkable”
Best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs
No story captured world attention in 2017 like North Korea’s claim to have developed a nuclear-armed intercontinental missile capable of unleashing a once-unthinkable war. Of the multiple media projects that explored and analyzed Kim Jong-un’s objectives, The New York Times most effectively harnessed the expertise of its correspondents around the world. Their stories explained the failed Western strategies for containing Kim, looked beyond the cartoonish portrayals of the determined young leader and detailed his success in circumventing sanctions to bankroll “parallel advance”—the loosening of constraints on private enterprise that both improved North Korea’s economy and helped Kim realize his dream of turning his nation into a nuclear power.
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Citation Recipient: Borzou Daragahi
Affiliation: BuzzFeed
Honored Work: “Iran and the US at a Crossroads” -
2017Carol GuzyZuma Press
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2017
Award Recipient: Carol Guzy
Award Recipient Affiliation: Zuma Press
Award Honored Work: “Scars of Mosul, the Legacy of ISIS”
Carol GuzyAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2017
Award Recipient: Carol Guzy
Award Recipient Affiliation: Zuma Press
Award Honored Work: “Scars of Mosul, the Legacy of ISIS”
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
Guzy’s entry offered an intimate and unconventional perspective of a civilian population ravaged by war. Carol trained her camera on the most vulnerable inhabitants of Mosul’s civilian population amid the Iraqi Army’s fierce battle to tear the city from the grasp of the Islamic State. She stepped outside the bounds of covering a hostile story and offered an intimate, sensitive and haunting coverage of the innocents we often do not see reflected in images from amid the gore of wartime.
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Citation Recipients: Ivor Prickett
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “What ISIS Left Behind” -
2017Carlos Garcia Rawlins and Carlos BarriaReuters
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2017
Award Recipient: Carlos Garcia Rawlins and Carlos Barria
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Venezuela Marred by Violence “
Carlos Barria (left) and Carlos Garcia RawlinsAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2017
Award Recipient: Carlos Garcia Rawlins and Carlos Barria
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Venezuela Marred by Violence “
Best photographic reporting from abroad in any medium
Covering one of the biggest stories of the year, the photojournalists endured clouds of tear gas, petrol bombs, water cannons and live ammunition while attempting to portray the volatile economic and political turmoil in Venezuela. The images show unprecedented scenes of a once prosperous nation unraveling into chaos. The entry, condensed to twelve dizzying images, showcased one of the most visually hostile stories of the year. The potent and strikingly violent images invoked an auditory response from the jury as they rolled across the screen.
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Citation Recipient: Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Danish Siddiqui, Hannah McKay, Damir Sagolj and Cathal McNaughton
Affiliation: Reuters
Honored Work: “Rohingya Flee Violence in Myanmar” -
2017Kevin FrayerGetty Images
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2017
Award Recipient: Kevin Frayer
Award Recipient Affiliation: Getty Images
Award Honored Work: “The Harrowing Exodus of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh”
Kevin FrayerAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2017
Award Recipient: Kevin Frayer
Award Recipient Affiliation: Getty Images
Award Honored Work: “The Harrowing Exodus of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh”
Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme
One of the most comprehensive picture packages of the year, Kevin Frayer’s images documented the Rohingyas’ grueling and deadly exodus from Myanmar. Frayer’s images struck the jury with their haunting beauty, sophistication and breadth. Amid the chaos, his images managed to convey a strong warmth and sympathy for his subjects and their struggle.
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Citation Recipient: Meridith Kohut
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “As Venezuela Collapses, Children are Dying of Hunger” -
2017Gregory Warner, Laura Heaton, Marianne McCune, Michael May and Jess JiangNPR
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2017
Award Recipient: Gregory Warner, Laura Heaton, Marianne McCune, Michael May and Jess Jiang
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR
Award Honored Work: “The Congo We Listen To,” an episode of the Rough Translation podcast
Top, left to right: Gregory Warner, Laura Heaton, Marianne McCune. Bottom, left to right, Michael May and Jess Jiang.Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2017
Award Recipient: Gregory Warner, Laura Heaton, Marianne McCune, Michael May and Jess Jiang
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR
Award Honored Work: “The Congo We Listen To,” an episode of the Rough Translation podcast
Best radio, audio or podcast news or interpretation of international affairs
At the heart of good journalism is an honest reckoning with how we know what we know, and what more we need to know. Such was the case with the NPR podcast Rough Translations’ episode: “The Congo We Listen To.” It featured Laura Heaton, a freelance reporter who decided to revisit the 2010 story of mass rape by militia groups in a Congolese village, wanting to know whether that brief period of saturated international media attention had a lasting impact on the village and its women. What she found was that the real story was different from what had been reported, and she worked to find out why village women had chosen to hide the full story. Heaton, with Rough Translation host Gregory Warner, produced a complex and compelling tale about what stories are told, what stories are hidden, and how journalists with good instincts, time and patience, can find a much richer story by listening for what hasn’t been said.
Hear the award-winning work: “The Congo We Listen To,” an episode of the Rough Translation podcast
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Citation Recipients: Marlon Bishop, Maria Hinojosa, Nadia Reiman and Stephanie Lebow
Affiliation: Latino USA
Honored Work: “A Border Drawn in Blood” -
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2017
Award Recipient: Nick Paton Walsh and Arwa Damon
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Fall of ISIS”
Nick Paton Walsh (left) and Arwa DamonAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2017
Award Recipient: Nick Paton Walsh and Arwa Damon
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Fall of ISIS”
Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad
CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh and Arwa Damon brought viewers directly into the final fight to push the ISIS terrorists out of their strongholds in Iraq and Syria while at the same time revealing its terrible human cost. Paton Walsh and his team witnessed the fight for the Al-Nuri mosque in Mosul and the closing hours of the battle when ISIS fighters emerged from the ruins and gave themselves up. Damon’s reporting and particularly poignant narrative on the dead and injured is so strong it is hard to watch. An Arabic speaker, Arwa encouraged survivors of a U.S. bombing that killed over 100 people in Mosul to talk about the agony and death that surrounded them. Judges felt the complementary stories by Paton Walsh and Damon were extraordinary examples of the psychological cost to the victims of prolonged ISIS rule and the fighting that brought it to an end.
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Citation Recipients: Ian Pannell, Matt McGarry, Rym Momtaz, Nicky DeBlois and Jenna Millman
Affiliation: ABC News
Honored Work: “The War Against ISIS” -
2017FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2017
Award Recipient: FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4
Award Honored Work: “Mosul”
Top, left to right: Raney Aronson-Rath, James Jones, Olivier Sarbil. Bottom, left to right: Dan Edge and Andrew Metz.Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2017
Award Recipient: FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4
Award Honored Work: “Mosul”
Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs less than one hour
The world has been riveted in horror by the brutality of ISIS and the long, bloody campaign to defeat it in Syria and Iraq. The climactic showdown was the 9-month-long battle of Mosul. In Mosul, filmmaker Olivier Sarbil follows a squad of Iraqi Special Forces as they fight their way house by house through Mosul. His documentary stands out for the way it connects viewers with the characters of four Iraqi soldiers, putting human faces on an inhuman conflict. Sarbil shows how the mostly Sunni civilians fear the predominantly Shiite Iraqi soldiers, who in turn are wary of ISIS fighters trying to hide among the civilians they meet – this is the fundamental root of the conflict. We hear the crunch of broken glass under the soldiers’ boots as they approach a doorway, the whispered warning not to move a curtain which could give away their position, the boom of a car bomb that kills one of their comrades. This is the ugly, unpredictable but relentless face of war, seen from up very close through Sarbil’s lens—and clearly at substantial risk to himself.
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Citation Recipients: Steve Kroft, Draggan Mihailovich, Laura Dodd and Matthew Lev
Affiliation: CBS 60 Minutes
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2017Evgeny Alfineevsky, Den Tolmor and Aaron I. ButlerHBO
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 09 The Peter Jennings Award 2017
Award Recipient: Evgeny Alfineevsky, Den Tolmor and Aaron I. Butler
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO
Award Honored Work: “Cries from Syria”
Left to right: Evgeny Alfineevsky, Aaron I. Butler and Den TolmorAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 09 The Peter Jennings Award 2017
Award Recipient: Evgeny Alfineevsky, Den Tolmor and Aaron I. Butler
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO
Award Honored Work: “Cries from Syria”
Best TV, video or documentary about international affairs one hour or longer
This remarkable documentary, “Cries from Syria”, serves as an important contribution to the reporting on the Syrian crisis, one of the most challenging conflicts for foreign journalists to cover. By combining footage shot by activists and ordinary citizens with interviews with Syrians who have survived the war, the film masterfully captures a story that is both personal and comprehensive. The filmmaker sheds light on the human toll of the Syrian conflict and highlights the extent of the Syrian government’s war crimes against its own people. It is a film that not only informs and raises awareness of the ongoing war but also memorializes the Syrians who were on the front lines of the conflict.
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Citation Recipients: Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser, Jim Gilmore, Philip Bennett, David E. Hoffman and Raney Aronson-Rath
Affiliation: PBS FRONTLINE
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2017Azmat Khan and Anand GopalThe New York Times Magazine
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2017
Award Recipient: Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work: “The Uncounted”
Azmat Khan (left) and Anand GopalAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2017
Award Recipient: Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work: “The Uncounted”
Best magazine reporting in print or digital on an international story
Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal spent almost two years visiting about 150 bomb sites in northern Iraq, often at great personal risk, for this powerful story that showed civilian casualties caused by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes were considerably higher than previously reported. With acompelling main character in Bassim Razzo, whose home and family in Mosul were obliterated, indefatigable sleuthing by Khan and Gopal that challenged U.S. statistics, and an impressive use of photography and videography, “The Uncounted” provided a horrifying accounting of the true cost of America’s war.
Read the award-winning work: The Uncounted
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Citation Recipients: Ben Mauk, Laura Kasinof, George Butler and Diana Markosian
Affiliation: Virginia Quarterly Review/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Honored Work: “Paths to Refuge” -
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2017
Award Recipient: Clay Bennett
Award Recipient Affiliation: Chattanooga Times Free Press
Award Honored Work: Clay Bennett
Clay BennettAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2017
Award Recipient: Clay Bennett
Award Recipient Affiliation: Chattanooga Times Free Press
Award Honored Work: Clay Bennett
Best cartoons on international affairs
Clay Bennett’s deceptively simple cartoons, often without captions, drive home strong, perceptive messages on topics ranging from global warming, immigration, North Korea’s nuclear program and Vladimir Putin, to Donald Trump’s handling of complex foreign policy issues. Clever ideas and an engaging style make for a memorable portfolio.
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Citation Recipients: Kevin Kallaugher
Affiliation: The Economist -
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2017
Award Recipient: Monte Reel
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: “How to Rebuild Puerto Rico”
Monte ReelAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2017
Award Recipient: Monte Reel
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: “How to Rebuild Puerto Rico”
Best magazine international business news reporting in print or digital
Puerto Rico lives in a limbo. As a territory of the United States, its people have American citizenship. But lacking statehood, the island lacks clout in Washington, as became tragically evident in 2017, when a hurricane devastated the island-and Puerto Ricans were largely left to their own devices. Monte Reel’s engagingly written account of the aftermath, “How to Rebuild Puerto Rico,” is a sweeping, moving and financially literate account of Puerto Ricans’ struggle to recover. Refusing to bow to cynicism and commending the islanders’ grit, Reel nevertheless realistically examines the obstacles, in Washington and home-grown, to not only recovery but also to a lasting prosperity for this perennially troubled land.
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2017Paritosh Bansal, Tom Lasseter, Aditya Kalra, Duff Wilson and teamReuters
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2017
Award Recipient: Paritosh Bansal, Tom Lasseter, Aditya Kalra, Duff Wilson and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “The Philip Morris Files”
Clockwise from upper left: Paritosh Bansal, Tom Lasseter, Duff Wilson, Aditya Kalra.Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2017
Award Recipient: Paritosh Bansal, Tom Lasseter, Aditya Kalra, Duff Wilson and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “The Philip Morris Files”
Best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or digital
In industry after industry companies with big lobbying budgets have managed to control and even dictate regulations without being seen. In “The Phillip Morris Files”, a team of Reuters’ reporters takes us inside that world: the behind-the-scenes maneuvering; the strategic targeting of weakest government links; and the congratulatory high-fiving when the mission is accomplished. This eyeopening series shows just how sophisticated and determined the tobacco industry has been in fighting anti-tobacco forces in government and at international agencies. The team of reporters took powerful leaked documents, followed it up with shoe-leather reporting, and brought home a series with impact.
Read the award-winning work: The Philip Morris Files
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Citation Recipients: Lauren Etter, Benjamin Elgin, Sarah Frier and Michael Riley
Affiliation: Bloomberg News
Honored Work: “Facebook and the Assault on Democracy” -
2017Suzy HansenFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2017
Award Recipient: Suzy Hansen
Award Recipient Affiliation: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Award Honored Work: Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Suzy HansenAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2017
Award Recipient: Suzy Hansen
Award Recipient Affiliation: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Award Honored Work: Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
American journalist Suzy Hansen moved to Istanbul to better understand the Muslim world. Her highly insightful and engaging book weaves her own background—white, small-town America, elite college—with an awakening on why the U.S. is often hated overseas amid decades of American intervention in the Middle East and elsewhere. She takes aim in particular at how the abiding myth of “American exceptionalism” has blinded American policymakers, journalists and citizens to an often sordid reality. Hansen has produced a sweeping and powerful corrective to the way
most Americans view U.S. foreign policy of the past 70 years.Award Page >>
Citation Recipient: Joshua Kurlantzick
Affiliation: Simon & Schuster
Honored Work: A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA -
2017Associated Press StaffThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2017
Award Recipient: Associated Press Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Collapse of the Caliphate: Triumph and Tragedy in Mosul”
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2017
Award Recipient: Associated Press Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Collapse of the Caliphate: Triumph and Tragedy in Mosul”
Best international reporting in print or digital showing a concern for the human condition
AP reporters covering the collapse of Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate struck the right balance between aggressive reporting and sensitive writing on the horrors endured by Mosul residents. The result is gripping, timely coverage that evoked ghastly images, but also showed the determination of ordinary Iraqis to retain their dignity and humanity in the worst of circumstances. Overall, a sophisticated package of stories that illuminate a human condition the world should not ignore.
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Citation Recipients: Cynthia Gorney, Amy Toensing and Kathryn Carlson
Affiliation: National Geographic
Honored Work: “Life After Loss” -
2017Ed Ou and Aurora AlmendralNBC Left Field
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2017
Award Recipient: Ed Ou and Aurora Almendral
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC Left Field
Award Honored Work: “The Kill List: The Brutal Drug War in the Philippines”
Ed Ou (left) and Aurora AlmendralAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2017
Award Recipient: Ed Ou and Aurora Almendral
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC Left Field
Award Honored Work: “The Kill List: The Brutal Drug War in the Philippines”
Best international reporting in the broadcast media showing a concern for the human condition
“The Kill List” is a personal and riveting behind-the-scenes insight into the Philippines drug war as seen through the eyes of people involved. The viewer is taken on a journey by hunters and the hunted. The quest by the police to rid the streets of drug users results in the hunted left lifeless. We are taken inside a morgue where a young man is asked to identify a body. He pulls back the sheet and sees the corpse of his father. The moment is raw and emotional. Visible are the bullet wounds and the cuff marks on his wrists. Ed Ou’s spell-binding camerawork is strikingly powerful. Kudos to the video team for taking a back seat and letting the characters and the visuals own this powerful story.
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Citation Recipient: Jordan Kronick, David Scott, Fernando Villegas and Daniel Litke
Affiliation: HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
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2017Maggie MichaelThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2017
Award Recipient: Maggie Michael
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “In Yemen, Human Rights a Casualty of War”
Maggie MichaelAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2017
Award Recipient: Maggie Michael
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “In Yemen, Human Rights a Casualty of War”
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
In a year filled with horrific violence in many parts of the world, the war in Yemen did not get the attention it deserved. The AP series on the secret torture taking place fills out much of what was unknown about the war in Yemen led by U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. Maggie Michael took great personal risks, with her video colleague, driver and fixers, to tell the story of the 18 secret prisons in Yemen where detainees are tortured by men from the UAE. Chillingly, eyewitness reported seeing Americans in U.S. Military uniform assisting with interrogations. Michael also documented other effects of the proxy war waged in Yemen including malnourished children and economic pressures that result in more childhood marriages as families seek to offload their daughters. Michael and her team documented all of this and more in a chilling package that included charts, video and compelling graphics. The response was immediate and included calls by U.S. senators and the government of Yemen for an investigation.
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Citation Recipients: Dionne Searcey and Sarah Topol
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “Hell’s Children” -
2017Sam Evans-Brown and Hannah McCarthyPowerline, New Hampshire Public Radio
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2017
Award Recipient: Sam Evans-Brown and Hannah McCarthy
Award Recipient Affiliation: Powerline, New Hampshire Public Radio
Award Honored Work: “Outside/In” podcast
Sam Evans-Brown (left) and Hannah McCarthyAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2017
Award Recipient: Sam Evans-Brown and Hannah McCarthy
Award Recipient Affiliation: Powerline, New Hampshire Public Radio
Award Honored Work: “Outside/In” podcast
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
This illuminating four-part radio documentary is the result of six months of exhaustive reporting, in which Evans-Brown and McCarthy explore the consequences of a Massachusetts decision to cut carbon emissions by 25%. Their investigation takes them into remote native communities in northern Quebec, where livelihoods have been devastated by giant hydropower projects. Hours of audio include interviews in indigenous languages, decades of history, dissection of Canadian government documents, and the sounds of rushing rivers that immerse listeners in a real sense of discovery. The judges especially liked the team’s ambition, as well as its conclusion that no energy source, no matter how clean, is free of victims—a fact that is too often lost in the coverage of climate change.
Award-Winning Work: “Outside/In” podcast
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Citation Recipients: Douglas Fox, Laurent Ballesta and Camille Seaman
Affiliation: National Geographic
Honored Work: “Crisis on the Ice” and “Under Antarctica” -
2017Richard MarosiLos Angeles Times
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2017
Award Recipient: Richard Marosi
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: "Mexico’s Housing Debacle: A Failed Vision"
Richard MarosiAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2017
Award Recipient: Richard Marosi
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: "Mexico’s Housing Debacle: A Failed Vision"
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
Through rigorous investigation and compelling writing, Richard Marosi of the Los Angeles Times exposed the origins of a $100 billion scandal that has littered Mexico with shoddy housing projects and the broken aspirations of millions of would-be homeowners. Conceived at the turn of the century as a public-private initiative to build affordable suburbs across the country, the program raised billions from global investors and sparked the largest residential construction boom in Latin America. But instead of lifting up working-class families, the Times found, the program set off a “slow-motion social and financial catastrophe.” Drawing on documents, interviews and inspection of 50 developments from Tijuana to the Gulf of Mexico, Marosi chronicled how corruption, poor planning and impunity trapped thousands of Mexicans in unhealthy, sub-standard housing many could not afford. The Times series skillfully explored themes of poverty, inequality, corruption and accountability. It is a powerful example of investigative reporting and lucid writing arrayed against a major public issue hiding in plain sight.
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Citation Recipient: Almudena Toral, Maye Primera, Oscar Martinez and Carlos Martinez
Affiliation: Univision News Digital/El Faro
Honored Work: “From Migrants to Refugees: The New Plight of Central Americans”
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2017William Booth, Sufian Taha and Linda DavidsonThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2017
Award Recipient: William Booth, Sufian Taha and Linda Davidson
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Occupied"
William Booth, Sufian Taha and Linda DavidsonAward Date: 2017
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2017
Award Recipient: William Booth, Sufian Taha and Linda Davidson
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Occupied"
Best story or series of stories on international affairs using digital storytelling techniques
What does it feel like to be occupied in 2017? To answer this question, The Washington Post produced an intimate, immersive series that transports readers into the worlds of three Palestinians: an everyman construction worker; a matriarch in the final stages of cancer, and an idealistic tycoon striving to build a model city amidst turmoil. Fusing powerful writing, photos, maps and raw footage, “Occupied” captures the slow grind of thousands of men inching through a single checkpoint, and what it means to seek cancer treatment in an area where only 16 oncologists serve a population of more than 4 million. In doing so, journalists William Booth, Sufian Taha and Linda Davidson bring to life the continued human costs of Israel’s military occupation that has now lasted 50 years.
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Citation Recipients: Aryn Baker, Lynsey Addario and Francesca Trianni
Affiliation: TIME, supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Merck for Mothers
Honored Work: “Finding Home” -
2017Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Manuel Mogato and Reuters teamReuters
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Roy Rowan Award 2017
Award Recipient: Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Manuel Mogato and Reuters team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Duterte’s War”
Left to right: Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato.Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Roy Rowan Award 2017
Award Recipient: Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Manuel Mogato and Reuters team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Duterte’s War”
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story
Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines in 2016 on a promise to eradicate the scourge of drugs. Since then, his police forces have pursued that aim with a bloody vengeance, killing more than 9,000 people. The government has described the raids as legitimate law enforcement operations. In the series “Duterte’s War,” Reuters reporters Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall demolish that defense. Reuters dispatched Baldwin and Marshall to train a microscope on the mayhem. Aided by Manuel Mogato, they combed through law enforcement’s own records to pinpoint operations and identify the officers who conducted them. They examined video surveillance, interviewed scores of witnesses, debriefed emergency room physicians, reviewed leaked documents and obtained crucial testimony from senior police commanders themselves. Their exhaustive, meticulous reporting exposes the scope of the state’s role in the slaughter of its own citizens, making the unanswerable case that the Philippine police have been acting as death squads and using a variety of ruses to cover their tracks.
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Citation Recipient: Iona Craig
Affiliation: The Intercept
Honored Work: “Death in Al Ghayil: Women and Children in Yemeni Village Recall Horror of Trump’s ‘Highly Successful’ SEAL Raid”
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Award Date: 2017
Award Name: Best Commentary 2017
Award Recipient: Gideon Rachman
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: Gideon Rachman
Gideon RachmanAward Date: 2017
Award Name: Best Commentary 2017
Award Recipient: Gideon Rachman
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: Gideon Rachman
Best commentary in any medium on international news
In an outstanding field of deeply reported and intelligent entries, Gideon Rachman’s range of subjects, reported insight and refreshing opinions was the most impressive. He was particularly forceful on the rising tide of nationalism facing Europe and the U.S. One reader summed it up this way: “A tour de force on the political challenges of our age by Gideon Rachman, possibly the best world affairs writer of the day.”
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Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The President’s Award 2017
Award Recipient: Journalists Who Died Covering the War in Syria
Award Recipient Affiliation:
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The President’s Award 2017
Award Recipient: Journalists Who Died Covering the War in Syria
Award Recipient Affiliation:
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2016
Award Recipient: Hannah Dreier
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Venezuela Undone”
Hannah DreierAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2016
Award Recipient: Hannah Dreier
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Venezuela Undone”
In insightful, enduring, and richly detailed reports, Dreier chronicled the unraveling of a nation. Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis is not the story of a people overlooked by progress; it is the story of a once-prosperous society, with the largest oil reserves in the world, driven by its leaders to the brink of starvation. Dreier bore witness to a collapse of middle-class life — food riots, collapsing health care, the dawn of mob justice –and then unearthed its origins, a combination of mismanagement, political delusion and corruption. Throughout, she also exposed a less visible realm of ruin: the loss of empathy among neighbors, the corrosion of the soul. Her efforts had consequences. U.S. senators called for sanctions against corrupt officials. Readers donated money to pay for a child’s medical treatments. At the same time, she received threats from Venezuelan intelligence officers and government supporters. Hannah Dreier’s brave and revealing reporting exemplifies the legacy of Hal Boyle and the best of foreign correspondence. It is not only a rendering of recent history but also a warning for the future.
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Citation Recipients: Ben Hubbard, Mark Mazzetti, Carlotta Gall, Scott Shane and Nicholas Kulish
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “Secrets of the Kingdom”
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2016Simon Denyer, Emily Rauhala and Elizabeth DwoskinThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2016
Award Recipient: Simon Denyer, Emily Rauhala and Elizabeth Dwoskin
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “Behind the Firewall”
Left to right: Simon Denyer, Emily Rauhala and Elizabeth Dwoskin. Photos: Bill O'Leary/Ricky Carioti/The Washington PostAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2016
Award Recipient: Simon Denyer, Emily Rauhala and Elizabeth Dwoskin
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “Behind the Firewall”
In “Beyond the Firewall,” Washington Post reporters confronted a subject of vast dimensions and epic implications: the Internet in China. The idea of the Internet as an inherently democratizing force for good has run up against the reality of China’s campaign to censor in cyberspace. The team took readers into the fascinating and bizarre world behind the “Great Firewall.” They explained how the authoritarian regime in Beijing has utilized social media and web usage to create an Orwellian surveillance tool, the “social credit rating,” to punish and reward every citizen. They interviewed dissidents who test the boundaries of an implacable crackdown that has succeeded in blocking tens of thousands of websites, yet tolerates certain loopholes for a globally connected minority. The series was smart, vivid and effective, bringing alive a difficult subject. It explored a frontier where geopolitics and technology converge, presenting counter-intuitive questions about how governments manage ever-sprawling societies that have the potential to affect vast numbers of people, far beyond China and far into the future.
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Citation Recipients: Tom Burgis, Pilitia Clark, Michael Peel, Charlie Bibby and Kari-Ruth Pedersen
Affiliation: Financial Times
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2016Bryan Denton and Sergey PonomarevThe New York Times
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2016
Award Recipient: Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “What ISIS Wrought”
Bryan Denton, left, and Sergey Ponomarev.Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2016
Award Recipient: Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “What ISIS Wrought”
Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev showed exceptional courage, advancing with Iraqi Special Forces and Kurdish fighters into Islamic State-occupied areas, and they captured intimate views into the lives of those affected by war. The images were artful as well as powerfully journalistic.
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Citation Recipient: Goran Tomasevic, Zohra Bensemra, Mohammed Salem and Ahmed Jadallah
Affiliation: Reuters
Honored Work: “Battle for Mosul”
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2016Daniel BerehulakThe New York Times
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2016
Award Recipient: Daniel Berehulak
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals”
Daniel BerehulakAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2016
Award Recipient: Daniel Berehulak
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals”
Daniel Berehulak’s riveting photographs captured, intimately and in depth, the lives and deaths of those affected by the Philippine drug war. It was visual story telling at its best: images that one judge described as a “journey through hell.” The work also brought wide attention to a story that had been largely overlooked.
