Best TV spot news reporting from abroad
Award Year: 1996
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 1996
Recipient: Lisa Rolland
Affiliation: ABC News Radio
Honored Work: “Land Mines: The Survivors’ Perspective”
Allen presents close-up reports of a child slowly starving, a refugee forced to share her house with the murderers of her family, a relief worker blocked from delivering basic supplies. His report succeeds admirably in personalizing Rwanda’s numbing tragedy of genocide, disease and starvation. Allen’s evocative reporting was matched by dramatic camera footage of food riots, street violence and refugee camps where only the dead remain.
Citation for Excellence:
Brent Sadler
CNN
“Reporting from southern Lebanon”