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Award Year: 2024
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2024
Recipient: Staff
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “Middle East Upended”
This multi-part package of work by the staff of The New York Times offers superb reporting, writing and analysis – in both print and video – tying together disparate elements dramatically reshaping the region. In multiple exclusive news stories, the Times reveals how Bashar al-Assad betrayed his closest aides in fleeing Syria and the Israeli penetration of Hezbollah. Also part of the package: A video detailing heartbreaking scenes before and after Israeli bombing in Gaza, along with stories about Israel’s new rules of engagement and the unchecked violence perpetrated by settlers.
Links to Winning Work:
Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians
The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel
Bomb Smuggled Into Tehran Guesthouse Months Ago Killed Hamas Leader
Behind the Dismantling of Hezbollah: Decades of Israeli Intelligence
Deception and Betrayal: Inside the Final Days of the Assad Regime
Gaza in Ruins After a Year of War
How Israel’s Army Uses Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza
Secret Documents Show Hamas Tried to Persuade Iran to Join Its Oct. 7 Attack
How One Lebanese Town Is Trying to Stay Out of the War Around It
Syria Shudders as Assad’s Prison Atrocities Come Into the Light
A Village’s Anguish Over 12 Children Lost to a Rocket Strike
Citation for Excellence:
Christopher Miller and Staff
Financial Times
“Russia’s war in Ukraine”