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Citation: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2016

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Citation Year: 2016 Citation Recipient: Goran Tomasevic, Zohra Bensemra, Mohammed Salem and Ahmed Jadallah Affiliation: Reuters Honored Work: “Battle for Mosul”    

Citation: The Bob Considine Award 2016

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Citation Year: 2016 Citation Recipients: Tom Burgis, Pilitia Clark, Michael Peel, Charlie Bibby and Kari-Ruth Pedersen Affiliation: Financial Times Honored Work: “The Great Land Rush” Read Ethiopia: The billionaire’s farm >> Read Myanmar: The dispossessed >> Read Indonesia: Saving the earth >>  

Citation: The Hal Boyle Award 2016

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Citation Year: 2016 Citation Recipients: Ben Hubbard, Mark Mazzetti, Carlotta Gall, Scott Shane and Nicholas Kulish Affiliation: The New York Times Honored Work: “Secrets of the Kingdom” Read “Secrets of the Kingdom” >>

Citation Winners

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The following is a list of citation winners for the OPC Awards for work published in 2016…

Citation: The Olivier Rebbot Award

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CITATION YEAR: 2016 CITATION NAME: The Olivier Rebbot Award CITATION RECIPIENTS: Aris Messinis CITATION RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Agence France-Presse CITATION HONORED WORK: “Desperate Journey”  

Citation: The Feature Photography Award

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CITATION YEAR: 2016 CITATION NAME: The Feature Photography Award CITATION RECIPIENTS: Tomás Munita CITATION RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New York Times CITATION HONORED WORK: “Cuba on the Edge of Change”  

Citation: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2016

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CITATION YEAR: 2016 CITATION NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award CITATION RECIPIENTS: Goran Tomasevic, Zohra Bensemra, Mohammed Salem & Ahmed Jadallah CITATION RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Reuters CITATION HONORED WORK: “Battle for Mosul”    

Overseas Press Club Announces 22 Award Winners

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NEW YORK, March 21, 2017 — The global devastation wrought by the war in Syria is the leading storyline among winners of the 78th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards. America’s oldest association dedicated to international news announced its 22 winners who will be honored April 27 at a dinner in New York. The OPC’s President’s Award will honor journalists who died covering the war in Syria…

A Letter from Theo Padnos: Dear Journalists Who Are Thinking About Going to the Rebel-Held Bits of Syria or Any Other Newsworthy Place We Have Bombed

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“At first, of course you will think yourself innocent. You will plead your case to the other prisoners. But they cannot forgive you even if they wanted to. You are wasting your breath. Later you will plead with visitors to your cell. Everyone does so. It would be odd if you did not. But only the highest, top-most commanders can give you what you want and they will not come to you in a thousand years…”