Best magazine reporting from abroad
AWARD YEAR: 2001
AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 2001
RECIPIENT: Fareed Zakaria, Evan Thomas, Michael Hirsh, Colin Soloway, and the Newsweek team
AFFILIATION: Newsweek
HONORED WORK: “Global Terrorism” and “American Taliban”
The Newsweek team showed prescience in identifying the Al Qaeda threat half a year before September 11. The coverage reconstructed the terrorists’ trail and was insightful in explaining the cultural gap between the West and Islam. Colin Soloway’s online articles were excellent, introducing the world to John Walker Lindh, the American Talib.
Citation for Excellence:
John Lee Anderson
The New Xorker
“Reports from Afghanistan”
Blaine Harden
The New York Times Magazine
“Dr. Matthew’s Passion”