2003 OPC Award Winners

  1. THE HAL BOYLE A WARD

Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad

ANTHONY SHADID

The Washington Post

“The Soul of Iraq: From War to Resistance and Rebirth”

 

CITATIONS:

Dan Murphy

The Christian Science Monitor

“How Al Qaeda Lit the Bali Fuse”

David Zucchino

Los Angeles Times

“Thunder in Iraq”

The Wall Street Journal Staff

The Wall Street Journal

“SARS: A Killer’s Global Reach”

 

  1. THE BOB CONSIDINE AWARD

Best newspaper or wire service interpretation of international affairs

JOBY WARRICK

The Washington Post

 

CITATIONS:

The Boston Globe Staff

The Boston Globe

“Lives Lost: Global Health Crisis”

Steven Lee Myers

The New York Times

“In the Field: Third Infantry Division”

 

  1. THE ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL

Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise

CAROLYN COLE

Los Angeles Times

“Covering Conflict: Iraq and Liberia”

 

CITATIONS:

Christopher Anderson

VII for U.S. News & World Report

‘The Road to Baghdad”

Gary Knight

VII for Newsweek

“The Battle for Diyala Bridge”

 

  1. THE OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD

Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines and books

LIZHENSHENG and ROBERT PLEDGE

Contact Press lmages/Phaidon

Red-Color News Soldier: A Chinese Photographer’s Odyssey Through the Cultural Revolution

YURI KOZYREV

TIME

“The Iraq War”

 

CITATION:

Teru Kuwayama

Corbis for Outside

“High Altitude Warfare on Siachen Glacier”

 

  1. THE JOHN FABER AWARD

Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers and wire services

CHRIS HONDROS

Getty Images News Service

“Chaos Enveloping:

Liberia’s Deadly Summer”

 

CITATION:

The New York Times Photographers

The New York Times

‘The War in Iraq”

 

  1. FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme

ALEX MAJOLI

Magnum Photos for Newsweek

“Wars Without End: The Congo”

 

CITATIONS:

Rodrigo Abd

Associated Press

“Guatemala Gangs”

Jahi Chikwendiu

The Washington Post

“Karbala Jail”

 

  1. THE LOWELL THOMAS AWARD

Best radio news or interpretation of international affairs

JEB SHARP

PRI’s The World: BBC World Service, Public Radio International, WGBH Radio Boston

“Iraq History Series”

 

CITATION:.

Susan Burton and Hyder Akbar

WBEZ-Chicago Public Radio

‘This American Life: Teenage Embed”

 

  1. THE DAVID KAPLAN A WARD

Best 1V spot news reporting from abroad

NIC ROBERTSON

CNN

“Anatomy of a Raid”

 

CITATION:

Mike Cerre

ABC News-Nightline

“Marine Unit Fox 2-5”

 

  1. THE EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD

Best 1V interpretation or documentary on international affairs

SCOTT BRONSTEIN, MICHAEL DAVIE, NEIL BARRETT, DAVID ROYLE

National Geographic Television and Film

Ultimate Explorer for MSNBC

“Liberia: American Dream?”

 

CITATION:

Maria Ressa and Ken Shiffman

CNN Presents

“Seeds of Terror”

 

  1. THE ED–CUNNINGHAM AWARD

Best magazine reporting from abroad

GEORGE PACKER

The New Yorker

“War After the War”

 

CITATIONS:

Brian Bennett, Michael Ware, Michael Weisskopf

TIME

“Reports from Iraq”

Tom O’Neill

National Geographic

“Untouchable”

 

  1. THE THOMAS NAST AWARD

Best cartoons on international affairs

TOM TOLES

The Washington Post

 

CITATIONS:

Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher

The Baltimore Sun

Michael Ramirez

Los Angeles Times

 

  1. THE MORTON FRANK A WARD

Best business reporting from abroad in magazines

DAVID McCLINTICK

Institutional Investor

“Inside the Credit Lyonnais Scandal”

 

CITATION:

Pete Engardio, Manjeet Kripalani, Aaron Bernstein

Business Week

“Is Your Job Next?” and

“The Rise of India”

 

  1. THE MALCOLM FORBES A WARD

Best business reporting from abroad in newspapers or wire services

ALESSANDRA GALLONI, CARRICK MOLLENKAMP, DAVID REILLY

The Wall Street Journal

“Spilled Milk: The Fall of Parmalat”

 

CITATION:

Joseph Kahn

The New York Times

“The World’s Sweatshop”

 

  1. THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD

Best nonfiction book on international affairs

MILT BEARDEN AND JAMES RISEN

Random House

The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB

 

CITATION:

Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud

Alfred A. Knopf

A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron

 

  1. THE MADELINE DANE ROSS AWARD

Best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition

GEORGE PACKER

The New Yorker

“The Children of Freetown”

 

CITATION:

Sheri Fink, MD

PublicAffairs

‘War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery

and Survival”

 

  1. THE CARL SPIELVOGEL AWARD

Best international reporting in the broadcast media showing a concern for the human condition

SHARMEEN OBAID, MOHAMMED NAQVI, JAY KEUPER 

Discovery Times Channel

“Terror’s Children”

 

CITATION:

The Oprah Winfrey Show

Harpo Productions

“Christmas Kindness”

 

  1. THE JOE & LAURIE DINE AWARD

Best international reporting in a print medium dealing with human rights

DANIEL BERGNER

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa

 

CITATIONS:

Samantha Power

The New Yorker

“The AIDS Rebel”

Cam Simpson, Flynn McRoberts, Liz Sly

Chicago Tribune

“Tossed Out of America”

 

  1. THE ERIC 6 AMY BURGER AWARD

Best international reporting in the broadcast

media dealing with human rights

LIVIU TIPURITA, ANDREW SMITH, JENNIFER HYDE, DAVID HENSHAW, SID BEDINGFIELD

CNN Productions/Hardcash Productions

“Easy Prey: Inside the Child Sex Trade”

 

  1. THE WHITMAN BASSOW A WARD

Best reporting in any medium on international

environmental issues

TIM COLLIE AND MIKE STOCKER

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

“Haiti: The Eroding Nation”

 

CITATIONS:

Ann lmse

Rocky Mountain News

“Russia’s Rocky Flats”

Tom Knudson

The Sacramento Bee

“State of Denial”

 

  1. THE ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN AWARD

Best reporting in any medium on Latin America

SUSAN FERRISS

Cox News Service

“Broken Promises: How Economic Reforms Have Failed Mexico”

 

CITATION:

Alma Guillermoprieto

The New Yorker

“A Hundred Women”

 

  1. THE ARTYOM BOROVIK AWARD

For outstanding reporting by a Russian journalist who displays courage, insight, balanced yet aggressive reporting, and independence of thought

NATALYA MERKULOVA-SHINDYAEVA

Creative Group KA-Film for 1V Angara

“The Cage”

 

CITATION:

Timur Aliev

Moskovsky Komsomolets, The Moscow Times, Russian Courier

“Contemporary Chechnya”