Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad
AWARD YEAR: 2001
AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 2001
RECIPIENT: Los Angeles Times Staff
AFFILIATION: The Los Angeles Times
HONORED WORK: “Inside Al Qaeda”
In an extraordinarily prescient dispatch, the Los Angeles Times warned about the threat to the U.S. posed by Osama bin Laden six months before the September 11 attacks. By quoting U.S. officials that bin Laden “is at the center of the threats we face over the next few years,” it sent a warning that should have been more widely heard.
Citations for Excellence:
Kathy Gannon
Associated Press
“Afghanistan”
The Wall Street Journal Staff
“America’s War on Terrorism”