Best magazine reporting from abroad
Award Year: 1996
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 1996
Recipients: Kenneth Auchingloss, Nancy Cooper, George Wehrfritz, Melinda Liu, Steven Strasser, Dorinda Elliot, John Barry, Russell Watson, Tony Emerson, Robert J. Samuelson
Affiliation: Newsweek
Honored Work: “China: Friend or Foe?”
Newsweek’s in-depth look at the new China proved almost prophetic as it examined the political, economic and social changes sweeping the world’s most populous country. Weaving together insightful pieces from a host of correspondents, the magazine’s report probed behind the scenes to determine what is transforming the world’s largest surviving Communist nation into one of the world’s most powerful economic engines.
Citations for Excellence:
Michael Parfit
National Geographic
“Emerging Mexico”
Massimo Calabresi, Johanna McGeary, Alexandra Stiglmayer
TIME
“Unearthing Evil in Bosnia”