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Citation Year: 2016
Citation Recipient: Aris Messinis
Affiliation: Agence France Presse
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2016Meridith KohutThe New York Times
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2016
Award Recipient: Meridith Kohut
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Inside Venezuela’s Crumbling Mental Hospitals”
Meridith KohutAward Date: 2016
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2016
Award Recipient: Meridith Kohut
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Inside Venezuela’s Crumbling Mental Hospitals”
Meridith Kohut’s moving images brought attention to the plight of people in Venezuela’s state-run psychiatric hospitals, places that have been all but forgotten in that country’s disintegration. The stark, powerful photographs from inside the halls of those institutions grimly cast a light on endemic suffering and malnourishment.
Citation Year: 2016
Citation Recipient: Tomas Munita
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “Cuba on the Edge of Change”
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2016Emily Harris, Gabe O’Connor, Barry Gordemer, Michael May and Larry KaplowNPR
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2016
Award Recipient: Emily Harris, Gabe O’Connor, Barry Gordemer, Michael May and Larry Kaplow
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR
Award Honored Work: “Moments of change for Palestinians and Israelis”
Left to right: Emily Harris, Gabe O’Connor, Barry Gordemer, Michael May and Larry Kaplow.Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2016
Award Recipient: Emily Harris, Gabe O’Connor, Barry Gordemer, Michael May and Larry Kaplow
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR
Award Honored Work: “Moments of change for Palestinians and Israelis”
What causes people to change their minds, their beliefs, their view of the forces shaping their lives? These four powerful and nuanced stories describe such pivotal moments for people living in the middle of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Emily Harris introduces us to a Palestinian man whose empathy transforms him from revenge seeker to peace activist. Then we meet a Palestinian woman, long involved in peace activism, who becomes alienated from the process and from her former Israeli friends. An Israeli woman changes from settlement opponent to West Bank settler. And a former Israeli soldier, once a proud defender of the nation, suddenly sees himself as “occupier” when he smiles at a young Palestinian girl and catches her look of fear in response. These profound transformations, pulling in different directions, deftly remind listeners of the many facets of this conflict, and they presage the challenges of finding a lasting peace.
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Citation Recipient: Jasmine Garsd
Affiliation: PRI’s The World
Honored Work: “Women of Colombia’s War”
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Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2016
Award Recipient: Clarissa Ward and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Undercover in Syria”
Clarissa WardAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2016
Award Recipient: Clarissa Ward and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Undercover in Syria”
In a year marked by brave and courageous reporting, Clarissa Ward and her team at CNN stood out for the incredible risk they took to bring their stories from Syria to light. The images, editing, and writing brought jarring resonance to a critical story. With poignant interviews, CNN’s team told difficult stories without resorting to hype. It didn’t just address the what, but the why, including why doctors don’t leave and the implications for institutions under direct attack. This report exemplified international television reporting at its finest.
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Citation Recipient: Morgan Till, Jane Ferguson, Jane Arraf, Jon Gerberg and Sara Just
Affiliation: PBS NewsHour/Pulitzer Center
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2015Beth Murphy, Charles Sennott, Justine Nagan, Chris White, Sally Jo FiferPBS POV/GroundTruth
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2016
Award Recipient: Beth Murphy, Charles Sennott, Justine Nagan, Chris White, Sally Jo Fifer
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS POV/GroundTruth
Award Honored Work: “What Tomorrow Brings”
Beth MurphyAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2016
Award Recipient: Beth Murphy, Charles Sennott, Justine Nagan, Chris White, Sally Jo Fifer
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS POV/GroundTruth
Award Honored Work: “What Tomorrow Brings”
This documentary transported the life-and-death war for women’s rights in Afghanistan right into American living rooms. In a crystal-clear story about an all-girls school northeast of Kabul, the PBS team brilliantly illuminated the lives of the girls, their families and the courageous teachers and administrators striving to survive constant cultural, economic and political challenges.
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Citation Recipient: Morgan Till, Jane Ferguson, Jane Arraf, Jon Gerberg and Sara Just
Affiliation: PBS NewsHour/Pulitzer Center
Honored Work: “The Fight for Iraq”
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2016The Real Sports TeamHBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award 2016
Award Recipient: The Real Sports Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Award Honored Work: “The Lords of the Rings”
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award 2016
Award Recipient: The Real Sports Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Award Honored Work: “The Lords of the Rings”
HBO’s documentary, the first recipient in this new OPC category, exemplified the core values of Peter Jennings’ reporting: commitment to covering international stories, unflinching dedication to the craft of journalism, consistent inquiry to uncover all aspects of a story, and the courage to follow the story no matter the consequences. “The Lord of the Rings” was an ambitious, unique and riveting expose that explained the painful human and environmental cost of the Olympic Games and the unethical practices of its organizing body, the International Olympics Committee, the wealthiest sports organization in the world. Reported over two years from nine countries with four correspondents, the 75-minute long program aired on the eve of the 2016 Rio Games and revealed that the IOC pursues wealth, privilege and glory for its members at a staggering cost to people around the world. This complex and disturbing story shed new light on the IOC and uncovered graft and corruption at a great cost to human rights and dignity at the Olympic Games.
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Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2016
Award Recipient: Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Atlantic
Award Honored Work: “The Hell After ISIS”
Anand GopalAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2016
Award Recipient: Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Atlantic
Award Honored Work: “The Hell After ISIS”
Best magazine reporting in print or digital on an international story
AWARD DATE: 2016
AWARD NAME: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award
AWARD RECIPIENT: Anand Gopal
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Atlantic
AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Hell After ISIS”
AWARD SPONSOR: Ford Motor Company
Anand Gopal’s “The Hell After ISIS” is a beautifully written account of the consequences of war. His narrative, based on 13 months of reporting, recounts the suffering of one Sunni family in Iraq, fleeing ISIS jihadists only to fall prey to unforgiving Shia militias. Gopal was detained and expelled from Iraq, but managed to return to complete this compelling narrative that sheds light on both the rise of ISIS and the global refugee crisis.
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Citation Recipient: Scott Anderson
Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Honored Work: “Fractured Lands”
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2016Steve SackMinneapolis Star Tribune
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2016
Award Recipient: Steve Sack
Award Recipient Affiliation: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Steve SackAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2016
Award Recipient: Steve Sack
Award Recipient Affiliation: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Steve Sack successfully harnessed all the cartoonist’s tools – caricature, composition, biting wit and solid journalism – in his impressive portfolio. Visually engaging and often smile-inducing, Sack covered a wide variety of subjects, from the erosion of coral reefs to the suffering of Syrian civilians, with skill, style and aplomb.
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Citation Year: 2016
Citation Recipient: Adam Zyglis
Affiliation: The Buffalo News
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2016Matthew Campbell and Kit ChellelBloomberg Businessweek
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2016
Award Recipient: Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: “Hot Mess: How Goldman Sachs Lost $1.2 Billion of Libya’s Money”
Matthew Campbell, left, and Kit ChellelAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2016
Award Recipient: Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: “Hot Mess: How Goldman Sachs Lost $1.2 Billion of Libya’s Money”
Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel’s engaging piece about a multi-billion-dollar deal between Goldman Sachs and Qaddafi’s Libya was a feat of storytelling. The careful and vivid selection of details — a banned novel resting on the table, a late-night call to a prostitute in Dubai, the long wait for an elevator in Tripoli — brought a cinematic quality to the writing. The reporting was equally impressive. The story, drawn from court documents and interviews, created three-dimensional characters and offered readers a rare glimpse into how secretive financial deals are sealed. It was a thrilling collision between two of the biggest news themes of the past decade — the financial crisis of 2008 and an autocracy on its last legs before the Arab Spring.
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Citation Year: 2016
Citation Recipient: Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley and Andrew Willis
Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
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2016International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partnersInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partners
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2016
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partners
Award Honored Work: “The Panama Papers: Politicians, Criminals and the Rogue Industry That Hides Their Cash”
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2016
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partners
Award Honored Work: “The Panama Papers: Politicians, Criminals and the Rogue Industry That Hides Their Cash”
Using documents leaked from a Panamanian law firm, this highly innovative global coalition of news organizations shocked the world with detailed accounts of how political and business elites, arms dealers and others hid their wealth in secretive webs of more than 200,000 offshore banking entities. More than 400 journalists from nearly 80 countries took part in the remarkably complex project. The sheer scale of the project, lasting over a period of years, surpassed the best efforts of any single news organization.
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Citation Recipient: Rob Barry, Christopher S. Stewart, Mark Maremont, Margaret Coker and Benoit Faucon
Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Honored Work: “Accounting For Terror”
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2016Arkady OstrovskyViking/Penguin Random House
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2016
Award Recipient: Arkady Ostrovsky
Award Recipient Affiliation: Viking/Penguin Random House
Award Honored Work: “The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War”
Arkady OstrovskyAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2016
Award Recipient: Arkady Ostrovsky
Award Recipient Affiliation: Viking/Penguin Random House
Award Honored Work: “The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War”
Grippingly told and brimming with brilliant insights, “The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War” explained the past 60 years of Russia’s turbulent political development. Arkady Ostrovsky, a veteran Russian-born journalist who has been on the scene at historical events, immersed himself in years of Russian newspapers and TV programming, and conducted candid interviews with dozens of Russia’s leading politicians, oligarchs and media kingmakers. The result was a fascinating and compelling insider account of how power has been won and lost among Russia’s ruling elite. Ostrovsky highlighted the outsized influence of the Russian media, from the pioneering newspaper Kommersant to the national TV networks and their often amoral news anchors. In one chilling anecdote, political reformer Boris Nemstov visits the office of Russia’s newly elected president, Vladimir Putin, and sees nothing on Putin’s desk except a TV remote control. Putin would soon establish complete power over Russian media; years later, Nemstov would be assassinated.
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Citation Year: 2016
Citation Recipient: Robert F. Worth
Affiliation: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Honored Work: “A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS” -
2016Robyn DixonLos Angeles Times
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2016
Award Recipient: Robyn Dixon
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: “South Sudan Slips Back Toward Chaos”
Robyn DixonAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2016
Award Recipient: Robyn Dixon
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: “South Sudan Slips Back Toward Chaos”
Robyn Dixon’s vivid dispatches from Nigeria and South Sudan read like novellas, with strong central characters presented not in archetype but in all their complex humanity as they struggle against corruption, terrorism and civil war. Thorough, revelatory news reporting undergirded these tales, but Dixon kept the focus on ordinary people in unimaginable circumstances: a big-hearted father of 25, a driving teacher on perilous roads, a teenage girl traded for cattle. The lyrical storytelling offered a fresh look at African lives that have slipped from view as U.S. news outlets shrink foreign coverage. A concern for the human condition was embedded in Dixon’s journalism — her subjects are survivors, and their capacity for resilience lingered with the reader. Dixon’s work was a master class in foreign reporting that preserves the dignity and voices of the people who trust us with their stories.
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Citation Recipient: Kathy Gannon
Affiliation: The Associated Press
Honored Work: “Honor Bound” -
2016Marcel Mettelsiefen, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz and Raney AronsonPBS Frontline
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2016
Award Recipient: Marcel Mettelsiefen, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS Frontline
Award Honored Work: “Children of Syria”
Left to right: Marcel Mettelsiefen, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz and Raney AronsonAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2016
Award Recipient: Marcel Mettelsiefen, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS Frontline
Award Honored Work: “Children of Syria”
This was a captivating piece of documentary-making. While there have been many stories on the Syrian refugee crisis, PBS produced a lovely, layered story of tragedy and hope that added context to the migrant story. The team perfectly captured the emotion of a family dealing with war and its effects. The focus switched from person to person seamlessly, building rich pictures of each family member. When the family arrives in Germany, each member is seen coping in different ways with their new lives. The eldest daughter makes German friends, shedding her hijab for lipstick and for the first time in her life feeling free. Her mother, however, seems adrift without her husband of 21 years, lonely and confused in a strange country. The cinematography was first rate.
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Citation Recipient: James Blumeil, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson
Affiliation: PBS Frontline
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2016The Associated Press StaffThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2016
Award Recipient: The Associated Press Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Islamic State: A Savage Legacy”
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2016
Award Recipient: The Associated Press Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Islamic State: A Savage Legacy”
AP’s “Savage Legacy” series was a powerful reminder of the role that the basic business of journalism – getting the facts – still plays in the battle against human rights abuses, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The series also underlined how the reach of a global news agency can tell a story that goes beyond one country or region, showing the patterns that reflect systematized atrocities. The series is also a testament to the spirit and endurance of public service journalism. While officials were slow to document the deaths and destruction of the Islamic State, AP reporters, often at great personal risk, took an active role collecting evidence of the tragedies and despair. The AP documented the existence of 72 mass graves and the destruction of cultural and religious sites by corroborating survivor testimony with satellite imagery, on the ground reporting and reports from local rights groups. The result was a series of stories that established not just the terrible facts, but gave voice to the survivors of atrocities, implicitly challenging the international community to ensure that the perpetrators are eventually held to account.
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Citation Recipient: Rachel Nolan
Affiliation: Harpers
Honored Work: “Innocents: Where Pregnant Women Have More to Fear than Zika” -
2016Elliott D. Woods“The Fight for Chinko”
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2016
Award Recipient: Elliott D. Woods
Award Recipient Affiliation: “The Fight for Chinko”
Award Honored Work: Virginia Quarterly Review/Pulitzer Center
Elliott D. WoodsAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2016
Award Recipient: Elliott D. Woods
Award Recipient Affiliation: “The Fight for Chinko”
Award Honored Work: Virginia Quarterly Review/Pulitzer Center
In a raw and unique tale from the Central African Republic, Woods described in vivid detail how three 20-somethings run the remote, 38,000-square-mile Chinko wildlife preserve. In his lone, intrepid journey, Woods captured the chilling terror and life-threatening peril the small team endures in the course of their work, including how they stave off murderous gunmen and spend months in an overcrowded jail. All this in order to keep alive one of Africa’s most pristine habitats, with herds of elephant, antelope, rhinos and a multitude of other animals. The story, written with sensitivity and attentiveness, cast a light on the grueling, back-breaking effort needed to protect wildlife in a country with no resources, rampant corruption, and brutal horrors.
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2016Nadja Drost, Bruno Federico, Morgan Till, Patti Parson and Sara JustPBS NewsHour
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2016
Award Recipient: Nadja Drost, Bruno Federico, Morgan Till, Patti Parson and Sara Just
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS NewsHour
Award Honored Work: “Fight for Peace”
Left to right: Nadja Drost, Bruno Federico, Morgan Till, Patti Parson and Sara JustAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2016
Award Recipient: Nadja Drost, Bruno Federico, Morgan Till, Patti Parson and Sara Just
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS NewsHour
Award Honored Work: “Fight for Peace”
The PBS NewsHour team took on a difficult and at times dangerous assignment about a complex issue and succeeded in obtaining unique access to produce a series of reports that enlightened and informed. The reporting reflected courage, nuance, big-picture analysis and observed details. At the core of this team were two independent journalists who dedicated themselves to being on the ground to cover the story. They teamed up with a prestigious national news organization that allowed them to produce a powerful body of work that reached a wide audience on television and online. It was a partnership that represented the very best of international news in the digital age.
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Citation Recipient: Jon Lee Anderson
Affiliation: The New Yorker
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2016Malia Politzer and Emily KassieThe Huffington Post/Pulitzer Center
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: Best Digital Reporting on International Affairs 2016
Award Recipient: Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Huffington Post/Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “The 21st Century Gold Rush”
Malia Politzer, left, and Emily KassieAward Date: 2016
Award Name: Best Digital Reporting on International Affairs 2016
Award Recipient: Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Huffington Post/Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “The 21st Century Gold Rush”
In a category dominated by the global refugee crisis, “The 21st Century Gold Rush” charted fresh territory in a well-traversed international issue by digging deeply into those who have profited from the refugee crisis. Spanning four countries, with characters from warlords to sex slaves, Huffington Post reporters Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie worked tirelessly to uncover a hidden side of the economics of global migration, and told it through powerful digital storytelling. Integrating text, photography, ambient video, documentary video and animations, the story was a seamless and searing window into a dangerous ecosystem that is only just coming to light.
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Citation Recipient: Evan Ratliff
Affiliation: The Atavist Magazine
Honored Work: “The Mastermind” -
2016Ben TaubThe New Yorker/Pulitzer Center
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2016
Award Recipient: Ben Taub
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker/Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “War Crimes in Syria”
Ben TaubAward Date: 2016
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2016
Award Recipient: Ben Taub
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker/Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “War Crimes in Syria”
The war in Syria has generated headlines around the world, many of them focusing on atrocities committed by the militant group, Islamic State. Less understood is the saga of torture and murder going on in every corner of the Syrian government’s security and intelligence apparatus. In an exhaustively detailed account, Ben Taub of The New Yorker laid bare the horrific campaign to stamp out opposition, sanctioned by top levels of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Based on a heroic international effort to gather documentation of these war crimes, Taub’s account took the more than 600,000 photos, internal memos and witness statements collected thus far and wove a powerful and heartbreaking story of a government waging war on its own citizens. Taub spent months poring through the war crimes files to collect evidence of at least 11,000 victims mutilated, cut, burned, shot, beaten and strangled by the powerful apparatus of the Syrian state. His meticulous review of the documents was supplemented by his own unforgettable interviews with one of the regime’s torture victims, and the dramatic saga of the war crimes investigators themselves — lending a powerful humanity to the document dive. The result was a piece that deployed the best traditions of investigative journalism to achieve a chilling and unforgettable narrative that truly holds power to account.
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Citation Recipient: Chris Hamby
Affiliation: BuzzFeed News
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2016Masha GessenThe New York Review of Books
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: Best Commentary 2016
Award Recipient: Masha Gessen
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Review of Books
Award Honored Work: “Trump, Russia and the Reality of Power”
Masha GessenAward Date: 2016
Award Name: Best Commentary 2016
Award Recipient: Masha Gessen
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Review of Books
Award Honored Work: “Trump, Russia and the Reality of Power”
If ever a year summoned commentators to think outside the conventional boundaries, it was 2016. The world’s last superpower elected an impetuous, self-absorbed reality TV star to be its commander in chief. His campaign evidently was assisted – in what measure we still don’t know – by a Russia that remains a virtual dictatorship. It was a year made for Masha Gessen. In essays written for The New York Review of Books, the Russian-born journalist and author brilliantly deconstructed the Trump-Putin relationship, confronted unquestioned assumptions about how power works, and described a profound crisis of democracy. Some of her dark forecasts (a stock market crash if Trump won) have not come true (yet), but there is much she got right, not least the ascent of Trump. “It’s time to force ourselves to imagine the unimaginable…Trump being elected president.” That was in July. Whether or not you shared her deep pessimism about a Trump presidency, she made you think.
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Citation Recipient: Trudy Rubin
Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The President’s Award 2016
Award Recipient: David Edward Fanning
Award Recipient Affiliation: Frontline
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The President’s Award 2016
Award Recipient: David Edward Fanning
Award Recipient Affiliation: Frontline
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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2015Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Esther HtusanThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2015
Award Recipient: Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Esther Htusan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Seafood From Slaves”
From left: Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Esther HtusanAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2015
Award Recipient: Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Esther Htusan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Seafood From Slaves”
In a series of powerful, touching and scrupulously reported stories and videos, a team of Associated Press reporters exposed an ugly truth behind much of the inexpensive seafood on our tables—it is produced by people held captive for years and even decades in Thailand’s seafood industry. The use of slaves to fish for seafood in some parts of the world was widely suspected. But the AP team doggedly located and interviewed captive slaves and followed specific loads of slave-caught seafood to supply chains of particular brands and stores. The effort resulted in the freeing of more than 2,000 slaves, the jailing of a dozen people, the shuttering of businesses and the seizing of ships worth millions of dollars. It spawned calls for action and promises of reform from some of the world’s largest food retailers. The series exemplified foreign correspondence at its best: bearing witness, uncovering the truth and making a difference in people’s lives.
Citation Recipients: Patrick McDonnell, Christopher Goffard, Laura King, Kate Linthicum and Henry Chu
Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Honored Work: “Fleeing Syria”
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Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2015
Award Recipient: Reuters Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “The Long Arm of China”
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2015
Award Recipient: Reuters Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “The Long Arm of China”
This expose of how China has created a secret, national broadcast network within the United States is fresh, original and a significant contribution to an increasingly important subject. Time and again the reporters’ questions took even the interviewees by surprise. The in-depth investigative reporting had impact by bringing a previously hidden operation to light, using a crisp, clear, well-edited and well-written style.
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Citation Recipient: The Washington Post Staff
Affiliation: The Washington Post
Honored Work: “Confronting the Caliphate”
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Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2015
Award Recipient: Bassam Khabieh
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Field Hospital Damascus”
Bassam KhabiehAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2015
Award Recipient: Bassam Khabieh
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Field Hospital Damascus”
Bassam Khabieh’s images put into perspective the tremendous danger and difficulty of being a photojournalist in current-day Syria, and they shine a spotlight on the exodus from the region. Further setting this entry apart from the others was the courage and enterprise required not only to cover but live day in and day out in one of the most hostile and unpredictable environments on the planet.
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Citation Recipient: Jerome Delay
Affiliation: The Associated Press
Honored Work: “Burundi Unrest”
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2015Stephen DupontSteidl
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2015
Award Recipient: Stephen Dupont
Award Recipient Affiliation: Steidl
Award Honored Work: “Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars, 1993-2012”
Stephen DupontAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2015
Award Recipient: Stephen Dupont
Award Recipient Affiliation: Steidl
Award Honored Work: “Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars, 1993-2012”
The overall body of work is extremely compelling, and the quality and presentation of the book are impressive. Stephen Dupont offers historical context that could only come from a commitment and dedication to documenting life in a war-torn nation for nearly two decades.
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Citation Recipient: David Guttenfelder
Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Honored Work: “Damming the Mekong: Harnessing a River or Killing It”
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2015Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel EtterThe New York Times
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2015
Award Recipient: Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Exodus”
Left to right: Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2015
Award Recipient: Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Exodus”
This series of images on the migrant crisis contains strong elements of emotion and conflict, and offers engaging variety. As a package, the images are not only beautifully shot and edited but tell the broad story of the plight of the migrants and what they endured crossing border after border in hopes of a better life.
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Citation Recipient: Santi Palacios
Affiliation: The Associated Press
Honored Work: “Coming Ashore”
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2015Daniel BerehulakThe New York Times
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2015
Award Recipient: Daniel Berehulak
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “High in the Himalayas, A Search After The Nepal Quake Yields Grim Results”
Daniel BerehulakAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2015
Award Recipient: Daniel Berehulak
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “High in the Himalayas, A Search After The Nepal Quake Yields Grim Results”
Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme
These images convey grief, humanity and the scale of the tragedy. The photographer was able to tell the story from different perspectives and get close enough to connect readers with his subjects and communicate their emotions and loss.
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Citation Recipient: Mario Tama
Affiliation: Getty Images
Honored Work: “Brazil’s Afflictive Prison System”
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2015Molly Webster and team, in collaboration with Israel StoryRadioLab/WNYC
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2015
Award Recipient: Molly Webster and team, in collaboration with Israel Story
Award Recipient Affiliation: RadioLab/WNYC
Award Honored Work: “Birthstory”
Molly WebsterAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2015
Award Recipient: Molly Webster and team, in collaboration with Israel Story
Award Recipient Affiliation: RadioLab/WNYC
Award Honored Work: “Birthstory”
Best radio or audio news or interpretation of international affairs.
Radio Lab’s Molly Webster and her team took a fascinating story about a gay Israeli couple on a quest to contract for a surrogate baby and turned it into a human, complex and surprising international tale of intolerance, economics and—ultimately—love. They followed the story to Turkey and Nepal, where they discovered a cottage industry of Indian surrogate mothers carrying babies conceived with East European eggs and Israeli sperm. The story showed how cultures cross-fertilize, brought together by different needs and sometimes to each others’ symbiotic benefit. It had no easy answers and challenged listeners’ assumptions about exploitation, risks and benefits of the most intimate—and ethically challenging—of industries.
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2015Emiland Guillerme, Ben Laffin, Spencer Wolff, Deborah Acosta, Yousur Al-Hlou, Pamela Druckerman, Stefania Rousselle, Ben C. Solomon, Leslye Davis, Taige Jensen, Quyn Do, Adam B. Ellick and Steve DuenesThe New York Times
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2015
Award Recipient: Emiland Guillerme, Ben Laffin, Spencer Wolff, Deborah Acosta, Yousur Al-Hlou, Pamela Druckerman, Stefania Rousselle, Ben C. Solomon, Leslye Davis, Taige Jensen, Quyn Do, Adam B. Ellick and Steve Duenes
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Paris”
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2015
Award Recipient: Emiland Guillerme, Ben Laffin, Spencer Wolff, Deborah Acosta, Yousur Al-Hlou, Pamela Druckerman, Stefania Rousselle, Ben C. Solomon, Leslye Davis, Taige Jensen, Quyn Do, Adam B. Ellick and Steve Duenes
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Paris”
Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad
Working in a medium relatively new to the organization, journalists at The New York Times conveyed the terror, confusion and pain of the Paris terror attack almost contemporaneously by simply allowing eyewitnesses and victims to tell their stories, in their own words. The fact that these narrated accounts were spoken in French (and subtitled) did not detract at all from their power—a testament to the strength of this approach. Sensitive photography and lighting and effective use of ambient sound highlighted the stakes of the narration. The Times also judiciously used music, graphics and B-roll to highlight the reporting without overwhelming it. Especially noteworthy was the piece “An Improbable Survivor.” During the live coverage of the attacks, much of the world had been transfixed by the image of a man dangling outside a window at the Bataclan Concert Hall. The Times tracked him down and told his story.
Watch the Times video coverage of the Paris attacks >>
Citation Recipient: Charlie D’Agata, Heather Abbott, Erin Lyall and Lynne Edwards
Affiliation: CBS News
Honored Work: “Desperate Journey: Europe’s Migrant Crisis”
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2015Jamie Doran, Najibullah Quraishi and Raney AronsonPBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2015
Award Recipient: Jamie Doran, Najibullah Quraishi and Raney Aronson
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Award Honored Work: “ISIS in Afghanistan”
Left to right: Jamie Doran, Najibullah Quraishi and Raney Aronson.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2015
Award Recipient: Jamie Doran, Najibullah Quraishi and Raney Aronson
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Award Honored Work: “ISIS in Afghanistan”
Best TV or video interpretation or documentary on international affairs
The growing global threat of ISIS, a defining story of 2015, was further revealed by this chilling FRONTLINE documentary tracking a correspondent to a remote Afghan village to see how ISIS is brutally displacing the Taliban. Najibullah Quraishi’s courageous reporting shows how ISIS offers recruits $700 a month as they outbid the Taliban and gives a glimpse of ISIS education: tutorials in beheading, grenade tossing and death chants to the United States and Israel.
