Best foreign correspondent in any medium showing a concern for the human condition
AWARD DATE: 1990
AWARD NAME: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 1990
AWARD RECIPIENT: Tom Jarriel, Janice Tomlin
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: ABC News—20/20
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Nobody’s Children: The Shame of a Nation”
One hundred -thousand neglected children; that’s what Tom Jarriel and his crew from ABC News’ 20/20 found after Romania’s bloody revolution. In three graphic heartfelt reports last year, 20/20 showed the world results of Dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu’s abusive policies toward children, who were often stuffed into orphanages and asylums. By chronicling the personal pilgrimages of two American couples to rescue and adopt Romanian infants, Jarriel’s reports spurred dozens of other American families to get involved in giving new hope to Ceaucescu’s most innocent victims.
Citation for Excellence:
Debbie Sontag
The Miami Herald
Expose of children in Haiti victimized in indentured servitude