1968AWARD DATE: 1968
AWARD NAME: Best Daily Newspaper or Wire Service Interpretation of Foreign Affairs
AWARD RECIPIENT: Robert S. Elegant
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Los Angeles Times
The name is familiar. Robert S. Elegant captured the identical award in 1966, and in 1962 was given an OPC citation for best magazine reporting from abroad. Since 1965, he has been the Los Angeles Times’ bureau chief in Hong Kong and Chinese affairs expert, hut earlier, he was no stranger to the region. His Asian background dates from 1951-1952, as Far Eastern correspondent for the Overseas News Agency; proceeds through 1953 as Korean war correspondent for International News Service; a Ford Foundation fellowship in 1954-1955, when, based in Singapore, he wrote for the North American Newspaper Alliance and broadcast for CBS News; and from 1956 to 1965 he was Newsweek’s man in South Asia. Elegant came out of the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 with a Phi Beta Kappa key. Went in 1948 to Yale University’s Institute of Far East Languages and Literature. At Columbia University in 1950 he picked up an M.A. degree in Chinese and Japanese-reads, writes, and speaks both languages-and in 1951, an M.S. degree in journalism and a Pulitzer traveling scholarship. On Army service from 1946 to 1948, he was an Army Language School teacher of Japanese. He is the author of China’s Red Masters; The Dragon’s Seed; The Center of the World; A Kind of Treason;
A Question of Loyalty, and The Seeking.
Links to work: http://documents.latimes.com/la-fg-china-cultural-revolution-archives/
Citation for Excellence: Richard Halloran, The Washington Post, for his series on the Pueblo Crisis of
January and February 1968.
Citation for Excellence: Smith Hempstone, The Washington Star, for “Europe in Ferment.”