Watch “ISIS in Afghanistan” >>
Citation Recipient: David Scott and Chapman Downes
Affiliation: HBO’s Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Honored Work: “The Killing Fields: The Plight of the African Elephant”
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2015Tristan McConnellForeign Policy
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2015
Award Recipient: Tristan McConnell
Award Recipient Affiliation: Foreign Policy
Award Honored Work: “Close Your Eyes and Pretend to Be Dead”
Tristan McConnellAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2015
Award Recipient: Tristan McConnell
Award Recipient Affiliation: Foreign Policy
Award Honored Work: “Close Your Eyes and Pretend to Be Dead”
Best magazine reporting in print or online on an international story
Through dozens of interviews and forensic detail, McConnell delivers an epic retelling of the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi in September 2013. Tracking down survivors, first responders, police and neighborhood security, McConnell pieces together a minute-by-minute account of the attack by four Somali Al-Shabaab operatives, which resulted in at least 67 deaths, including their own. Through the eyes of those who lived through the horror, McConnell takes readers into the heart of the events, as though they were in the midst of the violence. The result is a wrenching and breathless experience, in which each person is left to weigh life-and-death decisions in a split second. Through much of it, McConnell shows, police officers stood impotently outside, failing to act to save lives; the military’s glacial response amounted mostly to looting. A heartbreaking and damning story.
Read “Close Your Eyes and Pretend to be Dead” >>
Citation Recipient: Matthieu Aikins
Affiliation: Harper’s Magazine
Honored Work: “Gangs of Karachi: Meet the Mobsters Who Run the Show in One of the World’s Deadliest Cities”
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2015Patrick ChappatteThe New York Times
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2015
Award Recipient: Patrick Chappatte
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Patrick ChappatteAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2015
Award Recipient: Patrick Chappatte
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Best cartoons on international affairs
Chappatte showed a consistent level of high quality visual journalism in his body of work. Graphically well-composed, his cartoons are clear, stark and direct, sometimes using one word, sometimes none at all to create an immediate impact for the reader. He is a master at capturing the current international political climate in a way that leaves the reader somewhere between laughing and crying.
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Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2015
Award Recipient: Christina Larson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Foreign Policy
Award Honored Work: “The Zhao Method”
Christina LarsonAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2015
Award Recipient: Christina Larson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Foreign Policy
Award Honored Work: “The Zhao Method”
Best magazine international business news reporting in print or online
Christina Larson chronicles the rise of 23-year-old Zhao Bowen, who abandoned China’s state-run scientific research institutions to join the country’s emerging entrepreneurial class. Larson documents how the emergence of venture capital opportunities is changing the face of business at the intersection of science and capital markets and throws fresh light on the continuing evolution of China as a leading economic power.
Read “The Zhao Method” >>
Citation Recipient: Nizar Manek and Jeremy Hodge
Affiliation: Africa Confidential/Angaza Foundation for Africa Reporting
Honored Work: “Opening the Black Box of Egypt’s Slush Funds”
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2015Martha Mendoza, Esther Htusan, Margie Mason and Robin McDowellThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2015
Award Recipient: Martha Mendoza, Esther Htusan, Margie Mason and Robin McDowell
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Seafood From Slaves”
Left to right: Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Esther Htusan.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2015
Award Recipient: Martha Mendoza, Esther Htusan, Margie Mason and Robin McDowell
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Seafood From Slaves”
Best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or online
This project checked all the boxes: stellar reporting, terrific writing and fantastic use of storytelling tools traditional and nontraditional. It is an excellent example of enterprise business reporting that captured the big picture while focusing on the interest of the powerless. We were struck at how each entry distinctly exposed a layer of this shameful, globe-spanning enterprise. The impact of the story was impressive, achieving what many in our industry think is impossible or difficult to do.
This series was awarded both the Hal Boyle and the Malcolm Forbes Awards.
Read “Seafood from Slaves” >>
Citation Recipient: Wei Lingling
Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Honored Work: “A Changing China”
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2015Tom BurgisPublicAffairs
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2015
Award Recipient: Tom Burgis
Award Recipient Affiliation: PublicAffairs
Award Honored Work: “The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth “
Tom BurgisAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2015
Award Recipient: Tom Burgis
Award Recipient Affiliation: PublicAffairs
Award Honored Work: “The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth “
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
Exceptionally detailed reporting on a critical topic: how resource-rich African countries have been looted by their political leaders working hand-in-hand with international corporations. Burgis carries out remarkable on-the-ground investigations to identify the government and corporate officials who, in country after country, collude to amass tremendous fortunes while leaving their citizens impoverished and powerless. The book is a must-read for those eager to understand the problems plaguing a wide swath of Africa today.
Citation for Excellence:
Blaine Harden
Viking/Penguin Random House
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2015Patrick McDonnell, Christopher Goffard, Laura King, Kate Linthicum and Henry ChuLos Angeles Times
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2015
Award Recipient: Patrick McDonnell, Christopher Goffard, Laura King, Kate Linthicum and Henry Chu
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: “Fleeing Syria”
Left to right: Patrick McDonnell, Christopher Goffard, Laura King, Kate Linthicum and Henry Chu.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2015
Award Recipient: Patrick McDonnell, Christopher Goffard, Laura King, Kate Linthicum and Henry Chu
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: “Fleeing Syria”
Best international reporting in the print medium or online showing a concern for the human condition
The Times dispatched reporters to seven countries to report and write the heartbreaking narratives that helped readers understand the struggles of Syrians looking for safe refuge from the terrors of their nation’s civil war and ISIS. We were incredibly moved by the mother who had to leave her two sick children behind while she tried to make a new home for them in Sweden. The despair of the refugee camp in Jordan also struck us. The articles were translated into Arabic. The photographs were remarkable. The editing was excellent. For their intrepid reporting to show the human condition in the form of a refugee crisis that has unsettled the world, especially Europe, we commend the team that produced this series.
Read “Fleeing Syria” >>
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2015Evan Williams, Edward Watts and Raney AronsonPBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2015
Award Recipient: Evan Williams, Edward Watts and Raney Aronson
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Award Honored Work: “Escaping Isis”
Left to right: Evan Williams, Edward Watts and Raney Aronson.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2015
Award Recipient: Evan Williams, Edward Watts and Raney Aronson
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Award Honored Work: “Escaping Isis”
Best international reporting in the broadcast media showing a concern for the human condition
“Escaping Isis” offers an exclusive, inside look at a secret underground cell working to free women and children from captivity. It was noted for its extraordinary access and carefully detailed depiction of daunting efforts to carry out extremely dangerous rescue work. One judge described the film as restorative journalism at its best, revealing the positive, successful efforts of those who have chosen to risk their lives to win freedom for less fortunate others. Beautifully written and edited, the film is a sensitive, humanizing portrayal of suffering and redemption.
Watch “Escaping ISIS” >>
Citation Recipient: Marine Olivesi
Affiliation: PRI/The World
Honored Work: “Trauma and the Syrian War”
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Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2015
Award Recipient: David Rohde and Charles Levinson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Guantanamo Bay”
David Rohde, left, and Charles Levinson.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2015
Award Recipient: David Rohde and Charles Levinson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Guantanamo Bay”
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
The team’s superb reporting addresses one of America’s biggest human rights failings: the continued existence of the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay. Among other revelations, they broke new ground about the prevalence of torture in Guantanamo Bay and the CIA’s sexual abuse of prisoners. Rohde and Levinson dug through thousands of pages of legal files to unearth information that had not been published previously. The series also explains why Guantanamo Bay still has not been closed and provides new information about the Military Commission, how a court meant to supervise Guantanamo was open to manipulation and how the transfer of prisoners was delayed by the Pentagon even after countries had been found to take them. This depressing and provocative series did what the best reporting should do: report unflinchingly what had been hidden.
Read “Guantanamo Bay” >>
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2015International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media PartnersInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media Partners
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2015
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media Partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media Partners
Award Honored Work: “Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor”
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2015
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media Partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media Partners
Award Honored Work: “Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor”
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
Projects funded by the World Bank physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people over the past 10 years. More than 80 journalists from over 20 countries worked for more than a year documenting tragedies that occurred as bank-funded projects failed to abide by the institution’s principles and policies. The investigation was led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Huffington Post. Days after being informed of the reporting team’s findings, the World Bank said it would address the problem of “involuntary resettlement.” The investigation combines searing local reporting for both written and visual media, instructive data visualizations and a rigorous analysis of 4,000 World Bank files related to some 1,500 bank-funded projects.
Read “Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor” >>
Citation Recipients: Ian James, Steve Elfers, Steve Reilly
Affiliation: The Desert Sun/USA Today
Honored Work: “Pumped Dry: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater”
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2015Eduardo Castillo, Christopher Sherman and Dario Lopez-MillsThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2015
Award Recipient: Eduardo Castillo, Christopher Sherman and Dario Lopez-Mills
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Thousands of Mexican Families Mourn the ‘Other Disappeared’”
Left to right: Eduardo Castillo, Christopher Sherman and Dario Lopez-MillsAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2015
Award Recipient: Eduardo Castillo, Christopher Sherman and Dario Lopez-Mills
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Thousands of Mexican Families Mourn the ‘Other Disappeared’”
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
This powerful project examined the most urgent issue confronting Mexico and Latin America: impunity. Eduardo Castillo and Christopher Sherman used the notorious case of the abduction of 42 students in Iguala, Mexico, as the premise for a larger, more ambitious story about the pain and despair of a society in which 26,000 people have gone missing. The reporters explored a landscape of mafias, violence and corruption with skill, courage and empathy. The comprehensive series painted vivid human portraits: a cartel killer discussing his trade with grim nonchalance; the ordeal of a grandmother and her family in the labyrinth of the kidnapping industry; the dogged, dignified survivors who scour the mountains searching for the clandestine graves of missing loved ones. The result was a moving tale about Mexico’s national nightmare—and a stern indictment of a state that seems alternately complicit, overwhelmed or indifferent.
Read “Thousands of Mexican Families Mourn the ‘Other Disappeared'” >>
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2015Eleanor Bell, Will Fitzgibbon and Chris Zubak-SkeesThe Center for Public Integrity/International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Pulitzer Center
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2015
Award Recipient: Eleanor Bell, Will Fitzgibbon and Chris Zubak-Skees
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Center for Public Integrity/International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining in Africa”
Left to right: Eleanor Bell, Will Fitzgibbon and Chris Zubak-Skees.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2015
Award Recipient: Eleanor Bell, Will Fitzgibbon and Chris Zubak-Skees
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Center for Public Integrity/International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining in Africa”
Best use of video, interactive graphics and slideshows to report on international news
This unprecedented and ambitious multimedia project investigates Australia’s vast, unchecked footprint in the African mining industry to expose the massacres, torture, incarceration, negligence, displacement and hundreds of deaths ignored by the world for more than a decade. It lays bare how the quest for profits kept the industry poorly regulated and how ordinary men, women and children across Africa have paid the price. Compelling multimedia storytelling allowed viewers to see and hear directly from these victims and their families, whose voices are rarely heard by the outside world.
Read “Fatal Attraction: Australian Mining in Africa” >>
Citation Recipients: Ken Dornstein, Brian Funck and Michelle Mizner
Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Honored Work: “My Brother’s Bomber, Inheritance, The Libya Dossier, A Brother’s Quest”
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2015Erika Solomon, Sam Jones, Ahmad Mhidi, Guy Chazan and Robin KwongFinancial Times
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2015
Award Recipient: Erika Solomon, Sam Jones, Ahmad Mhidi, Guy Chazan and Robin Kwong
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: “ISIS Inc.”
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2015
Award Recipient: Erika Solomon, Sam Jones, Ahmad Mhidi, Guy Chazan and Robin Kwong
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: “ISIS Inc.”
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story
This powerful and revealing series turned a spotlight on the inner workings of one of the most opaque and dangerous organizations in the world. This groundbreaking investigation into ISIS’s oil trading and financial operations was based on resourceful, brave and deep reporting into where the extremist group gets its revenue and how it exploits and extorts from just about everyone in the territory it controls. The crisp, well-organized stories were aided by excellent explanatory graphics.
Read “Isis Inc.” in the Financial Times >>
Citation Recipient: Ken Dornstein, Brian Funck and Raney Aronson
Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Honored Work: “My Brother’s Bomber”
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Award Date: 2015
Award Name: Best Commentary 2015
Award Recipient: Mark Lilla
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Review of Books
Award Honored Work: “On France”
Mark LillaAward Date: 2015
Award Name: Best Commentary 2015
Award Recipient: Mark Lilla
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Review of Books
Award Honored Work: “On France”
Best commentary in any medium on international news
This is a rare case where a panel of journalists looked outside its own tribe and picked an academic: Mark Lilla’s masterful articles on France are a taxonomy of French politics, ideas and intellectual currents, all of it illuminating a year that began with the traumatic terrorist assault on Charlie Hebdo. In trenchant prose, his work combines a shrewd assessment of French current events with an impressive command of French history and literature—a rare example of commentary that is at once journalistic and scholarly, and deeply informed.
Read Mark Lilla’s work in The New York Review of Books >>
Citation Recipient: Bobby Ghosh
Affiliation: Quartz
Honored Work: “What the Iran Nuclear Deal Means for the Middle East”
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Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The President’s Award 2015
Award Recipient: David Rohde
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The President’s Award 2015
Award Recipient: David Rohde
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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2014Adam Nossiter, Nori Onishi, Sheri Fink, Helene Cooper and The New York Times staffThe New York Times
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2014
Award Recipient: Adam Nossiter, Nori Onishi, Sheri Fink, Helene Cooper and The New York Times staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: "Ebola from the Front Line"
Clockwise from top left: Adam Nossiter, Nori Onishi, Sheri Fink and Helene Cooper.Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2014
Award Recipient: Adam Nossiter, Nori Onishi, Sheri Fink, Helene Cooper and The New York Times staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: "Ebola from the Front Line"
Best newspaper, news service or Best newspaper, news service or online online reporting from abroad interpretation of international affairs
When the world’s attention focused on the devastating spread of Ebola in West Africa, reporters for The New York Times delivered, day after day, foreign correspondence at its best. In a series of powerful stories, Times correspondents captured the crisis in all its dimensions – writing lyrically about the human drama and delivering smartly analytical pieces about the global effort to stop the disease’s spread and where that effort went wrong. They also dug beneath the surface of the unfolding disaster with stories that showed a deep understanding of the continent, writing sensitively about the toll the disease was taking on African cultural traditions such as hand-holding in church and kissing friends and relatives. In the tradition of Hal Boyle, for whom this award is named, Times reporters never shied away from the front lines despite the risk. In one memorable piece, the Times wrote about the death of a star basketball player in Liberia and several generations of a household destroyed. In another, a 4-year-old orphaned by Ebola roams a clinic looking for someone to take her home, another soul adrift.
Citation for Excellence:
Richard Marosi and Don Bartletti
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2014Sergei Loiko and Carol WilliamsLos Angeles Times
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2014
Award Recipient: Sergei Loiko and Carol Williams
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: "Ukraine: A Nation Torn Apart"
Sergei Loiko, left, and Carol WilliamsAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2014
Award Recipient: Sergei Loiko and Carol Williams
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: "Ukraine: A Nation Torn Apart"
Best newspaper, news service or online online reporting from abroad interpretation of international affairs
The Los Angeles Times coverage of the Ukrainian conflict stood out from the rest for its guts, credibility, originality, depth and sophistication of interpretation, and its engaging writing style that made every story a gripping and compelling read. The intimacy of detail – the shattered glass of the airport terminal, the magic helmet, the bullet hole described to the second decimal point, the minibus from hell – combined with sophisticated analysis of how the economic effects disrupted everyone’s daily lives. The reporters’ bravery took us to places we hadn’t seen before.
L.A. Times – Ukraine: A nation Torn Apart
Citation for Excellence:
Anthony Faiola, Greg Miller, Kevin Sullivan and Squad Mekhennet
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2014Marcus BleasdaleHuman Rights Watch, Foreign Policy and National Geographic Magazine
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2014
Award Recipient: Marcus Bleasdale
Award Recipient Affiliation: Human Rights Watch, Foreign Policy and National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: "Central African Republic Inferno"
Marcus BleasdaleAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2014
Award Recipient: Marcus Bleasdale
Award Recipient Affiliation: Human Rights Watch, Foreign Policy and National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: "Central African Republic Inferno"
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
Marcus Bleasdale viscerally captured the brutal violence in the Central African Republic at a time when the world’s attention was focused on ISIS, Ukraine and other crises. His menacing, unnerving images of chaos had a profound impact on the judges. The images place the viewer in the moment in a way that demands and holds attention.
See winning photos >>
Citation for Excellence:
John Moore
Getty Images
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2014Jérôme SessiniMagnum Photos, TIME and De Standaard
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2014
Award Recipient: Jérôme Sessini
Award Recipient Affiliation: Magnum Photos, TIME and De Standaard
Award Honored Work: "Crime Without Punishment"
Jérôme SessiniAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2014
Award Recipient: Jérôme Sessini
Award Recipient Affiliation: Magnum Photos, TIME and De Standaard
Award Honored Work: "Crime Without Punishment"
Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books
Jérôme Sessini’s photographs of the wreckage of a Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over eastern Ukraine last year captured imagery that is profoundly elegiac. There is a quiet strength that propels the narrative and shows the horrors in a manner that doesn’t make the viewer turn away from what is a difficult scene to process.
See winning photos >>
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Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2014
Award Recipient: Bulent Kilic
Award Recipient Affiliation: Agence France Presse
Award Honored Work: "Euromaidan Revolution in Kiev"
Bulent KilicAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2014
Award Recipient: Bulent Kilic
Award Recipient Affiliation: Agence France Presse
Award Honored Work: "Euromaidan Revolution in Kiev"
Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers or news services
Bulent Kilic brings viewers right into Ukraine’s revolution, capturing the chaos of the moment. His work is inspired visual reporting under difficult conditions. Each image can stand alone, and together they form a strong narrative.
See winning photos >>
Citation for Excellence:
Oliver Weiken
European Pressphoto Agency
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2014Rodrigo AbdThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: Best Feature Photography Award 2014
Award Recipient: Rodrigo Abd
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: "Peru's Illegal Gold Mining"
Rodrigo AbdAward Date: 2014
Award Name: Best Feature Photography Award 2014
Award Recipient: Rodrigo Abd
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: "Peru's Illegal Gold Mining"
Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme
Rodrigo Abd shines a light on an underreported subject, the threat looming for 20,000 wildcat gold miners in Peru. His photographs are intimate and straightforward, documenting the subject without stylistic trickery, enhancing their journalistic value.
See winning photos >>
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2014Marine Olivesi and Aaron SchachterPRI’s The World
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2014
Award Recipient: Marine Olivesi and Aaron Schachter
Award Recipient Affiliation: PRI’s The World
Award Honored Work: "Repercussions of the Arab Spring"
Marine Olivesi, left, and Aaron SchachterAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2014
Award Recipient: Marine Olivesi and Aaron Schachter
Award Recipient Affiliation: PRI’s The World
Award Honored Work: "Repercussions of the Arab Spring"
Best radio or audio news or interpretation of international affairs
In a series of stories for PRI, Marine Olivesi describes the ordinary people whose lives have been torn apart by extremism around the Middle East, from a young Libyan freedom fighter desperately searching for a brother who has joined jihadis in Syria to the fellow who regrets bringing Chechen fighters into Syria. Olivesi is a brave, enterprising, creative young reporter who took on an extremely ambitious assignment that goes way beyond the headlines to examine the origins and outcomes of extremism.
Listen to the winning stories:
The Death of a Teen Activist Marks a New Low in Benghazi’s Violence >>
Getting This Man’s Brother Back Alive From Syria Would Be ‘Nothing Short of a Miracle’ >>
Citation for Excellence:
Emily Harris, Ahmed Abu Hamda and Abu Bakr Bashir
NPR
War in GazaWhy This Syrian Man Regrets Bringing Al-Qaeda Fighters Into His Country >>
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2014Nick Schifrin, Philip Maravilla and Ben MulkeyAl Jazeera America
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2014
Award Recipient: Nick Schifrin, Philip Maravilla and Ben Mulkey
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera America
Award Honored Work: "Conflict in Gaza"
Left to right: Nick Schifrin, Philip Maravilla and Ben MulkeyAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2014
Award Recipient: Nick Schifrin, Philip Maravilla and Ben Mulkey
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera America
Award Honored Work: "Conflict in Gaza"
Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad
The reporting of Nick Schifrin and his crew from Gaza for Al Jazeera America distinguished itself in a field crowded with excellence. It offered a seamless shifting of perspective from both sides of the border; empathy shown by reports from, in some cases, the living rooms of the ordinary people caught in the crossfire; and brevity and wit in writing.
Watch the submitted clips on Al Jazeera America >>
Citation for Excellence:
Holly Williams, Agnes Reau, Erin Lyall, Justine Redman, Abdi Cadani and Andy Stevenson
The CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley
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2014Rachel Boynton and Simon KilmurryPOV, PBS and American Documentary Inc.
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2014
Award Recipient: Rachel Boynton and Simon Kilmurry
Award Recipient Affiliation: POV, PBS and American Documentary Inc.
Award Honored Work: "Big Men"
Rachel Boynton, left, and Simon KilmurryAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2014
Award Recipient: Rachel Boynton and Simon Kilmurry
Award Recipient Affiliation: POV, PBS and American Documentary Inc.
Award Honored Work: "Big Men"
Best TV or video interpretation or documentary on international affairs
A surprising story that takes the viewer to an unexpected place and introduces unconventional characters. ““Big Men” unpacks a single oil deal, in the Republic of Ghana, and examines it, Rashomon-like, from the points of view of oilmen, venture capitalists, militants, human-rights activists, politicians and citizens of other countries who have endured the same plight. It reveals a farrago of politics, corruption and greed that attends the commercialization of natural resources in developing nations. Deeply reported and compellingly told, this is investigative journalism of the highest order.
Citation for Excellence:
Marcela Gaviria
PBS Frontline and ProPublica
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2014Matthieu Aikins and Sebastiano TomadaMedium / Matter
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2014
Award Recipient: Matthieu Aikins and Sebastiano Tomada
Award Recipient Affiliation: Medium / Matter
Award Honored Work: "Whoever Saves a Life"
Matthieu Aikins, left, and Sebastiano TomadaAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2014
Award Recipient: Matthieu Aikins and Sebastiano Tomada
Award Recipient Affiliation: Medium / Matter
Award Honored Work: "Whoever Saves a Life"
Best magazine reporting in print or online on an international story
In the best tradition of wartime storytelling, Aikins’s vivid characters offer a truly fresh window into the Syrian conflict. The wisecracking, passionate young men, a volunteer rescue team in Aleppo, remain with us long after reading. In an inspirational and even funny story, Aikins captures the friends’ longings and doubts with astute empathy. Despite intense risks to himself, Aikins keeps himself out of his understated prose, which is enriched by the quiet photographs of Tomada. A reminder that the essence of war lies in these intimate moments, far from the halls of diplomatic power. Aikins is a freelance journalist and Schell Fellow at the Nation Institute.
Citation for Excellence:
Patrick Radden Keefe
The New Yorker
The Hunt for El Chapo -
2014Signe WilkinsonPhiladelphia Daily News
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2014
Award Recipient: Signe Wilkinson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Philadelphia Daily News
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Signe Wilkinson (self portrait)Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2014
Award Recipient: Signe Wilkinson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Philadelphia Daily News
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Best cartoons on international affairs
Signe Wilkinson wades into the big story and emerges with fresh ideas, delivering an alternative take on events explored by others. Her original treatment provokes thinking on many of the most important issues of the day. The missile targeting terrorists also targets people living near them; the search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is made even more difficult by an ocean full of floating junk. Signe is often irreverent – and funny.
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2014Cam Simpson and Jesse WestbrookBloomberg
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2014
Award Recipient: Cam Simpson and Jesse Westbrook
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg
Award Honored Work: "The Hedge Fund and the Despot"
Cam Simpson, left, and Jesse WestbrookAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2014
Award Recipient: Cam Simpson and Jesse Westbrook
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg
Award Honored Work: "The Hedge Fund and the Despot"
Best magazine international business news reporting in print or online
Six years after Robert Mugabe brutalized the opposition to win re-election in 2008 as president of Zimbabwe, Bloomberg reporters Cam Simpson and Jesse Westbrook set out to trace a $100 million cash infusion originating from a U.S. hedge fund that helped prop up his dictatorial, financially hard-pressed regime at a crucial moment. In this well-written, diligently researched page-turner, Simpson and Westbrook raised the veil on a series of financial transactions involving the Wall Street hedge fund, bankers and mining companies headquartered in London, shell companies and a rich platinum mining claim in Zimbabwe controlled by the government. Their account shows how global investments can end up in treacherous hands with terrible unintended consequences. Much of the reporting was done from afar after Simpson went to Zimbabwe with a valid visa, only to have government officials there threaten his arrest and force him to flee.
Citation for Excellence:
William Langewiesche
Vanity Fair
The Chaos Company -
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2014
Award Recipient: Stephen Grey and Reuters team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: "Comrade Capitalism"
Stephen GreyAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2014
Award Recipient: Stephen Grey and Reuters team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: "Comrade Capitalism"
Best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or online
This series of nine stories showed how President Vladimir Putin and his billionaire friends control the Russian economy and siphon off billions of dollars for themselves. Reuters was the first news organization to document how contracts and money moved through offshore tax havens because it was able to obtain access to confidential bank and travel databases. The corruption extended even to the supply of a Russian rocket to the U.S. space program.
Citation for Excellence:
Jo Becker, Steven Lee Myers and Jim Yardley
The New York Times
Putin’s Way -
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2014
Award Recipient: Evan Osnos
Award Recipient Affiliation: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Award Honored Work: "Age of Ambition"
Evan OsnosAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2014
Award Recipient: Evan Osnos
Award Recipient Affiliation: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Award Honored Work: "Age of Ambition"
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
A powerful look into the soul of China as its 1.3 billion inhabitants clamor for economic and spiritual success after decades of deprivation. The book is distinguished by Osnos’s ability to penetrate Chinese society at all levels and tell revealing stories about the country’s breakneck transformation. The writing is elegant, and the first-hand reporting breaks new ground in explaining the trajectory of today’s China.
