Azmat Khan (left) and Anand Gopal
Best magazine reporting in print or digital on an international story
AWARD DATE: 2017
AWARD NAME: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award
AWARD RECIPIENT: Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New York Times Magazine
AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Uncounted”
AWARD SPONSOR: Michael S. Serrill
Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal spent almost two years visiting about 150 bomb sites in northern Iraq, often at great personal risk, for this powerful story that showed civilian casualties caused by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes were considerably higher than previously reported. With a compelling main character in Bassim Razzo, whose home and family in Mosul were obliterated, indefatigable sleuthing by Khan and Gopal that challenged U.S. statistics, and an impressive use of photography and videography, “The Uncounted” provided a horrifying accounting of the true cost of America’s war.
Citation Recipients: Ben Mauk, Laura Kasinof, George Butler and Diana Markosian
Affiliation: Virginia Quarterly Review/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Honored Work: “Paths to Refuge”