Best radio interpretation or documentary on foreign affairs
AWARD DATE: 1991
AWARD NAME: The Lowell Thomas Award 1991
AWARD RECIPIENT: Tom Gjelten, Julie McCarthy
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: National Public Radio
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Two Villages”
NPR’s Berlin Bureau Chief’s examination of the ethnic bifurcation of Yugoslavia was a compelling portrait of two villages separated only by a cornfield and about to go to war with each other. One Croatian, one Serbian, their stories silhouetted the sad, complex disintegration of a nation.
Citation for Excellence:
Ellen Weiss, Robert Siegel and Marty Kurcia
National Public Radio
“Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the Madrid Peace Conference.”