Andrew Quilty
Best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad
AWARD DATE: 2020
AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 2020
AWARD RECIPIENT: Andrew Quilty
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Intercept
AWARD HONORED WORK: “The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads”
AWARD SPONSOR: Norman Pearlstine in memory of Jerry Flint
In nearly two years of painstaking reporting, Andrew Quilty exposed a U.S.-backed “campaign of terror against civilians” in Afghanistan. Detailing evidence of massacres, executions, mutilation, forced disappearances and airstrikes, he meticulously documented how 10 CIA-backed raids in Wardak province killed 51 civilians. Some were boys as young as eight; most of these raids had never previously been reported.
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Citation for Excellence:
Katrin Bennhold
The New York Times
“Outing Germany’s Far Right”
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