Best daily newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad
AWARD YEAR: 1989
AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 1989 (shared)
RECIPIENT: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn
AFFILIATION: The New York Times
HONORED WORK: Coverage of China
While many newspapers produced outstanding coverage of the tumultuous events in China during 1989, the husband-and-wife team of Kristof and WuDunn managed to convey both the highly visible events in Tiananmen Square and the invisible manipulations of the Chinese leadership. Particularly impressive was their use of anecdotes to convey the feelings of ordinary Chinese in telling the story of the upheaval. “In 1949 we welcomed the Army into Beijing,” said one old man. “Now we’re fighting to keep them out.”
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