Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Yeganeh Torbati
Best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or online
AWARD YEAR: The Malcolm Forbes Award
AWARD NAME: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2013
RECIPIENT: Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Yeganeh Torbati and Reuters staff
AFFILIATION: Reuters
HONORED WORK: Assets of the Ayatollah
The judges were impressed by Reuters’ ability to piece together how Iran’s top religious cleric, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had amassed a financial empire worth $95 billion, rivaling the wealth of the late Shah. In a three-part series, Stecklow and colleagues drew a devastating portrait of how Khamenei had secured a position in nearly every sector of Iran’s economy through a little-known agency called Setad. Reuters took major risks in investigating the ayatollah.
Citation for Excellence:
Katherine Eban, Doris Burke, Frederik Joelving
fortune.com
“Dirty Medicine”