Best business and/or economic news reporting from abroad for magazines
AWARD DATE: 1990
AWARD NAME: The Morton Frank Award 1990
AWARD RECIPIENT: Fiammetta Rocco
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Institutional Investor
AWARD HONORED WORK: ”The Banker in the Bunker”
This enterprising saga portrayed the life and times of a little-known hero in Lebanon, Edmond Niam, the 71-year-old head of that country’s central bank. Surrounded by sandbags, the central bank chief coolly administers payrolls to all government employees – including both the Moslem and Christian brigades – and attempts to maintain a semblance of normalcy while his country crumbles around him.
Citation for Excellence:
David Fairlamb
Institutional Investor
Three-part Series: ” Perestroika Imperiled;” ” The Privatizing of Eastern Europe” and “So Far, So Good”