Awards Recipients
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2019The Associated Press Staff, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis ReportingThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 01 The Hal Boyle Award 2019
Award Recipient: The Associated Press Staff, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Outsourcing Migrants”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 01 The Hal Boyle Award 2019
Award Recipient: The Associated Press Staff, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Outsourcing Migrants”
Best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad.
The AP series exposed how policies in Western and developed nations were creating a huge pool of languishing people.
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2019Isabel Coles and Rena EffendiThe Wall Street Journal
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 02 The Bob Considine Award 2019
Award Recipient: Isabel Coles and Rena Effendi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: “Children of No Nation”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 02 The Bob Considine Award 2019
Award Recipient: Isabel Coles and Rena Effendi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: “Children of No Nation”
Best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad.
The WSJ informed readers of the larger story about Europe, its homegrown Muslim foreign fighters and post-conflict Syria in a way that readers could relate to and engage with.
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2019Dieu Nalio CheryThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2019
Award Recipient: Dieu Nalio Chery
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Haiti: Nation on the Brink”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2019
Award Recipient: Dieu Nalio Chery
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Haiti: Nation on the Brink”
Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium.
Citation for Excellence: Nariman el Mofty
Affiliation: The Associated Press
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2019Moises SamanNational Geographic
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 04 The Olivier Rebbot Award 2019
Award Recipient: Moises Saman
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work: “El Salvador: A Country in Crisis”
Moises SamanAward Date: 2019
Award Name: 04 The Olivier Rebbot Award 2019
Award Recipient: Moises Saman
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic
Award Honored Work: “El Salvador: A Country in Crisis”
Best photographic news reporting from abroad in any medium.
Citation for Excellence: Natacha Pisarenko
Affiliation: The Associated Press
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2019Rena EffendiThe Wall Street Journal
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 05 The Feature Photography Award 2019
Award Recipient: Rena Effendi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: "He lost a daughter to the Islamic State. Can he save his grandchildren?"
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 05 The Feature Photography Award 2019
Award Recipient: Rena Effendi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: "He lost a daughter to the Islamic State. Can he save his grandchildren?"
Best feature photography on an international theme published in any medium
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Citation for Excellence recipient: Adam Ferguson
Affiliation: TIME Magazine
Honored Work: “A Harbinger of Things to Come: Farmers in Australia Struggle With Its Hottest Drought Ever” -
2019Gregory Warner, Karen Duffin, Marianne McCune, Jess Jiang, Sebastian Meyer and teamNPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 06 The Lowell Thomas Award 2019
Award Recipient: Gregory Warner, Karen Duffin, Marianne McCune, Jess Jiang, Sebastian Meyer and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast
Award Honored Work: “The Search: Parts 1 and 2”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 06 The Lowell Thomas Award 2019
Award Recipient: Gregory Warner, Karen Duffin, Marianne McCune, Jess Jiang, Sebastian Meyer and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast
Award Honored Work: “The Search: Parts 1 and 2”
Best radio, audio, or podcast coverage of international affairs.
Most powerful are the voices of (the late) Kamaran Najm’s family and friends…in telling their story with such honesty and openness, NPR’s Rough Translation has helped us grasp the very human long-term legacy of conflict.
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2019Hind Hassan, Craig Thomson, Madeleine Haeringer, Julia Lindau and Joe HillVICE News Tonight
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 07 The David Kaplan Award 2019
Award Recipient: Hind Hassan, Craig Thomson, Madeleine Haeringer, Julia Lindau and Joe Hill
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight
Award Honored Work: “Uganda: Orphanage, Inc.”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 07 The David Kaplan Award 2019
Award Recipient: Hind Hassan, Craig Thomson, Madeleine Haeringer, Julia Lindau and Joe Hill
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight
Award Honored Work: “Uganda: Orphanage, Inc.”
Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad.
VICE revealed a horrendous story of unregulated orphanages in Uganda that bring in some $250 million in donations from rich countries like the U.S. for what turns out to be – at least in part – a corrupt business scam.
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2019Singeli Agnew, Rukmini Callimachi, Geoff O’Brien and Victor Tadashi SuarezThe New York Times
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 08 The Edward R. Murrow Award 2019
Award Recipient: Singeli Agnew, Rukmini Callimachi, Geoff O’Brien and Victor Tadashi Suarez
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Collision”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 08 The Edward R. Murrow Award 2019
Award Recipient: Singeli Agnew, Rukmini Callimachi, Geoff O’Brien and Victor Tadashi Suarez
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Collision”
Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs with a run time up to 30 minutes.
This episode tells a tale of poignant tragedy, through meticulous reporting and strong visual imagery. From the victim’s excited dispatches home, to the chilling cell phone videos from the killer, the film leaves the audience moved and disturbed, with a lot to contemplate.
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2019Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts and Dan Edge and Raney Aronson-RathFRONTLINE PBS
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 09 The Peter Jennings Award 2019
Award Recipient: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts and Dan Edge and Raney Aronson-Rath
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “For Sama”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 09 The Peter Jennings Award 2019
Award Recipient: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts and Dan Edge and Raney Aronson-Rath
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “For Sama”
Best TV, video or documentary about international affairs with a run time over 30 minutes.
A powerful personal story about a mother’s love for her young daughter, a city on the brink of destruction and a war that unleashes a terrible humanitarian disaster.
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Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award 2019
Award Recipient: Alex Perry
Award Recipient Affiliation: Outside
Award Honored Work: “The Last Days of John Allen Chau”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award 2019
Award Recipient: Alex Perry
Award Recipient Affiliation: Outside
Award Honored Work: “The Last Days of John Allen Chau”
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story.
Perry weaves a deeply humanizing portrait…and illuminates the ongoing effects of missionary work, adventurism and the exoticism of the world’s remote peoples.
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Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 11 The Best Cartoon Award 2019
Award Recipient: Adam Zyglis
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Buffalo News
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Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 11 The Best Cartoon Award 2019
Award Recipient: Adam Zyglis
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Buffalo News
Award Honored Work:
Best print or digital graphic journalism, including cartoons, on international affairs.
An impressive caricaturist, Zyglis is the kind of cartoonist who would have to be jailed immediately if he lived abroad. That’s the standard by which all great political cartoonists should be judged.
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2019Rick Young, Emma Schwartz, Laura Sullivan and Fritz KramerFRONTLINE PBS
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 12 The Morton Frank Award 2019
Award Recipient: Rick Young, Emma Schwartz, Laura Sullivan and Fritz Kramer
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “Trump’s Trade War”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 12 The Morton Frank Award 2019
Award Recipient: Rick Young, Emma Schwartz, Laura Sullivan and Fritz Kramer
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS
Award Honored Work: “Trump’s Trade War”
Best international business news reporting in TV, video, radio, audio or podcast.
The report did an excellent job of guiding viewers through an up-close understanding of the places, from Wenzhou, China to cities in Ohio, and the people, including President Trump himself, who forged this confrontation between the United States and China.
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2019Nick Kostov and Sean McLainThe Wall Street Journal
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 13 The Malcolm Forbes Award 2019
Award Recipient: Nick Kostov and Sean McLain
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: “The Fall of Carlos Ghosn”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 13 The Malcolm Forbes Award 2019
Award Recipient: Nick Kostov and Sean McLain
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: “The Fall of Carlos Ghosn”
Best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services, magazines or digital.
Kostov and McLain’s persistent enterprise over the course of the year helped Journal readers solve a great mystery.
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2019Katherine EbanEcco/HarperCollins
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award 2019
Award Recipient: Katherine Eban
Award Recipient Affiliation: Ecco/HarperCollins
Award Honored Work: “Bottle of Lies: Inside the Generic Drug Boom”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award 2019
Award Recipient: Katherine Eban
Award Recipient Affiliation: Ecco/HarperCollins
Award Honored Work: “Bottle of Lies: Inside the Generic Drug Boom”
Best non-fiction book on international affairs.
Eban documents the massive fraud by which Indian drug makers have evaded a fumbling U.S. FDA to sell billions of dollars in unsafe and ineffective drugs to the U.S. This is a book that should inform and alarm the many millions of Americans (and their doctors) who use generic drugs.
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2019Karla ZabludovskyBuzzFeed News
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 15 The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2019
Award Recipient: Karla Zabludovsky
Award Recipient Affiliation: BuzzFeed News
Award Honored Work: "The Fight for Women’s Rights in Latin America."
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 15 The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2019
Award Recipient: Karla Zabludovsky
Award Recipient Affiliation: BuzzFeed News
Award Honored Work: "The Fight for Women’s Rights in Latin America."
Best international reporting in the print medium or digital showing a concern for the human condition.
Zabludovsky wrote with great passion and a sense of urgency about ordinary women in Latin America whose lives were upended by the restrictive – and sometimes deadly – reproductive health laws that are the norm in the region.
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2019Gregory Warner, Jane Arraf, Marianne McCune, Michael May, Sana Krasikov and teamNPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 16 The David A. Andelman And Pamela Title Award 2019
Award Recipient: Gregory Warner, Jane Arraf, Marianne McCune, Michael May, Sana Krasikov and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast
Award Honored Work: “D.I.Y. Mosul”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 16 The David A. Andelman And Pamela Title Award 2019
Award Recipient: Gregory Warner, Jane Arraf, Marianne McCune, Michael May, Sana Krasikov and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast
Award Honored Work: “D.I.Y. Mosul”
Best international TV, video, radio, audio or podcast reporting showing a concern for the human condition.
Jane Arraf (and her Rough Translation team) tells these stories of grassroots civic action with uncommon sensitivity and insight into Iraqi culture – insight born of long years covering a very complicated country.
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2019Angus Berwick, Sarah Kinosian, Brian Ellsworth, Mayela Armas, Carlos García Rawlins and Reuters’ Venezuela BureauReuters
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 17 The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2019
Award Recipient: Angus Berwick, Sarah Kinosian, Brian Ellsworth, Mayela Armas, Carlos García Rawlins and Reuters’ Venezuela Bureau
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Maduro’s Venezuela”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 17 The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2019
Award Recipient: Angus Berwick, Sarah Kinosian, Brian Ellsworth, Mayela Armas, Carlos García Rawlins and Reuters’ Venezuela Bureau
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Maduro’s Venezuela”
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights.
Against all odds, a team of Reuters reporters reported an indispensable account of the corruption inside (President) Maduro’s government and the physical dangers faced by Venezuelan citizens, many of whom have had to flee the ravaged country.
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2019Tom Warren and Katie J.M. BakerBuzzFeed News
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 18 The Whitman Bassow Award 2019
Award Recipient: Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker
Award Recipient Affiliation: BuzzFeed News
Award Honored Work: “World Wildlife Fund’s Secret War”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 18 The Whitman Bassow Award 2019
Award Recipient: Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker
Award Recipient Affiliation: BuzzFeed News
Award Honored Work: “World Wildlife Fund’s Secret War”
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues.
BuzzFeed’s stories led the WWF to overhaul its human rights guidelines even as Congress investigated how the U.S. government could have unwittingly helped fund such atrocities.
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2019Azam AhmedThe New York Times
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2019
Award Recipient: Azam Ahmed
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Kill or Be Killed: Latin America’s Homicide Crisis”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2019
Award Recipient: Azam Ahmed
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Kill or Be Killed: Latin America’s Homicide Crisis”
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America.
Ahmad’s stories have vivid scenes, with unforgettable characters, that propel readers forward. Judges were also deeply impressed by the photography, graphics and forensic mapping that accompanied the work.
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2019Malachy Browne, Evan Hill, Christiaan Triebert, Whitney Hurst, Dmitriy Khavin and the Visual Investigations TeamThe New York Times
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 20 The Kim Wall Award 2019
Award Recipient: Malachy Browne, Evan Hill, Christiaan Triebert, Whitney Hurst, Dmitriy Khavin and the Visual Investigations Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Russia Tapes: Health Care and Civilians Under Attack in Syria”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 20 The Kim Wall Award 2019
Award Recipient: Malachy Browne, Evan Hill, Christiaan Triebert, Whitney Hurst, Dmitriy Khavin and the Visual Investigations Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Russia Tapes: Health Care and Civilians Under Attack in Syria”
Best story or series of stories on international affairs using creative and dynamic digital storytelling techniques.
The New York Times team approached this under covered story with innovative use of digital tools – not just to enhance the storytelling but to report the story itself.
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2019Michael Schwirtz, Dionne Searcey, David Kirkpatrick and the Visual Investigations teamThe New York Times
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 21 The Roy Rowan Award 2019
Award Recipient: Michael Schwirtz, Dionne Searcey, David Kirkpatrick and the Visual Investigations team
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Russia’s Shadow War”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 21 The Roy Rowan Award 2019
Award Recipient: Michael Schwirtz, Dionne Searcey, David Kirkpatrick and the Visual Investigations team
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Russia’s Shadow War”
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story.
The analysis of the cockpit recordings, the digital forensics, the deciphering of the Russian military codes was unlike anything any of us had seen before by a news organization. It brought us a view of Russia much darker and sinister than we’d seen before.
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Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 22 The Flora Lewis Award 2019
Award Recipient: Li Yuan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The New, New World”
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: 22 The Flora Lewis Award 2019
Award Recipient: Li Yuan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The New, New World”
Best commentary in any medium on international news.
Li Yuan’s pieces on China and Hong Kong were informative, insightful, and delightful to read; a great mix of vivid reporting with restrained but knowing perspective, and much of it entailing personal risk.
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Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The President’s Award 2019
Award Recipient: Maggie Steber
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Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2019
Award Name: The President’s Award 2019
Award Recipient: Maggie Steber
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Award Honored Work: President's Award
OPC President Pancho Bernasconi, in his remarks in Dateline magazine said “I am delighted that Maggie Steber is here in person to accept the President’s Award for lifetime achievement. I have always believed that the very best photographers have a preternatural ability to get into a story subject’s life in a way that most cannot. This gift allows Maggie to tell the most thoughtful, impactful and empathetic stories on a range of subjects that have brought her to more than 60 countries in her career.”
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2018Sudarsan RaghavanThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2018
Award Recipient: Sudarsan Raghavan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Yemen’s War & Humanitarian Crisis”
Sudarsan RaghavanAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2018
Award Recipient: Sudarsan Raghavan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Yemen’s War & Humanitarian Crisis”
Best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad
In an era where great reporting is often associated with mobilizing massive teams and multi-media packages, Sudarsan Raghavan’s Yemen package reminded us that sometimes all it takes to deliver outstanding work is one talented reporter with in-depth knowledge of the subject and the courage to go digging in the field. The breadth and scope of the stories—from inside a hospital to interviews with Houthi commanders and U.S. and regional allies funding and weaponizing the war—illustrated a complex and important conflict. Classic intrepid solo reporting matched with beautiful writing, human faces and big picture analysis.
