Nicholas D. Kristof
AWARD DATE: 2011
AWARD NAME: Best Online Commentary 2011
AWARD RECIPIENT: Nicholas D. Kristof, Adam B. Ellick, Sean Patrick Farrell, Jaron Gilinsky
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New York Times
AWARD HONORED WORK: “A Year Through a Kaleidoscope: The Arab Spring”
Kristof has described himself as a “dinosaur scribbler,” but a video of him getting a haircut in Bahrain — then calling for a haircut in the country’s government — was an Internet sensation. He used video to put us on the streets of the Arab Spring alongside regular protesters in Egypt. He took us on a tour of Bahrain with a royal guide and he took us inside a Bahrain morgue. Showing us U.S. weapons and tear gas used by police there he commented, “I’m afraid we’re coming out on the wrong side of history.”
Citation for Excellence:
Anthony Shadid, Philip Bennett, Sarah Moughty, Andrew Golis, Raney Aronson, David Fanning
Frontline / WGBH
“In Assad’s Syria, There Is No Imagination”