Best magazine reporting from abroad
AWARD DATE: 2011
AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 2011
AWARD RECIPIENT: Charles Graeber
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Bloomberg Businessweek
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Nothing To Do But Start Again”
Graeber reported on the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Kamaishi, Japan, focusing on the story of one family — 80-year-old Kenji Sano, and his son, Shigeru, who ran a liquor business and bar. He tells the tale with texture, fresh language, empathy and dimension. Graeber gives a multi-generational perspective to a town that has been battered by nature and decimated by bombings and nuclear holocaust without dirge-like drumbeats. A man survives and continues.
Citation(s) for Excellence:
Tina Rosenberg
Foreign Policy
“Revolution U”
Mark Bowden
Vanity Fair
“Echoes from a Distant Battlefield”