Best daily newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad
AWARD YEAR: 1981
AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award
AWARD RECIPIENT: David B. Ottaway
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Washington Post
AWARD HONORED WORK: Coverage of Islamist extremists in Egypt
Holding his press card on high like a protective shield, Ottaway strode onto the reviewing stand where Anwar Sadat was gunned down by his own soldiers, and wrote a thrilling eyewitness account of the assassination of the Egyptian president Ottaway followed up with reports on the Moslem extremist soldiers, the transfer of power to Hosni Mubarak,
and Sadat’s ceremonial funeral The Cairo-based correspondent is a graduate of Harvard College and has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
Citations went to Brian Mooney of Reuters for his coverage of the Solidarity crisis in Poland, and to Alex Drehsler, of the San Diego Union for his on-the-spot reporting
on El Salvador and Guatemala.
Judges: Henry Cassidy, Rosalind Massow, Ansel Talbert.