Best daily newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad
AWARD DATE: 1990
AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 1990
AWARD RECIPIENT: Geraldine Brooks, Tony Horwitz
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Wall Street Journal
AWARD HONORED WORK: Persian Gulf Coverage
Scholarship, leg work and a knack for chilling detail marked the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the Persian Gulf last year. Brooks and Horwitz cannily predicted that Saddam Hussein’s Baathist dream of Arab unity could ultimately tear Iraq apart. The Journal team gave life to Iraq’s economic problems by interviewing Kurdish smugglers swapping mule loads of flour for color TVs. They reported that Baghdad was “so thick with informers and secret police that no conversation is without fear.”
Citation for Excellence:
Serge Schmemann
New York Times
“Germany”