Best foreign correspondent in any medium showing a concern for the human condition
Award Year: 1995
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 1995
Recipient: Laurie Garrett
Affiliation: Newsday
Honored Work: “Ebola”
Laurie Garrett’s reporting on the Ebola outbreak was a combination of superb investigative reporting and excellent science writing. Garrett, a medical reporter for decades, spent nine days in Kikwit, working with the investigating scientists and participating in the field work. She was able to describe in a clear prose style not only the efforts to identify and contain the virus, but also the toll it took on individual human lives.
Citation for Excellence:
Philip Gourevitch
The New Yorker
“Letter from Rwanda: After the Genocide”