SARAJEVO: The city of Sarajevo has bestowed honorary citizenship on Roy Gutman for his reporting on ethnic cleansing of Bosnia by Serbs during the 1992 to 1995 war. Gutman is an OPC member and OPC award winner. Sarajevo Mayor Alija Behman presented Gutman with the key to the city at a televised ceremony in the Bosnian capital on April 6, the 65th anniversary of the city’s World War II liberation.
Gutman’s coverage won the OPC Hal Boyle award, a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award in 1993. During the war, Gutman was Newsday’s European correspondent. He now is foreign editor in the Washington bureau of McClatchy newspapers.
Watch Roy Gutman receive his award in Sarajevo.