Best daily newspaper or wire service interpretation of foreign affairs
AWARD DATE: 1991
AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 1991
AWARD RECIPIENT: Peter Gumbel
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Wall Street Journal
AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Vodka Putsch”
Williams admirably handled the journalistic challenge of sorting out the tragic ethnic warfare gripping Yugoslavia, once the most promising nation in the eastern bloc. Masterfully weaving historical perspective with reportage from the front lines of Serbia and Croatia, she showed how each of Yugoslavia’s re publics “sees the battle from a different and contrary perspective.”
Citations for Excellence:
Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz
The Wall Street Journal
“War and Peace”
Michael Parks
Los Angeles Times
“Analysis of the Soviet Union”