Best radio news or interpretation of international affairs
AWARD YEAR: 2004
AWARD NAME: The Lowell Thomas Award 2004
RECIPIENT: Michael Goldfarb, Anna Bensted, George Hicks
AFFILIATION: WBUR-FM at Boston University, Inside Out Documentaries
HONORED WORK: “British Jihad”
The Lowell Thomas Award goes to WBUR-FM (Boston University) for excellent investigative radio work in exploring why Britain has become a recruiting center for global radical Islam, combined with a clear historic context of Britain’s Muslim community. The WBUR team gained access to radical Muslim preacher Omar Bakhri Mohammed and his followers, the father of a Briton detained at Guantanamo Bay and other members of the British Muslim community to explore why British citizens have been attracted to violent Islam.
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