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Citation for Excellence: Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty
The Associated Press, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2018
Award Recipient: Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo and colleagues
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Myanmar Burning”
Wa Lone, left, and Kyaw Soe OoAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2018
Award Recipient: Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo and colleagues
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Myanmar Burning”
Best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs
The courageous reporting by two Reuters reporters who were arrested while investigating a massacre in the Myanmar village of Inn Din, and the fierce commitment of their news organization to complete their journalistic mission, led to an outstanding series of articles exposing and explaining the government’s atrocities against the Rohingya. Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo and their colleagues discovered a mass grave, obtained photographs of the victims, interviewed family members and identified some of the perpetrators of the slaughter. They used the incident to open a window on the larger forces that enabled the massacre, including the infantry divisions that spearheaded the attacks, the use of social media to incite hatred, and government leaders who turned a blind eye. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo remain in prison. This award for “Myanmar Burning” is a tribute to their spirit.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: Tamer El-Ghobashy, Louisa Loveluck, Liz Sly and Alice Martins
Affiliation: The Washington Post
Honored Work: Syria: Reflections from a Shattered Land” -
2018Carolyn Van HoutenThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2018
Award Recipient: Carolyn Van Houten
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “The road to Asylum: Inside the migrant caravans”
Carolyn Van HoutenAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2018
Award Recipient: Carolyn Van Houten
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “The road to Asylum: Inside the migrant caravans”
Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium
Through a year of making monthly visits to document the stories of people at different stages of their trek north through Central America, Carolyn Van Houten brought a deep level of humanity and empathy to a story that saturated the news media. Courage in storytelling is not only defined by proximity to violence and danger, but also by having the guts to go where others are not, and to look beneath the surface to understand the true impact of these crises. Van Houten’s work demonstrates this, but more than that, she embodies this ethos as a storyteller and a person. This award is not just for her talent as a photographer, but for her compassion and courage in storytelling.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: Khalil Hamra
Affiliation: The Associated Press
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2018Nariman El-MoftyThe Associated Press, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2018
Award Recipient: Nariman El-Mofty
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “Yemen: On The Edge”
Nariman El-MoftyAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2018
Award Recipient: Nariman El-Mofty
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “Yemen: On The Edge”
Best photographic news reporting from abroad published in any medium
The jury saw several strong portfolios from Yemen—a country that, until last year, had been severely neglected by the mainstream media. Nariman El-Mofty’s work stood out. We were moved by her clear commitment to the subject, but also by her thoughtful and surprising use of light, color and framing to capture a conflict zone that has almost always been depicted through a darker lens. The variety of scenes that El-Mofty documented—from malnourished children to crumbling infrastructure to snippets of daily life—convey the complexity of a country and a conflict that the world still struggles to understand.
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Citation for Excellence recipient: Spencer Platt
Affiliation: Getty Images
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2018Shiho FukadaBloomberg Businessweek, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2018
Award Recipient: Shiho Fukada
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “For Many of Japan's Elderly Women, Prison is a Haven”
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2018
Award Recipient: Shiho Fukada
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “For Many of Japan's Elderly Women, Prison is a Haven”
Best feature photography on an international theme published in any medium
Shiho Fukada’s quiet, intimate glimpse into the lives of elderly female Japanese prisoners is both striking and surprising. It presents a sweet, empathetic portrait of a group of women who had to be photographed under challenging circumstances to protect their identities. These photos are a humanizing point of entry into any number of broader conversations: about aging, about loneliness, about society’s role in caring for its elderly and the challenges we will increasingly face with growing elder populations. We don’t know these women, but through Shiho’s photos we understand them and their uncertain future.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev
Affiliation: The Washington Post, with support from Fondation Carmignac
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2018VICE News Tonight on HBOVICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2018
Award Recipient: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Honored Work: “The Killing Rooms of Mosul”
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2018
Award Recipient: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Honored Work: “The Killing Rooms of Mosul”
Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad
The VICE team brought us to a place nobody else went and found a story we had not heard. The first international news crew to film inside an apparent Iraqi execution room in the Old City of West Mosul, VICE News Tonight on HBO presented viewers with horrific video evidence of an atrocity that raised serious questions about how the battle for Mosul was fought and who should be held accountable for the killings. Despite intimidation from Iraqi military intelligence officers and stonewalling by the top Iraqi military commander on camera, Vice’s commitment and resourcefulness in getting the story led to even more international coverage and to international human rights observers obtaining access to the site themselves.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: Nic Robertson, Nima Elbagir, Nick Paton Walsh, Waffa Munayyer and Salma Abdelaziz
Affiliation: CNN
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2018Kavitha Chekuru, Adrienne Haspel, Laila Al-Arian and Teresa BoAl Jazeera English
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2018
Award Recipient: Kavitha Chekuru, Adrienne Haspel, Laila Al-Arian and Teresa Bo
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera English
Award Honored Work: “No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border”
(Top left to right) Kavitha Chekuru, Adrienne Haspel, (bottom left to right) Laila Al-Arian and Teresa Bo.Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2018
Award Recipient: Kavitha Chekuru, Adrienne Haspel, Laila Al-Arian and Teresa Bo
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera English
Award Honored Work: “No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border”
Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs with a run time up to 30 minutes
Al Jazeera offers a heartbreaking look into lives that have been ripped apart by U.S. immigration policies. With meticulous reporting and careful treatment, the documentary tracks every step of the process, detailing the confusion, cruelty and pain, without slipping into a tone of outrage or blame. Instead, viewers are drawn into the lives of real people faced with impossible choices as they try to flee violence. The three characters linger in viewers’ minds long after the documentary has ended.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Honored Work: “Rebuilding Mosul” -
2018Karen Edwards and Gemma AtwalHBO
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award 2018
Award Recipient: Karen Edwards and Gemma Atwal
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO
Award Honored Work: "Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram”
Karen Edwards (left) and Gemma AtwalAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award 2018
Award Recipient: Karen Edwards and Gemma Atwal
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO
Award Honored Work: "Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram”
Best TV, video or documentary about international affairs with a run time over 30 minutes
Four years in the making, this unique film tells the exclusive story of two groups of Nigerian girls who are trying to recover from their kidnapping and years of captivity by Boko Haram. Years after the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, the filmmakers share the young women’s stories with dignity and humanity, giving voice to these previously silent survivors.
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(No Citation of Excellence given for 2018 in this category)
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Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Best Cartoon Award 2018
Award Recipient: Patrick Chappatte
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Patrick ChappatteAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Best Cartoon Award 2018
Award Recipient: Patrick Chappatte
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work:
Best print, digital or graphic journalism on international affairs
Patrick Chappatte’s cartoons for The New York Times were a model of the form. One, in particular, stood out: a scene inside a Saudi Arabian classroom that highlighted the changing face of that country and the dangers inherent in one particular profession – journalism. Like so much of Chappatte’s work, it economically and elegantly conveys the idea in a dynamic way—concisely and with nuance, illustrating the kinds of freedom that democracy needs and autocracy fears. It manages that feat with humor—no easy task, considering the seriousness of the topic and the gruesomeness of the event that inspired it. It is, simply, a remarkable accomplishment.
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(No Citation for Excellence in 2018)
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Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2018
Award Recipient: Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: “Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom”
Anand GopalAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2018
Award Recipient: Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: “Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom”
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story
“Tell the story of your village,” the Italian novelist Andrea Camilleri once said. “If you tell it well, you will have told the story of the world.” Anand Gopal is not from the war-torn Syrian village of Saraquib, but he immersed himself in the life and soul of the place during six years of brave and brilliant reporting. The result was a masterpiece. Gopal distilled the scope of the savagery and complexity of the Syrian war into a compelling, coherent narrative. He painted an unforgettable portrait of citizens who clung to their ideals amid death and devastation. Gopal’s elegant writing brought alive characters such as the accountant Osama al-Hossein, who withstood peril and suffering to lead the first election in Saraquib. This tragic yet heroic saga told an important story about a place and its people—and a larger story about humanity at its best and worst.
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(No Citation of Excellence for this award given for 2018)
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2018Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe and NYT staffThe New York Times
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes and Morton Frank Award 2018
Award Recipient: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe and NYT staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Enablers”
Walt Bogdanich, left, and Michael Forsythe.Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes and Morton Frank Award 2018
Award Recipient: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe and NYT staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Enablers”
Best international business news reporting in any medium
It’s no secret that authoritarian regimes such as China, Russia and Saudi Arabia are gaining influence around the globe. The surprise is who is helping them: American consulting firms, British public relations shops and Western political operatives all looking to make a buck. With its intrepid series “The Enablers,” The New York Times exposed how the brightest minds in the West are linked to some of the darkest deeds of strongmen and plutocrats. In exchange for multi-million dollar paydays, these fee-seekers have helped Saudi Arabia jail dissidents at home and starve civilians in Yemen. They have strengthened China’s military, helped a Russian oligarch evade U.S. sanctions and assisted South Africa’s leaders in gutting the tax agency investigating them for tax evasion—just a few examples uncovered over months of reporting that was powerful, sobering and impressive in its sweep.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: Cam Simpson, Gavin Finch and Kit Chellel
Affiliation: Bloomberg
Honored Work: “The Brexit Short” -
2018Rania AbouzeidW. W. Norton & Company
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2018
Award Recipient: Rania Abouzeid
Award Recipient Affiliation: W. W. Norton & Company
Award Honored Work: “No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria”
Rania AbouzeidAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2018
Award Recipient: Rania Abouzeid
Award Recipient Affiliation: W. W. Norton & Company
Award Honored Work: “No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria”
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
“No Turning Back” is an extraordinary feat of reporting—a searing account of the lives of Syrians from all sides caught up in a catastrophic war. A fluent Arabic speaker, Abouzeid draws on her years of often dangerous reporting inside the conflict zone and the deep ties she has built up with people of all political and religious persuasions. This allows her to describe and explain in detail Syria’s tragic descent from the optimism of the first peaceful democratic uprisings in 2011 to the sectarian slaughter of civilians and brutal and misguided foreign interventions. Abouzeid spares nothing in describing the appalling torture and endless mass killings of civilians by the Assad regime. But her use of personal narratives and her fluid writing never let us lose track of the humanity of the Syrians suffering on all sides.
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Citation for Excellence recipient: Barbie Nadeau
Affiliation: Oneworld Publications
Honored Work: Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast -
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2018
Award Recipient: Mansi Choksi
Award Recipient Affiliation: Harper’s Magazine
Award Honored Work: “The Newlyweds”
Mansi ChoksiAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2018
Award Recipient: Mansi Choksi
Award Recipient Affiliation: Harper’s Magazine
Award Honored Work: “The Newlyweds”
Best international reporting in print or digital showing a concern for the human condition
This superbly written piece breathes new life into the timeless story of thwarted romance, taking readers into a daring young couple’s elopement in rural India and the myriad obstacles against them. The saga unfolds with a novel’s pacing and deep character development as the newlyweds fight through caste, custom, violence and exploitation in their quest for the most universal of human yearnings: love.
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Citation for Excellence recipients: Finlay Young, Kathleen Flynn
Affiliation: ProPublica and TIME
Honored Work: “Unprotected” -
2018VICE News Tonight on HBOVICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award
Award Recipient: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Honored Work: “Year of the Dog: Inside the World's Largest Human Migration”
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award
Award Recipient: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Recipient Affiliation: VICE News Tonight on HBO
Award Honored Work: “Year of the Dog: Inside the World's Largest Human Migration”
Best international reporting in the broadcast media showing a concern for the human condition
Through an intimate portrait of one family, we experience the impact on 287 million Chinese migrant workers who live apart from their families. In a country known for restrictions on the media, VICE follows a couple working in a coastal city during their 40-hour journey home to their rural village for the Lunar New Year. We are with them as they sleep upright in a packed train car and during their reunion with their excited young son and sullen 15-year-old daughter, who refuses to embrace them after a year of separation. Through words (translated) and a camera (that is often close up and sometimes undercover), we recognize the tradeoffs forced on families by economic hardships— the regret of hardworking young parents missing their children, the weariness of a grandfather doing his best to raise them, and uncomfortable silences as the family pinches dough for dumplings for a once-a-year holiday meal. While many of us knew about this massive migration, we only came to understand it through this cinematic depiction of one family living a universal story.
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Citation for Excellence Recipients: Adam Ellick, Taylor Adams, Kristin Bye and Leah Varjacques
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “’It’s an Act of Murder’: How Europe Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown” -
2018Jeffrey E. SternThe New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2018
Award Recipient: Jeffrey E. Stern
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “From Arizona to Yemen: The Journey of an American Bomb”
Jeffrey E. SternAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2018
Award Recipient: Jeffrey E. Stern
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Award Honored Work: “From Arizona to Yemen: The Journey of an American Bomb”
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
In-depth reporting across continents traced the creation of a precision missile made by Raytheon in Tucson, Arizona, which was bought by the Saudi government and ultimately dropped on some innocent villagers in Yemen who had been outside celebrating a plan to dig a new well near their homes. Jeffrey Stern traced the missile from beginning to end: interviewing Raytheon workers, Human Rights Watch staff, explaining just how the Department of Defense helps U.S. corporations export deadly weapons and describing the business-as-usual tone of Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy on an earnings call with financial analysts. Stern returns to the Yemeni village where lives, bones and dreams were shattered. The forensic, thorough, diligent reporting of Stern brought home the human toll of all those actions and gave voice to people who are little-heard. With a calm sense of moral outrage, Stern shows us how the U.S. government and businesses have blood on their hands.
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Citation for Excellence Recipients: Associated Press Staff
Affiliation: The Associated Press
Honored Work: “China Clamps Down” -
2018Abrahm LustgartenProPublica and The New York Times Magazine
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2018
Award Recipient: Abrahm Lustgarten
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work: "Fuel to the Fire"
Abrahm LustgartenAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2018
Award Recipient: Abrahm Lustgarten
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work: "Fuel to the Fire"
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
A profoundly reported work on multiple levels, “Fuel to the Fire” dissects a man-made ecological disaster: how a U.S. biofuels policy engineered mainly to serve corporate interests combined with Indonesian political corruption to devastate Southeast Asian forests and trigger a surge in carbon emissions. Abrahm Lustgarten embraces a complex issue, attacks its many dimensions head on, lucidly enlightens the reader, and offers the public a possible roadmap for action.
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Citation for Excellence Recipients: Maurice Tamman, Matthew Green, Mari Saito, Sarah Slobin and Maryanne Murray
Affiliation: Reuters
Honored Work: “Ocean Shock” -
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2018
Award Recipient: Caracas Bureau
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Venezuela Coverage”
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2018
Award Recipient: Caracas Bureau
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Venezuela Coverage”
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
Venezuela is an extremely difficult country for journalist s right now. News organizations across the Americas produced gutsy, deep and harrowing coverage of Venezuela’s economic and social collapse. The Reuters’ Caracas bureau excelled in telling compelling stories of the wrenching decision taken by millions of Venezuelans to leave their country in order to survive. Also impressive was the Reuters investigation chronicling a Chinese company’s collaboration with the Maduro government on new, high-tech national ID cards that enable the regime to track citizens’ receipt of government services. Finally, the deep dive on the chaos within the country’s state-run oil company provided a road map to the country’s economic collapse. How a country that holds the world’s largest reserves of oil could be suffering a drop in oil production is one of the mysteries that confound outside observers; this Reuters analysis explains why, and makes it clear that increased military involvement in running the oil giant ties the armed forces ever closer to the Maduro administration.
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Citation for Excellence Recipients: David Luhnow, Samantha Pearson, Juan Forero and Jose de Cordoba
Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Honored Work: “Silent Slaughter”and
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2018David M. Halbfinger, Yousur Al-Hlou, John Woo, Malachy Browne and Iyad AbuheweilaThe New York Times
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2018
Award Recipient: David M. Halbfinger, Yousur Al-Hlou, John Woo, Malachy Browne and Iyad Abuheweila
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Death and Life of a Gaza Medic”
(Top, left to right) David M. Halbfinger, Yousur Al-Hlou, John Woo, (bottom, left to right) Malachy Browne and Iyad AbuheweilaAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2018
Award Recipient: David M. Halbfinger, Yousur Al-Hlou, John Woo, Malachy Browne and Iyad Abuheweila
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “The Death and Life of a Gaza Medic”
Best story or series of stories on international affairs using creative and dynamic storytelling techniques
When 20-year-old medic Rouzan al-Najjar was killed by an Israeli bullet in Gaza last June, she instantly became a symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this 5-month interactive investigation, the New York Times not only captured the complex life and death of a charismatic young woman from Gaza, but also revealed how the shot that killed her was potentially a war crime. Collecting and analyzing more than 1,000 images from the site of the killing, Times reporters partnered with the British research agency Forensic Architecture to create a 3D reconstruction of the fatal shot from six angles. Reporters made multiple trips to Gaza, visited Israeli sniper positions, analyzed ballistic evidence, and interviewed legal experts, government officials, eyewitnesses, and those who knew al-Najjar best. The resulting evidence challenged the Israel Defense Forces’ claim about the shot that killed al-Najjar, and prompted a criminal investigation. Judge Mansi Choksi, a friend and reporting partner of Kim Wall, said it was exactly “the kind of ambitious story Kim would have liked to do,” particularly because it “challenged gendered cliches about empowerment and victimization.”