Citation for Excellence:
Jack Fairweather
Basic Books
“The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan” -
2014Jason Motlagh and Atish SahaThe Virginia Quarterly Review
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2014
Award Recipient: Jason Motlagh and Atish Saha
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Award Honored Work: "The Ghosts of Rana Plaza"
Jason Motlagh. left, and Atish SahaAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2014
Award Recipient: Jason Motlagh and Atish Saha
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Award Honored Work: "The Ghosts of Rana Plaza"
Best international reporting in the print medium or online showing a concern for the human condition
The Madeline Dane Ross Award goes to the best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition. That requirement is impossible to quantify – it must be felt. Of the nearly 40 submissions to this category, “The Ghosts of Rana Plaza” evoked the deepest of feelings, of sympathy for and outrage over the horrendous death of 1,100 workers in Dhaka as a result of a factory collapse on April 24, 2013. The piece renders in heartbreaking detail the humanity of the victims and their would-be rescuers, linking them to all of us through the clothing that Bangladesh produces in vast quantities for the rest of the world. Our cheap jeans come at the cost of their lives. The story was painstakingly reported by Jason Motlagh, movingly photographed by Motlagh and Atish Saha and superbly edited and presented by the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Citation for Excellence:
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Joshua Hersh
The Virginia Quarterly Review
“The Lessons of Atmeh” -
2014Josh Fine and David ScottHBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2014
Award Recipient: Josh Fine and David Scott
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Award Honored Work: "The Price of Glory"
Josh Fine, left, and David ScottAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2014
Award Recipient: Josh Fine and David Scott
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Award Honored Work: "The Price of Glory"
Best international reporting in the broadcast media showing a concern for the human condition
“The Price of Glory” is enterprise reporting at its best from three countries: Josh Fine and team reported from Qatar and Doha’s labor camps building new facilities for the 2022 World Cup; from Bulgaria where an Olympic weightlifting team was purchased wholesale; and followed coffins of migrant construction workers home to Nepal. A Qatar government official is visibly shocked the HBO team got access to labor camps, claims hundreds of 2022 World Cup worker deaths are “normal,” then walks out of an interview. This feature spotlights abusive conditions, needless worker deaths and the immense wealth that covers it up.conditions, needless worker deaths and the immense wealth that covers it up.
Citation for Excellence:
Terry Moran
ABC News Nightline
“Moscow is Burning” -
2014Samuel Black, Anjali Kamat and the Fault Lines teamAl Jazeera America
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2014
Award Recipient: Samuel Black, Anjali Kamat and the Fault Lines team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera America
Award Honored Work: Fault Lines: America’s War Workers
Samuel Black, left, and Anjali KamatAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2014
Award Recipient: Samuel Black, Anjali Kamat and the Fault Lines team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera America
Award Honored Work: Fault Lines: America’s War Workers
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
A stunning example of what good journalism can do to expose labor abuses, “America’s War Workers” is beautifully filmed with unforgettable images and interviews. The team traveled to India and the Middle East and interviewed dozens of workers, providing irrefutable evidence about the exploitation of contract workers on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan. They exposed the intermediaries who charge the poor for menial jobs on U.S military bases and described how the checks put in place by the U.S. government do little to halt the systemic violation of its own laws as well as international conventions on human and labor rights.
Citation for Excellence:
Rehad Desai, Cynthia Kane And Al Jazeera America Presents Staff
Al Jazeera America
Al Jazeera America Presents: Miners Shot Down -
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2014
Award Recipient: Nick Miroff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Pushing South"
Nick MiroffAward Date: 2014
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2014
Award Recipient: Nick Miroff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Pushing South"
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
In five lengthy and deeply reported stories, Nick Miroff explored the latest rush for resources across South America and the complex and often devastating impacts that have accompanied the hunt for riches. From the quest for oil in Ecuador to gold mining camps in Peru to palm oil plantations in Colombia, Miroff landed us in one often-forgotten place after another, and did so using elegant and vivid prose. He avoided clichés and offered a contextual depth by framing ethnic rivalries against their political and environmental backgrounds, and showed how the pressures brought by industries have not only caused ecological harm but also exacerbated cultural conflicts. In a contemporary twist on the typical boom story, Miroff demonstrated how drops in commodity prices tend to increase dependence on foreign investment, spur still more development to increase commodity volume, and further environmental degradation.
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2014Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Tracy Wilkinson, Kate Linthicum, Don Bartletti and Cindy CarcamoThe Los Angeles Times
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2014
Award Recipient: Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Tracy Wilkinson, Kate Linthicum, Don Bartletti and Cindy Carcamo
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: "A Wave of Migrants"
Clockwise from upper left: Tracy Wilkinson, Cindy Carcamo, Kate Linthicum, Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Don Bartletti.Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2014
Award Recipient: Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Tracy Wilkinson, Kate Linthicum, Don Bartletti and Cindy Carcamo
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: "A Wave of Migrants"
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
The Los Angeles Times’s intrepid team of reporters and photographers gave a rich and complex picture of the surge of unaccompanied minors traveling from Mexico into south Texas, tracing their journey from Guatemala and Honduras up to the border and showing efforts in the U.S. and Mexico to stop the flow. Reporting from four countries, the Times team provided exceptional context, analysis and details of this immigration crisis. The commitment to the story showed in the quality of the reporting. The first story by Molly Hennessy-Fiske set out the coverage at overwhelmed immigration facilities at the beginning of the crisis.
Don Bartletti’s riveting photographs documented one boy’s journey across the border. Kate Linthicum, Cindy Caracamo and Tracy Wilkinson’s strong writing and reporting rounded out the coverage.
Citation for Excellence:
Teresa Bo and Singeli Agnew
Al Jazeera America
Fault Lines: Mexico’s Vigilante State -
2014Steve Inskeep, Kainaz Amaria and NPR staffNPR
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2014
Award Recipient: Steve Inskeep, Kainaz Amaria and NPR staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR
Award Honored Work: "Borderland"
Steve Inskeep, left, and Kainaz AmariaAward Date: 2014
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2014
Award Recipient: Steve Inskeep, Kainaz Amaria and NPR staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR
Award Honored Work: "Borderland"
Best use of video, interactive graphics and slideshows to report on international news
Technically flawless, “Borderland” is a simple idea but brilliant in its approach and execution. This thorough report documents the world that exists on the 2,248-mile U.S.-Mexico border – and tells the stories of those who live in a world of human smuggling, drugs and poverty – through the combined efforts of NPR radio reporters, web developers, data experts, producers and photographers.
Citation for Excellence:
Peter Bouckaert and Marcus Bleasdale
Human Rights Watch
The Unraveling – Journey Through the Central African Republic Crisis -
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2014
Award Recipient: C.J. Chivers
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: "Secret Casualties"
C.J. ChiversAward Date: 2014
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2014
Award Recipient: C.J. Chivers
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: "Secret Casualties"
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story
Deep reporting, meticulous research, strong writing and the overall craft of assembling data, graphics and photos made The New York Times’s investigative series “Secret Casualties” the hands-down winner for investigative reporting this year. The series established a pattern of secrecy by the U.S. military for hiding from its own soldiers dangerous contamination from chemical munitions. The series peeled away layer after layer of outrage and injustice – from learning that the U.S. actually cooperated closely with Iraqis in producing the weapons to stating flatly that the government was hiding from its own soldiers the illegal weapons that were at the very heart of the reason the nation went to war.
Citation for Excellence:
Desmond Butler, Alberto Arce, Andrea Rodriguez and Michael Weissenstein
The Associated Press
America’s Secret Cuban Twitter -
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: Best Commentary 2014
Award Recipient: Matthew Kaminski
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: "On Ukraine"
Matthew KaminskiAward Date: 2014
Award Name: Best Commentary 2014
Award Recipient: Matthew Kaminski
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: "On Ukraine"
Best commentary in any medium on international news
Matthew Kaminski moved across Eurasia to view the same events from different points of view and offered beautifully written commentary that conveyed the urgency of unfolding history. His writing was engaging, compelling and informative. He weaved personal observations and detailed reporting to the argument and humanized the stories. He is someone we would all love to read again.
Citation for Excellence:
Andrew Browne
The Wall Street Journal
“China’s World” -
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The President’s Award 2014
Award Recipient: Bob Simon
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The President’s Award 2014
Award Recipient: Bob Simon
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2013
Award Recipient: Rukmini Callimachi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Al-Qaida’s Papers
Rukmini CallimachiAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2013
Award Recipient: Rukmini Callimachi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Al-Qaida’s Papers
Best newspaper, news service or online reporting from abroad
AP’s Rukmini Callimachi won both the Hal Boyle and Bob Considine awards for her reporting on a trove of al-Qaida documents uncovered in Mali. She is the first reporter ever to win both awards in the same year.
At great personal risk, Callimachi traversed a desert route through Mali, alone and with militants close behind her, to uncover one of the most significant troves of al-Qaida documents ever made public. Her sly, witty and sharply observed accounts of al Qaida’s operation, goals and mindset — from penny-pinching to public stonings — shed light on an organization that, despite more than a decade of war, remains largely opaque. From one of the most dangerous places on earth, she gave voice to civilians crushed under jihadist rule and followed in the footsteps of fighters at the scene of the biggest battle against al-Qaida in years.
Citation for Excellence:
Tripti Lahiri and The Wall Street Journal Staff
The Wall Street Journal
“Crimes Against Women: The Call for Reform in India” -
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2013
Award Recipient: Rukmini Callimachi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Al-Qaida’s Papers
Rukmini CallimachiAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2013
Award Recipient: Rukmini Callimachi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Al-Qaida’s Papers
Best newspaper, news service or online interpretation of international affairs
AP’s Rukmini Callimachi won both the Hal Boyle and Bob Considine awards for her reporting on a trove of al-Qaida documents uncovered in Mali. She is the first reporter ever to win both awards in the same year.
Callimachi captured the chaotic aftermath of the takeover of Timbuktu by al-Qaida fighters. The thousands of pages of documents she found strewn in 10 buildings, formerly occupied by the fighters, led her on a painstaking journey of verification, and it resulted in stories that painted a fascinating portrait of al-Qaida’s presence in Africa. Her work —courageous, resourceful, persistent and sensitive—resonated with the authority of a reporter who understood the people and history of Timbuktu. In particular, she vividly captured what came in the wake of al-Qaida’s departure—a brutal, opportunistic mission by Mali’s military to target light-skinned Arabs and Tuaregs who looked like the vanquished invaders. She documented the efforts of family members to find the remains of the victims, and her elegant first-person piece was a model of the form, reported without fear and written with restraint.
Citation for Excellence:
Jason Szep, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Reuters Staff
Reuters
“The War on the Rohingyas” -
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2013
Award Recipient: Tyler Hicks
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Attack on a Kenyan Mall
Tyler HicksAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2013
Award Recipient: Tyler Hicks
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Attack on a Kenyan Mall
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
Every frame tells the story of a terrifying and dangerous situation. The photographer is at obvious risk, yet he continues to photograph multiple scenarios and stays on scene to document the horrors and aftermath of the attack.
See winning photos >>
Citation for Excellence:
Goran Tomasevic
Reuters
“Battle for Damascus” -
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2013
Award Recipient: Robert Nickelsberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: Prestel
Award Honored Work: Afghanistan - A Distant War
Robert NickelsbergAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2013
Award Recipient: Robert Nickelsberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: Prestel
Award Honored Work: Afghanistan - A Distant War
Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books
The winner displayed an unparalleled commitment to the story and topic. The depth of his years-long reporting shows a unique perspective and helps brings a deeper understanding to a critical geopolitical topic.
See winning photos >>
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Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2013
Award Recipient: Jerome Delay
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Central African Republic Unrest
Jerome DelayAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2013
Award Recipient: Jerome Delay
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Central African Republic Unrest
Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers or news services
The highest standards of news photography are displayed in the winner’s work. The images powerfully convey the situation with unflinching directness from this underreported and continuing African conflict.
See winning photos >>
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2013Marcus BleasdaleVII for National Geographic
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2013
Award Recipient: Marcus Bleasdale
Award Recipient Affiliation: VII for National Geographic
Award Honored Work: The Last of the Viking Whalers
Marcus BleasdaleAward Date: 2013
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2013
Award Recipient: Marcus Bleasdale
Award Recipient Affiliation: VII for National Geographic
Award Honored Work: The Last of the Viking Whalers
Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme
Completely original photographic storytelling executed perfectly. The work is technically superior and each frame is a unique version of the overall story. The flawless edit gave insight into a rarely reported subject.
See winning photos >>
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Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2013
Award Recipient: Leila Fadel
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Public Radio
Award Honored Work: Egypt: A Tumultuous Year
Leila FadelAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2013
Award Recipient: Leila Fadel
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Public Radio
Award Honored Work: Egypt: A Tumultuous Year
Best radio news or interpretation of international affairs
Leila Fadel draws listeners in with engaging reporting and storytelling from Egypt, capturing the complexities of a country in turmoil through a riveting series that puts listeners in the middle of violence on the streets, at a morgue of the unclaimed dead and in a family home to illustrate the anguish of a nation torn.
Citation for Excellence:
Marine Olivesi
PRI’s The World
“Leaving Syria or Living the War” -
2013Charlie D’Agata, Patricia Shevlin, Heather Abbott, Randall Joyce, Haithem Moussa, Alex OrtizCBS Evening News
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2013
Award Recipient: Charlie D’Agata, Patricia Shevlin, Heather Abbott, Randall Joyce, Haithem Moussa, Alex Ortiz
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS Evening News
Award Honored Work: Crackdown in Cairo
Charlie D’AgataAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2013
Award Recipient: Charlie D’Agata, Patricia Shevlin, Heather Abbott, Randall Joyce, Haithem Moussa, Alex Ortiz
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS Evening News
Award Honored Work: Crackdown in Cairo
Best TV spot news reporting from abroad
Correspondent Charlie D’Agata and producer Randall Joyce risked their lives reporting on what was to become one of the bloodiest and most important weeks in Egypt’s history. They were on the front lines with protesters in Tahrir Square as the military regime’s crackdown intensified and the bodies piled up, telling us their harrowing stories. What stood out was this team’s bravery, knowing they could have been killed at any time. They put their lives on the line so the truth about what was happening to the Egyptian people could be known.
Citation for Excellence:
Tony Maddox, Parisa Khosravi, Ellana Lee, Cynde Strand, Roger Clark, Samson Desta
CNN International Newsgathering Team
“Coverage of Typhoon Haiyan” -
2013Ric Esther Bienstock, Felix Golubev, Simcha Jacobovici, Sheila Nevins, Nancy AbrahamAssociated Producers Ltd. for HBO Documentary Films
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2013
Award Recipient: Ric Esther Bienstock, Felix Golubev, Simcha Jacobovici, Sheila Nevins, Nancy Abraham
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Producers Ltd. for HBO Documentary Films
Award Honored Work: Tales from the Organ Trade
Left to right: Ric Esther Bienstock, Felix Golubev and Simcha Jacobovici.Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2013
Award Recipient: Ric Esther Bienstock, Felix Golubev, Simcha Jacobovici, Sheila Nevins, Nancy Abraham
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Producers Ltd. for HBO Documentary Films
Award Honored Work: Tales from the Organ Trade
Best TV interpretation or documentary on international affairs
In the finest tradition of Edward R. Murrow, this documentary challenges everything you thought you knew about the illegal trade in kidneys and the international campaign to stop it. Through interviews with donors, recipients, go-betweens, doctors and prosecutors from North America to Israel and Eastern Europe to the Philippines, the filmmakers provide a rare look at how an illegally acquired kidney reaches a sick person and how both desperation and good will drive the trade.
Citation for Excellence:
Olly Lambert
WGBH – Frontline
“Syria Behind the Lines” -
2013Rowan JacobsenHarper’s Magazine
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2013
Award Recipient: Rowan Jacobsen
Award Recipient Affiliation: Harper’s Magazine
Award Honored Work: "The Homeless Herd: An Indian Village Battles an Elephant Invasion"
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2013
Award Recipient: Rowan Jacobsen
Award Recipient Affiliation: Harper’s Magazine
Award Honored Work: "The Homeless Herd: An Indian Village Battles an Elephant Invasion"
Best magazine reporting on an international story
Rowan Jacobsen’s beautifully crafted story about a herd of displaced elephants terrorizing a farming community in India is magazine writing at its best. It took us into a world we didn’t know existed and taught us something new about the larger conflict between animal and man in vivid and compelling detail. It’s a testament to the power of his reporting and narrative that the story magically stayed with us long after we read it.
Citation for Excellence:
Matthieu Aikins
Rolling Stone
“The A-Team Killings” -
2013Kevin (KAL) KallaugherThe Economist and Baltimore Sun
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2013
Award Recipient: Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Economist and Baltimore Sun
Award Honored Work: Best Cartoons
Kevin (KAL) KallaugherAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2013
Award Recipient: Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Economist and Baltimore Sun
Award Honored Work: Best Cartoons
Best cartoons on international affairs
In a strong year for political cartoons, Kevin Kallaugher’s work stood out for its clarity, visual élan and mordant humor. From the war in Syria to the power struggle in Egypt to the Obama Administration’s use of unmanned drones, Kallaugher’s finely wrought sketches offered consistently provocative and often surprising takes on the year’s biggest international stories.
Award Page >>
Citation for Excellence:
Patrick Chappatte
The International New York Times -
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2013
Award Recipient: Kerry Dolan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Forbes
Award Honored Work: "Prince of Insecurity"
Kerry DolanAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2013
Award Recipient: Kerry Dolan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Forbes
Award Honored Work: "Prince of Insecurity"
Best international business news reporting in magazines
This reexamination by Forbes of one of its “Rich List” constituents unmasked the myth of Prince Alwaleed as the “Buffett of Arabia.” Kerry Dolan’s reporting and analysis revealed a pattern by the Prince of “systematically exaggerating” the market value of Kingdom Holding, his publicly traded company, and other assets while misleading journalists and the public about his real net worth and his golden touch as an international investor.
Citation for Excellence:
Nicholas Shaxson
Vanity Fair
“A Tale of Two Londons” -
2013Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Yeganeh Torbati and Reuters staffReuters
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2013
Award Recipient: Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Yeganeh Torbati and Reuters staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: Assets of the Ayatollah
Left to right: Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Yeganeh Torbati.Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2013
Award Recipient: Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Yeganeh Torbati and Reuters staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: Assets of the Ayatollah
Best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or online
The judges were impressed by Reuters’ ability to piece together how Iran’s top religious cleric, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Knamenei, had amassed a financial empire worth $95 billion, rivaling the wealth of the late Shah. In a three-part series, Stecklow and colleagues drew a devastating portrait of how Khamenei had secured a position in nearly every sector of lran’s economy through a little-known agency called Setad. Reuters took major risks in investigating the ayatollah. In retaliation, the regime revoked its press credentials, forcing agency to close its Tehran Bureau.”
Citation for Excellence:
Katherine Eban, Doris Burke, Frederik Joelving
fortune.com
“Dirty Medicine” -
2013Jonathan KatzPalgrave Macmillan
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2013
Award Recipient: Jonathan Katz
Award Recipient Affiliation: Palgrave Macmillan
Award Honored Work: The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
Jonathan KatzAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2013
Award Recipient: Jonathan Katz
Award Recipient Affiliation: Palgrave Macmillan
Award Honored Work: The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
A riveting first-person account of the Haitian earthquake and the failure of the international relief effort by the former Associated Press bureau chief in Port-au-Prince. Jonathan Katz impressively weaves together the dramatic events of the earthquake and its aftermath, including a United Nations-induced cholera epidemic. He highlights the self-defeating efforts of NGOs to deal with the tragedy and the impotence and corruption of Haiti’s government.
Citation for Excellence:
Gary J. Bass
Alfred A. Knopf
“The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide” -
2013Adriana Gomez LiconThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2013
Award Recipient: Adriana Gomez Licon
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: "Death of a Beauty Queen"
Adriana Gomez LiconAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2013
Award Recipient: Adriana Gomez Licon
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: "Death of a Beauty Queen"
Best international reporting in the print medium or online showing a concern for the human condition
Adriana Gomez Licon ventured deep into an area of Mexico where journalists operate under constant risk of attack. Reporting alone, and with considerable initiative, she pieced together details of the death of a young woman killed in a shootout between the cartels. The result is a compelling narrative, meticulously reported with a fine eye for detail and dialogue, which offers an illuminating look inside the drug wars. The reporter went to admirable lengths to illustrate the human cost of the violence.
Citation for Excellence:
Hisham Matar
The New Yorker
“The Return” -
2013Habiba Nosheen, Hilke Schellmann, Hemal Trivedi and Dan SugarmanWGBH – Frontline, ITVS, Pulitzer Center and H2H Films
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2013
Award Recipient: Habiba Nosheen, Hilke Schellmann, Hemal Trivedi and Dan Sugarman
Award Recipient Affiliation: WGBH – Frontline, ITVS, Pulitzer Center and H2H Films
Award Honored Work: Outlawed in Pakistan
Left to right: Habiba Nosheen, Hilke Schellmann, Hemal Trivedi and Dan Sugarman.Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2013
Award Recipient: Habiba Nosheen, Hilke Schellmann, Hemal Trivedi and Dan Sugarman
Award Recipient Affiliation: WGBH – Frontline, ITVS, Pulitzer Center and H2H Films
Award Honored Work: Outlawed in Pakistan
Best international reporting in the broadcast media showing a concern for the human condition
“Outlawed in Pakistan” shows how and why it is nearly impossible for rape victims to get justice in Pakistan. This compelling and beautifully filmed Frontline documentary follows 13-year-old Kainat and her family over a period of years as she tries—and fails—to bring to justice the men who allegedly gang-raped her. In the process, the reporters spotlight conditions for women, abuses under Islamic law and serious police failings. Frontline and the filmmakers give the full picture of what a nightmare it is to bring a rape case in Pakistan.
Citation for Excellence:
Dan Harris, Nick Capote, Jeanmarie Condon, Almin Karamehmedovic
ABC News – Nightline
“The War for Paradise” -
2013Cam SimpsonBloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2013
Award Recipient: Cam Simpson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: Tech’s Hidden Price
Cam SimpsonAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2013
Award Recipient: Cam Simpson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: Tech’s Hidden Price
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
Bloomberg’s series showed the grim reality of the life of workers who make the shiny Apple phones so coveted by the world’s consumers. The stories by Cam Simpson were impressively detailed. He went down the supply chain to write about migration, the tactics of recruiters and life in the Himalayan villages that supplied the bonded labor to Apple’s subcontractors. Simpson also questioned the contractors and Apple about their practices. His eye for detail made the story compelling. Weeks after reading it we still remember the images of the stranded workers in Malaysia forced to eat rice flakes after their contracts were abruptly terminated, then returning home still in debt to the brokers who had sold them the right to jobs at the factories of Apple’s supplier.
Citation for Excellence:
Cam Simpson
Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek
“Tech’s Hidden Price” -
2013Craig Welch and photographer Steve RingmanThe Seattle Times
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2013
Award Recipient: Craig Welch and photographer Steve Ringman
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Seattle Times
Award Honored Work: Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn
Craig Welch, left, and Steve Ringman.Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2013
Award Recipient: Craig Welch and photographer Steve Ringman
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Seattle Times
Award Honored Work: Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
The Seattle Time’s five-part examination of carbon’s effects on our oceans represents an extraordinary effort: fresh, important, and dynamic in its presentation and depth. Times reporter Craig Welch and photographer Steve Ringman took on a subject of crucial scientific and environmental importance that is under-covered and classically challenging to convey to readers. They did it ambitiously and gracefully, finding stories that connected their local economy with larger global issues, and with creative images that were engaging and added a sense of wonderment. The Times demonstrated its commitment to the project with excellent video production, an interactive web presentation and prominent placement in print that elevated the overall effort.
Citation for Excellence:
Antoni Slodkowski, Mari Saito and Reuters Staff
Reuters
“Worker Exploitation at Fukushima” -
2013Simon RomeroThe New York Times
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2013
Award Recipient: Simon Romero
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Latin America’s New Paths
Simon RomeroAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2013
Award Recipient: Simon Romero
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Latin America’s New Paths
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
Simon Romero’s rich reporting and elegant writing provided readers with compelling stories that shed light on a variety of issues across Latin America. His insights on the factors driving protests in Brazil were deep and were accompanied by relevant stories such as those on public rage catching up with the country’s Congress, outsized pay in the civil service and the fact that the ruling leftist party was perplexed by the protests. His ability to weave cultural and political context into his reporting helps readers better appreciate the events he covered, be it from Venezuela, where his obituary of Hugo Chavez cast a spotlight on the state of the revolution he created; Argentina, for stories on its native son, the new pope; and even tiny Uruguay, to profile the president and his austere lifestyle.
Citation for Excellence:
Jon Lee Anderson
The New Yorker
“Slumlord” -
2013Alex BlumbergPlanet Money and NPR Visuals, National Public Radio
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2013
Award Recipient: Alex Blumberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: Planet Money and NPR Visuals, National Public Radio
Award Honored Work: Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
Alex BlumbergAward Date: 2013
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2013
Award Recipient: Alex Blumberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: Planet Money and NPR Visuals, National Public Radio
Award Honored Work: Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
Best use of video, interactive graphics and slideshows to report on international news
“Planet Money” creators found a way to add an additional layer to its multimedia by not only presenting their findings, but also by producing T-shirts—the actual item about which they are reporting. In doing so, they tackle a subject we might think too familiar and show us much we don’t know. It melds text and video so that they don’t just coexist, they complement and amplify one another, with layers and layers of information adding to the audience experience.
Citation for Excellence:
The Washington Post Staff
The Washington Post
“Stories from the Syrian Exodus” -
2013Gerard RyleInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Center for Public Integrity
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2013
Award Recipient: Gerard Ryle
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Center for Public Integrity
Award Honored Work: Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
Gerard RyleAward Date: 2013
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2013
Award Recipient: Gerard Ryle
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Center for Public Integrity
Award Honored Work: Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story
“Secrecy for Sale” is a ground-breaking project in the digital age. It is a true tour de force in which a very large team came together to assess, report and analyze a massive trove of data about a secret world of off shore accounts hidden from the eyes of governments and citizens. Villains were named and shamed, while the underworld in which they thrived was revealed and explained with precision and depth. The project was accomplished through the effective management of many editorial partnerships and Gerard Ryle deserves enormous credit for pulling together the whole team so effectively.
