Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad
YEAR: 2003
AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 2003
RECIPIENT: Anthony Shadid
AFFILIATION: The Washington Post
HONORED WORK: “The Soul of Iraq: From War to Resistance and Rebirth”
Anthony Shadid stayed behind in Baghdad as the Iraq war began. His 24 page-one stories during the conflict depicted the horror and complexity in a way few others could match. Among the first to spot the armed insurgency against U.S. forces, he wrote about a father executing a son accused of helping the Americans. He saw he Sunni uprising as the greatest postwar challenge. ln all, Shadid wrote more than 90-one stories through the year, exhibiting extraordinary depth and resourcefulness.
Citations for Excellence:
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”