Best international reporting in a print medium dealing with human rights
AWARD YEAr: 2002
AWARD NAME: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2002
RECIPIENT: Jeffrey Goldberg
AFFILIATION: The New Yorker
HONORED WORK: “The Great Terror”
In this exposé of the crimes of the Iraqi regime, Goldberg described Saddam Hussein’s horrifying gas attacks against Kurdish villages, investigated ties between Iraq and al Qaeda terrorists, and explored the scope of Iraq’s chemical weapons arsenal. Goldberg spent six months on this assignment, often from places that were off limits to western journalists. A former CIA director, James Woolsey, called the story “a blockbuster.”
Citation for Excellence:
Rachel L. Swarns
The New York Times
“The New South Africa”