Best international reporting in the broadcast media dealing with human rights.
AWARD YEAR: 1993
AWARD NAME: The Eric and Amy Burger Award 1993
AWARD RECIPIENT: Mark Danner
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New Yorker
AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Truth of El Mozote”
In an exhaustively reported and beautifully written story, Mark Danner reconstructed the events of a 1981 civilian massacre carried out by the Salvadoran army, which was armed and trained by the U.S. government. Danner interviewed survivors, military men, former U.S. diplomats and journalists to learn how the massacre took place and how it was covered up by the U.S. government and ignored by major U.S. newspapers.
Citation for Excellence:
Dallas Morning News Team
For a series of articles about Violence Against Women