Best foreign reporting in any medium showing a concern for the human condition
Award Year: 1996
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 1996
Recipients: Lisa Anderson, Robert Blau, Karen Brandon, Laurie Goering, Kerry Luft, Storer Rowley, Liz Sly
Affiliation: Chicago Tribune
Honored Work: “Gambling with Life”
The Chicago Tribune showed laudable enterprise in tackling a problem, overpopulation, that is near-universal, studying it abroad and bringing home some lessons to its domestic audience. The paper devoted a year of coverage in seven countries to explore the problem of why people have more children than they can afford. The series should be required reading for those who think there is an easy solution to what the Tribune called “one of humankind’s most vexing problems.”
Citations for Excellence:
Tom Gjelten, Robert Duncan, Michael Sullivan
National Public Radio
“Bridge Over the River Drina”
James C. McKinley, Jr.
The New York Times
Reporting from East Africa