Clockwise from upper left: Tracy Wilkinson, Cindy Carcamo, Kate Linthicum, Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Don Bartletti.
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
AWARD YEAR: 2014
AWARD NAME: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award
RECIPIENT: Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Tracy Wilkinson, Kate Linthicum, Don Bartletti And Cindy Carcamo
AFFILIATION: The Los Angeles Times
HONORED WORK: “A Wave of Migrants”
The Los Angeles Times’s intrepid team of reporters and photographers gave a rich and complex picture of the surge of unaccompanied minors traveling from Mexico into south Texas, tracing their journey from Guatemala and Honduras up to the border and showing efforts in the U.S. and Mexico to stop the flow. Reporting from four countries, the Times team provided exceptional context, analysis and details of this immigration crisis. The commitment to the story showed in the quality of the reporting. The first story by Molly Hennessy-Fiske set out the coverage at overwhelmed immigration facilities at the beginning of the crisis.
Don Bartletti’s riveting photographs documented one boy’s journey across the border. Kate Linthicum, Cindy Caracamo and Tracy Wilkinson’s strong writing and reporting rounded out the coverage.
Citation for Excellence:
Teresa Bo and Singeli Agnew
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