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Citation for Excellence Recipients: Michelle Mizner, Katie Worth, Carla Borras, Raney Aronson and Andrew Metz
Affiliation: FRONTLINE and GroundTruth
Honored Work: “The Last Generation” -
2018International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and media partnersInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and media partners
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Roy Rowan Award 2018
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and media partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and media partners
Award Honored Work: “Implant Files”
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Roy Rowan Award 2018
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and media partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Associated Press and media partners
Award Honored Work: “Implant Files”
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story
For sheer breadth, depth of research and astonishing findings, Implant Files is in a class by itself. Reported by 350 journalists around the globe, the investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the Associated Press and NBC News Investigative Unit exposed deadly flaws in the global regulation of medical that have left thousands disfigured, disabled or dead. By mining buried U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) records, reporters reached the shocking conclusion that during the last decade alone defective implants have caused 83,000 deaths and 1.7 million injuries around the world. The investigation also showed how regulators are bowing to industry pressure to rush products to market and then covering up reports of injuries and deaths when those devices fail. Anecdotal stories have long surfaced about medical devices gone wrong. But the ICIJ-led probe showed that the failures are a systemic problem that authorities have refused to confront. The series sparked immediate pledges for reform from health authorities in North America and Europe.
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Citation for Excellence Recipients: Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty
Affiliation: The Associated Press, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Honored Work: “Yemen’s Dirty War” -
2018Trudy RubinThe Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The Flora Lewis Award 2018
Award Recipient: Trudy Rubin
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Honored Work: “Stress test for Democracies: Populism, Autocrats, China and Trump”
Trudy RubinAward Date: 2018
Award Name: The Flora Lewis Award 2018
Award Recipient: Trudy Rubin
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Award Honored Work: “Stress test for Democracies: Populism, Autocrats, China and Trump”
Best commentary in any medium on international news
Trudy Rubin had a splendid year, the latest in a run that deserves a lifetime achievement award. (And the Inquirer should get one for keeping a first-rate foreign affairs columnist on the staff when so many dailies have retrenched.) Rubin writes in clear, plain English informed by a career of travel, deep curiosity and calm analysis. In 2018 she was an excellent guide to the rising tide of populism and the lurches of the America-first president. As one juror put it, “Anyone who reads her regularly cannot help but have a clear and thoughtful understanding of the wider world.”
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(No Citation for Excellence)
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Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The President’s Award 2018
Award Recipient: Kathy Gannon
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: President’s Award
Award Date: 2018
Award Name: The President’s Award 2018
Award Recipient: Kathy Gannon
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: President’s Award
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Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2017
Award Recipient: Associated Press Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Rohingya Exodus”
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2017
Award Recipient: Associated Press Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Rohingya Exodus”
Best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad
In a series of powerful and unforgettable stories, rich with detail and dogged reporting, a team of Associated Press journalists documented the horrific crimes unfolding against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. The AP brought together an impressive talent pool with different skills, from investigative reporter to narrative writer and local insight, to take readers to the front lines of this conflict. The stories exemplified foreign correspondence at its best: exposing and chronicling human rights violations, putting a human face on conflict and providing a road map for future investigations into what world powers are calling genocide. Simply put, it was an incredible package that you want to urge everyone to read.
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Citation Recipients: Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Manuel Mogato and Reuters team
Affiliation: Reuters
Honored Work: “Duterte’s War” -
2017New York Times StaffThe New York Times
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 02 The Bob Considine Award
Award Recipient: New York Times Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “North Korea, and the Unthinkable”
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 02 The Bob Considine Award
Award Recipient: New York Times Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “North Korea, and the Unthinkable”
Best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs
No story captured world attention in 2017 like North Korea’s claim to have developed a nuclear-armed intercontinental missile capable of unleashing a once-unthinkable war. Of the multiple media projects that explored and analyzed Kim Jong-un’s objectives, The New York Times most effectively harnessed the expertise of its correspondents around the world. Their stories explained the failed Western strategies for containing Kim, looked beyond the cartoonish portrayals of the determined young leader and detailed his success in circumventing sanctions to bankroll “parallel advance”—the loosening of constraints on private enterprise that both improved North Korea’s economy and helped Kim realize his dream of turning his nation into a nuclear power.
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Citation Recipient: Borzou Daragahi
Affiliation: BuzzFeed
Honored Work: “Iran and the US at a Crossroads” -
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
Award Recipient: Carol Guzy
Award Recipient Affiliation: Zuma Press
Award Honored Work: “Scars of Mosul, the Legacy of ISIS”
Carol GuzyAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
Award Recipient: Carol Guzy
Award Recipient Affiliation: Zuma Press
Award Honored Work: “Scars of Mosul, the Legacy of ISIS”
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
Guzy’s entry offered an intimate and unconventional perspective of a civilian population ravaged by war. Carol trained her camera on the most vulnerable inhabitants of Mosul’s civilian population amid the Iraqi Army’s fierce battle to tear the city from the grasp of the Islamic State. She stepped outside the bounds of covering a hostile story and offered an intimate, sensitive and haunting coverage of the innocents we often do not see reflected in images from amid the gore of wartime.
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Citation Recipients: Ivor Prickett
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “What ISIS Left Behind” -
2017Carlos Garcia Rawlins and Carlos BarriaReuters
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 04 The Olivier Rebbot Award
Award Recipient: Carlos Garcia Rawlins and Carlos Barria
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Venezuela Marred by Violence “
Carlos Barria (left) and Carlos Garcia RawlinsAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 04 The Olivier Rebbot Award
Award Recipient: Carlos Garcia Rawlins and Carlos Barria
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Venezuela Marred by Violence “
Best photographic reporting from abroad in any medium
Covering one of the biggest stories of the year, the photojournalists endured clouds of tear gas, petrol bombs, water cannons and live ammunition while attempting to portray the volatile economic and political turmoil in Venezuela. The images show unprecedented scenes of a once prosperous nation unraveling into chaos. The entry, condensed to twelve dizzying images, showcased one of the most visually hostile stories of the year. The potent and strikingly violent images invoked an auditory response from the jury as they rolled across the screen.
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Citation Recipient: Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Danish Siddiqui, Hannah McKay, Damir Sagolj and Cathal McNaughton
Affiliation: Reuters
Honored Work: “Rohingya Flee Violence in Myanmar” -
2017Kevin FrayerGetty Images
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 05 The Feature Photography Award
Award Recipient: Kevin Frayer
Award Recipient Affiliation: Getty Images
Award Honored Work: “The Harrowing Exodus of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh”
Kevin FrayerAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 05 The Feature Photography Award
Award Recipient: Kevin Frayer
Award Recipient Affiliation: Getty Images
Award Honored Work: “The Harrowing Exodus of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh”
Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme
One of the most comprehensive picture packages of the year, Kevin Frayer’s images documented the Rohingyas’ grueling and deadly exodus from Myanmar. Frayer’s images struck the jury with their haunting beauty, sophistication and breadth. Amid the chaos, his images managed to convey a strong warmth and sympathy for his subjects and their struggle.
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Citation Recipient: Meridith Kohut
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “As Venezuela Collapses, Children are Dying of Hunger” -
2017Gregory Warner, Laura Heaton, Marianne McCune, Michael May and Jess JiangNPR
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 06 The Lowell Thomas Award
Award Recipient: Gregory Warner, Laura Heaton, Marianne McCune, Michael May and Jess Jiang
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR
Award Honored Work: “The Congo We Listen To,” an episode of the Rough Translation podcast
Top, left to right: Gregory Warner, Laura Heaton, Marianne McCune. Bottom, left to right, Michael May and Jess Jiang.Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 06 The Lowell Thomas Award
Award Recipient: Gregory Warner, Laura Heaton, Marianne McCune, Michael May and Jess Jiang
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR
Award Honored Work: “The Congo We Listen To,” an episode of the Rough Translation podcast
Best radio, audio or podcast news or interpretation of international affairs
At the heart of good journalism is an honest reckoning with how we know what we know, and what more we need to know. Such was the case with the NPR podcast Rough Translations’ episode: “The Congo We Listen To.” It featured Laura Heaton, a freelance reporter who decided to revisit the 2010 story of mass rape by militia groups in a Congolese village, wanting to know whether that brief period of saturated international media attention had a lasting impact on the village and its women. What she found was that the real story was different from what had been reported, and she worked to find out why village women had chosen to hide the full story. Heaton, with Rough Translation host Gregory Warner, produced a complex and compelling tale about what stories are told, what stories are hidden, and how journalists with good instincts, time and patience, can find a much richer story by listening for what hasn’t been said.
Hear the award-winning work: “The Congo We Listen To,” an episode of the Rough Translation podcast
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Citation Recipients: Marlon Bishop, Maria Hinojosa, Nadia Reiman and Stephanie Lebow
Affiliation: Latino USA
Honored Work: “A Border Drawn in Blood” -
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 07 The David Kaplan Award
Award Recipient: Nick Paton Walsh and Arwa Damon
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Fall of ISIS”
Nick Paton Walsh (left) and Arwa DamonAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 07 The David Kaplan Award
Award Recipient: Nick Paton Walsh and Arwa Damon
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Fall of ISIS”
Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad
CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh and Arwa Damon brought viewers directly into the final fight to push the ISIS terrorists out of their strongholds in Iraq and Syria while at the same time revealing its terrible human cost. Paton Walsh and his team witnessed the fight for the Al-Nuri mosque in Mosul and the closing hours of the battle when ISIS fighters emerged from the ruins and gave themselves up. Damon’s reporting and particularly poignant narrative on the dead and injured is so strong it is hard to watch. An Arabic speaker, Arwa encouraged survivors of a U.S. bombing that killed over 100 people in Mosul to talk about the agony and death that surrounded them. Judges felt the complementary stories by Paton Walsh and Damon were extraordinary examples of the psychological cost to the victims of prolonged ISIS rule and the fighting that brought it to an end.
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Citation Recipients: Ian Pannell, Matt McGarry, Rym Momtaz, Nicky DeBlois and Jenna Millman
Affiliation: ABC News
Honored Work: “The War Against ISIS” -
2017FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 08 The Edward R. Murrow Award
Award Recipient: FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4
Award Honored Work: “Mosul”
Top, left to right: Raney Aronson-Rath, James Jones, Olivier Sarbil. Bottom, left to right: Dan Edge and Andrew Metz.Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 08 The Edward R. Murrow Award
Award Recipient: FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4
Award Recipient Affiliation: FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4
Award Honored Work: “Mosul”
Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs less than one hour
The world has been riveted in horror by the brutality of ISIS and the long, bloody campaign to defeat it in Syria and Iraq. The climactic showdown was the 9-month-long battle of Mosul. In Mosul, filmmaker Olivier Sarbil follows a squad of Iraqi Special Forces as they fight their way house by house through Mosul. His documentary stands out for the way it connects viewers with the characters of four Iraqi soldiers, putting human faces on an inhuman conflict. Sarbil shows how the mostly Sunni civilians fear the predominantly Shiite Iraqi soldiers, who in turn are wary of ISIS fighters trying to hide among the civilians they meet – this is the fundamental root of the conflict. We hear the crunch of broken glass under the soldiers’ boots as they approach a doorway, the whispered warning not to move a curtain which could give away their position, the boom of a car bomb that kills one of their comrades. This is the ugly, unpredictable but relentless face of war, seen from up very close through Sarbil’s lens—and clearly at substantial risk to himself.
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Citation Recipients: Steve Kroft, Draggan Mihailovich, Laura Dodd and Matthew Lev
Affiliation: CBS 60 Minutes
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2017Evgeny Alfineevsky, Den Tolmor and Aaron I. ButlerHBO
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 09 The Peter Jennings Award
Award Recipient: Evgeny Alfineevsky, Den Tolmor and Aaron I. Butler
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO
Award Honored Work: “Cries from Syria”
Left to right: Evgeny Alfineevsky, Aaron I. Butler and Den TolmorAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 09 The Peter Jennings Award
Award Recipient: Evgeny Alfineevsky, Den Tolmor and Aaron I. Butler
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO
Award Honored Work: “Cries from Syria”
Best TV, video or documentary about international affairs one hour or longer
This remarkable documentary, “Cries from Syria”, serves as an important contribution to the reporting on the Syrian crisis, one of the most challenging conflicts for foreign journalists to cover. By combining footage shot by activists and ordinary citizens with interviews with Syrians who have survived the war, the film masterfully captures a story that is both personal and comprehensive. The filmmaker sheds light on the human toll of the Syrian conflict and highlights the extent of the Syrian government’s war crimes against its own people. It is a film that not only informs and raises awareness of the ongoing war but also memorializes the Syrians who were on the front lines of the conflict.
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Citation Recipients: Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser, Jim Gilmore, Philip Bennett, David E. Hoffman and Raney Aronson-Rath
Affiliation: PBS FRONTLINE
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2017Azmat Khan and Anand GopalThe New York Times Magazine
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award
Award Recipient: Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work: “The Uncounted”
Azmat Khan (left) and Anand GopalAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award
Award Recipient: Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Award Honored Work: “The Uncounted”
Best magazine reporting in print or digital on an international story
Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal spent almost two years visiting about 150 bomb sites in northern Iraq, often at great personal risk, for this powerful story that showed civilian casualties caused by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes were considerably higher than previously reported. With acompelling main character in Bassim Razzo, whose home and family in Mosul were obliterated, indefatigable sleuthing by Khan and Gopal that challenged U.S. statistics, and an impressive use of photography and videography, “The Uncounted” provided a horrifying accounting of the true cost of America’s war.
Read the award-winning work: The Uncounted
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Citation Recipients: Ben Mauk, Laura Kasinof, George Butler and Diana Markosian
Affiliation: Virginia Quarterly Review/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Honored Work: “Paths to Refuge” -
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 11 The Thomas Nast Award
Award Recipient: Clay Bennett
Award Recipient Affiliation: Chattanooga Times Free Press
Award Honored Work: Clay Bennett
Clay BennettAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 11 The Thomas Nast Award
Award Recipient: Clay Bennett
Award Recipient Affiliation: Chattanooga Times Free Press
Award Honored Work: Clay Bennett
Best cartoons on international affairs
Clay Bennett’s deceptively simple cartoons, often without captions, drive home strong, perceptive messages on topics ranging from global warming, immigration, North Korea’s nuclear program and Vladimir Putin, to Donald Trump’s handling of complex foreign policy issues. Clever ideas and an engaging style make for a memorable portfolio.
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Citation Recipients: Kevin Kallaugher
Affiliation: The Economist -
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 12 The Morton Frank Award
Award Recipient: Monte Reel
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: “How to Rebuild Puerto Rico”
Monte ReelAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 12 The Morton Frank Award
Award Recipient: Monte Reel
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: “How to Rebuild Puerto Rico”
Best magazine international business news reporting in print or digital
Puerto Rico lives in a limbo. As a territory of the United States, its people have American citizenship. But lacking statehood, the island lacks clout in Washington, as became tragically evident in 2017, when a hurricane devastated the island-and Puerto Ricans were largely left to their own devices. Monte Reel’s engagingly written account of the aftermath, “How to Rebuild Puerto Rico,” is a sweeping, moving and financially literate account of Puerto Ricans’ struggle to recover. Refusing to bow to cynicism and commending the islanders’ grit, Reel nevertheless realistically examines the obstacles, in Washington and home-grown, to not only recovery but also to a lasting prosperity for this perennially troubled land.
