Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
AWARD YEAR: 2006
AWARD NAME: The Whitman Bassow Award 2006
RECIPIENT: Evan Osnos
AFFILIATION: Chicago Tribune
HONORED WORK: “The Price We Pay for China’s Boom”
Osnos and his Chicago Tribune reporting team made the familiar story of China’s environmental devastation immediate for North American readers. The unprecedented quality of the entries for the Bassow Award suggests that 2006 was the year journalists learned to tell the fantastically complex story of climate change with verve and cogent analysis. Evan Osnos and the Tribune team exhibited those qualities in abundance.
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