Award name: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award

Best magazine reporting from abroad.

The Ed Cunningham Award 1996

Best magazine reporting from abroad Award Year: 1996 Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 1996 Recipients: Kenneth Auchingloss, Nancy Cooper, George Wehrfritz, Melinda Liu, Steven Strasser, Dorinda Elliot, John Barry, Russell Watson, Tony Emerson, Robert J. Samuelson Affiliation: Newsweek Honored Work: “China: Friend or Foe?” Newsweek’s in-depth look at the new China proved almost prophetic…

The Ed Cunningham Award 1995

Best magazine reporting from abroad Award Year: 1995 Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 1995 Recipients: James R. Gaines, Johanna McGeary, Lisa Beyer, Steve Wulf, Kevin Fedarko, and staff Affiliation: TIME magazine Honored Work: “Yitzhak Rabin: Death of a Peacemaker” News of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination hit just 12 hours before TIME was…

The Ed Cunningham Award 1994

Best magazine reporting from abroad Award Date: 1994 Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 1994 Recipients: Robert Dowling, Frank J. Comes, Christopher Power and Team Affiliation: Business Week Honored Work: “21st Century Capitalism” This in-depth analysis of what lies ahead for the world economy in the next century was both original and compelling. Drawing on…

The Ed Cunningham Award 1993

Best magazine reporting from abroad in magazines AWARD DATE: 1993 AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 1993 AWARD RECIPIENT: Douglas Stanglin, Susan Headden, Peter Cary AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: U.S. News & World Report AWARD HONORED WORK: “America’s Top-Secret Spy War” This’ classic piece of investigative journalism began when a young man from Fargo; N.D., came…

The Ed Cunningham Award 1992

Best Magazine Reporting From Abroad In Magazines AWARD DATE: 1992 AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 1992 AWARD RECIPIENT: Orville Schell, Todd Lappin AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Nation AWARD HONORED WORK: “Capitalist Leap: China Plays The Market” This compelling, easy-to-digest article raised the curtain on a magic trick China had pulled off when most of…

The Ed Cunningham Award 1991

Best magazine reporting from abroad AWARD DATE: 1991 AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 1991 AWARD RECIPIENT: Michael Kelly AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New Republic AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Rape and Rescue of Kuwait City,” “Highway To Hell” and “Back to the .Hills.” The powerful and vivid accounts of his travels through Kuwait and the Kurdish…

The Ed Cunningham Award 1990

Best magazine reporting from abroad AWARD DATE: 1990 AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 1990 AWARD RECIPIENT: Peter McGrath and the Editors and Correspondents AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Newsweek AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Gulf Crisis” Four months before Iraqi tanks rolled over Kuwait, Newsweek International published a prescient three-part cover story headlined: “Iraq’s Dark Night.” It…

The Ed Cunningham Award 1989

Best magazine reporting from abroad AWARD YEAR: 1989 AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 1989 RECIPIENT: Fred C. Shapiro AFFILIATION: The New Yorker HONORED WORK: “Letters from Beijing” In his lengthy, richly detailed “letters,” Shapiro conveyed the passion, glory and tragedy of the brutal repression of the Chinese student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. He skillfully…

The Ed Cunningham Award 1988

Best magazine reporting from abroad AWARD YEAR: 1988 AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 1988 RECIPIENTS: Richard M. Smith and Newsweek team AFFILIATION: Newsweek International HONORED WORK: “His Game Plan: A Talk With Gorbachev” and “Reagan in Moscow” This coup of an interview and the follow-up piece show the attention that can be paid successfully…

The Ed Cunningham Award 1987

Best magazine reporting from abroad Award Year: 1987 Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 1987 Recipient: David Zucchino Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine Honored Work: “Smothering the Flames of Black Revolution” From the South African township of Tembisa, home to a quarter of a million blacks, Zucchino reports with graphic detail the rage that seethes…