The foreign correspondent showing a concern for the human condition
Award Year: 1987
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 1987
Recipient: Joseph Allbright, Marcia Kunstel, Rick McKay
Affiliation: Cox Newspapers
Honored Work: “Stolen Childhood”
Correspondents Allbright and Kunstel and photographer McKay traveled to 11 countries on five continents for this report, from Brazil to Kenya, India, Thailand and the Philippines; they reported on 5-year-olds working for pennies, children with lung diseases making rugs, small boys dodging molten dribbles in a primitive glassworks, 13-year-old girls sold into prostitution by parents. They also showed that abuses can be stopped where laws are enforced and child welfare programs supported.
Citation for Excellence:
Kristen Helmore
The Christian Science Monitor
and Sara Terry
Monitoradio
“The Children in Darkness: the Exploitation of Innocence”