Best international reporting in any medium showing a concern for the human condition
AWARD YEAR: 2001
AWARD NAME: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2001
AWARD RECIPIENTS: Sorious Samura, Ron McCullagh, Elizabeth Ground, Dollan Cannell, Vivian Schiller, Jennifer Hyde
AFFILIATION: CNN Productions and Insight News Television
HONORED WORK: “Return to Freetown” and “Exodus from Africa”
The award went 3 to a pair of documentaries. In “Rеturn to Freetown” Sorious Samura captured the aftermath of а horrific civil war in Sierre Leone, while in “Exodus from Africa” he told the tale of refugees from Africa who search, mostly in vain, for passage to Europe and the possibility of living the immigrant’s dream.
Citations for Excellence:
Barry Bearak
The New York Times
“Reports from South Asia”
Matthew McAllester
Newsday
“In the Crossfire”