International reporting in any medium which demonstrates a concern for humanity
AWARD YEAR: 1981
AWARD NAME: The Madeline Dane Ross Award
AWARD RECIPIENT: Kent Kobersteen, Alan McConagha
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Minneapolis Tribune
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Global Poverty/The Darkening Future”
Staff correspondent Alan McConagha and staff photographer Kent Kobersteen travelled to six countries on three continents to produce “Global Poverty/The Darkening Future,” a first-hand look at conditions in the world’s poorest nations. The team’s stories and pictures make grim reading and viewing-not the kind of light stuff editors supposedly dish out in mid-summer editions for carefree vacation readers. The team’s writing and photography blended into a stark drama of human suffering in countries cruelly deprived-and with little hope in the future.
Citations for Excellence were awarded to Tom Fenton of CBS News for “Too Many People, Too Little Food,” and to Cheryl McCall, for “An Angry Doctor Battles a Gruesome Black Market in Asian Children,” in People Magazine.
Judges: Larry Stessin, Julia Edwards, Barrett Gallagher, Margaret Cartwright.