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2017Paritosh Bansal, Tom Lasseter, Aditya Kalra, Duff Wilson and teamReuters
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 13 The Malcolm Forbes Award
Award Recipient: Paritosh Bansal, Tom Lasseter, Aditya Kalra, Duff Wilson and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “The Philip Morris Files”
Clockwise from upper left: Paritosh Bansal, Tom Lasseter, Duff Wilson, Aditya Kalra.Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 13 The Malcolm Forbes Award
Award Recipient: Paritosh Bansal, Tom Lasseter, Aditya Kalra, Duff Wilson and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “The Philip Morris Files”
Best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or digital
In industry after industry companies with big lobbying budgets have managed to control and even dictate regulations without being seen. In “The Phillip Morris Files”, a team of Reuters’ reporters takes us inside that world: the behind-the-scenes maneuvering; the strategic targeting of weakest government links; and the congratulatory high-fiving when the mission is accomplished. This eyeopening series shows just how sophisticated and determined the tobacco industry has been in fighting anti-tobacco forces in government and at international agencies. The team of reporters took powerful leaked documents, followed it up with shoe-leather reporting, and brought home a series with impact.
Read the award-winning work: The Philip Morris Files
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Citation Recipients: Lauren Etter, Benjamin Elgin, Sarah Frier and Michael Riley
Affiliation: Bloomberg News
Honored Work: “Facebook and the Assault on Democracy” -
2017Suzy HansenFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award
Award Recipient: Suzy Hansen
Award Recipient Affiliation: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Award Honored Work: Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Suzy HansenAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award
Award Recipient: Suzy Hansen
Award Recipient Affiliation: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Award Honored Work: Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Best non-fiction book on international affairs
American journalist Suzy Hansen moved to Istanbul to better understand the Muslim world. Her highly insightful and engaging book weaves her own background—white, small-town America, elite college—with an awakening on why the U.S. is often hated overseas amid decades of American intervention in the Middle East and elsewhere. She takes aim in particular at how the abiding myth of “American exceptionalism” has blinded American policymakers, journalists and citizens to an often sordid reality. Hansen has produced a sweeping and powerful corrective to the way
most Americans view U.S. foreign policy of the past 70 years.Award Page >>
Citation Recipient: Joshua Kurlantzick
Affiliation: Simon & Schuster
Honored Work: A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA -
2017Associated Press StaffThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 15 The Madeline Dane Ross Award
Award Recipient: Associated Press Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Collapse of the Caliphate: Triumph and Tragedy in Mosul”
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 15 The Madeline Dane Ross Award
Award Recipient: Associated Press Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Collapse of the Caliphate: Triumph and Tragedy in Mosul”
Best international reporting in print or digital showing a concern for the human condition
AP reporters covering the collapse of Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate struck the right balance between aggressive reporting and sensitive writing on the horrors endured by Mosul residents. The result is gripping, timely coverage that evoked ghastly images, but also showed the determination of ordinary Iraqis to retain their dignity and humanity in the worst of circumstances. Overall, a sophisticated package of stories that illuminate a human condition the world should not ignore.
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Citation Recipients: Cynthia Gorney, Amy Toensing and Kathryn Carlson
Affiliation: National Geographic
Honored Work: “Life After Loss” -
2017Ed Ou and Aurora AlmendralNBC Left Field
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 16 The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award
Award Recipient: Ed Ou and Aurora Almendral
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC Left Field
Award Honored Work: “The Kill List: The Brutal Drug War in the Philippines”
Ed Ou (left) and Aurora AlmendralAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 16 The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award
Award Recipient: Ed Ou and Aurora Almendral
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC Left Field
Award Honored Work: “The Kill List: The Brutal Drug War in the Philippines”
Best international reporting in the broadcast media showing a concern for the human condition
“The Kill List” is a personal and riveting behind-the-scenes insight into the Philippines drug war as seen through the eyes of people involved. The viewer is taken on a journey by hunters and the hunted. The quest by the police to rid the streets of drug users results in the hunted left lifeless. We are taken inside a morgue where a young man is asked to identify a body. He pulls back the sheet and sees the corpse of his father. The moment is raw and emotional. Visible are the bullet wounds and the cuff marks on his wrists. Ed Ou’s spell-binding camerawork is strikingly powerful. Kudos to the video team for taking a back seat and letting the characters and the visuals own this powerful story.
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Citation Recipient: Jordan Kronick, David Scott, Fernando Villegas and Daniel Litke
Affiliation: HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
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2017Maggie MichaelThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 17 The Joe and Laurie Dine Award
Award Recipient: Maggie Michael
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “In Yemen, Human Rights a Casualty of War”
Maggie MichaelAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 17 The Joe and Laurie Dine Award
Award Recipient: Maggie Michael
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “In Yemen, Human Rights a Casualty of War”
Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
In a year filled with horrific violence in many parts of the world, the war in Yemen did not get the attention it deserved. The AP series on the secret torture taking place fills out much of what was unknown about the war in Yemen led by U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. Maggie Michael took great personal risks, with her video colleague, driver and fixers, to tell the story of the 18 secret prisons in Yemen where detainees are tortured by men from the UAE. Chillingly, eyewitness reported seeing Americans in U.S. Military uniform assisting with interrogations. Michael also documented other effects of the proxy war waged in Yemen including malnourished children and economic pressures that result in more childhood marriages as families seek to offload their daughters. Michael and her team documented all of this and more in a chilling package that included charts, video and compelling graphics. The response was immediate and included calls by U.S. senators and the government of Yemen for an investigation.
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Citation Recipients: Dionne Searcey and Sarah Topol
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “Hell’s Children” -
2017Sam Evans-Brown and Hannah McCarthyPowerline, New Hampshire Public Radio
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 18 The Whitman Bassow Award
Award Recipient: Sam Evans-Brown and Hannah McCarthy
Award Recipient Affiliation: Powerline, New Hampshire Public Radio
Award Honored Work: “Outside/In” podcast
Sam Evans-Brown (left) and Hannah McCarthyAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 18 The Whitman Bassow Award
Award Recipient: Sam Evans-Brown and Hannah McCarthy
Award Recipient Affiliation: Powerline, New Hampshire Public Radio
Award Honored Work: “Outside/In” podcast
Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
This illuminating four-part radio documentary is the result of six months of exhaustive reporting, in which Evans-Brown and McCarthy explore the consequences of a Massachusetts decision to cut carbon emissions by 25%. Their investigation takes them into remote native communities in northern Quebec, where livelihoods have been devastated by giant hydropower projects. Hours of audio include interviews in indigenous languages, decades of history, dissection of Canadian government documents, and the sounds of rushing rivers that immerse listeners in a real sense of discovery. The judges especially liked the team’s ambition, as well as its conclusion that no energy source, no matter how clean, is free of victims—a fact that is too often lost in the coverage of climate change.
Award-Winning Work: “Outside/In” podcast
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Citation Recipients: Douglas Fox, Laurent Ballesta and Camille Seaman
Affiliation: National Geographic
Honored Work: “Crisis on the Ice” and “Under Antarctica” -
2017Richard MarosiLos Angeles Times
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award
Award Recipient: Richard Marosi
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: "Mexico’s Housing Debacle: A Failed Vision"
Richard MarosiAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award
Award Recipient: Richard Marosi
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: "Mexico’s Housing Debacle: A Failed Vision"
Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
Through rigorous investigation and compelling writing, Richard Marosi of the Los Angeles Times exposed the origins of a $100 billion scandal that has littered Mexico with shoddy housing projects and the broken aspirations of millions of would-be homeowners. Conceived at the turn of the century as a public-private initiative to build affordable suburbs across the country, the program raised billions from global investors and sparked the largest residential construction boom in Latin America. But instead of lifting up working-class families, the Times found, the program set off a “slow-motion social and financial catastrophe.” Drawing on documents, interviews and inspection of 50 developments from Tijuana to the Gulf of Mexico, Marosi chronicled how corruption, poor planning and impunity trapped thousands of Mexicans in unhealthy, sub-standard housing many could not afford. The Times series skillfully explored themes of poverty, inequality, corruption and accountability. It is a powerful example of investigative reporting and lucid writing arrayed against a major public issue hiding in plain sight.
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Citation Recipient: Almudena Toral, Maye Primera, Oscar Martinez and Carlos Martinez
Affiliation: Univision News Digital/El Faro
Honored Work: “From Migrants to Refugees: The New Plight of Central Americans”
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2017William Booth, Sufian Taha and Linda DavidsonThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 20 The Kim Wall Award
Award Recipient: William Booth, Sufian Taha and Linda Davidson
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Occupied"
William Booth, Sufian Taha and Linda DavidsonAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 20 The Kim Wall Award
Award Recipient: William Booth, Sufian Taha and Linda Davidson
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: "Occupied"
Best story or series of stories on international affairs using digital storytelling techniques
What does it feel like to be occupied in 2017? To answer this question, The Washington Post produced an intimate, immersive series that transports readers into the worlds of three Palestinians: an everyman construction worker; a matriarch in the final stages of cancer, and an idealistic tycoon striving to build a model city amidst turmoil. Fusing powerful writing, photos, maps and raw footage, “Occupied” captures the slow grind of thousands of men inching through a single checkpoint, and what it means to seek cancer treatment in an area where only 16 oncologists serve a population of more than 4 million. In doing so, journalists William Booth, Sufian Taha and Linda Davidson bring to life the continued human costs of Israel’s military occupation that has now lasted 50 years.
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Citation Recipients: Aryn Baker, Lynsey Addario and Francesca Trianni
Affiliation: TIME, supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Merck for Mothers
Honored Work: “Finding Home” -
2017Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Manuel Mogato and Reuters teamReuters
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 21 The Roy Rowan Award
Award Recipient: Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Manuel Mogato and Reuters team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Duterte’s War”
Left to right: Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato.Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 21 The Roy Rowan Award
Award Recipient: Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Manuel Mogato and Reuters team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Duterte’s War”
Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story
Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines in 2016 on a promise to eradicate the scourge of drugs. Since then, his police forces have pursued that aim with a bloody vengeance, killing more than 9,000 people. The government has described the raids as legitimate law enforcement operations. In the series “Duterte’s War,” Reuters reporters Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall demolish that defense. Reuters dispatched Baldwin and Marshall to train a microscope on the mayhem. Aided by Manuel Mogato, they combed through law enforcement’s own records to pinpoint operations and identify the officers who conducted them. They examined video surveillance, interviewed scores of witnesses, debriefed emergency room physicians, reviewed leaked documents and obtained crucial testimony from senior police commanders themselves. Their exhaustive, meticulous reporting exposes the scope of the state’s role in the slaughter of its own citizens, making the unanswerable case that the Philippine police have been acting as death squads and using a variety of ruses to cover their tracks.
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Citation Recipient: Iona Craig
Affiliation: The Intercept
Honored Work: “Death in Al Ghayil: Women and Children in Yemeni Village Recall Horror of Trump’s ‘Highly Successful’ SEAL Raid”
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Award Date: 2017
Award Name: 22 Best Commentary
Award Recipient: Gideon Rachman
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: Gideon Rachman
Gideon RachmanAward Date: 2017
Award Name: 22 Best Commentary
Award Recipient: Gideon Rachman
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: Gideon Rachman
Best commentary in any medium on international news
In an outstanding field of deeply reported and intelligent entries, Gideon Rachman’s range of subjects, reported insight and refreshing opinions was the most impressive. He was particularly forceful on the rising tide of nationalism facing Europe and the U.S. One reader summed it up this way: “A tour de force on the political challenges of our age by Gideon Rachman, possibly the best world affairs writer of the day.”
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Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The President’s Award 2017
Award Recipient: Journalists Who Died Covering the War in Syria
Award Recipient Affiliation:
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2017
Award Name: The President’s Award 2017
Award Recipient: Journalists Who Died Covering the War in Syria
Award Recipient Affiliation:
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award
Award Recipient: Hannah Dreier
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Venezuela Undone”
Hannah DreierAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award
Award Recipient: Hannah Dreier
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Venezuela Undone”
In insightful, enduring, and richly detailed reports, Dreier chronicled the unraveling of a nation. Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis is not the story of a people overlooked by progress; it is the story of a once-prosperous society, with the largest oil reserves in the world, driven by its leaders to the brink of starvation. Dreier bore witness to a collapse of middle-class life — food riots, collapsing health care, the dawn of mob justice –and then unearthed its origins, a combination of mismanagement, political delusion and corruption. Throughout, she also exposed a less visible realm of ruin: the loss of empathy among neighbors, the corrosion of the soul. Her efforts had consequences. U.S. senators called for sanctions against corrupt officials. Readers donated money to pay for a child’s medical treatments. At the same time, she received threats from Venezuelan intelligence officers and government supporters. Hannah Dreier’s brave and revealing reporting exemplifies the legacy of Hal Boyle and the best of foreign correspondence. It is not only a rendering of recent history but also a warning for the future.
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Citation Recipients: Ben Hubbard, Mark Mazzetti, Carlotta Gall, Scott Shane and Nicholas Kulish
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “Secrets of the Kingdom”
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2016Simon Denyer, Emily Rauhala and Elizabeth DwoskinThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award
Award Recipient: Simon Denyer, Emily Rauhala and Elizabeth Dwoskin
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “Behind the Firewall”
Left to right: Simon Denyer, Emily Rauhala and Elizabeth Dwoskin. Photos: Bill O'Leary/Ricky Carioti/The Washington PostAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award
Award Recipient: Simon Denyer, Emily Rauhala and Elizabeth Dwoskin
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: “Behind the Firewall”
In “Beyond the Firewall,” Washington Post reporters confronted a subject of vast dimensions and epic implications: the Internet in China. The idea of the Internet as an inherently democratizing force for good has run up against the reality of China’s campaign to censor in cyberspace. The team took readers into the fascinating and bizarre world behind the “Great Firewall.” They explained how the authoritarian regime in Beijing has utilized social media and web usage to create an Orwellian surveillance tool, the “social credit rating,” to punish and reward every citizen. They interviewed dissidents who test the boundaries of an implacable crackdown that has succeeded in blocking tens of thousands of websites, yet tolerates certain loopholes for a globally connected minority. The series was smart, vivid and effective, bringing alive a difficult subject. It explored a frontier where geopolitics and technology converge, presenting counter-intuitive questions about how governments manage ever-sprawling societies that have the potential to affect vast numbers of people, far beyond China and far into the future.
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Citation Recipients: Tom Burgis, Pilitia Clark, Michael Peel, Charlie Bibby and Kari-Ruth Pedersen
Affiliation: Financial Times
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2016Bryan Denton and Sergey PonomarevThe New York Times
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
Award Recipient: Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “What ISIS Wrought”
Bryan Denton, left, and Sergey Ponomarev.Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
Award Recipient: Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “What ISIS Wrought”
Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev showed exceptional courage, advancing with Iraqi Special Forces and Kurdish fighters into Islamic State-occupied areas, and they captured intimate views into the lives of those affected by war. The images were artful as well as powerfully journalistic.
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Citation Recipient: Goran Tomasevic, Zohra Bensemra, Mohammed Salem and Ahmed Jadallah
Affiliation: Reuters
Honored Work: “Battle for Mosul”
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2016Daniel BerehulakThe New York Times
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award
Award Recipient: Daniel Berehulak
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals”
Daniel BerehulakAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award
Award Recipient: Daniel Berehulak
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals”
Daniel Berehulak’s riveting photographs captured, intimately and in depth, the lives and deaths of those affected by the Philippine drug war. It was visual story telling at its best: images that one judge described as a “journey through hell.” The work also brought wide attention to a story that had been largely overlooked.
