Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
AWARD DATE: 2011
AWARD NAME: The Lowell Thomas Award 2011
AWARD RECIPIENT: Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Loren Jenkins, Douglas Roberts, Jonathan Blakely, Sean Carberry, Grant Clarke, Nishant Dahiya, J.J. Sutherland
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: National Public Radio
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Arab Spring”
Simply making her way into Libya last year to report the story of ragtag rebels overthrowing an entrenched dictator was achievement enough. But Lourdes Garcia-Navarro did more, recording pitch-perfect narration from Gadhafi’s Tripoli compound and notorious Abu Selim prison and providing honest, unflinching portraits of people whose lives were being destroyed, or begun anew, as the country lurched into its new era.
Citation for Excellence:
Laura Lynch and the Staff of PRI’s The World
PRI’s The World
“Afghanistan – Ten Years On”