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Citation for Excellence:
James Yardley
The New York Times
“Made in Bangladesh” -
2013Martin WolfFinancial Times
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: Best Commentary 2013
Award Recipient: Martin Wolf
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: Best commentary on international news in any medium
Martin WolfAward Date: 2013
Award Name: Best Commentary 2013
Award Recipient: Martin Wolf
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: Best commentary on international news in any medium
Best commentary on international news in any medium
Wolf is not afraid to express a sharp point of view, thoroughly backed up with fact. His depth of knowledge on politics, economics and environmental issues is striking, and it gives his writing a calm authority. His tone is pragmatic in the best way—firm but not strident, convincing but never shrill. And he does more than criticize—he also offers well-thought-out solutions.
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2012
Award Recipient: Raja Abdulrahim
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: Inside Syria
Raja AbdulrahimAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2012
Award Recipient: Raja Abdulrahim
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: Inside Syria
Best newspaper, news service or online reporting from abroad
This vivid and powerful series of reports from inside Syria range from bomb making lessons to kidnapping and government tactics. The reporter focuses on ordinary people — both fighters and housewives — in extraordinary circumstances. She writes beautifully detailed stories from the conflict zone, giving readers a human portrayal of war.
Citation(s) for Excellence:
Staff of the Associated Press
Inside the Syrian ResistanceDavid Barstow
The New York Times
Wal-Mart Abroad -
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2012
Award Recipient: Jeremy Page
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: A Murder Shakes China
Jeremy PageAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2012
Award Recipient: Jeremy Page
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: A Murder Shakes China
Best newspaper, news service or online interpretation of international affairs
In this extraordinary series of articles, Jeremy Page not only connected the dots behind the mysterious death of a British businessman, but provided startling glimpses into the life of one of China’s leading Communist Party bosses before he was fired in disgrace, as well as a look at the privileged lifestyles enjoyed by at least some corrupt politicians in today’s China.
The stories are notable for depth of reporting, an even presentation of the evidence, and a balanced tone. Nevertheless, taken together, they form a damning case that the wife of Chongqing party leader Bo Xilai may have poisoned businessman and family adviser Neil Heywood, a crime for which she was ultimately convicted. Aside from exposing the political scandal of the year in China, Page interprets the events in light of the power struggles taking place in the country just prior to its once-in-a-decade transfer of leadership.
Citation for Excellence:
Liz Sly
The Washington Post
Syrian Civil War -
2012Fabio BucciarelliFreelance for Agence France-Presse
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2012
Award Recipient: Fabio Bucciarelli
Award Recipient Affiliation: Freelance for Agence France-Presse
Award Honored Work: Battle to Death
Fabio BucciarelliAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2012
Award Recipient: Fabio Bucciarelli
Award Recipient Affiliation: Freelance for Agence France-Presse
Award Honored Work: Battle to Death
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
The images from this portfolio put you “in the moment” and have a palatable sense of urgency. There is a consistency to the images that helps the viewer identify with the subjects and the perils they are encountering. Syria has been one of the deadliest locations for journalists since the beginning of this armed conflict and this photographer embodies the finest values of the Capa Award in this collection of images.
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Citation for Excellence:
Manu Brabo
The Associated Press
Syria’s Civil War -
2012Samuel JamesFreelance for Harper’s Magazine
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2012
Award Recipient: Samuel James
Award Recipient Affiliation: Freelance for Harper’s Magazine
Award Honored Work: The Water of My Land
Samuel JamesAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2012
Award Recipient: Samuel James
Award Recipient Affiliation: Freelance for Harper’s Magazine
Award Honored Work: The Water of My Land
Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books
Vibrant and searing images made under difficult conditions. The photographer effectively used full color palette of the environment to engage the viewer and bring them to the locales documented. The work has a strong visual consistency that carries the story forward from frame to frame.
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2012
Award Recipient: Bernat Armangue
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Conflict in Gaza
Bernat ArmangueAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2012
Award Recipient: Bernat Armangue
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Conflict in Gaza
Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers or news services
A quiet yet devastating portfolio of images that spans the full range of human emotions. The work draws you into the people and the events captured in the frame. There is a sharp point to the visual story-telling and the work demands that you stop and consider the individuals affected.
See winning photos >>
(No citation)
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2012
Award Recipient: Oded Balilty
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: An Ultra Orthodox Wedding
Oded BaliltyAward Date: 2012
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2012
Award Recipient: Oded Balilty
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: An Ultra Orthodox Wedding
Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme
Beautiful, painterly pictures that hit all the right visual notes. Great photography executed brilliantly that shows not only the photographic talent, but also the journalistic understanding of the subject and the people captured in the work.
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2012Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen, Sebastian Rotella, Ana AranaWBEZ’s This American Life, ProPublica and Fundacion MEPI
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2012
Award Recipient: Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen, Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana
Award Recipient Affiliation: WBEZ’s This American Life, ProPublica and Fundacion MEPI
Award Honored Work: What Happened at Dos Erres
Left to right: Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen, Sebastian Rotella, Ana AranaAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2012
Award Recipient: Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen, Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana
Award Recipient Affiliation: WBEZ’s This American Life, ProPublica and Fundacion MEPI
Award Honored Work: What Happened at Dos Erres
Best radio news or interpretation of international affairs
The judges were riveted as they listened to this compelling and beautifully narrated story of recent events and the violent massacre of more than 200 people in the village of Dos Erres in Guatamala more than two decades ago. In 2012 the discovery of a father, still alive, and his son Oscar Ramirez, an undocumented worker in the U.S., each of whom assumed the other dead in the tragedy, prompted reporter Nosheen and producer Reed to devote five months to researching the story, finding victims and perpetrators. As a result, Ramirez was granted political asylum in the U.S. and several implicated soldiers have been apprehended for trial.
Citation for Excellence:
Kelly McEvers, Deborah Amos, Douglas Roberts
National Public Radio
Syria -
2012Anonymous CNN Correspondent and Photojournalist, Tamara Hunt, Tony Maddox, Parisa Khosravi, Deborah Rayner and the CNN International Newsgathering StaffCNN
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2012
Award Recipient: Anonymous CNN Correspondent and Photojournalist, Tamara Hunt, Tony Maddox, Parisa Khosravi, Deborah Rayner and the CNN International Newsgathering Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: Damascus Undercover
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2012
Award Recipient: Anonymous CNN Correspondent and Photojournalist, Tamara Hunt, Tony Maddox, Parisa Khosravi, Deborah Rayner and the CNN International Newsgathering Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: Damascus Undercover
Best TV spot news reporting from abroad
CNN’s harrowing reporting from Damascus represents true bravery in the face of danger. The reporter and crew, unable to identify themselves in order to protect their Syrian helpers, uncovered fresh killings of civilians by the Syrian Army. Their work provides an all too important voice to those who have been oppressed and have survived some of the most horrific conditions of war, all the while putting their own personal safety at risk.
Citation for Excellence:
Scott Pelley, Patricia Shevlin, Elizabeth Palmer, Heather Abbott, Justine Redman, Andy Stevenson
CBS Evening News
Shot by the Taliban, Malala’s School -
2012Scott Pelley, Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Henry SchusterCBS News – 60 Minutes
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2012
Award Recipient: Scott Pelley, Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Henry Schuster
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News – 60 Minutes
Award Honored Work: "Killing Bin Laden"
Left to right: Scott Pelley, Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Henry SchusterAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2012
Award Recipient: Scott Pelley, Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Henry Schuster
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News – 60 Minutes
Award Honored Work: "Killing Bin Laden"
Best TV interpretation or documentary on international affairs
Since the 9/11 attacks on the United States, the hunt for Osama bin Laden has been central to the battle against terrorism and has played continuously in the background of news coverage on the subject. While we all know the end of the tale, the details of the hunt and bin Laden’s death were not available before this first-hand account and year-long investigation.
Citation for Excellence:
Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy, Paco deOnis
Skylight Pictures / PBS – POV Series
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator -
2012Russ Rymer with photographer Lynn JohnsonNational Geographic Magazine
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2012
Award Recipient: Russ Rymer with photographer Lynn Johnson
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: Vanishing Languages
Russ RymerAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2012
Award Recipient: Russ Rymer with photographer Lynn Johnson
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: Vanishing Languages
Best magazine reporting from abroad
“When small communities abandon their languages and switch to English or Spanish, there is a massive disruption in the transfer of traditional knowledge across generations,” writes Russ Rymer in this subtle and moving investigation of the centuries-long decimation of tribal languages. From the 2,000 speakers of the Aka language in India to the Seri speakers of Mexico’s Sonoran Desert, who are bringing the language back after it dwindled to 1,000 speakers, to the growing number of Tuvan speakers in Siberia, Rymer’s report gives us a broad look across multiple cultures about the ongoing rescue of the world’s dying languages.
Citation(s) for Excellence:
Jon Lee Anderson
The New Yorker
The Syrian TragedyEvan Osnos
The New Yorker
Boss Rail -
2012Rob RogersPittsburgh Post-Gazette
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2012
Award Recipient: Rob Rogers
Award Recipient Affiliation: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Rob RogersAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2012
Award Recipient: Rob Rogers
Award Recipient Affiliation: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Best cartoons on international affairs
According to his editors, Rob Rogers “enrages” and “infuriates” some readers in Pittsburgh. The OPC Committee presumes he delights many more with his deft application of humor to serious subjects from around the globe. He executes the cartoonist’s mission: to inform, entertain and spark discussion of world events.
Citation for Excellence:
Signe Wilkinson
Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer -
2012Michael Riley, Ashlee Vance with Zoe SchneeweissBloomberg Businessweek
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award
Award Recipient: Michael Riley, Ashlee Vance with Zoe Schneeweiss
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: "It’s Not Paranoia If They’re Stealing Your Secrets: Inside the Chinese Boom in Corporate Espionage"
Michael Riley, left, and Ashlee VanceAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award
Award Recipient: Michael Riley, Ashlee Vance with Zoe Schneeweiss
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: "It’s Not Paranoia If They’re Stealing Your Secrets: Inside the Chinese Boom in Corporate Espionage"
Best international business news reporting in magazines
This timely, well-written account shows how the unprecedented scale of Chinese corporate espionage and wholesale intellectual property theft is devastating U.S. companies. This strongly sourced story details the plight of American Superconductor Corp. which discovered that Sinovel, a Chinese wind turbine manufacturer that was once its biggest customer, schemed to steal and illegally replicate AMSC’s software and electronic systems to power more than 1,000 Chinese windmills.
Citation for Excellence:
Brett Forrest
Bloomberg Businessweek
Empire at the End of the Earth -
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2012
Award Recipient: David Barboza
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: China’s Secret Fortunes
David BarbozaAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2012
Award Recipient: David Barboza
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: China’s Secret Fortunes
Best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or online
AWARD YEAR: 2012
AWARD NAME: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2012
AWARD RECIPIENT: David Barboza
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New York Times
AWARD HONORED WORK: China’s Secret Fortunes
David Barboza penetrated to the heart of China’s secretive system to provide an intricate and painstaking chronicle of linkages between the Communist Party’s most powerful families and the government’s state-owned enterprises and investments. The fact that The New York Times placed all four parts of the series on its front page helped change the world’s debate about the structure of power and wealth in China. Barboza and the newspaper took large risks in exposing the wealth that China’s top families have accumulated. The Times later reported that Chinese hackers persistently attacked the publication’s computer systems during the reporting for this series.
Citation for Excellence:
Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch, Andrea Tan, Katie Linsell, Jesse Westbrook, Lindsay Fortado, Joshua Gallu
Bloomberg News
Libor: The Biggest Bank Scandal -
2012Peter BergenCrown Publishing Group
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2012
Award Recipient: Peter Bergen
Award Recipient Affiliation: Crown Publishing Group
Award Honored Work: Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad
Peter BergenAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2012
Award Recipient: Peter Bergen
Award Recipient Affiliation: Crown Publishing Group
Award Honored Work: Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
Peter Bergen brings his decades of reporting and insights to bear in this definitive account of the search for Osama bin-Laden. He captures the tension of the years-long post-9/11 search, weaving history and personality into a brisk narrative. Bergen’s deep familiarity with the subject and years of on-the-ground work demystify the dizzingly complex Al Qaeda network, and give rich texture to the most riveting manhunt of our time.
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2012Mark Jenkins with photographer Lynn JohnsonNational Geographic Magazine
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2012
Award Recipient: Mark Jenkins with photographer Lynn Johnson
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: The Healing Fields
Mark JenkinsAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2012
Award Recipient: Mark Jenkins with photographer Lynn Johnson
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: The Healing Fields
Best international reporting in the print medium or online showing a concern for the human condition
Mark Jenkins has captured the breadth of human emotions, motivations, and coping mechanisms in his examination of how one country, Cambodia, has moved forward from the lingering horror of land mines. Many will think they already know this topic well, but Jenkins’ deeply researched and accessibly written report made the subject matter fresh and compelling.
Citation for Excellence:
Alan Katz and Michelle Wiese Bockmann
Bloomberg News
High Seas Injustice -
2012Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie DoranWGBH Frontline and Clover Films
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2012
Award Recipient: Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie Doran
Award Recipient Affiliation: WGBH Frontline and Clover Films
Award Honored Work: Opium Brides
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2012
Award Recipient: Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie Doran
Award Recipient Affiliation: WGBH Frontline and Clover Films
Award Honored Work: Opium Brides
Best international reporting in the broadcast media showing a concern for the human condition
Najibullah Quraishi’s reporting in Opium Brides stood out for its exploration of a dangerous, hidden world to reveal a human tragedy: young Afghan girls traded by their opium poppy growing families to pay debts to international drug lords. The subject matter is intrinsically important, highlighting the plight of Afghan farming families caught between drug traffickers who finance their crops and government officials bent on poppy eradication. But what set the entry apart was the way it ventured into the remote Afghan countryside to show the plight of individual families and their children, as they weighed up the demands of the traffickers and then succumbed to them. Brave, beautifully shot and paced, this entry was sensitive in its handling of a tragic human dilemma and harrowing in its impact.
Citation for Excellence:
Tim Sandler, Chris Hansen, Kristen Powers, Allan Maraynes
NBC News – Dateline
The Hansen Files: Trial and Error -
2012Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana, Brian Reed, Habiba NosheenProPublica, Fundacion MEPI and WBEZ’s This American Life
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2012
Award Recipient: Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana, Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica, Fundacion MEPI and WBEZ’s This American Life
Award Honored Work: “Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala”
Left to right: Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana, Brian Reed, Habiba NosheenAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2012
Award Recipient: Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana, Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica, Fundacion MEPI and WBEZ’s This American Life
Award Honored Work: “Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala”
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
“Finding Oscar” is a magnificent journalistic collaboration documenting how prosecutors, forensic anthropologists and human rights activists persevered for 30 years in their quest for justice against the perpetrators of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala. The story begins with the compelling account of a 2011 phone call to Oscar Ramirez, an undocumented Guatemalan immigrant living in Massachusetts, from a prosecutor back home, informing him that he isn’t who he thinks he is. What follows, in both written and radio formats, takes us back in time to Dos Erres, a Guatemalan town whose 250 residents were killed by soldiers three decades ago. Oscar, it turns out, was one of two survivors, abducted at the age of three by the commander of the army squad that murdered his family, and he is now evidence of government complicity in the massacre. Recently several soldiers involved in the raid were convicted and the former Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt was indicted on charges of genocide.
Citation for Excellence:
Alissa J. Rubin
The New York Times
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2012Peter Gwin with photographer Brent StirtonNational Geographic Magazine
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2012
Award Recipient: Peter Gwin with photographer Brent Stirton
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: Rhino Wars
Peter GwinAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2012
Award Recipient: Peter Gwin with photographer Brent Stirton
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: Rhino Wars
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
We chose to honor the powerful National Geographic piece, Rhino Wars by Peter Gwin, with amazing photographs by Brent Stirton. The topic was enterprising and fresh (of the 3 submissions on African animals killed for horns, it was the earliest piece by quite a few months, with other media following suit). Finally, from an impact point of view, it helped lead to some of the worst South African rhino killers facing long jail terms, one rhino poaching kingpin getting 40 years.
Citation for Excellence:
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The Center for Public Integrity
Plunder in the Pacific -
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2012
Award Recipient: Alberto Arce
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Honduras
Alberto ArceAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2012
Award Recipient: Alberto Arce
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Honduras
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
One of the most violent countries in the world receives scant media coverage. But Alberto Arce of the Associated Press has displayed a combination of courage, strong reporting and a flair for writing to explain life in Honduras – how this is a country where gangs extort cash from homeowners, where inmates rule its deadly prisons and where the charities of political candidates give away free coffins. Honduras is struggling to maintain political stability three years after its former president was run out of office at gunpoint. Arce goes beyond the standard wire service reporting. His “Letter from Honduras” colorfully recounts difficult life inside the impoverished and dangerous Central American nation. Readers are lured into one story on a father’s quest for justice after his son was killed, allegedly by military officers, with the following lead: “In a capital so dangerous that only the “walking dead” are said to venture out after dark, nothing could draw an obedient son from the safety of his parents’ suburban home into the deserted night. Nothing, that is, but a girl.”
Citation for Excellence:
Nick Miroff and William Booth
The Washington Post
Mexico’s Middle Class -
2012Thomas Jennings, Sabrina Shankman, Travis Fox, James Milward, Pietro Gagliano, Ryan Andal, Ashlee Lougheed, Sam Bailey, Andrew Golis Based on reporting by Sebastian Rotella of ProPublicaWGBH/Frontline & Secret Location
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2012
Award Recipient: Thomas Jennings, Sabrina Shankman, Travis Fox, James Milward, Pietro Gagliano, Ryan Andal, Ashlee Lougheed, Sam Bailey, Andrew Golis Based on reporting by Sebastian Rotella of ProPublica
Award Recipient Affiliation: WGBH/Frontline & Secret Location
Award Honored Work: “A Perfect Terrorist: David Coleman Headley’s Web of Betrayal”
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2012
Award Recipient: Thomas Jennings, Sabrina Shankman, Travis Fox, James Milward, Pietro Gagliano, Ryan Andal, Ashlee Lougheed, Sam Bailey, Andrew Golis Based on reporting by Sebastian Rotella of ProPublica
Award Recipient Affiliation: WGBH/Frontline & Secret Location
Award Honored Work: “A Perfect Terrorist: David Coleman Headley’s Web of Betrayal”
Best use of video, interactive graphics and slideshows to report on international news
This entry’s use of video, documents, photographs and news articles was unlike any other project submitted for this year’s awards. The entry combines an excellent narrative with a compelling presentation that includes raw simplicity and sophisticated technology, pointing the way to a truly new form of multimedia storytelling. It gets bonus points for employing a new kind of technology — Popcorn.js, a new HTML5 / Javascript media toolkit created by Mozilla. Its presentation was fresh and arresting. The narrative is excellent, and all the breaking points in the story are very well put together.
Citation for Excellence:
Rick Loomis, Kenneth R. Weiss and Staff of the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Beyond 7 Billion -
2012Michael Forsythe, Shai Oster, Natasha Khan, Dune Lawrence, Ben Richardson, Henry SandersonBloomberg News
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2012
Award Recipient: Michael Forsythe, Shai Oster, Natasha Khan, Dune Lawrence, Ben Richardson, Henry Sanderson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg News
Award Honored Work: Revolution to Riches
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2012
Award Recipient: Michael Forsythe, Shai Oster, Natasha Khan, Dune Lawrence, Ben Richardson, Henry Sanderson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg News
Award Honored Work: Revolution to Riches
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story
Through painstaking analysis of the families of Xi Jinping and the so-called “Eight Immortals” and ingenious scrutiny of regulatory filings to trace holding companies to these families, the reporters were able to demonstrate for the first time how China’s elite have used political influence for enormous personal gain. In the process, they have fundamentally changed our understanding of the Chinese state.
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Best Commentary 2012
Award Recipient: David Ignatius
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: Foreign Affairs
David Ignatius, photo by Diane WalkerAward Date: 2012
Award Name: Best Commentary 2012
Award Recipient: David Ignatius
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: Foreign Affairs
Best commentary on international news in any medium
David Ignatius’s insightful writing about the Middle East, informed by his original reporting, was refreshing and illuminating. The judges were especially impressed by his brave visits inside Syria to see first-hand the struggles of the rebel movement. Ignatius’s “48 hours in Syria” is not only a compelling narrative about the rebels, but also an impassioned argument for more direct US support, which might prevent Islamic fundamentalists from gaining an upper hand should Assad fall. “The shower of cash and weapons coming from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and other Arab nations is helping extremist fighters and undercutting any orderly chain of command through the Free Syrian Army,” he warns. In another column, Ignatius reports first hand from Syria on the growing influence of an Al Qaeda-affiliated group. Whether writing about Syria, Egypt or Lebanon, Ignatius provides a level-headed view of the world, while uncovering new information that enhances our understanding. As one judge said, this columnist is “an expert guide” for navigating a complex world full of characters whose motives may be anything but obvious.
Citation for Excellence:
Nicholas D. Kristof
The New York Times
Columns on Human Rights -
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The President’s Award 2013
Award Recipient: Tom Brokaw
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The President’s Award 2013
Award Recipient: Tom Brokaw
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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2011C.J. ChiversThe New York Times
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2011
Award Recipient: C.J. Chivers
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: "War Reports from Libya and Afghanistan"
C.J. ChiversAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2011
Award Recipient: C.J. Chivers
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: "War Reports from Libya and Afghanistan"
Best newspaper or news service reporting from abroad
In a year of momentous events and in a category filled with outstanding entries, the stories by Chris Chivers of The New York Times from Libya and Afghanistan stood out as war reporting at its best. His superb and evocative dispatches explained why the Afghanistan war has become so difficult for the U.S., strategically, tactically and politically. Chivers’ war coverage was a remarkable blend of cool, analytical reporting and impassioned first-hand accounts of the suffering experienced by the victims. In January, his story from Afghanistan about the improved survival rates of wounded U.S. soldiers showed, with impressive documentation, an important trend in the waging of war. Later in the year, his story about the civilian victims in Libya belied assurances by NATO that its seven-month air campaign was without unintended casualties. Tough, cool and brave: these were the hallmarks of Chivers’ great reporting in 2011.
Citation for Excellence:
Hiroko Tabuchi, Norimitsu Onishi, Ken Belson, Martin Fackler, David Sanger, Matt Wald
The New York Times
“Japan’s Earthquake” -
2011Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle, Matthew Karnitschnig, David Enrich, Stacy Meichtry, Brian Blackstone, David Gauthier-Villars, Gordon FaircloughThe Wall Street Journal
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2011
Award Recipient: Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle, Matthew Karnitschnig, David Enrich, Stacy Meichtry, Brian Blackstone, David Gauthier-Villars, Gordon Fairclough
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: European Disunion
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2011
Award Recipient: Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle, Matthew Karnitschnig, David Enrich, Stacy Meichtry, Brian Blackstone, David Gauthier-Villars, Gordon Fairclough
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: European Disunion
Best newspaper or news service interpretation of international affairs
The Journal’s coverage of the European sovereign-debt crisis demonstrated that it’s possible to write about complicated subjects in a compelling way. From a moving account of Greece’s rising suicide rate to a novelistic reconstruction of how Europe’s leaders dithered, Journal reporters combined insight, anecdotal and evocative writing in a nuanced, three-dimensional series that explained how a mountain of debt threatened to sink a continent.
Citation for Excellence:
Jim Yardley, Vikas Bajaj, Lydia Polgreen
The New York Times
“India’s Way” -
2011André LiohnEuropean Pressphoto Agency / Prospekt Photographers for Newsweek
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2011
Award Recipient: André Liohn
Award Recipient Affiliation: European Pressphoto Agency / Prospekt Photographers for Newsweek
Award Honored Work: Almost Dawn in Libya
André LiohnAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2011
Award Recipient: André Liohn
Award Recipient Affiliation: European Pressphoto Agency / Prospekt Photographers for Newsweek
Award Honored Work: Almost Dawn in Libya
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
Liohn’s harrowing and dramatic series of images taken in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata are truly in the spirit of Robert Capa’s combat photography. These searing images are a first rate example of close quarters combat photography obtained at great personal risk. Rarely do we see photos taken so deep in the fog of war, serving, as they do, to shine a bright light on the horrors and consequences of combat.
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2011David GuttenfelderThe Associated Press for National Geographic
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2011
Award Recipient: David Guttenfelder
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press for National Geographic
Award Honored Work: The Zone
David GuttenfelderAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2011
Award Recipient: David Guttenfelder
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press for National Geographic
Award Honored Work: The Zone
Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books
By entering Japan’s closed-off nuclear exclusion zone, Guttenfelder shows us ghost towns abandoned by people fleeing the invisible but very real hazards of radioactivity. Feral dogs roam the deserted streets and unmade beds lie as they were when people hastily evacuated their communities. On the flip side he takes us to intimate scenes in makeshift shelters, where despite their predicament, the evacuees cling to their dignity while attempting to normalize their lives.
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Citation(s) for Excellence:
Sebastian Liste
Reportage by Getty Images published in Burn and Daylight online magazines
“Urban Quilombo”Yuri Kozyrev
Noor for TIME
“On Revolution Road” -
2011Pete MullerThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2011
Award Recipient: Pete Muller
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Battling Impunity: The Fight Against Mass Rape in Eastern Congo
Pete MullerAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2011
Award Recipient: Pete Muller
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Battling Impunity: The Fight Against Mass Rape in Eastern Congo
Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers or news services
Muller took an original approach to documenting a sensitive and difficult story, rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Opening with anonymous but effective portraits of the victims, and then taking us through the makeshift trials that eventually led to convictions and justice for the victims, Muller illuminates a very dark side of human behavior. The glee and satisfaction reflected on the faces of the public after the verdicts were announced is a remarkable and positive ending to at least a part of an endemic abuse of women’s rights.
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Citation for Excellence:
David Guttenfelder
The Associated Press
“Japan: An Earthquake and Tsunami” -
2011David GuttenfelderThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2011
Award Recipient: David Guttenfelder
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: "Inside a Closed Society: Daily Life in North Korea"
David GuttenfelderAward Date: 2011
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2011
Award Recipient: David Guttenfelder
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: "Inside a Closed Society: Daily Life in North Korea"
Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme
Guttenfelder’s images provide a unique and special vision of a hard to access society. While mainly photographed in the company of government officials, they are a series of special moments taken in a creative and innovative fashion. They show us what daily life is like in a closed-off and isolated society.