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Citation Year: 2016
Citation Recipient: Aris Messinis
Affiliation: Agence France Presse
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2016Meridith KohutThe New York Times
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: Feature Photography Award
Award Recipient: Meridith Kohut
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Inside Venezuela’s Crumbling Mental Hospitals”
Meridith KohutAward Date: 2016
Award Name: Feature Photography Award
Award Recipient: Meridith Kohut
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Inside Venezuela’s Crumbling Mental Hospitals”
Meridith Kohut’s moving images brought attention to the plight of people in Venezuela’s state-run psychiatric hospitals, places that have been all but forgotten in that country’s disintegration. The stark, powerful photographs from inside the halls of those institutions grimly cast a light on endemic suffering and malnourishment.
Citation Year: 2016
Citation Recipient: Tomas Munita
Affiliation: The New York Times
Honored Work: “Cuba on the Edge of Change”
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2016Emily Harris, Gabe O’Connor, Barry Gordemer, Michael May and Larry KaplowNPR
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award
Award Recipient: Emily Harris, Gabe O’Connor, Barry Gordemer, Michael May and Larry Kaplow
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR
Award Honored Work: “Moments of change for Palestinians and Israelis”
Left to right: Emily Harris, Gabe O’Connor, Barry Gordemer, Michael May and Larry Kaplow.Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award
Award Recipient: Emily Harris, Gabe O’Connor, Barry Gordemer, Michael May and Larry Kaplow
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR
Award Honored Work: “Moments of change for Palestinians and Israelis”
What causes people to change their minds, their beliefs, their view of the forces shaping their lives? These four powerful and nuanced stories describe such pivotal moments for people living in the middle of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Emily Harris introduces us to a Palestinian man whose empathy transforms him from revenge seeker to peace activist. Then we meet a Palestinian woman, long involved in peace activism, who becomes alienated from the process and from her former Israeli friends. An Israeli woman changes from settlement opponent to West Bank settler. And a former Israeli soldier, once a proud defender of the nation, suddenly sees himself as “occupier” when he smiles at a young Palestinian girl and catches her look of fear in response. These profound transformations, pulling in different directions, deftly remind listeners of the many facets of this conflict, and they presage the challenges of finding a lasting peace.
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Citation Recipient: Jasmine Garsd
Affiliation: PRI’s The World
Honored Work: “Women of Colombia’s War”
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Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award
Award Recipient: Clarissa Ward and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Undercover in Syria”
Clarissa WardAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award
Award Recipient: Clarissa Ward and team
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: “Undercover in Syria”
In a year marked by brave and courageous reporting, Clarissa Ward and her team at CNN stood out for the incredible risk they took to bring their stories from Syria to light. The images, editing, and writing brought jarring resonance to a critical story. With poignant interviews, CNN’s team told difficult stories without resorting to hype. It didn’t just address the what, but the why, including why doctors don’t leave and the implications for institutions under direct attack. This report exemplified international television reporting at its finest.
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Citation Recipient: Morgan Till, Jane Ferguson, Jane Arraf, Jon Gerberg and Sara Just
Affiliation: PBS NewsHour/Pulitzer Center
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2015Beth Murphy, Charles Sennott, Justine Nagan, Chris White, Sally Jo FiferPBS POV/GroundTruth
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award
Award Recipient: Beth Murphy, Charles Sennott, Justine Nagan, Chris White, Sally Jo Fifer
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS POV/GroundTruth
Award Honored Work: “What Tomorrow Brings”
Beth MurphyAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award
Award Recipient: Beth Murphy, Charles Sennott, Justine Nagan, Chris White, Sally Jo Fifer
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS POV/GroundTruth
Award Honored Work: “What Tomorrow Brings”
This documentary transported the life-and-death war for women’s rights in Afghanistan right into American living rooms. In a crystal-clear story about an all-girls school northeast of Kabul, the PBS team brilliantly illuminated the lives of the girls, their families and the courageous teachers and administrators striving to survive constant cultural, economic and political challenges.
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Citation Recipient: Morgan Till, Jane Ferguson, Jane Arraf, Jon Gerberg and Sara Just
Affiliation: PBS NewsHour/Pulitzer Center
Honored Work: “The Fight for Iraq”
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2016The Real Sports TeamHBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award
Award Recipient: The Real Sports Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Award Honored Work: “The Lords of the Rings”
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Peter Jennings Award
Award Recipient: The Real Sports Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Award Honored Work: “The Lords of the Rings”
HBO’s documentary, the first recipient in this new OPC category, exemplified the core values of Peter Jennings’ reporting: commitment to covering international stories, unflinching dedication to the craft of journalism, consistent inquiry to uncover all aspects of a story, and the courage to follow the story no matter the consequences. “The Lord of the Rings” was an ambitious, unique and riveting expose that explained the painful human and environmental cost of the Olympic Games and the unethical practices of its organizing body, the International Olympics Committee, the wealthiest sports organization in the world. Reported over two years from nine countries with four correspondents, the 75-minute long program aired on the eve of the 2016 Rio Games and revealed that the IOC pursues wealth, privilege and glory for its members at a staggering cost to people around the world. This complex and disturbing story shed new light on the IOC and uncovered graft and corruption at a great cost to human rights and dignity at the Olympic Games.
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Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award
Award Recipient: Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Atlantic
Award Honored Work: “The Hell After ISIS”
Anand GopalAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award
Award Recipient: Anand Gopal
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Atlantic
Award Honored Work: “The Hell After ISIS”
Best magazine reporting in print or digital on an international story
AWARD DATE: 2016
AWARD NAME: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award
AWARD RECIPIENT: Anand Gopal
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Atlantic
AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Hell After ISIS”
AWARD SPONSOR: Ford Motor Company
Anand Gopal’s “The Hell After ISIS” is a beautifully written account of the consequences of war. His narrative, based on 13 months of reporting, recounts the suffering of one Sunni family in Iraq, fleeing ISIS jihadists only to fall prey to unforgiving Shia militias. Gopal was detained and expelled from Iraq, but managed to return to complete this compelling narrative that sheds light on both the rise of ISIS and the global refugee crisis.
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Citation Recipient: Scott Anderson
Affiliation: The New York Times Magazine
Honored Work: “Fractured Lands”
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Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award
Award Recipient: Steve Sack
Award Recipient Affiliation: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Award Honored Work:
Steve SackAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award
Award Recipient: Steve Sack
Award Recipient Affiliation: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Award Honored Work:
Steve Sack successfully harnessed all the cartoonist’s tools – caricature, composition, biting wit and solid journalism – in his impressive portfolio. Visually engaging and often smile-inducing, Sack covered a wide variety of subjects, from the erosion of coral reefs to the suffering of Syrian civilians, with skill, style and aplomb.
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Citation Year: 2016
Citation Recipient: Adam Zyglis
Affiliation: The Buffalo News
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2016Matthew Campbell and Kit ChellelBloomberg Businessweek
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award
Award Recipient: Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: “Hot Mess: How Goldman Sachs Lost $1.2 Billion of Libya’s Money”
Matthew Campbell, left, and Kit ChellelAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award
Award Recipient: Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: “Hot Mess: How Goldman Sachs Lost $1.2 Billion of Libya’s Money”
Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel’s engaging piece about a multi-billion-dollar deal between Goldman Sachs and Qaddafi’s Libya was a feat of storytelling. The careful and vivid selection of details — a banned novel resting on the table, a late-night call to a prostitute in Dubai, the long wait for an elevator in Tripoli — brought a cinematic quality to the writing. The reporting was equally impressive. The story, drawn from court documents and interviews, created three-dimensional characters and offered readers a rare glimpse into how secretive financial deals are sealed. It was a thrilling collision between two of the biggest news themes of the past decade — the financial crisis of 2008 and an autocracy on its last legs before the Arab Spring.
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Citation Year: 2016
Citation Recipient: Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley and Andrew Willis
Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
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2016International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partnersInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partners
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partners
Award Honored Work: “The Panama Papers: Politicians, Criminals and the Rogue Industry That Hides Their Cash”
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partners
Award Honored Work: “The Panama Papers: Politicians, Criminals and the Rogue Industry That Hides Their Cash”
Using documents leaked from a Panamanian law firm, this highly innovative global coalition of news organizations shocked the world with detailed accounts of how political and business elites, arms dealers and others hid their wealth in secretive webs of more than 200,000 offshore banking entities. More than 400 journalists from nearly 80 countries took part in the remarkably complex project. The sheer scale of the project, lasting over a period of years, surpassed the best efforts of any single news organization.
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Citation Recipient: Rob Barry, Christopher S. Stewart, Mark Maremont, Margaret Coker and Benoit Faucon
Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Honored Work: “Accounting For Terror”
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2016Arkady OstrovskyViking/Penguin Random House
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award
Award Recipient: Arkady Ostrovsky
Award Recipient Affiliation: Viking/Penguin Random House
Award Honored Work: “The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War”
Arkady OstrovskyAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award
Award Recipient: Arkady Ostrovsky
Award Recipient Affiliation: Viking/Penguin Random House
Award Honored Work: “The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War”
Grippingly told and brimming with brilliant insights, “The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War” explained the past 60 years of Russia’s turbulent political development. Arkady Ostrovsky, a veteran Russian-born journalist who has been on the scene at historical events, immersed himself in years of Russian newspapers and TV programming, and conducted candid interviews with dozens of Russia’s leading politicians, oligarchs and media kingmakers. The result was a fascinating and compelling insider account of how power has been won and lost among Russia’s ruling elite. Ostrovsky highlighted the outsized influence of the Russian media, from the pioneering newspaper Kommersant to the national TV networks and their often amoral news anchors. In one chilling anecdote, political reformer Boris Nemstov visits the office of Russia’s newly elected president, Vladimir Putin, and sees nothing on Putin’s desk except a TV remote control. Putin would soon establish complete power over Russian media; years later, Nemstov would be assassinated.
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Citation Year: 2016
Citation Recipient: Robert F. Worth
Affiliation: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Honored Work: “A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS” -
2016Robyn DixonLos Angeles Times
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award
Award Recipient: Robyn Dixon
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: “South Sudan Slips Back Toward Chaos”
Robyn DixonAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award
Award Recipient: Robyn Dixon
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: “South Sudan Slips Back Toward Chaos”
Robyn Dixon’s vivid dispatches from Nigeria and South Sudan read like novellas, with strong central characters presented not in archetype but in all their complex humanity as they struggle against corruption, terrorism and civil war. Thorough, revelatory news reporting undergirded these tales, but Dixon kept the focus on ordinary people in unimaginable circumstances: a big-hearted father of 25, a driving teacher on perilous roads, a teenage girl traded for cattle. The lyrical storytelling offered a fresh look at African lives that have slipped from view as U.S. news outlets shrink foreign coverage. A concern for the human condition was embedded in Dixon’s journalism — her subjects are survivors, and their capacity for resilience lingered with the reader. Dixon’s work was a master class in foreign reporting that preserves the dignity and voices of the people who trust us with their stories.
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Citation Recipient: Kathy Gannon
Affiliation: The Associated Press
Honored Work: “Honor Bound” -
2016Marcel Mettelsiefen, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz and Raney AronsonPBS Frontline
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award
Award Recipient: Marcel Mettelsiefen, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS Frontline
Award Honored Work: “Children of Syria”
Left to right: Marcel Mettelsiefen, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz and Raney AronsonAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award
Award Recipient: Marcel Mettelsiefen, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS Frontline
Award Honored Work: “Children of Syria”
This was a captivating piece of documentary-making. While there have been many stories on the Syrian refugee crisis, PBS produced a lovely, layered story of tragedy and hope that added context to the migrant story. The team perfectly captured the emotion of a family dealing with war and its effects. The focus switched from person to person seamlessly, building rich pictures of each family member. When the family arrives in Germany, each member is seen coping in different ways with their new lives. The eldest daughter makes German friends, shedding her hijab for lipstick and for the first time in her life feeling free. Her mother, however, seems adrift without her husband of 21 years, lonely and confused in a strange country. The cinematography was first rate.
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Citation Recipient: James Blumeil, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson
Affiliation: PBS Frontline
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2016The Associated Press StaffThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award
Award Recipient: The Associated Press Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Islamic State: A Savage Legacy”
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award
Award Recipient: The Associated Press Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Islamic State: A Savage Legacy”
AP’s “Savage Legacy” series was a powerful reminder of the role that the basic business of journalism – getting the facts – still plays in the battle against human rights abuses, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The series also underlined how the reach of a global news agency can tell a story that goes beyond one country or region, showing the patterns that reflect systematized atrocities. The series is also a testament to the spirit and endurance of public service journalism. While officials were slow to document the deaths and destruction of the Islamic State, AP reporters, often at great personal risk, took an active role collecting evidence of the tragedies and despair. The AP documented the existence of 72 mass graves and the destruction of cultural and religious sites by corroborating survivor testimony with satellite imagery, on the ground reporting and reports from local rights groups. The result was a series of stories that established not just the terrible facts, but gave voice to the survivors of atrocities, implicitly challenging the international community to ensure that the perpetrators are eventually held to account.
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Citation Recipient: Rachel Nolan
Affiliation: Harpers
Honored Work: “Innocents: Where Pregnant Women Have More to Fear than Zika” -
2016Elliott D. Woods“The Fight for Chinko”
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award
Award Recipient: Elliott D. Woods
Award Recipient Affiliation: “The Fight for Chinko”
Award Honored Work: Virginia Quarterly Review/Pulitzer Center
Elliott D. WoodsAward Date: 2016
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award
Award Recipient: Elliott D. Woods
Award Recipient Affiliation: “The Fight for Chinko”
Award Honored Work: Virginia Quarterly Review/Pulitzer Center
In a raw and unique tale from the Central African Republic, Woods described in vivid detail how three 20-somethings run the remote, 38,000-square-mile Chinko wildlife preserve. In his lone, intrepid journey, Woods captured the chilling terror and life-threatening peril the small team endures in the course of their work, including how they stave off murderous gunmen and spend months in an overcrowded jail. All this in order to keep alive one of Africa’s most pristine habitats, with herds of elephant, antelope, rhinos and a multitude of other animals. The story, written with sensitivity and attentiveness, cast a light on the grueling, back-breaking effort needed to protect wildlife in a country with no resources, rampant corruption, and brutal horrors.
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2016Nadja Drost, Bruno Federico, Morgan Till, Patti Parson and Sara JustPBS NewsHour
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: 19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award
Award Recipient: Nadja Drost, Bruno Federico, Morgan Till, Patti Parson and Sara Just
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS NewsHour
Award Honored Work: “Fight for Peace”
Left to right: Nadja Drost, Bruno Federico, Morgan Till, Patti Parson and Sara JustAward Date: 2016
Award Name: 19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award
Award Recipient: Nadja Drost, Bruno Federico, Morgan Till, Patti Parson and Sara Just
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS NewsHour
Award Honored Work: “Fight for Peace”
The PBS NewsHour team took on a difficult and at times dangerous assignment about a complex issue and succeeded in obtaining unique access to produce a series of reports that enlightened and informed. The reporting reflected courage, nuance, big-picture analysis and observed details. At the core of this team were two independent journalists who dedicated themselves to being on the ground to cover the story. They teamed up with a prestigious national news organization that allowed them to produce a powerful body of work that reached a wide audience on television and online. It was a partnership that represented the very best of international news in the digital age.
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Citation Recipient: Jon Lee Anderson
Affiliation: The New Yorker
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2016Malia Politzer and Emily KassieThe Huffington Post/Pulitzer Center
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: Best Digital Reporting on International Affairs
Award Recipient: Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Huffington Post/Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “The 21st Century Gold Rush”
Malia Politzer, left, and Emily KassieAward Date: 2016
Award Name: Best Digital Reporting on International Affairs
Award Recipient: Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Huffington Post/Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “The 21st Century Gold Rush”
In a category dominated by the global refugee crisis, “The 21st Century Gold Rush” charted fresh territory in a well-traversed international issue by digging deeply into those who have profited from the refugee crisis. Spanning four countries, with characters from warlords to sex slaves, Huffington Post reporters Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie worked tirelessly to uncover a hidden side of the economics of global migration, and told it through powerful digital storytelling. Integrating text, photography, ambient video, documentary video and animations, the story was a seamless and searing window into a dangerous ecosystem that is only just coming to light.
