AWARD DATE: 1968
AWARD NAME: Best Magazine Reporting From Abroad
AWARD RECIPIENT: J. Robert Moskin
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Look Magazine
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Gunnar Myrdal Talks about the American Conscience”
For most of the interim since 1950, J. Robert Moskin has been on the staff of Look Magazine–with a few years out during which he served as managing editor of the Woman’s Home Companion and senior editor on Collier’s. In that span he has covered assignments for Look in 23 countries, on subjects ranging from government and foreign policy to the military, science, medicine and the sociological sciences.
He has produced scores of Look articles, including major features from Vietnam, Israel, Germany, Berlin, Sweden, Puerto Rico, Korea and the United Nations. The 1968 entry that won him the acclaim of a critical panel was entitled “Gunnar Myrdal Talks about the American Conscience”.
The versatility of his production and the fluency of his style brought him the National Headliners Award in 1967 for “general excellence in feature writing”; and in 1965 he received two national honors for the best magazine writing of the year-one the Page One Award of the Newspaper Guild of New York, the other the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award.
In the book field he is the author of “Morality in America”, a 1966 Random House publication; and “Turncoat”, the story of an American defector who spent 12 years in Communist China, brought out by
Prentice-Hall in 1968. He was one of three editors who contributed a series of articles to Look, published by Random House under the title “The Decline of the American Male”.
Born in New York City, Moskin earned a bachelor’s degree at Harvard and a master’s degree at Columbia, both in American history. He served during the second world war with the U.S. Army in the Southwest Pacific.
Citation for Excellence: Ernest Dunbar, Look Magazine, “India.”
Citation for Excellence: Edwin Roth, Editor & Publisher; “Czechoslovakia.”