Award name: 02 The Bob Considine Award

Best newspaper or wire service interpretation of international affairs AWARD YEAR: 2002 AWARD NAME: The Bob Considine Award 2002 RECIPIENT: The Los Angeles Times Staff AFFILIATION: The Los Angeles Times HONORED WORK: “The Untold War” With brave reporting and stellar writing, this series told the behind-the-scenes story of the Afghan war in military, cultural, and…

Best newspaper or wire service interpretation of international affairs AWARD YEAR: 2001 AWARD NAME: The Bob Considine Award 2001 RECIPIENT: Hiawatha Bray AFFILIATION: The Boston Globe HONORED WORK: “Wiring Africa” This series, on the quest to bring broad band telecommunications to Africa and its people, is a classic example of interpretative reporting. Bray deftly blended…

Best newspaper or wire service interpretation of international affairs AWARD DATE: 2000 AWARD NAME: The Bob Considine Award 2000 AWARD RECIPIENT: Barton Gellman AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Washington Post AWARD HONORED WORK: “Death Watch: AIDS in Africa” In The Washington Post’s “Death Watch” series about the AIDS crisis in Africa, Barton Gellman broke new ground…

Best newspaper or wire service interpretation of foreign affairs AWARD YEAR: 1999 AWARD NAME: The Bob Considine Award 1999 RECIPIENT: Mark Schoofs AFFILIATION: The Village Voice HONORED WORK: “AIDS: The Agony of Africa” This remarkable eight-part series portrayed the devastation that AIDS has inflicted М on nine African countries, killing 10 times as many people…

Best newspaper or wire service interpretation of foreign affairs AWARD YEAR: 1998 AWARD NAME: The Bob Considine Award 1998 RECIPIENT: Barton Gellman AFFILIATION: The Washington Post HONORED WORK: “Shell Games: Washington, Baghdad and the Hunt for Iraq’s Forbidden Weapons” Throughout Saddam Hussein’s brinksmanship with the United Nations, the Washington Post’s Barton Gellman was able to…

Best newspaper or wire service interpretation of foreign affairs AWARD YEAR: 1997 AWARD NAME: The Bob Considine Award 1997 RECIPIENT: Howard W. French, James C. Mckinley, Jr. AFFILIATION: The New York Times HONORED WORK: “Reports from Africa” Of the many heroic journalists who covered the horrifying civilian massacres in Zaire last year, the work of…

Best newspaper or wire-service interpretation of foreign affairs Award Year: 1996 Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 1996 Recipient: Michael Williams, David P. Hamilton, Jathon Sapsford, Robert Steiner Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal Honored Work: “Unmasking the Mandarins: The Failure of Japan’s Bureaucracy” In an enterprising investigative portrait of a bureaucracy out of control, the…

Best newspaper or wire-service interpretation of foreign affairs Award Year: 1995 Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 1995 Recipient: Susan Sachs Affiliation: Newsday Honored Work: “Reading, Writing and Hate” With Israelis, Palestinians, and others groping toward peace, Sachs examined what the children of the region are learning about each other. Her series confirmed that while…

Best daily newspaper or wire service interpretation of foreign affairs Award Year: 1994 Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 1994 Recipient: Laurie Garrett Affiliation: Newsday/New York Newsday Honored Work: “Aids In India” In her gripping account of a catastrophe in the making, Garrett painted a portrait of a disease that has so far infected just…

Best daily newspaper or wire service interpretation of foreign affairs AWARD DATE: 1993 AWARD NAME: The Bob Considine Award 1993 AWARD RECIPIENT: R.C. Longworth AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Chicago Tribune AWARD HONORED WORK: “Wounded Guardian” Longworth does a masterful job of describing and analyzing the U.N.’s new role in the world, pointing out the sometimes…