Best magazine interpretation of foreign affairs
AWARD YEAR: 1980
AWARD NAME: Best Magazine Interpretation of Foreign Affairs
AWARD RECIPIENT: TIME magazine
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: TIME magazine
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Inside the U.S.S.R.”
For almost a year, TIME correspondents, photographers, researchers and editors, directed by World Editor John Elson, worked to prepare its June Special Issue, Inside the U.S.S.R. They gathered mountains of material-1,000 pages of field correspondents’ files and 50,000 photographs-to provide a sense of the extraordinary complexity of the Soviet Union today.
Elson, Managing Editor Ray Cave, and Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan coordinated the staff in assembling sections on the military, economy and business, medicine, dance, energy, religion, cinema, press, law, sports, education, books, music and television in the U.S.S.R. The colorfully illustrated issue presented an excellent interpretation of this vast empire.
A Citation for Excellence was awarded to Robert Shaplen for his New Yorker profile, “Eye of the Storm.”
Judges: Grace Naismith, Jean Baer, Ed Cunningham and Meyer Lurie.