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Citation(s) for Excellence:
Todd Heisler
The New York Times
“Loss and Healing in Norway”Stephanie Sinclair
VII for National Geographic
“Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides” -
2011Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Loren Jenkins, Douglas Roberts, Jonathan Blakely, Sean Carberry, Grant Clarke, Nishant Dahiya, J.J. SutherlandNational Public Radio
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2011
Award Recipient: Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Loren Jenkins, Douglas Roberts, Jonathan Blakely, Sean Carberry, Grant Clarke, Nishant Dahiya, J.J. Sutherland
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Public Radio
Award Honored Work: "Arab Spring"
Lourdes Garcia-NavarroAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2011
Award Recipient: Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Loren Jenkins, Douglas Roberts, Jonathan Blakely, Sean Carberry, Grant Clarke, Nishant Dahiya, J.J. Sutherland
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Public Radio
Award Honored Work: "Arab Spring"
Best radio news or interpretation of international affairs
Simply making her way into Libya last year to report the story of ragtag rebels overthrowing an entrenched dictator was achievement enough. But Lourdes Garcia-Navarro did more, recording pitch-perfect narration from Gadhafi’s Tripoli compound and notorious Abu Selim prison and providing honest, unflinching portraits of people whose lives were being destroyed, or begun anew, as the country lurched into its new era.
Citation for Excellence:
Laura Lynch and the Staff of PRI’s The World
PRI’s The World
“Afghanistan – Ten Years On” -
2011Christiane Amanpour, Katie Hinman, Bartley Price, Nasser Atta, Jeanmarie CondonABC News
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2011
Award Recipient: Christiane Amanpour, Katie Hinman, Bartley Price, Nasser Atta, Jeanmarie Condon
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work: "Arab Spring – Cairo to Tripoli"
Christiane AmanpourAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2011
Award Recipient: Christiane Amanpour, Katie Hinman, Bartley Price, Nasser Atta, Jeanmarie Condon
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work: "Arab Spring – Cairo to Tripoli"
Best TV spot news reporting from abroad
In addition to her courageous reporting in the face of danger, Christiane Amanpour distinguished her coverage of the revolts by obtaining two timely and revealing interviews: in Egypt with President Hosni Mubarak and in Libya with Colonel Moammar Gadhafi. She was the only journalist to talk to these doomed leaders as their regimes were being torn apart. Because Amanpour has been covering the Middle East for two decades, her depth of understanding of the region enabled her to truly capture these historic times in her compelling reports — both as a witness and especially as an interviewer.
Citation(s) for Excellence:
Anderson Cooper, Hala Gorani, Ivan Watson, Ben Wedeman
CNN
“Egypt Uprising”Richard Engel, Ron Allen, Brian Williams, Lester Holt, Stephanie Gosk,
Mike Taibbi, Jim Maceda and NBC News Staff
NBC News
“Arab Spring” -
2011Abigail E. Disney, Pamela Hogan, Gini Reticker, Nina Chaudry, Peter Bull, Claudia Rizzi, Oriana Zill de Granados, Johanna HamiltonThirteen / WNET and Fork Films
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2011
Award Recipient: Abigail E. Disney, Pamela Hogan, Gini Reticker, Nina Chaudry, Peter Bull, Claudia Rizzi, Oriana Zill de Granados, Johanna Hamilton
Award Recipient Affiliation: Thirteen / WNET and Fork Films
Award Honored Work: “Women, War & Peace”
Clockwise from upper left: Abigail E. Disney, Pamela Hogan, Gini Reticker and Nina ChaudryAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2011
Award Recipient: Abigail E. Disney, Pamela Hogan, Gini Reticker, Nina Chaudry, Peter Bull, Claudia Rizzi, Oriana Zill de Granados, Johanna Hamilton
Award Recipient Affiliation: Thirteen / WNET and Fork Films
Award Honored Work: “Women, War & Peace”
Best TV interpretation or documentary on international affairs
If the first victim of war is the truth, the second is women and children. The five-part series “Women, War & Peace” chronicles, in searing fashion, the victimization of women and their struggle to fight back in the wake of the most severe violence and depredation. In Liberia, women fed up with killing and destruction join hands and bring war-makers to heel. Watch as their nonviolent protests catch on throughout the region. In Afghanistan, women insist on being part of the peace process. Watch as their courageous stand changes the equation in their war-torn land. In Colombia, they clamor to draw attention to a forgotten guerilla conflict. Watch as their years-long struggle gets the headlines it deserves. And in Bosnia, women bear witness to systematic sexual assault. Watch as awareness of rape as a tool of war spreads throughout the world. After “Women, War & Peace,” viewers will never forget women’s role in global conflict.
Citation for Excellence:
Dan Edge, Stephen Grey, Martin Smith, Raney Aronson, David Fanning
Frontline / WGBH
“Kill/Capture” -
2011Charles GraeberBloomberg Businessweek
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2011
Award Recipient: Charles Graeber
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: “Nothing To Do But Start Again”
Charles GraeberAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2011
Award Recipient: Charles Graeber
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: “Nothing To Do But Start Again”
Best magazine reporting from abroad
Graeber reported on the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Kamaishi, Japan, focusing on the story of one family — 80-year-old Kenji Sano, and his son, Shigeru, who ran a liquor business and bar. He tells the tale with texture, fresh language, empathy and dimension. Graeber gives a multi-generational perspective to a town that has been battered by nature and decimated by bombings and nuclear holocaust without dirge-like drumbeats. A man survives and continues.
Citation(s) for Excellence:
Tina Rosenberg
Foreign Policy
“Revolution U”Mark Bowden
Vanity Fair
“Echoes from a Distant Battlefield” -
2011Patrick ChappatteInternational Herald Tribune
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2011
Award Recipient: Patrick Chappatte
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Patrick ChappatteAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2011
Award Recipient: Patrick Chappatte
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Best cartoons on international affairs
Chappatte deftly captures the essence of compelling issues. He travels to troubled areas around the world using his reportorial, drawing and photography skills to present, in a glance, the terrors of Gaza, the slums of Nairobi or the uprisings in Tunisia. His subtle visual expression seduces rather than shouts.
Citation for Excellence:
Stephen P. Breen
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2011Paul Sonne, Steve Stecklow, Farnaz Fassihi, Margaret Coker, Loretta Chao, Christopher Rhoads, Matt Bradley, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Nour Malas, Don ClarkThe Wall Street Journal
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2011
Award Recipient: Paul Sonne, Steve Stecklow, Farnaz Fassihi, Margaret Coker, Loretta Chao, Christopher Rhoads, Matt Bradley, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Nour Malas, Don Clark
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: "Censorship Inc."
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2011
Award Recipient: Paul Sonne, Steve Stecklow, Farnaz Fassihi, Margaret Coker, Loretta Chao, Christopher Rhoads, Matt Bradley, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Nour Malas, Don Clark
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: "Censorship Inc."
Best international business news reporting in newspapers
The Journal ran a series of articles over the course of almost a year that described how Iran, Egypt, Libya and Syria used technology from Western and Chinese companies to break through Skype’s encryption features to spy on dissidents, track mobile phone users, conduct surveillance of them, and censor web activity and satellite television broadcasts. Protesters were using high-tech tools to rally support, but their governments were also secretly using technology to stop them. The series raised disturbing questions about whether U.S. and European firms have a responsibility to keep their technology out of the wrong hands and whether Western governments can prevent Chinese companies from rushing in to assist such countries as Iran.
Citation for Excellence:
Asjylyn Loder, David Evans, Leigh Baldwin, Angela Cullen, Elisa Martinuzzi
Bloomberg News
“Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer with Iran Sales” -
2011Daniel GoldenBloomberg Businessweek
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2011
Award Recipient: Daniel Golden
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: "New Oriental Cracks the SAT Code"
Daniel GoldenAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2011
Award Recipient: Daniel Golden
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: "New Oriental Cracks the SAT Code"
Best international business news reporting in magazines
This quintessential reporting by Daniel Golden began with a rumor that a Chinese company had “cracked the code” of SAT exams and was profiting by training thousands of students to score far higher on verbal tests than their language skills would ordinarily merit. Chatting on a Washington to Boston flight with two U.S. college admission counselors who had just returned from China, Golden picked up that tip and chased it across China. His exclusive story, built on first person interviews, detailed reporting and analysis, casts doubt on the integrity of the U.S. college-testing process and raises the question of whether the odds of college admission acceptances are being unfairly altered for countless students.
Citation(s) for Excellence:
Paul Barrett
Bloomberg Businessweek
“Amazon Crusader. Chevron Pest. Fraud?”James Bandier
Fortune
“J .P. Morgan’s Hunt for Afghan Gold” -
2011Christof Putzel, Jeff Plunkett, Alex SimmonsCurrent TV
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Carl Spielvogel Award 2011
Award Recipient: Christof Putzel, Jeff Plunkett, Alex Simmons
Award Recipient Affiliation: Current TV
Award Honored Work: "Sex, Lies and Cigarettes”
Christof Putzel, Jeff Plunkett and Alex SimmonsAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Carl Spielvogel Award 2011
Award Recipient: Christof Putzel, Jeff Plunkett, Alex Simmons
Award Recipient Affiliation: Current TV
Award Honored Work: "Sex, Lies and Cigarettes”
Best international business news reporting in the broadcast media or online
A vivid examination of the new front lines of the tobacco wars – third world countries, especially the populous nation of Indonesia, where the barriers to entry are all but nonexistent – where the global cigarette giants are successfully marketing their product to the youngest consumers, ignoring the health risks and warnings that have stalled their growth in most of the developed world.
Citation for Excellence:
Joel Kirkland
ClimateWire
“China’s Energy” -
2011Robin WrightSimon & Schuster
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2011
Award Recipient: Robin Wright
Award Recipient Affiliation: Simon & Schuster
Award Honored Work: “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World”
Robin WrightAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2011
Award Recipient: Robin Wright
Award Recipient Affiliation: Simon & Schuster
Award Honored Work: “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World”
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
Robin Wright’s book captures a pivotal moment in history with superb on the ground reporting across the Middle East that reflects her decades of experience covering the region. In interviews and observations, Wright shows journalistic enterprise and a comprehensive command of the tumult in today’s Islamic world. The book challenges conventional wisdom about the incompatibility of Islam and democracy profiling the reformers Wright says will lead the Middle East away from extremism. With vivid portraits, the book describes the events of the Arab Spring as examples of a regional “counter-jihad” fought by young Muslims who constitute a majority in the Islamic world.
Citation for Excellence:
Gideon Rachman
Simon & Schuster
“Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety” -
2011Andrew Higgins and Aaron HarlanThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2011
Award Recipient: Andrew Higgins and Aaron Harlan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Disaster in Japan"
Andrew Higgins and Aaron HarlanAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2011
Award Recipient: Andrew Higgins and Aaron Harlan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Disaster in Japan"
Best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition
These stories, written in the days and weeks after Japan’s tragic earthquake and tsunami, were emotionally moving tales of individual survival that conveyed universal truths about pain, loss, resilience and recovery. The prose was spare but evocative, the individual tales compelling, and the overall message a global one: confronted with unimagined disaster, the human response is to find a way to press on.
Citation for Excellence:
Philip Gourevitch
The New Yorker
“Climbers” -
2011Diane Sawyer, Dr. Richard Besser, John Quinones, Deborah Roberts, Jessica Velmans, Kerry SmithABC News
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2011
Award Recipient: Diane Sawyer, Dr. Richard Besser, John Quinones, Deborah Roberts, Jessica Velmans, Kerry Smith
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work: "Giving Life: A Risky Proposition"
From top left clockwise: Diane Sawyer, Dr. Richard Besser, Deborah Roberts and John QuinonesAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2011
Award Recipient: Diane Sawyer, Dr. Richard Besser, John Quinones, Deborah Roberts, Jessica Velmans, Kerry Smith
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work: "Giving Life: A Risky Proposition"
Best international reporting in the broadcast media and online showing a concern for the human condition
Every 90 seconds somewhere in the world a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth; 80% of these deaths are preventable. The program focused on nations with the worst history and how the powerful drive of women is bringing hope and help. The team traveled from Afghanistan to Sierra Leone, Bangladesh and elsewhere, filming the efforts of NGOs and doctors to train volunteers to use cell phones to communicate with doctors during pregnancies and to deliver babies hygienically in primitive homes. It cited how well-known model Christy Turlington, who almost died in childbirth in the U.S., used her fame to make a documentary to raise awareness and money for the medications that saved her life. The judges credit the program additionally for its success in moving viewers to contribute interactively to a number of organizations dedicated to health improvement worldwide.
Citations for Excellence:
Bob Simon, Draggan Mihailovich, Warren Lustig, Nathalie Sommer
CBS News – 60 Minutes
“After the Wave”Kate Snow, Rohit Kachroo, Richard Engel, Ann Curry and NBC Nightly News Staff
NBC Nightly News
“Famine in Africa” -
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2011
Award Recipient: Sarah Stillman
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: "The Invisible Army"
Sarah StillmanAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2011
Award Recipient: Sarah Stillman
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: "The Invisible Army"
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
Stillman wins for her investigation of serious labor abuses on American military bases in war zones. She combines deep reporting with powerful writing to expose the conditions that foreign workers endure while working for subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. Stillman’s outstanding piece of investigative journalism uncovers serious abuses, including sexual assault and indentured servitude, that were ultimately carried out on behalf of the U.S. government and funded by American taxpayers.
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2011
Award Recipient: Evan Osnos
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: "The Fallout"
Evan OsnosAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2011
Award Recipient: Evan Osnos
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: "The Fallout"
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
There was no bigger environmental story in the past year than the multiple meltdowns at the nuclear power plant known as Fukushima Daiichi. While various outlets did heroic work in covering breaking developments in Japan and explaining the risks and realities, Osnos demonstrated mastery of the nuclear accident’s multiple facets. Whether illuminating Japan’s history with nuclear power or coping with the hard science of meltdowns or radioactive fallout, Osnos showed real depth as well as flair for clear, concise and compelling language. Such insightful reporting and writing ensures that the reader will not forget this cautionary tale.
Citation for Excellence:
Kate Willson, Mar Cabra, Marcos Garcia Rey, Fredrik Laurin, Marina Walker Guevara
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
“Looting the Seas II” -
2011Pamela Hogan, Abigail E. Disney, Gini Reticker, Nina Chaudry, Oriana Zill de Granados, Kristen Huntley, Jennifer Janisch, Lena Shemel, Juan CarlosThirteen / WNET and Fork Films
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2011
Award Recipient: Pamela Hogan, Abigail E. Disney, Gini Reticker, Nina Chaudry, Oriana Zill de Granados, Kristen Huntley, Jennifer Janisch, Lena Shemel, Juan Carlos
Award Recipient Affiliation: Thirteen / WNET and Fork Films
Award Honored Work: “The War We Are Living” from “Women, War & Peace”
Pamela Hogan and Oriana Zill de GranadosAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2011
Award Recipient: Pamela Hogan, Abigail E. Disney, Gini Reticker, Nina Chaudry, Oriana Zill de Granados, Kristen Huntley, Jennifer Janisch, Lena Shemel, Juan Carlos
Award Recipient Affiliation: Thirteen / WNET and Fork Films
Award Honored Work: “The War We Are Living” from “Women, War & Peace”
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
This documentary, one part of a five-part series, offers a fascinating first-hand look into the resurgence of violence in rural Colombia, and the ways in which two charismatic Afro-Colombian female leaders are heading up efforts to maintain control of the land and the communities’ destiny. The film’s beautiful and timely depictions of these leaders, and their struggles in the resource-rich southeastern mountains, show us how the origins of the country’s nearly 50-year old civil war remain firmly a part of its landscape. With grace and subtlety, the filmmakers also illustrate the important role of women in times of conflict.
Citation(s) for Excellence:
David Grann
The New Yorker
“A Murder Foretold”Erin Siegal
Schuster Institute – Brandeis University
“Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child and a Cross-Border Search for the Truth” -
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: General Excellence Online Award 2011
Award Recipient: Staff of Foreign Policy
Award Recipient Affiliation: Foreign Policy
Award Honored Work: ForeignPolicy.com
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: General Excellence Online Award 2011
Award Recipient: Staff of Foreign Policy
Award Recipient Affiliation: Foreign Policy
Award Honored Work: ForeignPolicy.com
Best overall international coverage on a website
ForeignPolicy.com wins for their wonderfully clever and engaging content which helps readers see the world in new ways. The site’s stellar photography and provocative features give this traditional title a jolt of modern vitality. One judge commented, “The image and illustration choices were inspired and even funny, and the headline language was spirited and varied. I was drawn to every topic from Japan to the Kremlin to smaller pieces about corrupt sons of dictators in obscure countries.” On the social media front, Foreign Policy is smartly integrating Twitter and has fostered an engaged and informed community of commenters. As another judge put it, “I love this site. Bravo!”
Citation(s) for Excellence:
Alan Murray and Staff of The Wall Street Journal
wsj.comThomson Reuters Foundation
AlertNet
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2011GlobalPost StaffGlobalPost Staff
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: Best Online Coverage of Breaking News 2011
Award Recipient: GlobalPost Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: GlobalPost Staff
Award Honored Work: "The Libyan Rebellion"
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: Best Online Coverage of Breaking News 2011
Award Recipient: GlobalPost Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: GlobalPost Staff
Award Honored Work: "The Libyan Rebellion"
Best online coverage, including Tweets, throughout a 72-hour period of an international breaking news event
Spurred on by revolutionary activity in Tunisia and Egypt, protests in Libya against that country’s dictator Muammar Gadhafi began in February 2011 and ultimately resulted in the leader’s capture and death on October 20, 2011, at the hands of rebels. GlobalPost’s “The Libyan Rebellion” distinguishes itself in its coverage by providing up-to-the-minute reporting on the ground from Sirte where Gadhafi was captured, including eyewitness accounts and video exclusively obtained of that capture and torture. Some of this video later led to a U.N. inquiry of the dictator’s demise.
Citations for Excellence:
Charles M. Sennott {GlobalPost), Mike Wiser, Azmat Khan, Gretchen Gavett, Sarah Moughty, Raney Aronson, David Fanning
Frontline / WGBH
“Revolution in Cairo”Reuters Staff
Reuters
“The European Crisis” -
2011CFR.org and MediaStormCouncil on Foreign Relations
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: Best Use of Online Multimedia 2011
Award Recipient: CFR.org and MediaStorm
Award Recipient Affiliation: Council on Foreign Relations
Award Honored Work: "Crisis Guide: Iran"
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: Best Use of Online Multimedia 2011
Award Recipient: CFR.org and MediaStorm
Award Recipient Affiliation: Council on Foreign Relations
Award Honored Work: "Crisis Guide: Iran"
Best use of techniques such as interactive graphics, Flash and slideshows to report on international news
“Crisis Guide: Iran” stood out in this category for its superb use of multimedia in a timely and in-depth study of Iran’s politics, economy and nuclear program. From interactive graphics to archival slideshows to graphs, timelines and video interviews, the Council on Foreign Relations’ seven-chapter publication showcases the history and government of the country in a visually pleasing and accessible way. Its maps maximize the use of the online medium to provide essential background on topics such as Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, along with in-depth commentaries from a range of experts. The clear, intuitive navigation of “Crisis Guide” allows users to control their own agendas about where and what to read, rendering this an excellent resource for both serious scholars and serious readers.
Citation for Excellence:
The New York Times Graphics Staff
The New York Times
“Japan Earthquake and Tsunami” -
2011Vanessa Houlder, Megan Murphy, Benjamin Freese, Johanna Kassel, Christine Spolar (Financial Times); Jeff Gerth and Tom Detzel (ProPublica)Financial Times and ProPublica
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: Best Online Investigation of an International Issue or Event 2011
Award Recipient: Vanessa Houlder, Megan Murphy, Benjamin Freese, Johanna Kassel, Christine Spolar (Financial Times); Jeff Gerth and Tom Detzel (ProPublica)
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times and ProPublica
Award Honored Work: ''Tax Wars: A Cross-Border Battle Worth Billions"
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: Best Online Investigation of an International Issue or Event 2011
Award Recipient: Vanessa Houlder, Megan Murphy, Benjamin Freese, Johanna Kassel, Christine Spolar (Financial Times); Jeff Gerth and Tom Detzel (ProPublica)
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times and ProPublica
Award Honored Work: ''Tax Wars: A Cross-Border Battle Worth Billions"
Best original or exclusive reporting for a news website that provides new insights into an event or trend of international significance
The Financial Times and ProPublica distinguished themselves by their thorough – and engrossing – investigation into a subject that would typically put most readers to sleep: taxes. The judges were impressed by this illuminating account of how banks took advantage of gaps in two countries’ tax laws and how the U.S. government lost billions in the process. The four-part series also delved into how a simple rule change, meant by the U.S. treasury, to cut paperwork turned into one of the biggest international tax breaks around. Interactive graphics and charts made this four-part series even more compelling.
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2011Maisie Crow and Jesse DukesVirginia Quarterly Review
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: Best Use of Online Video 2011
Award Recipient: Maisie Crow and Jesse Dukes
Award Recipient Affiliation: Virginia Quarterly Review
Award Honored Work: "Half-Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Today"
Maisie CrowAward Date: 2011
Award Name: Best Use of Online Video 2011
Award Recipient: Maisie Crow and Jesse Dukes
Award Recipient Affiliation: Virginia Quarterly Review
Award Honored Work: "Half-Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Today"
Excellence in original video on an international topic created specifically for a news website
Released to coincide with the Fall 2011 issue of VQR, Maisie Crow's original short film introduces us to the city of Slavutych and its residents &mdash survivors of the Chernobyl disaster and the workers still dismantling the plant.
Originally assigned to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl, Crow’s video re-examines the fallout from one of history’s worst man-made disasters. “Half-Lives” artfully disentangles the connections between the power plant, the cities that were purpose-built to support it and the workers whose lives will be forever affected by it. In the aftermath of last year’s tsunami and nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Crow’s film is especially haunting. The judges were impressed by the intimacy of the video’s interviews, the smart use of archival footage and the elegant use of still photography. The cinema-quality production values that Crow achieved are rarely seen in video produced for the web. She has elevated the standard for online video.
Award Page with a link to the video >>
Citation for Excellence:
Brent Renaud, Craig Renaud, Dave Rummel, Ann Derry
The New York Times
“Surviving Haiti’s Earthquake” -
2011Nicholas D. Kristof, Adam B. Ellick, Sean Patrick Farrell, Jaron GilinskyThe New York Times
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: Best Online Commentary 2011
Award Recipient: Nicholas D. Kristof, Adam B. Ellick, Sean Patrick Farrell, Jaron Gilinsky
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “A Year Through a Kaleidoscope: The Arab Spring”
Nicholas D. KristofAward Date: 2011
Award Name: Best Online Commentary 2011
Award Recipient: Nicholas D. Kristof, Adam B. Ellick, Sean Patrick Farrell, Jaron Gilinsky
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “A Year Through a Kaleidoscope: The Arab Spring”
Best international affairs commentary or blog
Kristof has described himself as a “dinosaur scribbler,” but a video of him getting a haircut in Bahrain — then calling for a haircut in the country’s government — was an Internet sensation. He used video to put us on the streets of the Arab Spring alongside regular protesters in Egypt. He took us on a tour of Bahrain with a royal guide and he took us inside a Bahrain morgue. Showing us U.S. weapons and tear gas used by police there he commented, “I’m afraid we’re coming out on the wrong side of history.”
Citation for Excellence:
Anthony Shadid, Philip Bennett, Sarah Moughty, Andrew Golis, Raney Aronson, David Fanning
Frontline / WGBH
“In Assad’s Syria, There Is No Imagination” -
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The President’s Award 2012
Award Recipient: Ted Turner
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The President’s Award 2012
Award Recipient: Ted Turner
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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Award Date: 1959
Award Name: Best Radio or TV Reporting from Abroad
Award Recipient: Leslie Midgley, Don Hewitt
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1959
Award Name: Best Radio or TV Reporting from Abroad
Award Recipient: Leslie Midgley, Don Hewitt
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Article or report on Asia in any medium 1971
Award Recipient: Harvey Meyerson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Houghton Mifflin
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Article or report on Asia in any medium 1971
Award Recipient: Harvey Meyerson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Houghton Mifflin
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: The Bache and Company Incorporated Award 1971
Award Recipient: Leonard S. Silk
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: The Bache and Company Incorporated Award 1971
Award Recipient: Leonard S. Silk
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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1983Bob GibsonThe Los Angeles Times
Award Date: 1983
Award Name: Best economics news reporting from abroad for newspapers and wire services 1983
Award Recipient: Bob Gibson
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1983
Award Name: Best economics news reporting from abroad for newspapers and wire services 1983
Award Recipient: Bob Gibson
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work:
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1984William Montalbano, Juan DeOnis and Juan VasquezLos Angeles Times
Award Date: 1984
Award Name: Best economics reporting from abroad for newspapers or wire services 1984
Award Recipient: William Montalbano, Juan DeOnis and Juan Vasquez
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1984
Award Name: Best economics reporting from abroad for newspapers or wire services 1984
Award Recipient: William Montalbano, Juan DeOnis and Juan Vasquez
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work:
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2010Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Joshua PartlowThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2010
Award Recipient: Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Joshua Partlow
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Afghanistan"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2010
Award Recipient: Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Joshua Partlow
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Afghanistan"
Best newspaper or news service reporting from abroad
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 faced on the ground in Marja to the Taliban forces moving into Zabul and the bizarre allegiances the U.S. has made with regional tribal leaders. In this rich body of work, Chandrasekaran and Partlow captured the tragedy of Afghanistan’s war.
Citation for Excellence:
Sudarsan Raghavan
The Washington Post
“Terrorism in the Horn of Africa” -
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The President’s Award 2011
Award Recipient: Bill Keller
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The President’s Award 2011
Award Recipient: Bill Keller
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: President's Award
It is just days after four New York Times journalists walked out of captivity in Libya, and Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times‘s relief is audible in his voice. Indeed, he sounds almost giddy as he discusses foreign correspondence, present, past and future.
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2010Clifford J. Levy and Ellen BarryThe New York Times
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2010
Award Recipient: Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: "Russia: Above the Law"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2010
Award Recipient: Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: "Russia: Above the Law"
Best newspaper or news service interpretation of international affairs
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 victims of injustice in a country still struggling with a legacy of heavy-handed law enforcement dating back to the czars. Their stories of beatings, chicanery and intimidation, sickening in their details, opened eyes and led at least one company, Microsoft, to change the way it does business in the country. “Above the Law” soared.
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2010Agnes DherbeysFreelance for The New York Times
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2010
Award Recipient: Agnes Dherbeys
Award Recipient Affiliation: Freelance for The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Violence Erupts in Thailand
Agnes DherbeysAward Date: 2010
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2010
Award Recipient: Agnes Dherbeys
Award Recipient Affiliation: Freelance for The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Violence Erupts in Thailand
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
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 clashes that saw anti-government protesters both attacking soldiers as well as being attacked. Her images were an emotional rendering of the chaotic and dangerous scenes around her.
