Award name: 01 The Hal Boyle Award

Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad YEAR: 2003 AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 2003 RECIPIENT: Anthony Shadid AFFILIATION: The Washington Post HONORED WORK: “The Soul of Iraq: From War to Resistance and Rebirth” Anthony Shadid stayed behind in Baghdad as the Iraq war began. His 24 page-one stories during the conflict depicted…

Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad AWARD YEAR: 2002 AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 2002 RECIPIENTS: Alan Cullison, Andrew Higgins, Karby Leggett AFFILIATION: The Wall Street Journal HONORED WORK: “Inside al Qaeda” The remarkable series of articles demonstrates the best of what journalism should be: enterprising reporting, penetrating analysis, and great storytelling.…

Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad AWARD YEAR: 2001 AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 2001 RECIPIENT: Los Angeles Times Staff AFFILIATION: The Los Angeles Times HONORED WORK: “Inside Al Qaeda” In an extraordinarily prescient dispatch, the Los Angeles Times warned about the threat to the U.S. posed by Osama bin Laden six…

Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad AWARD DATE: 2000 AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 2000 AWARD RECIPIENT: Ian Johnson AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Wall Street Journal AWARD HONORED WORK: “A Death in China: The Politics of Suppression” Ian Johnson’s coverage of the Falun Gong sect demonstrated the lengths that Chinese leaders will…

Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad In a series of vividly descriptive reports from Chechnya, David Filipov depicted the ambiguity of a war in which Russian troops fought Islamic militants, Russian bandits fought Russian soldiers, and Chechen gangs fought Russians. Russian jets, meanwhile, indiscriminately bombed and strafed Chechen civilians. Filipov was one of…

Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad AWARD YEAR: 1998 AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 1998 RECIPIENT: Ken Guggenheim, Niko Price AFFILIATION: The Associated Press HONORED WORK: “Hurricane Mitch” This was an extraordinary series of 60 reports on Hurricane Mitch, which killed more than 9.000 Central Americans last August. As the storm pounded…

Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad AWARD YEAR: 1997 AWARD NAME: The Hal Boyle Award 1997 RECIPIENT: Mark Bowden AFFILIATION: The Philadelphia Inquirer HONORED WORK: “Blackhawk Down” Although it is about an event that occurred in 1993, this graphic, 29-part narrative about the disastrous U.S. military operation in Mogadishu, Somalia, raises jarring questions…

Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad Award Year: 1996 Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 1996 Recipient: John-Thor Dahlburg Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times Honored Work: “Afghanistan: Legacy of Fear” Dahlburg’s series is a comprehensive and compelling look at how the 17-year-old war in Afghanistan has seeded fundamentalist шшс terrorism and insurrection around…

Best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad Award Year: 1995 Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 1995 Recipient: David Rohde Affiliation: The Christian Science Monitor Honored Work: “Exposing the Srebrenica Massacre” With great persistence, and at considerable personal risk, Rohde visited Serb-held Bosnia and obtained hard physical evidence of mass executions. His graphic yet…

Best daily newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad Award Year: 1994 Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 1994 Recipient: Raymond Bonner Affiliation: The New York Times Honored Work: “Reports from Rwanda” “‘They were just like bureaucrats,’” said one teacher describing the bands of marauders who killed hundreds of thousands in Rwanda. “They started every…