Best newspaper or wire service interpretation of foreign affairs
AWARD YEAR: 1999
AWARD NAME: The Bob Considine Award 1999
RECIPIENT: Mark Schoofs
AFFILIATION: The Village Voice
HONORED WORK: “AIDS: The Agony of Africa”
This remarkable eight-part series portrayed the devastation that AIDS has inflicted М on nine African countries, killing 10 times as many people as Africa’s genocidal wars. ший / Mark Schoofs spent six months reporting and showed how ineffective Western policies were. At the same time widespread denial by Africans of AIDS also sped its transmittal. He interviewed prostitutes, children, rural farmers, scientists, morticians, and rock stars. He combined dispassionate, relentless, street level reporting with lucid analysis to explain a crisis that is destroying the fabric of many African nations.
Citations for Excellence:
Paul Salopek
Chicago ‘Tribune
“Reporting from the Front”
Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, David E. Sanger, Edward Wyatt
The New York Times
“Asian Crisis”