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2010
Award Recipient: Daniel Berehulak
Award Recipient Affiliation: Getty Images
Award Honored Work: "Pakistan Floods"
Daniel BerehulakAward Date: 2010
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2010
Award Recipient: Daniel Berehulak
Award Recipient Affiliation: Getty Images
Award Honored Work: "Pakistan Floods"
Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers or news services
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 and livelihoods ruined, working under extremely difficult conditions while traveling across the affected areas.
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2010Lynsey AddarioNational Geographic
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2010
Award Recipient: Lynsey Addario
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work: "Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women"
Lynsey AddarioAward Date: 2010
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2010
Award Recipient: Lynsey Addario
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work: "Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women"
Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books
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-reaching. Addario worked hard to gain access and in doing so produced a very important body of work.
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Tim Hetherington
Chris Boot Ltd.
“Infidel” -
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2010
Award Recipient: Rodrigo Abd
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: "Guatemala ER"
Rodrigo AbdAward Date: 2010
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2010
Award Recipient: Rodrigo Abd
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: "Guatemala ER"
Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme
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 and laughter. His approach is fresh, unique, and creative.
Citation for Excellence:
Lynsey Addario
VII Network/TIME
“Dying to Give Birth: One Woman’s Tale of Maternal Mortality” -
2010Sheri Fink, David Baron, Patrick CoxPRI's The World
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2010
Award Recipient: Sheri Fink, David Baron, Patrick Cox
Award Recipient Affiliation: PRI's The World
Award Honored Work: "Rationing Health: Who Lives? Who Decides?"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2010
Award Recipient: Sheri Fink, David Baron, Patrick Cox
Award Recipient Affiliation: PRI's The World
Award Honored Work: "Rationing Health: Who Lives? Who Decides?"
Best radio news or interpretation of international affairs
Fink, Baron, and Cox showed tremendous enterprise in an impactful series, which entailed more than six months of reporting and editing from four countries. This fresh and well-researched series takes a global look at the controversial issue of choosing who gets medical care in situations with limited resources, such as life-sustaining kidney dialysis in South Africa or rationing of care during natural disasters such as earthquakes or floods. The series—which maximized the impact of the stories using multimedia and a Q&A with reporter Sheri Fink—should be required listening in the US, as the debate rages on over health care solutions.
Citation for Excellence:
Madhulika Sikka, Steve Inskeep, Julie Mccarthy, Phillip Reeves
“Along the Grand Trunk Road: Coming of Age in India and Pakistan”
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2010Richard Engel, Bredum Edwards, Madeleine Haeringer, Ghazi Balkiz, Patrick Burkey, James NovogrodNBC Nightly News
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2010
Award Recipient: Richard Engel, Bredum Edwards, Madeleine Haeringer, Ghazi Balkiz, Patrick Burkey, James Novogrod
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC Nightly News
Award Honored Work: "Afghanistan: From the Front Lines to the Home Front"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2010
Award Recipient: Richard Engel, Bredum Edwards, Madeleine Haeringer, Ghazi Balkiz, Patrick Burkey, James Novogrod
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC Nightly News
Award Honored Work: "Afghanistan: From the Front Lines to the Home Front"
Best TV spot news reporting from abroad
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 is poignantly illustrated through the eyes of one soldier, Sgt. Louis Loftus, 22, from Akron, Ohio, who spoke with unusual candor about the trauma of battle. The riveting footage of the ferocious surprise attack by the Taliban against the soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division coupled with the post-gunfight interview and homecoming of Sgt. Loftus demonstrate Engel’s unique ability to capture the moment and to bring the audience to the battlefield, even if it means putting his own life in danger.
Citations for Excellence:
ABC News – NIGHTLINE
“Chile Miners: The Greatest Rescue”
Anderson Cooper
CNN
“Haiti Earthquake” -
2010Lesley Stahl with producers Richard Bonin and Shachar Bar-OnCBS News -- 60 Minutes
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2010
Award Recipient: Lesley Stahl with producers Richard Bonin and Shachar Bar-On
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News -- 60 Minutes
Award Honored Work: "Unfinished Business" and "City of David"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2010
Award Recipient: Lesley Stahl with producers Richard Bonin and Shachar Bar-On
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News -- 60 Minutes
Award Honored Work: "Unfinished Business" and "City of David"
Best TV interpretation or documentary on international affairs
Powerful and evocative treatments of the two poles of the Middle East — simmering crises that represent unfinished business of these flashpoints of global conflict. In “Unfinished Business,” Lesley Stahl and producer Richard Bonin examine shattered lives that American forces left behind when they withdrew from Iraq, while uncovering the underside of the economic structures that support this would-be nation, including illicit trade in oil products with Iran. “In City of David,” Stahl teams with producer Shachar Bar-On for a microcosmic look at the issues plaguing the Israel-Palestine conflict. Vivid and insightful writing illuminates the profound tensions underlying an architectural dig to uncover a palace that may (or may not) have belonged to King David, but which today lies beneath a sprawling Palestinian neighborhood called Silwan.
Citation for Excellence:
Paul Refsdal and Anderson Cooper
CNN
“Taliban” -
2010Alma Guillermopreito and Shaul SchwarzNational Geographic
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2010
Award Recipient: Alma Guillermopreito and Shaul Schwarz
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work: "Troubled Spirits"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2010
Award Recipient: Alma Guillermopreito and Shaul Schwarz
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work: "Troubled Spirits"
Best magazine reporting from abroad
In “Troubled Spirits,” Alma Guillermoprieto is working at top form and with enough length to show what she can do in this piece about how gruesome drug violence and economic decline in Mexico underlie an expansion of cults devoted to St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of desperate causes, and La Santa Muerte (Holy Death), guardian of the most defenseless, the worst of sinners and also honored by convicts and killers, or celebrating the mythical bandit Jesus Malverde, now a “narco-saint.” The reporting from within Mexico’s prisons and shrines is outstanding, the topic fresh and vital. The judges found the care and intelligence of her work a thrill to read.
Citation for Excellence:
Raffi Khatchadourian
The New Yorker
“No Secrets: Julian Assange’s Mission For Total Transparency” -
2010Mike PetersDayton Daily News
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2010
Award Recipient: Mike Peters
Award Recipient Affiliation: Dayton Daily News
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2010
Award Recipient: Mike Peters
Award Recipient Affiliation: Dayton Daily News
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Best cartoons on international affairs
Cartoonist Mike Peters’ humor is fast, funny and provocative. He says, “My cartoons attempt to make people think, laugh and get involved, and if they get angry — even better.” He succeeds.
Citation for Excellence:
Stephen P, Breen
San Diego Union-Tribune -
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2010
Award Recipient: Megha Bahree
Award Recipient Affiliation: Forbes
Award Honored Work: "India's Dirty War"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2010
Award Recipient: Megha Bahree
Award Recipient Affiliation: Forbes
Award Honored Work: "India's Dirty War"
Best business reporting from abroad in magazines
Megha Bahree of Forbes wins for her account of the ongoing battle for control of land and natural resources in some of the most remote areas of rural India. Her ambitious reporting uncovers a brutal war between rich and poor for control of this booming economy’s natural wealth. Bahree braved dangerous and lonely places to illuminate the complex, high-stakes battle between left-wing guerrillas, aboriginals, corrupt police, bureaucrats and billionaires fighting over India’s economic future and cultural soul.
Citation for Excellence:
Frederik Balfour and Tim Culpan
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
“Inside Foxconn” -
2010Andrew Browne, Jason Dean, James T. Areddy, Noihiko Shirouzu, Shai Oster, Jeremy Page, Paul GladerThe Wall Street Journal
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2010
Award Recipient: Andrew Browne, Jason Dean, James T. Areddy, Noihiko Shirouzu, Shai Oster, Jeremy Page, Paul Glader
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: "Chinese Rules"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2010
Award Recipient: Andrew Browne, Jason Dean, James T. Areddy, Noihiko Shirouzu, Shai Oster, Jeremy Page, Paul Glader
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: "Chinese Rules"
Best business reporting from abroad in newspapers or news services
The judges were impressed by the Journal’s coverage, over a period of 10 months, of how the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership has changed the rules facing foreign multinationals in an attempt to squeeze them for their technology and allow Chinese state-owned enterprises to use that technology under the guise of “indigenous innovation.” The Journal’s team of reporters covered this trend in industries ranging from jet fighters to high-speed trains. In so doing, they captured what appears to have been a decisive shift in the business climate in what is now the world’s second largest economy.
Citation for Excellence:
Jonathan S. Landay, Marisa Taylor, Warren P. Strobel, Dion Nissenbaum
McClatchy Newspapers
“Impossible Dream: Rebuilding Afghanistan” -
2010Oliver BulloughBasic Books
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2010
Award Recipient: Oliver Bullough
Award Recipient Affiliation: Basic Books
Award Honored Work: "Let Our Fame be Great: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2010
Award Recipient: Oliver Bullough
Award Recipient Affiliation: Basic Books
Award Honored Work: "Let Our Fame be Great: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus"
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
Oliver Bullough’s book is an ambitious and lively mix of history and reportage from the Caucasus, a region that is chronically misunderstood and under-reported, yet where the violent dispersion of indigenous populations unfortunately has lasting and universal relevance. The judges award a citation for excellence to Seymour Topping’s memoir, On the Front Lines of the Cold War. The book deserves special recognition for its humane vision, glimpses behind-the-scenes, and thoughtful conclusions stemming from Topping’s extraordinary career as a reporter and editor.
Citation for Excellence:
Seymour Topping
Louisiana State University Press
“On the Front Lines of the Cold War” -
2010Tom LassesterMcClatchy Newspapers
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2010
Award Recipient: Tom Lassester
Award Recipient Affiliation: McClatchy Newspapers
Award Honored Work: "Modern China’s Tragic Illusion"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2010
Award Recipient: Tom Lassester
Award Recipient Affiliation: McClatchy Newspapers
Award Honored Work: "Modern China’s Tragic Illusion"
Best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition
In a world focused on China’s rapid transformation into a global economic powerhouse, it’s rare to hear about how that change affects the lives of ordinary Chinese, and rarer still to have those lives revealed in the kind of detail that Tom Lasseter captures in this series of articles. Often in the face of official harassment, Lasseter uses detailed interviews, records and official reports to delve deeply into the frustrations, deprivations and official indifference that rule his subjects’ lives. In the millions of words written about China, these tales stand out because they make you care about the people they are written about.
Citation for Excellence:
Michael Specter
The New Yorker
“A Deadly Misdiagnosis” -
2010Landon Van Soest and Jeremy LevineTransient Pictures for American Documentary/POV on PBS
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Carl Spielvogel Award 2010
Award Recipient: Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine
Award Recipient Affiliation: Transient Pictures for American Documentary/POV on PBS
Award Honored Work: "Good Fortune"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Carl Spielvogel Award 2010
Award Recipient: Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine
Award Recipient Affiliation: Transient Pictures for American Documentary/POV on PBS
Award Honored Work: "Good Fortune"
Best international reporting in the broadcast media showing a concern for the human condition
Good Fortune is an insightful look at the everyday life of average people in Kenya, presented against the backdrop of globalization and western notions of progress. It is compelling, breathtaking, moving, and it challenges conventional wisdom about what people in poor countries need from the world outside their own. It allows one woman to be representative of a culture, and treats her eloquent criticism of the failures of international aid in Africa with the kind of respect normally reserved for the suppliers of that aid.
(No citation)
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2010Scott Pelley and Shawn EfranCBS News - 60 Minutes
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2010
Award Recipient: Scott Pelley and Shawn Efran
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News - 60 Minutes
Award Honored Work: "The All-American Canal"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2010
Award Recipient: Scott Pelley and Shawn Efran
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News - 60 Minutes
Award Honored Work: "The All-American Canal"
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
For more than 550 illegal immigrants seeking work in America, crossing the border ended in death in the “The All-American Canal,” a moat on the U.S. border with Mexico. “60 Minutes” exposes this silent carnage, unknown to most Americans and even to the families of the dead, who often never learn their loved one died in the canal’s chilly, fast-moving currents. Correspondent Scott Pelley and producer Shawn Efran deftly show how the canal provides agricultural water for U.S. winter produce, but claims the lives of many trying to cross it in pursuit of a farming job. Because of the publicity caused by the report, officials are installing safety escape lines, potentially saving hundreds of migrants who might otherwise perish in their search for the American dream.
Citation(s) for Excellence:
Barbara Demick
The New Yorker
“Nothing Left”Melissa Chan, Jin Ni, Dieter Depypere, Mark Dobbin
Al Jazeera English
“An Illegal Pregnancy” -
2010International Consortium of Investigative JournalistsThe Center for Public Integrity
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2010
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Center for Public Integrity
Award Honored Work: Looting the Seas: How Overfishing, Fraud and Negligence Plundered the Majestic Bluefin Tuna
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2010
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Center for Public Integrity
Award Honored Work: Looting the Seas: How Overfishing, Fraud and Negligence Plundered the Majestic Bluefin Tuna
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
This outstanding effort by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists exhaustively documents the corruption and collusion behind the systematic, global devastation of the blue-fin tuna — and by extension the world’s many endangered marine species. The multimedia project is magnificently presented and involved a team of reporters spanning 10 countries. It opened eyes around the world, led to changes in industry and regulatory practice, and could stand as a new model for investigative journalism in a time of media transition.
Citation for Excellence:
Doug Struck, Ben Arnoldy, Sara Miller Llana
The Christian Science Monitor/New England Center for Investigative Reporting
“Blowing Smoke: A Carbon Offset Global Report” -
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2010
Award Recipient: William Finnegan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: "Silver or Lead"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2010
Award Recipient: William Finnegan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: "Silver or Lead"
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
Powerful reporting and writing that reveals the extent to which drug cartels have penetrated Mexican society, virtually conquering entire towns and regions. William Finnegan and The New Yorker provide an impressive and comprehensive account of La Familia’s rise to power in Michoacan state, at the same time illustrating and explaining the ruthless rivalries between the country’s gangs. Finnegan tackles a very dangerous story and delivers insightful and well-researched reporting that traces, for the first time, the philosophical roots of one of Mexico’s most vicious and bizarre drug cult groups.
Citation for Excellence:
Michael Smith and Alexander Ragir
Bloomberg Markets
“Latin American Law-Breaking by Big Banks” -
2010Dafna Linzer, Chisun Lee, Krista Kjellman-SchmidtProPublica
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: General Excellence Online Award 2010
Award Recipient: Dafna Linzer, Chisun Lee, Krista Kjellman-Schmidt
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica
Award Honored Work: "The Detention Dilemma"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: General Excellence Online Award 2010
Award Recipient: Dafna Linzer, Chisun Lee, Krista Kjellman-Schmidt
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica
Award Honored Work: "The Detention Dilemma"
Best overall international coverage on a website
In a competitive category, the judges were impressed by the scope and breadth of ProPublica’s masterful reporting project, which explores the ongoing tension between President Obama’s professed desire to shut Guantanamo Bay and the reality of governance. ProPublica vividly illustrates the power of new media by exposing online their original source material and databases for all to see. Particularly impressive are the online tools that allow readers to compare the public and secret versions of the same legal documents and to view material deleted and added from official papers – allowing readers to do their own research and draw their own conclusions.
Citation for Excellence:
The New York Times
“War Logs and State Secrets” -
2010Staff of NYTimes.comThe New York Times
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Online Coverage of Breaking News 2010
Award Recipient: Staff of NYTimes.com
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: "An Earthquake in Haiti"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Online Coverage of Breaking News 2010
Award Recipient: Staff of NYTimes.com
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: "An Earthquake in Haiti"
Best online coverage throughout a 72-hour period of a breaking news event
Comprehensive, vivid and imaginative, The New York Times coverage of the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti truly distinguished itself by going beyond the usual and expected in online coverage. In addition to excellent reporting and stunning photography, this feature is utterly brimming with information. Multiple interactive maps, videos and slideshows engage users and serve as a guide to the tragedy there and underscore the fragility of life.
(No citation)
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Use of Multimedia 2010
Award Recipient: CFR.org
Award Recipient Affiliation: Council on Foreign Relations
Award Honored Work: "Crisis Guide: Pakistan"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Use of Multimedia 2010
Award Recipient: CFR.org
Award Recipient Affiliation: Council on Foreign Relations
Award Honored Work: "Crisis Guide: Pakistan"
Best use of techniques such as interactive graphics, Flash and slideshows to report on international news
This piece stood out for its flawless graphics and videos, clear organization of content, and features for social-network sharing. Its unique strength is that it strikes a smart balance between telling a compelling linear story & embracing the modern practice of consuming small chunks of information in a non-linear manner. The presentation uses numbered tabs to guide the reader through a detailed history of the region. For the casual reader it is easy to drop in and sample bits and pieces of the content without feeling lost or dependent on knowing a previous section’s contents. The real key is the prominent inclusion of embed code and social network sharing links. Finally, of all the entries, this Flash piece has the best technical performance — graphics transition gracefully, videos play flawlessly and the interface reacts quickly to user action.
Citation for Excellence:
Staff of CNN.com
“Home And Away: Iraq And Afghanistan Casualties” -
2010Sebastian RotellaProPublica
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Online Investigation of an International Issue or Event 2010
Award Recipient: Sebastian Rotella
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica
Award Honored Work: "Mumbai Terror Attacks"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Online Investigation of an International Issue or Event 2010
Award Recipient: Sebastian Rotella
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica
Award Honored Work: "Mumbai Terror Attacks"
Best original or exclusive reporting that provides new insights into an event or trend of international significance
After U.S. prosecutors won a guilty plea from an American who helped plot the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, the case slipped from public view. Sebastian Rotella, a veteran foreign correspondent, knew there was more to the case. In a series of articles that took him around the world, he discovered that Pakistan’s intelligence service collaborated with the Laskar-e-Taiba terrorist group in the attack. With the help of secret documents, and exclusive interviews with people close to the terrorists, Rotella found that the plotters were still at large and that the U.S. had been slow to recognize the threat posed by the bomber despite repeated intelligence inquiries.
Citation for Excellence:
The Center for Public Integrity’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the BBC’s International News Services
“Dangers in the Dust: Inside the Global Asbestos Trade” -
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Use of Video 2010
Award Recipient: Adam B. Ellick
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: "Contradictions in Pakistan"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Use of Video 2010
Award Recipient: Adam B. Ellick
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: "Contradictions in Pakistan"
Excellence in original video on an international topic created specifically for a news website
“Contradictions in Pakistan,” a series of videos by Adam B. Ellick, provides a riveting look at life in modern Pakistan. Judges were particularly taken with the story of a troupe of transgender tax collectors, who go door to door in an attempt to get delinquent residents to pay their taxes. (The government hopes that by using them, they can embarrass people into paying up.) Another story, about young women who dare to work in fast-food chains despite threats and slaps from their families, gives a very personal glimpse into a world where women are expected to stay at home and never interact with members of the opposite sex. Ellick captured their personal stories with grace.
Citation for Excellence:
Shaul Schwarz
Reportage by Getty Images for TIME
“Narcocorridos” -
2010Christian Caryl, Stephanie Giry, Malise RuthvenThe New York Review of Books
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Online Commentary 2010
Award Recipient: Christian Caryl, Stephanie Giry, Malise Ruthven
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Review of Books
Award Honored Work: "Reports and Provocations from The New York Review of Books blog"
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Online Commentary 2010
Award Recipient: Christian Caryl, Stephanie Giry, Malise Ruthven
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Review of Books
Award Honored Work: "Reports and Provocations from The New York Review of Books blog"
Best international affairs commentary or blog
The three commentaries that make up this entry are unexpected and provocative. Just by choosing their subjects, the authors are commenting on otherwise overlooked issues in overlooked corners of the world. But above all, they are all gripping reads. Stephanie Giry’s account of a Cambodian war-crimes trial is a portrait of a 8-year-old killer who retains his chilling powers. Malise Ruthven’s idiosyncratic reporting on latrines in Delhi says far more about India than most political reports. And Christian Caryl really does show how “WikiLeaks changes everything.”
Citation for Excellence:
David Gilkey and Claire O’neill
National Public Radio
“Reflections on Photographing Haiti” -
1983Lewis H. Young and othersBusiness Week
Award Date: 1983
Award Name: Best economic news reporting from abroad in magazines and books 1983
Award Recipient: Lewis H. Young and others
Award Recipient Affiliation: Business Week
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1983
Award Name: Best economic news reporting from abroad in magazines and books 1983
Award Recipient: Lewis H. Young and others
Award Recipient Affiliation: Business Week
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1983
Award Name: Best business reporting from abroad in magazines and books 1983
Award Recipient: Michael Cieply
Award Recipient Affiliation: Forbes Magazine
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1983
Award Name: Best business reporting from abroad in magazines and books 1983
Award Recipient: Michael Cieply
Award Recipient Affiliation: Forbes Magazine
Award Honored Work:
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1987Gary PorterThe Milwaukee Journal
Award Date: 1987
Award Name: Best Photographic Reporting From Abroad for Newspapers or Wire Services From Eastman Kodak
Award Recipient: Gary Porter
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Milwaukee Journal
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1987
Award Name: Best Photographic Reporting From Abroad for Newspapers or Wire Services From Eastman Kodak
Award Recipient: Gary Porter
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Milwaukee Journal
Award Honored Work:
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1987Strobe Talbott, James Jackson, John Kohan, Ken Olsen, Thomas Sanction and Walter IssacsonTime Magazine
Award Date: 1987
Award Name: The Hallie and Whit Burnett Award
Award Recipient: Strobe Talbott, James Jackson, John Kohan, Ken Olsen, Thomas Sanction and Walter Issacson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Time Magazine
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1987
Award Name: The Hallie and Whit Burnett Award
Award Recipient: Strobe Talbott, James Jackson, John Kohan, Ken Olsen, Thomas Sanction and Walter Issacson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Time Magazine
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1984
Award Name: The Eastman Kodak Award 1984
Award Recipient: Larry Price
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1984
Award Name: The Eastman Kodak Award 1984
Award Recipient: Larry Price
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1984
Award Name: The Hallie And Whit Burnett Award 1984
Award Recipient: V.S. Naipaul
Award Recipient Affiliation: Harper’s
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1984
Award Name: The Hallie And Whit Burnett Award 1984
Award Recipient: V.S. Naipaul
Award Recipient Affiliation: Harper’s
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1985
Award Name: The Eastman Kodak Award 1985
Award Recipient: David Carl Turnley
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Detroit Free Press
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1985
Award Name: The Eastman Kodak Award 1985
Award Recipient: David Carl Turnley
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Detroit Free Press
Award Honored Work:
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1985Robert RosenthalThe Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine
Award Date: 1985
Award Name: The Hallie And Whit Burnett Award 1985
Award Recipient: Robert Rosenthal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1985
Award Name: The Hallie And Whit Burnett Award 1985
Award Recipient: Robert Rosenthal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1986
Award Name: The Eastman Kodak Award 1986
Award Recipient: Akira Suwa
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1986
Award Name: The Eastman Kodak Award 1986
Award Recipient: Akira Suwa
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1986
Award Name: The Hallie And Whit Burnett Award 1986
Award Recipient: Seweryn Bialer, Joan Afferica
Award Recipient Affiliation: Foreign Affairs
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1986
Award Name: The Hallie And Whit Burnett Award 1986
Award Recipient: Seweryn Bialer, Joan Afferica
Award Recipient Affiliation: Foreign Affairs
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1976
Award Name: The Bache Award 1976
Award Recipient: Alfred Zanker
Award Recipient Affiliation: U.S. News & World Report
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1976
Award Name: The Bache Award 1976
Award Recipient: Alfred Zanker
Award Recipient Affiliation: U.S. News & World Report
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1976
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1976
Award Recipient: Tad Szulc
Award Recipient Affiliation: New Republic
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1976
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1976
Award Recipient: Tad Szulc
Award Recipient Affiliation: New Republic
Award Honored Work:
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1976John Chancellor, Dan O’ConnorNBC News
Award Date: 1976
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1976
Award Recipient: John Chancellor, Dan O’Connor
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1976
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1976
Award Recipient: John Chancellor, Dan O’Connor
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC News
Award Honored Work:
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1976Robert W. Madden, W.E. GarrettNational Geographic
Award Date: 1976
Award Name: Best Photographs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1976
Award Recipient: Robert W. Madden, W.E. Garrett
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1976
Award Name: Best Photographs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1976
Award Recipient: Robert W. Madden, W.E. Garrett
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1976
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1976
Award Recipient: Mike Lee and Doug Tunnell
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1976
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1976
Award Recipient: Mike Lee and Doug Tunnell
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work:
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1976Edward CodyThe Associated Press
Award Date: 1976
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1976
Award Recipient: Edward Cody
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1976
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1976
Award Recipient: Edward Cody
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1977
Award Name: The Bache Award 1977
Award Recipient: Cary Reich
Award Recipient Affiliation: Institutional Investor
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1977
Award Name: The Bache Award 1977
Award Recipient: Cary Reich
Award Recipient Affiliation: Institutional Investor
Award Honored Work:
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1977Jim HoaglandThe Washington Post
Award Date: 1977
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1977
Award Recipient: Jim Hoagland
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1977
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1977
Award Recipient: Jim Hoagland
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1977
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1977
Award Recipient: Joseph B. Treaster
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Atlantic Monthly
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1977
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1977
Award Recipient: Joseph B. Treaster
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Atlantic Monthly
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1977
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1977
Award Recipient: Barbara Walters
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1977
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1977
Award Recipient: Barbara Walters
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work:
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1977James P. BlairNational Geographic Society
Award Date: 1977
Award Name: Best Photographs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1977
Award Recipient: James P. Blair
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Society
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Award Date: 1977
Award Name: Best Photographs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1977
Award Recipient: James P. Blair
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Society
Award Honored Work:
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1977Robert C. TothThe Los Angeles Times
Award Date: 1977
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1977
Award Recipient: Robert C. Toth
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1977
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1977
Award Recipient: Robert C. Toth
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1978
Award Name: The Bache Award 1978
Award Recipient: Andrew Nagorski
Award Recipient Affiliation: Newsweek International
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1978
Award Name: The Bache Award 1978
Award Recipient: Andrew Nagorski
Award Recipient Affiliation: Newsweek International
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1978
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1978
Award Recipient: Donald R. Katz
Award Recipient Affiliation: Rolling Stone
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1978
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1978
Award Recipient: Donald R. Katz
Award Recipient Affiliation: Rolling Stone
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1978
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1978
Award Recipient: ABC News Closeup
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News Closeup
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1978
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1978
Award Recipient: ABC News Closeup
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News Closeup
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1978
Award Name: Best Photographs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1978
Award Recipient: Frank B. Johnston
Award Recipient Affiliation: Newsweek
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1978
Award Name: Best Photographs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1978
Award Recipient: Frank B. Johnston
Award Recipient Affiliation: Newsweek
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1978
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1978
Award Recipient: Don Harris, Bob Brown
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1978
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1978
Award Recipient: Don Harris, Bob Brown
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC News
Award Honored Work:
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1978Charles KrauseThe Washington Post
Award Date: 1978
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1978
Award Recipient: Charles Krause
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
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Award Date: 1978
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1978
Award Recipient: Charles Krause
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1979
Award Name: The Bache Award 1979
Award Recipient: William J. Holstein
Award Recipient Affiliation: United Press International
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1979
Award Name: The Bache Award 1979
Award Recipient: William J. Holstein
Award Recipient Affiliation: United Press International
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1979
Award Name: Best Editorial or Series-Human Rights 1979
Award Recipient: Paul Heath Hoeffel, Juan Montalvo
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Award Date: 1979
Award Name: Best Editorial or Series-Human Rights 1979
Award Recipient: Paul Heath Hoeffel, Juan Montalvo
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1979Sidney Zion, Uri DanThe New York Times Magazine
Award Date: 1979
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1979
Award Recipient: Sidney Zion, Uri Dan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1979
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1979
Award Recipient: Sidney Zion, Uri Dan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1979
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1979
Award Recipient: Uri Dan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Ma’ariv
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1979
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1979
Award Recipient: Uri Dan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Ma’ariv
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1979
Award Name: Best Photographs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1979
Award Recipient: David Burnett
Award Recipient Affiliation: Contact Press Images
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1979
Award Name: Best Photographs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1979
Award Recipient: David Burnett
Award Recipient Affiliation: Contact Press Images
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1979
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1979
Award Recipient: Bill Stewart, Jack Clark
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1979
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1979
Award Recipient: Bill Stewart, Jack Clark
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1982
Award Name: The Eastman Kodak Award 1982
Award Recipient: Eli Reed
Award Recipient Affiliation: The San Francisco Examiner
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1982
Award Name: The Eastman Kodak Award 1982
Award Recipient: Eli Reed
Award Recipient Affiliation: The San Francisco Examiner
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1982
Award Name: The Hallie And Whit Burnett Award 1982
Award Recipient: Time
Award Recipient Affiliation: Time
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1982
Award Name: The Hallie And Whit Burnett Award 1982
Award Recipient: Time
Award Recipient Affiliation: Time
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1982
Award Name: The International Herald Tribune Award 1982
Award Recipient: Larry Gurwin
Award Recipient Affiliation: Institutional Investor
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1982
Award Name: The International Herald Tribune Award 1982
Award Recipient: Larry Gurwin
Award Recipient Affiliation: Institutional Investor
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1983
Award Name: The Eastman Kodak Award 1983
Award Recipient: Stan Grossfeld
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Boston Globe
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1983
Award Name: The Eastman Kodak Award 1983
Award Recipient: Stan Grossfeld
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Boston Globe
Award Honored Work:
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1983Russell Watson and OthersNewsweek
Award Date: 1983
Award Name: The Hallie And Whit Burnett Award 1983
Award Recipient: Russell Watson and Others
Award Recipient Affiliation: Newsweek
Award Honored Work: “Nuclear War: Can we reduce the risk?”
