Best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs
AWARD YEAR: 2023
AWARD NAME: The William Worthy Award 2023
RECIPIENT: New York Times Staff
AFFILIATION: The New York Times
HONORED WORK: “Russia/Ukraine”
Far from the frontlines, The New York Times looked at how the war in Ukraine is transforming Russia. At great personal risk, correspondents ventured deep inside the country to break major stories on the suppression of dissent, the prisoners released to fight on the frontlines of Ukraine, about Russia’s evasion of sanctions and on the profits reaped from the departure of Western companies. Roger Cohen’s portrait of the nation at war (“Putin’s Forever War”) was particularly effective at placing the Ukraine conflict in the context of the sweep of Russian history.
“Putin’s Forever War”
By Roger Cohen, Photographs by Nanna Heitmann
“A Russian Village Buries a Soldier and Tries to Make Sense of the War”
By Valerie Hopkins
“A Prison at War: The Convicts Sustaining Putin’s Invasion”
By Anatoly Kurmanaev, Ekaterina Bodyagina, Alina Lobzina and Oleg Matsnev. Produced by Gray Beltran
“How the Russian Government Silences Wartime Dissent”
By Anton Troianovski, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Oleg Matsnev, Alina Lobzina, Valerie Hopkins and Aaron Krolik
“How Putin Turned a Western Boycott Into a Bonanza”
By Paul Sonne and Rebecca R. Ruiz. Produced by Nico Chilla
“Chinese Traders and Moroccan Ports: How Russia Flouts Global Tech Bans”
By Paul Mozur, Aaron Krolik and Adam Satariano
“Putin Quietly Signals He Is Open to a Cease-Fire in Ukraine”
By Anton Troianovski, Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes
“He Heeded Russia’s Call to Enlist. Five Months Later He Was Dead”
By Neil MacFarquhar and Milana Mazaeva
“Fear and Mayhem as Russia’s War Comes Home”
By Roger Cohen Photographs by Nanna Heitmann
“One Year Into the War, Putin Is Crafting the Russia He Craves”
By Anton Troianovski and Valerie Hopkins
“After Prigozhin’s Death, a High-Stakes Scramble for His Empire”
By Anton Troianovski, Declan Walsh, Eric Schmitt, Vivian Yee and Julian E. Barnes
“Putin Embraced Turmoil and Now It Is Rattling His Leadership”
By Anton Troianoviski
Citation for Excellence:
Staff
The Wall Street Journal
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