Best magazine reporting from abroad
YEAR: 2003
AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 2003
RECIPIENT: George Packer
AFFILIATION: The New Yorker
HONORED WORK: “War After the War”
In a year of remarkably rich entries, many worthy of prizes, Packer’s piece stood out for the subtle way it illuminated the challenges that emerged in Iraq last year. He brings a novelist’s skill and a rare empathy to his portrait of a country in crisis.
Citations:
Brian Bennett, Michael Ware, Michael Weisskopf
TIME
“Reports from Iraq”
Tom O’Neill
National Geographic
“Untouchable”