Best business reporting from abroad in newspapers or wire services
AWARD YEAR: 2004
AWARD NAME: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2004
RECIPIENTS: Ken Silverstein and T. Christian Miller
AFFILIATION: Los Angeles Times
HONORED WORK: “The Politics of Petroleum”
This comprehensive but compact series of three articles, with two major follow-ups, throws a clear light on the global intersection of oil and politics. With exhaustive investigative reporting, thorough documentation and a clear, commanding narrative, Silverstein and Miller show how Western governments and oil companies make a devil’s bargain with those who control the world’s new sources of oil—and the price paid in corruption, re- pression, poverty and misery for the peo- ple of supposedly oil-rich countries.
Citation for Excellence:
Michael Oneal
The Chicago Tribune
“Outsourcing: Pain And Profit”