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Citation Recipient: Evan Ratliff
Affiliation: The Atavist Magazine
Honored Work: “The Mastermind” -
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting
Award Recipient: Ben Taub
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker/Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “War Crimes in Syria”
Ben TaubAward Date: 2016
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting
Award Recipient: Ben Taub
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker/Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “War Crimes in Syria”
The war in Syria has generated headlines around the world, many of them focusing on atrocities committed by the militant group, Islamic State. Less understood is the saga of torture and murder going on in every corner of the Syrian government’s security and intelligence apparatus. In an exhaustively detailed account, Ben Taub of The New Yorker laid bare the horrific campaign to stamp out opposition, sanctioned by top levels of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Based on a heroic international effort to gather documentation of these war crimes, Taub’s account took the more than 600,000 photos, internal memos and witness statements collected thus far and wove a powerful and heartbreaking story of a government waging war on its own citizens. Taub spent months poring through the war crimes files to collect evidence of at least 11,000 victims mutilated, cut, burned, shot, beaten and strangled by the powerful apparatus of the Syrian state. His meticulous review of the documents was supplemented by his own unforgettable interviews with one of the regime’s torture victims, and the dramatic saga of the war crimes investigators themselves — lending a powerful humanity to the document dive. The result was a piece that deployed the best traditions of investigative journalism to achieve a chilling and unforgettable narrative that truly holds power to account.
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Citation Recipient: Chris Hamby
Affiliation: BuzzFeed News
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2016Masha GessenThe New York Review of Books
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: Best Commentary
Award Recipient: Masha Gessen
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Review of Books
Award Honored Work: “Trump, Russia and the Reality of Power”
Masha GessenAward Date: 2016
Award Name: Best Commentary
Award Recipient: Masha Gessen
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Review of Books
Award Honored Work: “Trump, Russia and the Reality of Power”
If ever a year summoned commentators to think outside the conventional boundaries, it was 2016. The world’s last superpower elected an impetuous, self-absorbed reality TV star to be its commander in chief. His campaign evidently was assisted – in what measure we still don’t know – by a Russia that remains a virtual dictatorship. It was a year made for Masha Gessen. In essays written for The New York Review of Books, the Russian-born journalist and author brilliantly deconstructed the Trump-Putin relationship, confronted unquestioned assumptions about how power works, and described a profound crisis of democracy. Some of her dark forecasts (a stock market crash if Trump won) have not come true (yet), but there is much she got right, not least the ascent of Trump. “It’s time to force ourselves to imagine the unimaginable…Trump being elected president.” That was in July. Whether or not you shared her deep pessimism about a Trump presidency, she made you think.
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Citation Recipient: Trudy Rubin
Affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The President’s Award 2016
Award Recipient: David Edward Fanning
Award Recipient Affiliation: Frontline
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2016
Award Name: The President’s Award 2016
Award Recipient: David Edward Fanning
Award Recipient Affiliation: Frontline
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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2015Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Esther HtusanThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2015
Award Recipient: Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Esther Htusan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Seafood From Slaves”
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2015
Award Recipient: Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Esther Htusan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Seafood From Slaves”
In a series of powerful, touching and scrupulously reported stories and videos, a team of Associated Press reporters exposed an ugly truth behind much of the inexpensive seafood on our tables—it is produced by people held captive for years and even decades in Thailand’s seafood industry. The use of slaves to fish for seafood in some parts of the world was widely suspected. But the AP team doggedly located and interviewed captive slaves and followed specific loads of slave-caught seafood to supply chains of particular brands and stores. The effort resulted in the freeing of more than 2,000 slaves, the jailing of a dozen people, the shuttering of businesses and the seizing of ships worth millions of dollars. It spawned calls for action and promises of reform from some of the world’s largest food retailers. The series exemplified foreign correspondence at its best: bearing witness, uncovering the truth and making a difference in people’s lives.
Citation Recipients: Patrick McDonnell, Christopher Goffard, Laura King, Kate Linthicum and Henry Chu
Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Honored Work: “Fleeing Syria”
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Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2015
Award Recipient: Reuters Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “The Long Arm of China”
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2015
Award Recipient: Reuters Team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “The Long Arm of China”
This expose of how China has created a secret, national broadcast network within the United States is fresh, original and a significant contribution to an increasingly important subject. Time and again the reporters’ questions took even the interviewees by surprise. The in-depth investigative reporting had impact by bringing a previously hidden operation to light, using a crisp, clear, well-edited and well-written style.
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Citation Recipient: The Washington Post Staff
Affiliation: The Washington Post
Honored Work: “Confronting the Caliphate”
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Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2015
Award Recipient: Bassam Khabieh
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Field Hospital Damascus”
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2015
Award Recipient: Bassam Khabieh
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Field Hospital Damascus”
Bassam Khabieh’s images put into perspective the tremendous danger and difficulty of being a photojournalist in current-day Syria, and they shine a spotlight on the exodus from the region. Further setting this entry apart from the others was the courage and enterprise required not only to cover but live day in and day out in one of the most hostile and unpredictable environments on the planet.
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Citation Recipient: Jerome Delay
Affiliation: The Associated Press
Honored Work: “Burundi Unrest”
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2015Stephen DupontSteidl
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2015
Award Recipient: Stephen Dupont
Award Recipient Affiliation: Steidl
Award Honored Work: “Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars, 1993-2012”
Stephen DupontAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2015
Award Recipient: Stephen Dupont
Award Recipient Affiliation: Steidl
Award Honored Work: “Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars, 1993-2012”
The overall body of work is extremely compelling, and the quality and presentation of the book are impressive. Stephen Dupont offers historical context that could only come from a commitment and dedication to documenting life in a war-torn nation for nearly two decades.
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Citation Recipient: David Guttenfelder
Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Honored Work: “Damming the Mekong: Harnessing a River or Killing It”
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2015Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel EtterThe New York Times
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2015
Award Recipient: Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Exodus”
Left to right: Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2015
Award Recipient: Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Exodus”
This series of images on the migrant crisis contains strong elements of emotion and conflict, and offers engaging variety. As a package, the images are not only beautifully shot and edited but tell the broad story of the plight of the migrants and what they endured crossing border after border in hopes of a better life.
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Citation Recipient: Santi Palacios
Affiliation: The Associated Press
Honored Work: “Coming Ashore”
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2015Daniel BerehulakThe New York Times
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2015
Award Recipient: Daniel Berehulak
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “High in the Himalayas, A Search After The Nepal Quake Yields Grim Results”
Daniel BerehulakAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Feature Photography Award 2015
Award Recipient: Daniel Berehulak
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “High in the Himalayas, A Search After The Nepal Quake Yields Grim Results”
These images convey grief, humanity and the scale of the tragedy. The photographer was able to tell the story from different perspectives and get close enough to connect readers with his subjects and communicate their emotions and loss.
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Citation Recipient: Mario Tama
Affiliation: Getty Images
Honored Work: “Brazil’s Afflictive Prison System”
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2015Molly Webster and team, in collaboration with Israel StoryRadioLab/WNYC
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2015
Award Recipient: Molly Webster and team, in collaboration with Israel Story
Award Recipient Affiliation: RadioLab/WNYC
Award Honored Work: “Birthstory”
Molly WebsterAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2015
Award Recipient: Molly Webster and team, in collaboration with Israel Story
Award Recipient Affiliation: RadioLab/WNYC
Award Honored Work: “Birthstory”
Radio Lab’s Molly Webster and her team took a fascinating story about a gay Israeli couple on a quest to contract for a surrogate baby and turned it into a human, complex and surprising international tale of intolerance, economics and—ultimately—love. They followed the story to Turkey and Nepal, where they discovered a cottage industry of Indian surrogate mothers carrying babies conceived with East European eggs and Israeli sperm. The story showed how cultures cross-fertilize, brought together by different needs and sometimes to each others’ symbiotic benefit. It had no easy answers and challenged listeners’ assumptions about exploitation, risks and benefits of the most intimate—and ethically challenging—of industries.
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2015Emiland Guillerme, Ben Laffin, Spencer Wolff, Deborah Acosta, Yousur Al-Hlou, Pamela Druckerman, Stefania Rousselle, Ben C. Solomon, Leslye Davis, Taige Jensen, Quyn Do, Adam B. Ellick and Steve DuenesThe New York Times
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2015
Award Recipient: Emiland Guillerme, Ben Laffin, Spencer Wolff, Deborah Acosta, Yousur Al-Hlou, Pamela Druckerman, Stefania Rousselle, Ben C. Solomon, Leslye Davis, Taige Jensen, Quyn Do, Adam B. Ellick and Steve Duenes
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Paris”
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2015
Award Recipient: Emiland Guillerme, Ben Laffin, Spencer Wolff, Deborah Acosta, Yousur Al-Hlou, Pamela Druckerman, Stefania Rousselle, Ben C. Solomon, Leslye Davis, Taige Jensen, Quyn Do, Adam B. Ellick and Steve Duenes
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: “Paris”
Working in a medium relatively new to the organization, journalists at The New York Times conveyed the terror, confusion and pain of the Paris terror attack almost contemporaneously by simply allowing eyewitnesses and victims to tell their stories, in their own words. The fact that these narrated accounts were spoken in French (and subtitled) did not detract at all from their power—a testament to the strength of this approach. Sensitive photography and lighting and effective use of ambient sound highlighted the stakes of the narration. The Times also judiciously used music, graphics and B-roll to highlight the reporting without overwhelming it. Especially noteworthy was the piece “An Improbable Survivor.” During the live coverage of the attacks, much of the world had been transfixed by the image of a man dangling outside a window at the Bataclan Concert Hall. The Times tracked him down and told his story.
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Citation Recipient: Charlie D’Agata, Heather Abbott, Erin Lyall and Lynne Edwards
Affiliation: CBS News
Honored Work: “Desperate Journey: Europe’s Migrant Crisis”
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2015Jamie Doran, Najibullah Quraishi and Raney AronsonPBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2015
Award Recipient: Jamie Doran, Najibullah Quraishi and Raney Aronson
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Award Honored Work: “ISIS in Afghanistan”
Left to right: Jamie Doran, Najibullah Quraishi and Raney Aronson.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2015
Award Recipient: Jamie Doran, Najibullah Quraishi and Raney Aronson
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Award Honored Work: “ISIS in Afghanistan”
The growing global threat of ISIS, a defining story of 2015, was further revealed by this chilling FRONTLINE documentary tracking a correspondent to a remote Afghan village to see how ISIS is brutally displacing the Taliban. Najibullah Quraishi’s courageous reporting shows how ISIS offers recruits $700 a month as they outbid the Taliban and gives a glimpse of ISIS education: tutorials in beheading, grenade tossing and death chants to the United States and Israel.
Watch “ISIS in Afghanistan” >>
Citation Recipient: David Scott and Chapman Downes
Affiliation: HBO’s Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Honored Work: “The Killing Fields: The Plight of the African Elephant”
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2015Tristan McConnellForeign Policy
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2015
Award Recipient: Tristan McConnell
Award Recipient Affiliation: Foreign Policy
Award Honored Work: “Close Your Eyes and Pretend to Be Dead”
Tristan McConnellAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2015
Award Recipient: Tristan McConnell
Award Recipient Affiliation: Foreign Policy
Award Honored Work: “Close Your Eyes and Pretend to Be Dead”
Through dozens of interviews and forensic detail, McConnell delivers an epic retelling of the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi in September 2013. Tracking down survivors, first responders, police and neighborhood security, McConnell pieces together a minute-by-minute account of the attack by four Somali Al-Shabaab operatives, which resulted in at least 67 deaths, including their own. Through the eyes of those who lived through the horror, McConnell takes readers into the heart of the events, as though they were in the midst of the violence. The result is a wrenching and breathless experience, in which each person is left to weigh life-and-death decisions in a split second. Through much of it, McConnell shows, police officers stood impotently outside, failing to act to save lives; the military’s glacial response amounted mostly to looting. A heartbreaking and damning story.
Read “Close Your Eyes and Pretend to be Dead” >>
Citation Recipient: Matthieu Aikins
Affiliation: Harper’s Magazine
Honored Work: “Gangs of Karachi: Meet the Mobsters Who Run the Show in One of the World’s Deadliest Cities”
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2015Patrick ChappatteThe New York Times
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2015
Award Recipient: Patrick Chappatte
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Patrick ChappatteAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2015
Award Recipient: Patrick Chappatte
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Chappatte showed a consistent level of high quality visual journalism in his body of work. Graphically well-composed, his cartoons are clear, stark and direct, sometimes using one word, sometimes none at all to create an immediate impact for the reader. He is a master at capturing the current international political climate in a way that leaves the reader somewhere between laughing and crying.
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Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2015
Award Recipient: Christina Larson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Foreign Policy
Award Honored Work: “The Zhao Method”
Christina LarsonAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2015
Award Recipient: Christina Larson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Foreign Policy
Award Honored Work: “The Zhao Method”
Christina Larson chronicles the rise of 23-year-old Zhao Bowen, who abandoned China’s state-run scientific research institutions to join the country’s emerging entrepreneurial class. Larson documents how the emergence of venture capital opportunities is changing the face of business at the intersection of science and capital markets and throws fresh light on the continuing evolution of China as a leading economic power.
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Citation Recipient: Nizar Manek and Jeremy Hodge
Affiliation: Africa Confidential/Angaza Foundation for Africa Reporting
Honored Work: “Opening the Black Box of Egypt’s Slush Funds”
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2015Martha Mendoza, Esther Htusan, Margie Mason and Robin McDowellThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2015
Award Recipient: Martha Mendoza, Esther Htusan, Margie Mason and Robin McDowell
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Seafood From Slaves”
Left to right: Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Esther Htusan.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2015
Award Recipient: Martha Mendoza, Esther Htusan, Margie Mason and Robin McDowell
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Seafood From Slaves”
This project checked all the boxes: stellar reporting, terrific writing and fantastic use of storytelling tools traditional and nontraditional. It is an excellent example of enterprise business reporting that captured the big picture while focusing on the interest of the powerless. We were struck at how each entry distinctly exposed a layer of this shameful, globe-spanning enterprise. The impact of the story was impressive, achieving what many in our industry think is impossible or difficult to do.
This series was awarded both the Hal Boyle and the Malcolm Forbes Awards.
Read “Seafood from Slaves” >>
Citation Recipient: Wei Lingling
Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Honored Work: “A Changing China”
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2015Tom BurgisPublicAffairs
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2015
Award Recipient: Tom Burgis
Award Recipient Affiliation: PublicAffairs
Award Honored Work: “The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth “
Tom BurgisAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2015
Award Recipient: Tom Burgis
Award Recipient Affiliation: PublicAffairs
Award Honored Work: “The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth “
Exceptionally detailed reporting on a critical topic: how resource-rich African countries have been looted by their political leaders working hand-in-hand with international corporations. Burgis carries out remarkable on-the-ground investigations to identify the government and corporate officials who, in country after country, collude to amass tremendous fortunes while leaving their citizens impoverished and powerless. The book is a must-read for those eager to understand the problems plaguing a wide swath of Africa today.
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2015Patrick McDonnell, Christopher Goffard, Laura King, Kate Linthicum and Henry ChuLos Angeles Times
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2015
Award Recipient: Patrick McDonnell, Christopher Goffard, Laura King, Kate Linthicum and Henry Chu
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: “Fleeing Syria”
Left to right: Patrick McDonnell, Christopher Goffard, Laura King, Kate Linthicum and Henry Chu.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2015
Award Recipient: Patrick McDonnell, Christopher Goffard, Laura King, Kate Linthicum and Henry Chu
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: “Fleeing Syria”
The Times dispatched reporters to seven countries to report and write the heartbreaking narratives that helped readers understand the struggles of Syrians looking for safe refuge from the terrors of their nation’s civil war and ISIS. We were incredibly moved by the mother who had to leave her two sick children behind while she tried to make a new home for them in Sweden. The despair of the refugee camp in Jordan also struck us. The articles were translated into Arabic. The photographs were remarkable. The editing was excellent. For their intrepid reporting to show the human condition in the form of a refugee crisis that has unsettled the world, especially Europe, we commend the team that produced this series.
