Best magazine reporting from abroad in magazines
AWARD DATE: 1993
AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 1993
AWARD RECIPIENT: Douglas Stanglin, Susan Headden, Peter Cary
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: U.S. News & World Report
AWARD HONORED WORK: “America’s Top-Secret Spy War”
This’ classic piece of investigative journalism began when a young man from Fargo; N.D., came to Moscow to try to find out what happened to his father, an American pilot who was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1953. More than 150 interviews and 20,000 declassified documents later, this team of U.S . News journalists uncovered an extraordinary secret war between the U.S. and i:he Soviet Union that lasted for 20 years, a secret war in which 31 U.S. aircraft were shot down, and in which 138 American airmen went missing and remain unaccounted for to this day.
Citation(s) for Excellence:
Jane Kramer
The New Yorker
“Neo-Nazis: A Chaos in The Head”
Denise Topolnicki
Money Magazine
“The World’s Five Best Ideas”