Foreign correspondent in any medium showing a concern for the human condition
AWARD YEAR: 1989
AWARD NAME: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 1989
RECIPIENT: Jeremy Iggers
AFFILIATION: The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
HONORED WORK: “Feeding a Hungry Planet”
Iggers’ series of articles explored the causes of hunger from Honduras and Peru to Mali and India. He found that most of the hungry were victims not of war, natural disasters or a lack of resources but of such human-caused factors as mismanagement of the land, social inequality and the unequal distribution of land resources.
Citation for Excellence:
Michael Hiltzik
Los Angeles Times
Articles on East Africa