Best magazine reporting from abroad
AWARD YEAR: 2002
AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 2002
RECIPIENT: Lawrence Wright
AFFILIATION: The New Yorker
HONORED WORK: “The Man Behind bin Laden”
A superb, fluidly detailed portrait of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s strategic mastermind. The piece showed remarkable breadth of reporting and context, and was filled with hard-to-get interviews and rich contextual detail.
Citations for Excellence:
Jeffrey Goldberg
The New Yorker
“In the Party of God”
Peter Landesman
The New York Times Magazine
“The Light at the End of the Chunnel”