Best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition
Tom Lassiter
AWARD YEAR: 2014
AWARD NAME: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2010
AWARD RECIPIENT: Tom Lassester
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: McClatchy Newspapers
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Modern China’s Tragic Illusion”
In a world focused on China’s rapid transformation into a global economic powerhouse, it’s rare to hear about how that change affects the lives of ordinary Chinese, and rarer still to have those lives revealed in the kind of detail that Tom Lasseter captures in this series of articles. Often in the face of official harassment, Lasseter uses detailed interviews, records and official reports to delve deeply into the frustrations, deprivations and official indifference that rule his subjects’ lives. In the millions of words written about China, these tales stand out because they make you care about the people they are written about.
Citation for Excellence:
Michael Specter
The New Yorker
“A Deadly Misdiagnosis”