Best magazine reporting from abroad
AWARD DATE: 1990
AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 1990
AWARD RECIPIENT: Peter McGrath and the Editors and Correspondents
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Newsweek
AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Gulf Crisis”
Four months before Iraqi tanks rolled over Kuwait, Newsweek International published a prescient three-part cover story headlined: “Iraq’s Dark Night.” It was one of 10 Newsweek covers capturing Saddam Hussein’s menacing arms build-up, personality cult and patterns of aggression against his own people, Iran and, finally, Kuwait. Well-conceived and exhaustively reported, the series also presented an even-handed analysis of the cases to be made for – and against – a war by the United States on Iraq.
Citation for Excellence:
Gustavo Gorritti
The New York Times
“Terror in The Andes: Flight of the Ashanin.”