Award Date: 1983
Award Name: The Hallie And Whit Burnett Award 1983
Award Recipient: Russell Watson and Others
Award Recipient Affiliation: Newsweek
Award Honored Work: “Nuclear War: Can we reduce the risk?”
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The President’s Award 2010
Award Recipient: Andy Rooney
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: The President’s Award 2010
Award Recipient: Andy Rooney
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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Award Date: 1973
Award Name: The Asia Magazine Award 1973
Award Recipient: Donald Kirk
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Chicago Tribune
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: The Asia Magazine Award 1973
Award Recipient: Donald Kirk
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Chicago Tribune
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1973
Award Name: The Bache Award 1973
Award Recipient: Ronald Koven, David B. Ottaway
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: The Bache Award 1973
Award Recipient: Ronald Koven, David B. Ottaway
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work:
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1973Al BurtThe Miami Herald
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1973 (Shared)
Award Recipient: Al Burt
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Miami Herald
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1973 (Shared)
Award Recipient: Al Burt
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Miami Herald
Award Honored Work:
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1973William MotalbanoThe Miami Herald
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1973 (Shared)
Award Recipient: William Motalbano
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Miami Herald
Award Honored Work: The overthrow of President Allende in Chile
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1973 (Shared)
Award Recipient: William Motalbano
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Miami Herald
Award Honored Work: The overthrow of President Allende in Chile
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1973Edward R.F. SheehanThe New York Times Magazine
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1973
Award Recipient: Edward R.F. Sheehan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1973
Award Recipient: Edward R.F. Sheehan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work:
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1973Helen Marmor, Edwin Newman, and 17 correspondentsNBC
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1973
Award Recipient: Helen Marmor, Edwin Newman, and 17 correspondents
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1973
Award Recipient: Helen Marmor, Edwin Newman, and 17 correspondents
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Photographs, Magazine or Book 1973
Award Recipient: Life Special Report
Award Recipient Affiliation: Life Special Report
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Photographs, Magazine or Book 1973
Award Recipient: Life Special Report
Award Recipient Affiliation: Life Special Report
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1973
Award Recipient: Sydney Schanberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1973
Award Recipient: Sydney Schanberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Radio Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1973
Award Recipient: Peter Wells, Reid Collins
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Radio Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1973
Award Recipient: Peter Wells, Reid Collins
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1973
Award Recipient: John Laurence
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1973
Award Recipient: John Laurence
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
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1973Raymond R. CoffeyThe Chicago Daily News
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1973
Award Recipient: Raymond R. Coffey
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Chicago Daily News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1973
Award Recipient: Raymond R. Coffey
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Chicago Daily News
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Television Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1973
Award Recipient: Harry Reasoner
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: Best Television Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1973
Award Recipient: Harry Reasoner
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1973
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1973
Award Recipient: Leon Dash
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1973
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1973
Award Recipient: Leon Dash
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1974
Award Name: The Asia Magazine Award 1974
Award Recipient: H. Edward Kim
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: The Asia Magazine Award 1974
Award Recipient: H. Edward Kim
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1974
Award Name: The Bache Award 1974
Award Recipient: Philip Wright Whitcomb
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Christian Science Monitor
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: The Bache Award 1974
Award Recipient: Philip Wright Whitcomb
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Christian Science Monitor
Award Honored Work:
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1974Donald L. Bartlett, James B. SteeleThe Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1974
Award Recipient: Donald L. Bartlett, James B. Steele
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Honored Work: "Foreign Aid: The Flawed Dream"
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1974
Award Recipient: Donald L. Bartlett, James B. Steele
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Honored Work: "Foreign Aid: The Flawed Dream"
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Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1974
Award Recipient: Robert Shaplen
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1974
Award Recipient: Robert Shaplen
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work:
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1974John Palmer, Tom Streithorst, Phil Brady, Liz TrottaNBC Nightly News
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1974
Award Recipient: John Palmer, Tom Streithorst, Phil Brady, Liz Trotta
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC Nightly News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1974
Award Recipient: John Palmer, Tom Streithorst, Phil Brady, Liz Trotta
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC Nightly News
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Photographs, Magazine or Book 1974
Award Recipient: Eddie Adams
Award Recipient Affiliation: Time
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Photographs, Magazine or Book 1974
Award Recipient: Eddie Adams
Award Recipient Affiliation: Time
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1974
Award Recipient: Ovie Carter
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Chicago Tribune
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1974
Award Recipient: Ovie Carter
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Chicago Tribune
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Radio Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1974
Award Recipient: Ted Koppel
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Radio Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1974
Award Recipient: Ted Koppel
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1974
Award Recipient: Lou Cioffi
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1974
Award Recipient: Lou Cioffi
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC
Award Honored Work:
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1974Robert KaiserThe Washington Post
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1974
Award Recipient: Robert Kaiser
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1974
Award Recipient: Robert Kaiser
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Television Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1974
Award Recipient: Bill McLaughlin
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1974
Award Name: Best Television Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1974
Award Recipient: Bill McLaughlin
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1975
Award Name: The Bache Award 1975
Award Recipient: J.A. Livingston
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1975
Award Name: The Bache Award 1975
Award Recipient: J.A. Livingston
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Honored Work:
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1975Joseph C. HarschThe Christian Science Monitor
Award Date: 1975
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1975
Award Recipient: Joseph C. Harsch
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Christian Science Monitor
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1975
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1975
Award Recipient: Joseph C. Harsch
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Christian Science Monitor
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1975
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1975
Award Recipient: Arnaud de Borchgrave
Award Recipient Affiliation: Newsweek
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1975
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1975
Award Recipient: Arnaud de Borchgrave
Award Recipient Affiliation: Newsweek
Award Honored Work:
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1975Bill Seamans, Howard K. SmithABC News
Award Date: 1975
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1975
Award Recipient: Bill Seamans, Howard K. Smith
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1975
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1975
Award Recipient: Bill Seamans, Howard K. Smith
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1975
Award Name: Best Photographs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1975
Award Recipient: K. Kenneth Paik
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Kansas City Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1975
Award Name: Best Photographs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1975
Award Recipient: K. Kenneth Paik
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Kansas City Times
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1975
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1975
Award Recipient: Bruce Dunning, Michael Marriott, Mai Van Duc
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1975
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1975
Award Recipient: Bruce Dunning, Michael Marriott, Mai Van Duc
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work:
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1975Sydney H. SchanbergThe New York Times
Award Date: 1975
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1975
Award Recipient: Sydney H. Schanberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1975
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1975
Award Recipient: Sydney H. Schanberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1969
Award Name: The Asia Magazine Award 1969
Award Recipient: Arnold C. Brackman
Award Recipient Affiliation: W.W. Norton
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: The Asia Magazine Award 1969
Award Recipient: Arnold C. Brackman
Award Recipient Affiliation: W.W. Norton
Award Honored Work:
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1969Max FrankelThe New York Times
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1969
Award Recipient: Max Frankel
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Coverage of Nixon Administration’s foreign policies.
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1969
Award Recipient: Max Frankel
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Coverage of Nixon Administration’s foreign policies.
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Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1969
Award Recipient: Carl Rowan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reader’s Digest
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1969
Award Recipient: Carl Rowan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reader’s Digest
Award Honored Work:
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1969Norman CousinsThe Saturday Review and Look
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1969
Award Recipient: Norman Cousins
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Saturday Review and Look
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1969
Award Recipient: Norman Cousins
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Saturday Review and Look
Award Honored Work:
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1969Elie Abel, Dean Brelis, Wilson Hall, George MurrayNBC
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1969
Award Recipient: Elie Abel, Dean Brelis, Wilson Hall, George Murray
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1969
Award Recipient: Elie Abel, Dean Brelis, Wilson Hall, George Murray
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Photographs, Magazine or Book 1969
Award Recipient: Marc Riboud
Award Recipient Affiliation: Look
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Photographs, Magazine or Book 1969
Award Recipient: Marc Riboud
Award Recipient Affiliation: Look
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1969
Award Recipient: Horst Faas
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1969
Award Recipient: Horst Faas
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV-Spot News 1969
Award Recipient: Don Baker
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV-Spot News 1969
Award Recipient: Don Baker
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC
Award Honored Work:
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1969William K. TuohyThe Los Angeles Times
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1969
Award Recipient: William K. Tuohy
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1969
Award Recipient: William K. Tuohy
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work:
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1969Philip W. WhitcombThe Christian Science Monitor
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: The E.W. Fairchild Award 1969
Award Recipient: Philip W. Whitcomb
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Christian Science Monitor
Award Honored Work: Articles on the French economy
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: The E.W. Fairchild Award 1969
Award Recipient: Philip W. Whitcomb
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Christian Science Monitor
Award Honored Work: Articles on the French economy
Best business reporting from abroad
One of the few Americans to be interned twice during World War II, Philip Whitcomb has been a working news correspondent in Europe for about 30 years. He receives the 1970 $500 OPC Award for his series of articles in the Christian Science Monitor with, in the words of the OPC judges, “penetrating and incisive reporting on the economic and political implications of the changes in the French economy” during 1969.
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1969Horst Faas, Peter ArnettThe Associated Press
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1969
Award Recipient: Horst Faas, Peter Arnett
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: "The story of Company A”
Award Date: 1969
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1969
Award Recipient: Horst Faas, Peter Arnett
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: "The story of Company A”
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Award Date: 1970
Award Name: The Asia Magazine Award 1970
Award Recipient: Harvey Meyerson, Houghton Mifflin
Award Recipient Affiliation:
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: The Asia Magazine Award 1970
Award Recipient: Harvey Meyerson, Houghton Mifflin
Award Recipient Affiliation:
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1970
Award Name: The Bache Award 1970
Award Recipient: Leonard S. Silk
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: The Bache Award 1970
Award Recipient: Leonard S. Silk
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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1970Harrison E. SalisburyThe New York Times
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1970
Award Recipient: Harrison E. Salisbury
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Editing of the op-ed page of the New York Times
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1970
Award Recipient: Harrison E. Salisbury
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Editing of the op-ed page of the New York Times
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1970Anthony LewisThe New York Times Magazine
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1970
Award Recipient: Anthony Lewis
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1970
Award Recipient: Anthony Lewis
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1970
Award Recipient: Ted Koppel
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1970
Award Recipient: Ted Koppel
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Photographs, Magazine or Book 1970
Award Recipient: Larry Burrows
Award Recipient Affiliation: Life
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Photographs, Magazine or Book 1970
Award Recipient: Larry Burrows
Award Recipient Affiliation: Life
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1970
Award Recipient: Dennis Cook
Award Recipient Affiliation: United Press International
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1970
Award Recipient: Dennis Cook
Award Recipient Affiliation: United Press International
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1970
Award Recipient: Kenley Jones
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1970
Award Recipient: Kenley Jones
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
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1970John HughesThe Christian Science Monitor
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1970
Award Recipient: John Hughes
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Christian Science Monitor
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1970
Award Recipient: John Hughes
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Christian Science Monitor
Award Honored Work:
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1970CBS Team: John Laurence, Keith Kay, James Clevenger, Russ Bensley, Ernest LeiserCBS
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1970
Award Recipient: CBS Team: John Laurence, Keith Kay, James Clevenger, Russ Bensley, Ernest Leiser
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1970
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1970
Award Recipient: CBS Team: John Laurence, Keith Kay, James Clevenger, Russ Bensley, Ernest Leiser
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: The Asia Magazine Award 1971
Award Recipient: John Rich
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: The Asia Magazine Award 1971
Award Recipient: John Rich
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
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1971Clyde Farnsworth, Hy Maidenberg, Brendan Jones, Edward Cowan, Takashi OkaThe New York Times
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: The Bache Award 1971
Award Recipient: Clyde Farnsworth, Hy Maidenberg, Brendan Jones, Edward Cowan, Takashi Oka
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: The Bache Award 1971
Award Recipient: Clyde Farnsworth, Hy Maidenberg, Brendan Jones, Edward Cowan, Takashi Oka
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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1971Robert S. ElegantThe Los Angeles Times
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1971
Award Recipient: Robert S. Elegant
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: Articles to the Los Angeles Times on both European and Asian affairs
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1971
Award Recipient: Robert S. Elegant
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: Articles to the Los Angeles Times on both European and Asian affairs
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1971John L. Cobbs, Gordon L. WilliamsBusiness Week
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1971
Award Recipient: John L. Cobbs, Gordon L. Williams
Award Recipient Affiliation: Business Week
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1971
Award Recipient: John L. Cobbs, Gordon L. Williams
Award Recipient Affiliation: Business Week
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1971
Award Recipient: John Hart
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1971
Award Recipient: John Hart
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Photographs, Magazine or Book 1971
Award Recipient: Frank Fischbeck
Award Recipient Affiliation: Life
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Photographs, Magazine or Book 1971
Award Recipient: Frank Fischbeck
Award Recipient Affiliation: Life
Award Honored Work:
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1971John Morris and Photography StaffThe New York Times
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1971
Award Recipient: John Morris and Photography Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1971
Award Recipient: John Morris and Photography Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Radio Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1971
Award Recipient: John Rich
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Radio Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1971
Award Recipient: John Rich
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1971
Award Recipient: Phil Brady
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1971
Award Recipient: Phil Brady
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
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1971Sydney SchanbergThe New York Times
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1971
Award Recipient: Sydney Schanberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1971
Award Recipient: Sydney Schanberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Television Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1971
Award Recipient: George Watson, Ernest Pendrell
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Television Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1971
Award Recipient: George Watson, Ernest Pendrell
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1971
Award Recipient: Nicholas W. Stroh
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Star
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1971
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1971
Award Recipient: Nicholas W. Stroh
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Star
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1972
Award Name: The Asia Magazine Award 1972
Award Recipient: Richard Dudman
Award Recipient Affiliation: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: The Asia Magazine Award 1972
Award Recipient: Richard Dudman
Award Recipient Affiliation: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Award Honored Work:
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1972Bob Wicker, George Eberl, Ed Reavis, Ken Loomis, Jim Cole, Regis Bossu, Peter Jaeger, and TeamThe Stars and Stripes (European edition)
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: The Bache Award 1972
Award Recipient: Bob Wicker, George Eberl, Ed Reavis, Ken Loomis, Jim Cole, Regis Bossu, Peter Jaeger, and Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Stars and Stripes (European edition)
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Award Date: 1972
Award Name: The Bache Award 1972
Award Recipient: Bob Wicker, George Eberl, Ed Reavis, Ken Loomis, Jim Cole, Regis Bossu, Peter Jaeger, and Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Stars and Stripes (European edition)
Award Honored Work:
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1972William L. RyanThe Associated Press
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1972
Award Recipient: William L. Ryan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “The Road to Peking—The Road to Moscow”
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1972
Award Recipient: William L. Ryan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “The Road to Peking—The Road to Moscow”
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1972James A. MichenerThe New York Times Magazine
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1972
Award Recipient: James A. Michener
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Magazine 1972
Award Recipient: James A. Michener
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1972
Award Recipient: Tom Streithorst
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Television 1972
Award Recipient: Tom Streithorst
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Photographs, Magazine or Book 1972
Award Recipient: Thomas J. Abercrombie
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Photographs, Magazine or Book 1972
Award Recipient: Thomas J. Abercrombie
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1972
Award Recipient: Huynh Cong Ut
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1972
Award Recipient: Huynh Cong Ut
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
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1972ABC Radio NewsABC Radio News
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Radio Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1972
Award Recipient: ABC Radio News
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC Radio News
Award Honored Work: P.O.W. Special, featuring Ramsey Clark tapes made in North Vietnam.
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Radio Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1972
Award Recipient: ABC Radio News
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC Radio News
Award Honored Work: P.O.W. Special, featuring Ramsey Clark tapes made in North Vietnam.
The subject was a two-hour meeting on August 16, 1972, between former U.S. Attorney General Ramey Clark and a group of 10 P.O.W.’s in North Vietnam. There have been numerous interviews with American prisoners of war, on both radio and TV, but rarely have they involved a discussion as natural-and as newsworthy-as this documentary report. The interviews showed the men to be unusually articulate, animated, and astonishingly aware of the military and political situation, both in Vietnam and in the United States. They expressed their surprise at the kind of treatment received at the time of their capture-and since. (Excellent, particularly the medical care).
They talked of the mail situation (good as far as packages, poor for letters). They discussed the books they read ; the exercise they got, and their sports and leisure time activities. Then the P.O.W.’s
reversed the roles, and interviewees questioned the interviewer. About the bombing, the morale back home, the health of Governor George Wallace, the Eagleton affair, and about what their position
would be, once they were released. Commentators characterized the episode as ~in example of perceptive programming, and a terse-and timely-24 minutes with the least-forgotten prisoners of war in history.Citation
PACIFICA-WBAl
For: A Month of Bloody Sundays.
Citation
FREDERICK KENNEDY /Group W, Westinghouse Broadcasting.
For: Unreal City.
(Both citations for programs on the fighting in Northern Ireland.)Judges/ Russell C. Tornabene, Charles Eldridge, Henry Schnaue, Richard Rosse,
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Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1972
Award Recipient: Bob Simon, Norman Lloyd, Mai Van Duc
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1972
Award Recipient: Bob Simon, Norman Lloyd, Mai Van Duc
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
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1972Charlotte SaikowskiThe Christian Science Monitor
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1972
Award Recipient: Charlotte Saikowski
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Christian Science Monitor
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1972
Award Recipient: Charlotte Saikowski
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Christian Science Monitor
Award Honored Work:
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1972Elmer Lower, Charles Murphy, John ShermanABC
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Television Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1972
Award Recipient: Elmer Lower, Charles Murphy, John Sherman
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1972
Award Name: Best Television Documentary on Foreign Affairs 1972
Award Recipient: Elmer Lower, Charles Murphy, John Sherman
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1967
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV-Spot News 1967
Award Recipient: Ted Yates
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1967
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV-Spot News 1967
Award Recipient: Ted Yates
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
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1947Anne O’Hare McCormickThe New York Times
Award Date: 1947
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1947
Award Recipient: Anne O’Hare McCormick
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1947
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1947
Award Recipient: Anne O’Hare McCormick
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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1947A.T. SteeleThe New York Herald Tribune
Award Date: 1947
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news)
Award Recipient: A.T. Steele
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1947
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news)
Award Recipient: A.T. Steele
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1947
Award Name: Best Reporting in Television and/or Radio 1947
Award Recipient: Merrill Mueller
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1947
Award Name: Best Reporting in Television and/or Radio 1947
Award Recipient: Merrill Mueller
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
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1948James RestonThe New York Times
Award Date: 1948
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1948
Award Recipient: James Reston
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1948
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1948
Award Recipient: James Reston
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1948
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1948
Award Recipient: Jack Birns
Award Recipient Affiliation: Life
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1948
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1948
Award Recipient: Jack Birns
Award Recipient Affiliation: Life
Award Honored Work:
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1948Harold CallenderThe New York Times
Award Date: 1948
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1948
Award Recipient: Harold Callender
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1948
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1948
Award Recipient: Harold Callender
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1948
Award Name: Best Reporting in Television and/or Radio 1948
Award Recipient: Henry Cassidy
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1948
Award Name: Best Reporting in Television and/or Radio 1948
Award Recipient: Henry Cassidy
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1948
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1948
Award Recipient: Homer Bigart
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1948
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1948
Award Recipient: Homer Bigart
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
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1949Joseph and Stewart AlsopThe New York Herald Tribune
Award Date: 1949
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1949
Award Recipient: Joseph and Stewart Alsop
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1949
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1949
Award Recipient: Joseph and Stewart Alsop
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1949
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Radio or Television 1949
Award Recipient: Edward R. Murrow
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1949
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Radio or Television 1949
Award Recipient: Edward R. Murrow
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1949
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1949
Award Recipient: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Magnum Photos
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1949
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1949
Award Recipient: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Magnum Photos
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1949
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1949
Award Recipient: Ernest K. Lindley
Award Recipient Affiliation: Dumont
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1949
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1949
Award Recipient: Ernest K. Lindley
Award Recipient Affiliation: Dumont
Award Honored Work:
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1949Joseph NewmanThe New York Herald Tribune
Award Date: 1949
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1949
Award Recipient: Joseph Newman
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1949
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1949
Award Recipient: Joseph Newman
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1949
Award Name: Best Reporting in Television and/or Radio 1949
Award Recipient: William R. Downs
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1949
Award Name: Best Reporting in Television and/or Radio 1949
Award Recipient: William R. Downs
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1949
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1949
Award Recipient: Wayne Richardson
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1949
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1949
Award Recipient: Wayne Richardson
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
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1950James RestonThe New York Times
Award Date: 1950
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1950
Award Recipient: James Reston
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1950
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1950
Award Recipient: James Reston
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1950
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1950
Award Recipient: David Douglas Duncan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Life
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1950
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1950
Award Recipient: David Douglas Duncan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Life
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1950
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1950
Award Recipient: Howard K. Smith
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1950
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1950
Award Recipient: Howard K. Smith
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
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1950Homer BigartThe New York Herald Tribune
Award Date: 1950
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1950
Award Recipient: Homer Bigart
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1950
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1950
Award Recipient: Homer Bigart
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
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1950Hal BoyleThe Associated Press
Award Date: 1950
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1950
Award Recipient: Hal Boyle
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1950
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1950
Award Recipient: Hal Boyle
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1950
Award Name: Best Reporting in Television and/or Radio 1950
Award Recipient: Howard K. Smith
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1950
Award Name: Best Reporting in Television and/or Radio 1950
Award Recipient: Howard K. Smith
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1950
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1950
Award Recipient: Marguerite Higgins
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1950
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1950
Award Recipient: Marguerite Higgins
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
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1951Joseph and Stewart AlsopThe New York Herald Tribune
Award Date: 1951
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1951
Award Recipient: Joseph and Stewart Alsop
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1951
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1951
Award Recipient: Joseph and Stewart Alsop
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Herald Tribune
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1951
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1951
Award Recipient: Frank Noel
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1951
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1951
Award Recipient: Frank Noel
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1951
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1951
Award Recipient: Edward R. Murrow
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1951
Award Name: Best Reporting for TV Spot News 1951
Award Recipient: Edward R. Murrow
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
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1951Cyrus L. SulzbergerThe New York Times
Award Date: 1951
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1951
Award Recipient: Cyrus L. Sulzberger
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
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Award Date: 1951
Award Name: Best Reporting from Abroad Daily newspaper or wire service (spot news) 1951
Award Recipient: Cyrus L. Sulzberger
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1951
Award Name: Best Reporting in Television and/or Radio 1951
Award Recipient: Howard K. Smith
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1951
Award Name: Best Reporting in Television and/or Radio 1951
Award Recipient: Howard K. Smith
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1951
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1951
Award Recipient: William N. Oatis
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1951
Award Name: The George Polk Award 1951
Award Recipient: William N. Oatis
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work:
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1952James RestonThe New York Times
Award Date: 1952
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1952
Award Recipient: James Reston
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1952
Award Name: Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs – Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1952
Award Recipient: James Reston
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 1952
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1952
Award Recipient: David Douglas Duncan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Life
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 1952
Award Name: Best Photographs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1952
Award Recipient: David Douglas Duncan
Award Recipient
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