Best radio spot news from abroad
AWARD YEAR: 1988
AWARD NAME: The Ben Grauer Award 1988
RECIPIENT: David Ben-Aryeah
AFFILIATION: WCBS-AM Radio
HONORED WORK: “The Crash of Pan Am Flight 103”
Ben-Aryeah was one of the first journalists on the scene at the crash site in Lockerbie, Scotland. That evening he began a series of reports giving both the facts and the emotional human side of the tragedy. He was the first to report that a bomb was responsible for the disaster.
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