Best daily newspaper or wire service interpretation of foreign affairs
Award Year: 1986
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 1986
Recipient: Juan Tamayo
Affiliation: The Miami Herald
Honored Work: “The Terror Network”
Breaking beyond the routine reporting of acts of terror, Tamayo traveled Europe and the Mid-East, identifying the bizarre outlaws given to terrorism and probing their motives. In July, his aggressive and courageous reporting produced “The Terror Network.” In this series, Tamayo anticipated by nearly two months the September bombings in Paris, and exposed the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Forces, found responsible for the worst wave of terror in France since the Algerian war in the 1960s.
Citations for Excellence:
William Beecher
The Boston Globe
“What Happened at Reykjavik?”
David Winder
The Christian Science Monitor
Series on secrecy