OPC Awards Current Recipients

Congratulations to our awards recipients for this year!

Award Date	Award		Award Recipient(s)	As appeared in/on	Honored for	Narrative
2009	The Hal Boyle Award	Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad.	Farnaz Fassihi	The Wall Street Journal	"Hearts, Minds and Blood: The Battle for Iran”	Farnaz Fassihi's courageous reporting gives us an inside view of the unfolding drama in Iran. Operating under tremendous pressure, she covered the opposition’s protests from the... Read more...
2009	The Bob Considine Award	Best newspaper or wire service interpretation of international affairs.	Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Karen DeYoung, Bob Woodward	The Washington Post	“Obama’s War”	This series of pieces about how the Obama administration searched for a new strategy in Afghanistan included strong on-the-ground reporting, smart analysis and a great scoop in obtaining an... Read more...
2009	The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award	Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.	Khalil Hamra	Associated Press	“War in Gaza”	Khalil Hamra’s pictures of the Israeli military incursion into Gaza showed exceptional courage and enterprise by a committed local photographer during a sustained and dangerous... Read more...
2009	The Olivier Rebbot Award	Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines and books.	Alvaro Ybarra Zavala	Reportage by Getty Images	"The Gunmen of the Bolivarian Revolution"	Due to the high quality of the entries, the judges chose two Rebbot winners. Alvaro Ybarra Zavala’s evocative images show us the dangerous and murky underworld of political... Read more...
2009	The Olivier Rebbot Award	Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines and books.	David Burnett	National Geographic Books / Focal Point in cooperation with Contact Press Images	"44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World"	Due to the high quality of the entries, the judges chose two Rebbot winners. David Burnett is honored for the historically significant and unforgettable images from the Iranian... Read more...
2009	The John Faber Award	Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers and wire services.	Sarah L. Voisin	The Washington Post	“In Mexico’s War on Drugs, Battle Lines are Drawn in Chalk”	Voisin’s raw and direct visual investigation of the violent and complex drug war in Mexico offers us important insights into the horrifying violence there. Her images leave very little to the... Read more...
2009	Feature Photography Award	Feature Photography Award	Q. Sakamaki	Redux Pictures/Time		Q. Sakamaki’s lyrical and poetic imagery from Xinjiang, China was a fresh vision of a region of the world often spoken about but seldom seen. By using black and white photography... Read more...
2009	The Lowell Thomas Award	Best radio news or interpretation of international affairs.	Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, Lauren Jenkins, Douglas Roberts	National Public Radio	"Afghanistan: Nightmares and Dreams of a Nation at War"	Soraya Nelson’s original and poignant stories about the lives of the Afghan people demonstrate her enterprise and ability to penetrate a complicated society, especially since she... Read more...
2009	The David Kaplan Award	Best TV spot news reporting from abroad.	David Martin, Mary Walsh, Rob Blache, Ken Crump, Ward Sloane, Rick Kaplan	CBS Evening News	“The Battle of Wanat”	In a category with several excellent entries, two stood above the rest this year, and “The Battle of Wanat” by the staff of the CBS Evening News took our top honors in a split decision. In a... Read more...
2009	The Edward R. Murrow Award	Best TV interpretation or documentary on international affairs.	Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith for Rain Media, David Fanning for Frontline	Rain Media and Frontline	“Obama’s War”	“Frontline: Obama’s War” flawlessly captures a special moment in the fog of the Afghan War. As the U.S. president’s deployment of additional troops took the conflict to a new level, the producers... Read more...