Best foreign reporting im any medium showing a concern for the human condition
AWARD YEAR: 1998
AWARD NAME: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 1998
RECIPIENT: Kevin Sullivan, Mary Jordan, Keith Richburg
AFFILIATION: The Washington Post
HONORED WORK: “Shattered Lives: The Asian Middle Class”
The authors provided insightful, well-researched and thoroughly documented reporting in vivid, exceptionally well-written stories. As a whole, their work humanized the fragility of the middle class in Asia as an economic crisis slammed the region, dashing many people’s hopes of better lives.
Citation for Excellence:
Carl Honoré
Houston Chronicle
“Fortress Europe”