Best daily newspaper or wire service interpretation of foreign affairs
AWARD YEAR: 1988
AWARD NAME: The Bob Considine Award 1988
RECIPIENT: Barry Newman
AFFILIATION: The Wall Street Journal
HONORED WORK: Coverage of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Newman’s stories—on topics ranging from train rides to courtrooms and from computers to nightlife—are superb in both their clarity and their complexity. By using astonishing individual tales, he brings a stirring visual quality to his printed work. His stories tell more about glasnost and perestroika than reams of copy about the inner workings of the Soviet bureaucracy.
Citations for Excellence:
Michael Dobbs
The Washington Post
“Eastern Europe and the Soviet Empire”
Sam Dillon and Andres Oppenheimer
The Miami Herald
“Noriega’s Panama: Indictment of a System”