Read “Fleeing Syria” >>
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2015Evan Williams, Edward Watts and Raney AronsonPBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2015
Award Recipient: Evan Williams, Edward Watts and Raney Aronson
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Award Honored Work: “Escaping Isis”
Left to right: Evan Williams, Edward Watts and Raney Aronson.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2015
Award Recipient: Evan Williams, Edward Watts and Raney Aronson
Award Recipient Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Award Honored Work: “Escaping Isis”
“Escaping Isis” offers an exclusive, inside look at a secret underground cell working to free women and children from captivity. It was noted for its extraordinary access and carefully detailed depiction of daunting efforts to carry out extremely dangerous rescue work. One judge described the film as restorative journalism at its best, revealing the positive, successful efforts of those who have chosen to risk their lives to win freedom for less fortunate others. Beautifully written and edited, the film is a sensitive, humanizing portrayal of suffering and redemption.
Watch “Escaping ISIS” >>
Citation Recipient: Marine Olivesi
Affiliation: PRI/The World
Honored Work: “Trauma and the Syrian War”
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Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2015
Award Recipient: David Rohde and Charles Levinson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Guantanamo Bay”
David Rohde, left, and Charles Levinson.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2015
Award Recipient: David Rohde and Charles Levinson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: “Guantanamo Bay”
The team’s superb reporting addresses one of America’s biggest human rights failings: the continued existence of the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay. Among other revelations, they broke new ground about the prevalence of torture in Guantanamo Bay and the CIA’s sexual abuse of prisoners. Rohde and Levinson dug through thousands of pages of legal files to unearth information that had not been published previously. The series also explains why Guantanamo Bay still has not been closed and provides new information about the Military Commission, how a court meant to supervise Guantanamo was open to manipulation and how the transfer of prisoners was delayed by the Pentagon even after countries had been found to take them. This depressing and provocative series did what the best reporting should do: report unflinchingly what had been hidden.
Read “Guantanamo Bay” >>
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2015International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media PartnersInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media Partners
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2015
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media Partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media Partners
Award Honored Work: “Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor”
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2015
Award Recipient: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media Partners
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Huffington Post/Other Media Partners
Award Honored Work: “Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor”
Projects funded by the World Bank physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people over the past 10 years. More than 80 journalists from over 20 countries worked for more than a year documenting tragedies that occurred as bank-funded projects failed to abide by the institution’s principles and policies. The investigation was led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Huffington Post. Days after being informed of the reporting team’s findings, the World Bank said it would address the problem of “involuntary resettlement.” The investigation combines searing local reporting for both written and visual media, instructive data visualizations and a rigorous analysis of 4,000 World Bank files related to some 1,500 bank-funded projects.
Read “Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor” >>
Citation Recipients: Ian James, Steve Elfers, Steve Reilly
Affiliation: The Desert Sun/USA Today
Honored Work: “Pumped Dry: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater”
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2015Eduardo Castillo, Christopher Sherman and Dario Lopez-MillsThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2015
Award Recipient: Eduardo Castillo, Christopher Sherman and Dario Lopez-Mills
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Thousands of Mexican Families Mourn the ‘Other Disappeared’”
Left to right: Eduardo Castillo, Christopher Sherman and Dario Lopez-MillsAward Date: 2015
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2015
Award Recipient: Eduardo Castillo, Christopher Sherman and Dario Lopez-Mills
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: “Thousands of Mexican Families Mourn the ‘Other Disappeared’”
This powerful project examined the most urgent issue confronting Mexico and Latin America: impunity. Eduardo Castillo and Christopher Sherman used the notorious case of the abduction of 42 students in Iguala, Mexico, as the premise for a larger, more ambitious story about the pain and despair of a society in which 26,000 people have gone missing. The reporters explored a landscape of mafias, violence and corruption with skill, courage and empathy. The comprehensive series painted vivid human portraits: a cartel killer discussing his trade with grim nonchalance; the ordeal of a grandmother and her family in the labyrinth of the kidnapping industry; the dogged, dignified survivors who scour the mountains searching for the clandestine graves of missing loved ones. The result was a moving tale about Mexico’s national nightmare—and a stern indictment of a state that seems alternately complicit, overwhelmed or indifferent.
Read “Thousands of Mexican Families Mourn the ‘Other Disappeared'” >>
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2015Eleanor Bell, Will Fitzgibbon and Chris Zubak-SkeesThe Center for Public Integrity/International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Pulitzer Center
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2015
Award Recipient: Eleanor Bell, Will Fitzgibbon and Chris Zubak-Skees
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Center for Public Integrity/International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining in Africa”
Left to right: Eleanor Bell, Will Fitzgibbon and Chris Zubak-Skees.Award Date: 2015
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2015
Award Recipient: Eleanor Bell, Will Fitzgibbon and Chris Zubak-Skees
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Center for Public Integrity/International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Pulitzer Center
Award Honored Work: “Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining in Africa”
This unprecedented and ambitious multimedia project investigates Australia’s vast, unchecked footprint in the African mining industry to expose the massacres, torture, incarceration, negligence, displacement and hundreds of deaths ignored by the world for more than a decade. It lays bare how the quest for profits kept the industry poorly regulated and how ordinary men, women and children across Africa have paid the price. Compelling multimedia storytelling allowed viewers to see and hear directly from these victims and their families, whose voices are rarely heard by the outside world.
Read “Fatal Attraction: Australian Mining in Africa” >>
Citation Recipients: Ken Dornstein, Brian Funck and Michelle Mizner
Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Honored Work: “My Brother’s Bomber, Inheritance, The Libya Dossier, A Brother’s Quest”
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2015Erika Solomon, Sam Jones, Ahmad Mhidi, Guy Chazan and Robin KwongFinancial Times
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2015
Award Recipient: Erika Solomon, Sam Jones, Ahmad Mhidi, Guy Chazan and Robin Kwong
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: “ISIS Inc.”
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2015
Award Recipient: Erika Solomon, Sam Jones, Ahmad Mhidi, Guy Chazan and Robin Kwong
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: “ISIS Inc.”
This powerful and revealing series turned a spotlight on the inner workings of one of the most opaque and dangerous organizations in the world. This groundbreaking investigation into ISIS’s oil trading and financial operations was based on resourceful, brave and deep reporting into where the extremist group gets its revenue and how it exploits and extorts from just about everyone in the territory it controls. The crisp, well-organized stories were aided by excellent explanatory graphics.
Read “Isis Inc.” in the Financial Times >>
Citation Recipient: Ken Dornstein, Brian Funck and Raney Aronson
Affiliation: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
Honored Work: “My Brother’s Bomber”
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Award Date: 2015
Award Name: Best Commentary 2015
Award Recipient: Mark Lilla
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Review of Books
Award Honored Work: “On France”
Mark LillaAward Date: 2015
Award Name: Best Commentary 2015
Award Recipient: Mark Lilla
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Review of Books
Award Honored Work: “On France”
This is a rare case where a panel of journalists looked outside its own tribe and picked an academic: Mark Lilla’s masterful articles on France are a taxonomy of French politics, ideas and intellectual currents, all of it illuminating a year that began with the traumatic terrorist assault on Charlie Hebdo. In trenchant prose, his work combines a shrewd assessment of French current events with an impressive command of French history and literature—a rare example of commentary that is at once journalistic and scholarly, and deeply informed.
Read Mark Lilla’s work in The New York Review of Books >>
Citation Recipient: Bobby Ghosh
Affiliation: Quartz
Honored Work: “What the Iran Nuclear Deal Means for the Middle East”
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Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The President’s Award 2015
Award Recipient: David Rohde
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2015
Award Name: The President’s Award 2015
Award Recipient: David Rohde
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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2014Adam Nossiter, Nori Onishi, Sheri Fink, Helene Cooper and The New York Times staffThe New York Times
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 01 The Hal Boyle Award 2014
Award Recipient: Adam Nossiter, Nori Onishi, Sheri Fink, Helene Cooper and The New York Times staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Ebola from the Front Line
Clockwise from top left: Adam Nossiter, Nori Onishi, Sheri Fink and Helene Cooper.Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 01 The Hal Boyle Award 2014
Award Recipient: Adam Nossiter, Nori Onishi, Sheri Fink, Helene Cooper and The New York Times staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Ebola from the Front Line
When the world’s attention focused on the devastating spread of Ebola in West Africa, reporters for The New York Times delivered, day after day, foreign correspondence at its best. In a series of powerful stories, Times correspondents captured the crisis in all its dimensions – writing lyrically about the human drama and delivering smartly analytical pieces about the global effort to stop the disease’s spread and where that effort went wrong. They also dug beneath the surface of the unfolding disaster with stories that showed a deep understanding of the continent, writing sensitively about the toll the disease was taking on African cultural traditions such as hand-holding in church and kissing friends and relatives. In the tradition of Hal Boyle, for whom this award is named, Times reporters never shied away from the front lines despite the risk. In one memorable piece, the Times wrote about the death of a star basketball player in Liberia and several generations of a household destroyed. In another, a 4-year-old orphaned by Ebola roams a clinic looking for someone to take her home, another soul adrift.
Read some of the winning stories:
Fear of Ebola Breeds a Terror of Physicians >>
Ebola’s Cultural Casualty: Hugs in Hands-on Liberia >>
Those Who Serve Ebola Victims Soldier On >>
A Family Shattered:
Loving Care Turns
Into a Deadly Risk >>Ebola Victim Went From Liberian War to a Fight for Life >>
Cuts at W.H.O.
Hurt Response
To Ebola Crisis >>An Ebola Orphan’s Plea: ‘Do You Want Me?’ >>
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2014Sergei Loiko and Carol WilliamsLos Angeles Times
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 02 The Bob Considine Award 2014
Award Recipient: Sergei Loiko and Carol Williams
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: Ukraine: A Nation Torn Apart
Sergei Loiko, left, and Carol WilliamsAward Date: 2014
Award Name: 02 The Bob Considine Award 2014
Award Recipient: Sergei Loiko and Carol Williams
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: Ukraine: A Nation Torn Apart
The Los Angeles Times coverage of the Ukrainian conflict stood out from the rest for its guts, credibility, originality, depth and sophistication of interpretation, and its engaging writing style that made every story a gripping and compelling read. The intimacy of detail – the shattered glass of the airport terminal, the magic helmet, the bullet hole described to the second decimal point, the minibus from hell – combined with sophisticated analysis of how the economic effects disrupted everyone’s daily lives. The reporters’ bravery took us to places we hadn’t seen before.
L.A. Times – Ukraine: A nation Torn Apart
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2014Marcus BleasdaleHuman Rights Watch, Foreign Policy and National Geographic Magazine
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2014
Award Recipient: Marcus Bleasdale
Award Recipient Affiliation: Human Rights Watch, Foreign Policy and National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: Central African Republic Inferno
Marcus BleasdaleAward Date: 2014
Award Name: 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2014
Award Recipient: Marcus Bleasdale
Award Recipient Affiliation: Human Rights Watch, Foreign Policy and National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: Central African Republic Inferno
Marcus Bleasdale viscerally captured the brutal violence in the Central African Republic at a time when the world’s attention was focused on ISIS, Ukraine and other crises. His menacing, unnerving images of chaos had a profound impact on the judges. The images place the viewer in the moment in a way that demands and holds attention.
See winning photos >>
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2014Jérôme SessiniMagnum Photos, TIME and De Standaard
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 04 The Olivier Rebbot Award 2014
Award Recipient: Jérôme Sessini
Award Recipient Affiliation: Magnum Photos, TIME and De Standaard
Award Honored Work: Crime Without Punishment
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 04 The Olivier Rebbot Award 2014
Award Recipient: Jérôme Sessini
Award Recipient Affiliation: Magnum Photos, TIME and De Standaard
Award Honored Work: Crime Without Punishment
Jérôme Sessini’s photographs of the wreckage of a Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over eastern Ukraine last year captured imagery that is profoundly elegiac. There is a quiet strength that propels the narrative and shows the horrors in a manner that doesn’t make the viewer turn away from what is a difficult scene to process.
See winning photos >>
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Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 05 The John Faber Award 2014
Award Recipient: Bulent Kilic
Award Recipient Affiliation: Agence France Presse
Award Honored Work: Euromaidan Revolution in Kiev
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 05 The John Faber Award 2014
Award Recipient: Bulent Kilic
Award Recipient Affiliation: Agence France Presse
Award Honored Work: Euromaidan Revolution in Kiev
Bulent Kilic brings viewers right into Ukraine’s revolution, capturing the chaos of the moment. His work is inspired visual reporting under difficult conditions. Each image can stand alone, and together they form a strong narrative.
See winning photos >>
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2014Rodrigo AbdThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 06 Best Feature Photography Award 2014
Award Recipient: Rodrigo Abd
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Peru's Illegal Gold Mining
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 06 Best Feature Photography Award 2014
Award Recipient: Rodrigo Abd
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Peru's Illegal Gold Mining
Rodrigo Abd shines a light on an underreported subject, the threat looming for 20,000 wildcat gold miners in Peru. His photographs are intimate and straightforward, documenting the subject without stylistic trickery, enhancing their journalistic value.
See winning photos >>
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2014Marine Olivesi and Aaron SchachterPRI’s The World
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 07 The Lowell Thomas Award 2014
Award Recipient: Marine Olivesi and Aaron Schachter
Award Recipient Affiliation: PRI’s The World
Award Honored Work: Repercussions of the Arab Spring
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 07 The Lowell Thomas Award 2014
Award Recipient: Marine Olivesi and Aaron Schachter
Award Recipient Affiliation: PRI’s The World
Award Honored Work: Repercussions of the Arab Spring
In a series of stories for PRI, Marine Olivesi describes the ordinary people whose lives have been torn apart by extremism around the Middle East, from a young Libyan freedom fighter desperately searching for a brother who has joined jihadis in Syria to the fellow who regrets bringing Chechen fighters into Syria. Olivesi is a brave, enterprising, creative young reporter who took on an extremely ambitious assignment that goes way beyond the headlines to examine the origins and outcomes of extremism.
Listen to the winning stories:
The Death of a Teen Activist Marks a New Low in Benghazi’s Violence >>
Getting This Man’s Brother Back Alive From Syria Would Be ‘Nothing Short of a Miracle’ >>
Why This Syrian Man Regrets Bringing Al-Qaeda Fighters Into His Country >>
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2014Nick Schifrin, Philip Maravilla and Ben MulkeyAl Jazeera America
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 08 The David Kaplan Award 2014
Award Recipient: Nick Schifrin, Philip Maravilla and Ben Mulkey
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera America
Award Honored Work: Conflict in Gaza
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 08 The David Kaplan Award 2014
Award Recipient: Nick Schifrin, Philip Maravilla and Ben Mulkey
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera America
Award Honored Work: Conflict in Gaza
The reporting of Nick Schifrin and his crew from Gaza for Al Jazeera America distinguished itself in a field crowded with excellence. It offered a seamless shifting of perspective from both sides of the border; empathy shown by reports from, in some cases, the living rooms of the ordinary people caught in the crossfire; and brevity and wit in writing.
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2014Rachel Boynton and Simon KilmurryPOV, PBS and American Documentary Inc.
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 09 The Edward R. Murrow Award 2014
Award Recipient: Rachel Boynton and Simon Kilmurry
Award Recipient Affiliation: POV, PBS and American Documentary Inc.
