Best newspaper or news service interpretation of international affairs
AWARD DATE: 2011
AWARD NAME: The Bob Considine Award 2011
AWARD RECIPIENT: Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle, Matthew Karnitschnig, David Enrich, Stacy Meichtry, Brian Blackstone, David Gauthier-Villars, Gordon Fairclough
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Wall Street Journal
AWARD HONORED WORK: European Disunion
The Journal’s coverage of the European sovereign-debt crisis demonstrated that it’s possible to write about complicated subjects in a compelling way. From a moving account of Greece’s rising suicide rate to a novelistic reconstruction of how Europe’s leaders dithered, Journal reporters combined insight, anecdotal and evocative writing in a nuanced, three-dimensional series that explained how a mountain of debt threatened to sink a continent.
Citation for Excellence:
Jim Yardley, Vikas Bajaj, Lydia Polgreen
The New York Times
“India’s Way”