Best business reporting from abroad in the broadcast media
AWARD YEAR: 1997
AWARD NAME: The Carl Spielvogel Award 1997
RECIPIENT: Julie McCarthy, Michael Sullivan, Loren Jenkins
AFFILIATION: National Public Radio
HONORED WORK: “Asian Economic Crisis”
NPR provided vivid, intelligent vignettes on the year’s biggest breaking economic story, using imaginative, street-level reporting, thoughtful analysis, and knowledge of local politics to convey the magnitude and consequences of the crisis that first hit Thailand, then spread to Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, and other ex-Asian “tigers.” То its credit, NPR avoided the hyperbole, clichés, and tired scenes that characterized other reports on the Asian meltdown.
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