Best daily newspaper or wire service interpretation of foreign affairs
AWARD DATE: 1990
AWARD NAME: The Hallie And Whit Burnett Award 1990
AWARD RECIPIENT: Louis Lief, Brian Duffy, and team
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: U.S. News & World Report
AWARD HONORED WORK: “The World’s Most Dangerous Man.”
Following the wayward path of perestroika, Michael Dobbs took his readers from the oil fields of Siberia to the Mongolian border and back to the Kremlin. Dobbs recognized early that the centrifugal forces of nationalism in the republics and the ” disruption of the old economic mechanisms” in the heartland would force Gorbachev to move to accommodate hardliners in the army and the KGB.
Citation for Excellence:
Christopher Marquis
The Miami Herald
“Lation American Beat”