Best radio news or interpretation of foreign affairs
AWARD YEAR: 1997
AWARD NAME: The Lowell Thomas Award 1997
RECIPIENT: Jennifer Glasse, Hank Weinbloom
AFFILIATION: ABC News Radio
HONORED WORK: “Perspective: Zaire”
In a thoughtful report from a continent where news coverage often is superficial, ABC News Radio gave listeners a clear, lively, street-level explanation of a nation’s crisis. It used the voices of everyday people— workers, soldiers, mourners at a funeral—to tell how an inept, corrupt governments hold on the country was slipping and to correctly foretell how that government would fall to the forces that would rename the country Congo.
Citation for Excellence:
Sandy Tolan
Living on Earth
“Middle East Troubled Waters”