AWARD DATE: 1968
AWARD NAME: Vision Magazine-Ed Stout Award For Best Article Or Report On Latin America.
AWARD RECIPIENT: Henry Ginger
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New York Times
AWARD HONORED WORK: Reporting about Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
Henry Ginger has been chief correspondent for The New York Times in Mexico City since 1965. He has also covered news and other Latin American countries during this time, using Mexico City as his base. From 1946 until 1965 he had been a member of The New York Times Paris bureau where he helped to cover the turbulent history of French government and politics.
Mr. Ginger was born in Brooklyn in 1922. He is a graduate of New York’s City College and the Columbia School of Journalism. In 1943 he enlisted in the Marine Corps and served as a combat correspondent in the landing on Iwo Jima and the occupation of Japan.
He joined the Times’ Paris bureau in February, 1946, a month after he was discharged from the Marine Corps.
His fresh perspective and animated reporting about Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean area brought him the Vision Magazine-Ed Stout Award (and a $500 check) for his 1968 articles.
Recently reassigned, he will shortly return to France as chief of the Paris bureau.
Citation for Excellence: James Goodsell, Christian Science Monitor, for “Amazonia: Problems & Promise” and “Mexico: New Challenges.”
Citation for Excellence: John Goshko, The Washington Post, for coverage of important events in Latin America.