Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
AWARD YEAR: 2007
AWARD NAME: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2007
AWARD RECIPIENTS: Jeffrey Gettleman, Courtenay Morris, Shayla Harris, Adam Ellick
AFFILIATION: The New York Times
HONORED WORK: “Ethiopia’s Hidden War”
The New York Times produced groundbreaking, courageous reporting of atrocities being committed by the Ethiopian military in its campaign to suppress a separatist movement. The reporters’ insightful, powerful dispatches, produced at great personal risk, inspired readers in the developed world to care about distant places and people otherwise remote and invisible.
Citation for Excellence:
Jane Mayer
The New Yorker
“The Black Sites”