Best radio news or interpretation of foreign affairs
AWARD YEARS: 1999
AWARD NAME: The Lowell Thomas Award 1999
RECIPIENT: NPR News
AFFILIATION: National Public Radio
HONORED WORK: Coverage of Kosovo
NPR’s extensive coverage of the war in Kosovo combined a wide variety of viewpoints with a tremendous amount of in-depth reporting. Some of this reporting was on difficult issues such as rape. Other segments vividly showed how the war affected women and children. The range of coverage was impressive and included some critical questioning of the bombing of the Chinese embassy, which Washington insisted was an accident.
Citation for Excellence:
The Staff of PRI’s The World BBC World Service, Public Radio International, WGBH Radio
“Kosovo Coverage”