Award Honored Work: Big Men
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 09 The Edward R. Murrow Award 2014
Award Recipient: Rachel Boynton and Simon Kilmurry
Award Recipient Affiliation: POV, PBS and American Documentary Inc.
Award Honored Work: Big Men
A surprising story that takes the viewer to an unexpected place and introduces unconventional characters. “Big Men’’ unpacks a single oil deal, in the Republic of Ghana, and examines it, Rashomon-like, from the points of view of oilmen, venture capitalists, militants, human-rights activists, politicians and citizens of other countries who have endured the same plight. It reveals a farrago of politics, corruption and greed that attends the commercialization of natural resources in developing nations. Deeply reported and compellingly told, this is investigative journalism of the highest order.
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2014Matthieu Aikins and Sebastiano TomadaMedium / Matter
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award 2014
Award Recipient: Matthieu Aikins and Sebastiano Tomada
Award Recipient Affiliation: Medium / Matter
Award Honored Work: Whoever Saves a Life
Matthieu Aikins, left, and Sebastiano TomadaAward Date: 2014
Award Name: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award 2014
Award Recipient: Matthieu Aikins and Sebastiano Tomada
Award Recipient Affiliation: Medium / Matter
Award Honored Work: Whoever Saves a Life
In the best tradition of wartime storytelling, Aikins’s vivid characters offer a truly fresh window into the Syrian conflict. The wisecracking, passionate young men, a volunteer rescue team in Aleppo, remain with us long after reading. In an inspirational and even funny story, Aikins captures the friends’ longings and doubts with astute empathy. Despite intense risks to himself, Aikins keeps himself out of his understated prose, which is enriched by the quiet photographs of Tomada. A reminder that the essence of war lies in these intimate moments, far from the halls of diplomatic power. Aikins is a freelance journalist and Schell Fellow at the Nation Institute.
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2014Signe WilkinsonPhiladelphia Daily News
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 11 The Thomas Nast Award 2014
Award Recipient: Signe Wilkinson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Philadelphia Daily News
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Signe Wilkinson (self portrait)Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 11 The Thomas Nast Award 2014
Award Recipient: Signe Wilkinson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Philadelphia Daily News
Award Honored Work: Best cartoons on international affairs
Signe Wilkinson wades into the big story and emerges with fresh ideas, delivering an alternative take on events explored by others. Her original treatment provokes thinking on many of the most important issues of the day. The missile targeting terrorists also targets people living near them; the search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is made even more difficult by an ocean full of floating junk. Signe is often irreverent – and funny.
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2014Cam Simpson and Jesse WestbrookBloomberg
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 12 The Morton Frank Award 2014
Award Recipient: Cam Simpson and Jesse Westbrook
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg
Award Honored Work: The Hedge Fund and the Despot
Cam Simpson, left, and Jesse WestbrookAward Date: 2014
Award Name: 12 The Morton Frank Award 2014
Award Recipient: Cam Simpson and Jesse Westbrook
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg
Award Honored Work: The Hedge Fund and the Despot
Six years after Robert Mugabe brutalized the opposition to win re-election in 2008 as president of Zimbabwe, Bloomberg reporters Cam Simpson and Jesse Westbrook set out to trace a $100 million cash infusion originating from a U.S. hedge fund that helped prop up his dictatorial, financially hard-pressed regime at a crucial moment. In this well-written, diligently researched page-turner, Simpson and Westbrook raised the veil on a series of financial transactions involving the Wall Street hedge fund, bankers and mining companies headquartered in London, shell companies and a rich platinum mining claim in Zimbabwe controlled by the government. Their account shows how global investments can end up in treacherous hands with terrible unintended consequences. Much of the reporting was done from afar after Simpson went to Zimbabwe with a valid visa, only to have government officials there threaten his arrest and force him to flee.
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Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 13 The Malcolm Forbes Award 2014
Award Recipient: Stephen Grey and Reuters team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: Comrade Capitalism
Stephen GreyAward Date: 2014
Award Name: 13 The Malcolm Forbes Award 2014
Award Recipient: Stephen Grey and Reuters team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: Comrade Capitalism
This series of nine stories showed how President Vladimir Putin and his billionaire friends control the Russian economy and siphon off billions of dollars for themselves. Reuters was the first news organization to document how contracts and money moved through offshore tax havens because it was able to obtain access to confidential bank and travel databases. The corruption extended even to the supply of a Russian rocket to the U.S. space program.
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Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award 2014
Award Recipient: Evan Osnos
Award Recipient Affiliation: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Award Honored Work: Age of Ambition
Evan OsnosAward Date: 2014
Award Name: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award 2014
Award Recipient: Evan Osnos
Award Recipient Affiliation: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Award Honored Work: Age of Ambition
A powerful look into the soul of China as its 1.3 billion inhabitants clamor for economic and spiritual success after decades of deprivation. The book is distinguished by Osnos’s ability to penetrate Chinese society at all levels and tell revealing stories about the country’s breakneck transformation. The writing is elegant, and the first-hand reporting breaks new ground in explaining the trajectory of today’s China.
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2014Jason Motlagh and Atish SahaThe Virginia Quarterly Review
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 15 The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2014
Award Recipient: Jason Motlagh and Atish Saha
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Award Honored Work: The Ghosts of Rana Plaza
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 15 The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2014
Award Recipient: Jason Motlagh and Atish Saha
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Award Honored Work: The Ghosts of Rana Plaza
The Madeline Dane Ross Award goes to the best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition. That requirement is impossible to quantify – it must be felt. Of the nearly 40 submissions to this category, “The Ghosts of Rana Plaza” evoked the deepest of feelings, of sympathy for and outrage over the horrendous death of 1,100 workers in Dhaka as a result of a factory collapse on April 24, 2013. The piece renders in heartbreaking detail the humanity of the victims and their would-be rescuers, linking them to all of us through the clothing that Bangladesh produces in vast quantities for the rest of the world. Our cheap jeans come at the cost of their lives. The story was painstakingly reported by Jason Motlagh, movingly photographed by Motlagh and Atish Saha and superbly edited and presented by the Virginia Quarterly Review.
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2014Josh Fine and David ScottHBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 16 The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2014
Award Recipient: Josh Fine and David Scott
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Award Honored Work: The Price of Glory
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 16 The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2014
Award Recipient: Josh Fine and David Scott
Award Recipient Affiliation: HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Award Honored Work: The Price of Glory
“The Price of Glory” is enterprise reporting at its best from three countries: Josh Fine and team reported from Qatar and Doha’s labor camps building new facilities for the 2022 World Cup; from Bulgaria where an Olympic weightlifting team was purchased wholesale; and followed coffins of migrant construction workers home to Nepal. A Qatar government official is visibly shocked the HBO team got access to labor camps, claims hundreds of 2022 World Cup worker deaths are “normal,” then walks out of an interview. This feature spotlights abusive conditions, needless worker deaths and the immense wealth that covers it up.conditions, needless worker deaths and the immense wealth that covers it up.
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2014Samuel Black, Anjali Kamat and the Fault Lines teamAl Jazeera America
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 17 The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2014
Award Recipient: Samuel Black, Anjali Kamat and the Fault Lines team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera America
Award Honored Work: Fault Lines: America’s War Workers
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 17 The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2014
Award Recipient: Samuel Black, Anjali Kamat and the Fault Lines team
Award Recipient Affiliation: Al Jazeera America
Award Honored Work: Fault Lines: America’s War Workers
A stunning example of what good journalism can do to expose labor abuses, “America’s War Workers” is beautifully filmed with unforgettable images and interviews. The team traveled to India and the Middle East and interviewed dozens of workers, providing irrefutable evidence about the exploitation of contract workers on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan. They exposed the intermediaries who charge the poor for menial jobs on U.S military bases and described how the checks put in place by the U.S. government do little to halt the systemic violation of its own laws as well as international conventions on human and labor rights.
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Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 18 The Whitman Bassow Award 2014
Award Recipient: Nick Miroff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: Pushing South
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 18 The Whitman Bassow Award 2014
Award Recipient: Nick Miroff
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: Pushing South
In five lengthy and deeply reported stories, Nick Miroff explored the latest rush for resources across South America and the complex and often devastating impacts that have accompanied the hunt for riches. From the quest for oil in Ecuador to gold mining camps in Peru to palm oil plantations in Colombia, Miroff landed us in one often-forgotten place after another, and did so using elegant and vivid prose. He avoided clichés and offered a contextual depth by framing ethnic rivalries against their political and environmental backgrounds, and showed how the pressures brought by industries have not only caused ecological harm but also exacerbated cultural conflicts. In a contemporary twist on the typical boom story, Miroff demonstrated how drops in commodity prices tend to increase dependence on foreign investment, spur still more development to increase commodity volume, and further environmental degradation.
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2014Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Tracy Wilkinson, Kate Linthicum, Don Bartletti and Cindy CarcamoThe Los Angeles Times
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2014
Award Recipient: Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Tracy Wilkinson, Kate Linthicum, Don Bartletti and Cindy Carcamo
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: A Wave of Migrants
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2014
Award Recipient: Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Tracy Wilkinson, Kate Linthicum, Don Bartletti and Cindy Carcamo
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: A Wave of Migrants
The Los Angeles Times’s intrepid team of reporters and photographers gave a rich and complex picture of the surge of unaccompanied minors traveling from Mexico into south Texas, tracing their journey from Guatemala and Honduras up to the border and showing efforts in the U.S. and Mexico to stop the flow. Reporting from four countries, the Times team provided exceptional context, analysis and details of this immigration crisis. The commitment to the story showed in the quality of the reporting. The first story by Molly Hennessy-Fiske set out the coverage at overwhelmed immigration facilities at the beginning of the crisis.
Don Bartletti’s riveting photographs documented one boy’s journey across the border. Kate Linthicum, Cindy Caracamo and Tracy Wilkinson’s strong writing and reporting rounded out the coverage.
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2014Steve Inskeep, Kainaz Amaria and NPR staffNPR
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 20 Best Multimedia News Presentation 2014
Award Recipient: Steve Inskeep, Kainaz Amaria and NPR staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR
Award Honored Work: Borderland
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 20 Best Multimedia News Presentation 2014
Award Recipient: Steve Inskeep, Kainaz Amaria and NPR staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: NPR
Award Honored Work: Borderland
Technically flawless, “Borderland” is a simple idea but brilliant in its approach and execution. This thorough report documents the world that exists on the 2,248-mile U.S.-Mexico border – and tells the stories of those who live in a world of human smuggling, drugs and poverty – through the combined efforts of NPR radio reporters, web developers, data experts, producers and photographers.
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Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 21 Best Investigative Reporting 2014
Award Recipient: C.J. Chivers
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Secret Casualties
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 21 Best Investigative Reporting 2014
Award Recipient: C.J. Chivers
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Secret Casualties
Deep reporting, meticulous research, strong writing and the overall craft of assembling data, graphics and photos made The New York Times’s investigative series “Secret Casualties” the hands-down winner for investigative reporting this year. The series established a pattern of secrecy by the U.S. military for hiding from its own soldiers dangerous contamination from chemical munitions.
The series peeled away layer after layer of outrage and injustice – from learning that the U.S. actually cooperated closely with Iraqis in producing the weapons to stating flatly that the government was hiding from its own soldiers the illegal weapons that were at the very heart of the reason the nation went to war.
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Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 22 Best Commentary 2014
Award Recipient: Matthew Kaminski
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: On Ukraine
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: 22 Best Commentary 2014
Award Recipient: Matthew Kaminski
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: On Ukraine
Matthew Kaminski moved across Eurasia to view the same events from different points of view and offered beautifully written commentary that conveyed the urgency of unfolding history. His writing was engaging, compelling and informative. He weaved personal observations and detailed reporting to the argument and humanized the stories. He is someone we would all love to read again.
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Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The President’s Award 2014
Award Recipient: Bob Simon
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2014
Award Name: The President’s Award 2014
Award Recipient: Bob Simon
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2013
Award Recipient: Rukmini Callimachi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Al-Qaida’s Papers
Rukmini CallimachiAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2013
Award Recipient: Rukmini Callimachi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Al-Qaida’s Papers
Best newspaper, news service or online reporting from abroad
AP’s Rukmini Callimachi won both the Hal Boyle and Bob Considine awards for her reporting on a trove of al-Qaida documents uncovered in Mali. She is the first reporter ever to win both awards in the same year.
At great personal risk, Callimachi traversed a desert route through Mali, alone and with militants close behind her, to uncover one of the most significant troves of al-Qaida documents ever made public. Her sly, witty and sharply observed accounts of al Qaida’s operation, goals and mindset — from penny-pinching to public stonings — shed light on an organization that, despite more than a decade of war, remains largely opaque. From one of the most dangerous places on earth, she gave voice to civilians crushed under jihadist rule and followed in the footsteps of fighters at the scene of the biggest battle against al-Qaida in years.
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Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2013
Award Recipient: Rukmini Callimachi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Al-Qaida’s Papers
Rukmini CallimachiAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2013
Award Recipient: Rukmini Callimachi
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Al-Qaida’s Papers
Best newspaper, news service or online interpretation of international affairs
AP’s Rukmini Callimachi won both the Hal Boyle and Bob Considine awards for her reporting on a trove of al-Qaida documents uncovered in Mali. She is the first reporter ever to win both awards in the same year.
Callimachi captured the chaotic aftermath of the takeover of Timbuktu by al-Qaida fighters. The thousands of pages of documents she found strewn in 10 buildings, formerly occupied by the fighters, led her on a painstaking journey of verification, and it resulted in stories that painted a fascinating portrait of al-Qaida’s presence in Africa. Her work —courageous, resourceful, persistent and sensitive—resonated with the authority of a reporter who understood the people and history of Timbuktu. In particular, she vividly captured what came in the wake of al-Qaida’s departure—a brutal, opportunistic mission by Mali’s military to target light-skinned Arabs and Tuaregs who looked like the vanquished invaders. She documented the efforts of family members to find the remains of the victims, and her elegant first-person piece was a model of the form, reported without fear and written with restraint.
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Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2013
Award Recipient: Tyler Hicks
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Attack on a Kenyan Mall
Tyler HicksAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2013
Award Recipient: Tyler Hicks
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Attack on a Kenyan Mall
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
Every frame tells the story of a terrifying and dangerous situation. The photographer is at obvious risk, yet he continues to photograph multiple scenarios and stays on scene to document the horrors and aftermath of the attack.
See winning photos >>
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Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2013
Award Recipient: Robert Nickelsberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: Prestel
Award Honored Work: Afghanistan - A Distant War
Robert NickelsbergAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2013
Award Recipient: Robert Nickelsberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: Prestel
Award Honored Work: Afghanistan - A Distant War
Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books
The winner displayed an unparalleled commitment to the story and topic. The depth of his years-long reporting shows a unique perspective and helps brings a deeper understanding to a critical geopolitical topic.
See winning photos >>
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Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2013
Award Recipient: Jerome Delay
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Central African Republic Unrest
Jerome DelayAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2013
Award Recipient: Jerome Delay
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Central African Republic Unrest
Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers or news services
The highest standards of news photography are displayed in the winner’s work. The images powerfully convey the situation with unflinching directness from this underreported and continuing African conflict.
See winning photos >>
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2013Marcus BleasdaleVII for National Geographic
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2013
Award Recipient: Marcus Bleasdale
Award Recipient Affiliation: VII for National Geographic
Award Honored Work: The Last of the Viking Whalers
Marcus BleasdaleAward Date: 2013
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2013
Award Recipient: Marcus Bleasdale
Award Recipient Affiliation: VII for National Geographic
Award Honored Work: The Last of the Viking Whalers
Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme
Completely original photographic storytelling executed perfectly. The work is technically superior and each frame is a unique version of the overall story. The flawless edit gave insight into a rarely reported subject.
See winning photos >>
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Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2013
Award Recipient: Leila Fadel
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Public Radio
Award Honored Work: Egypt: A Tumultuous Year
Leila FadelAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2013
Award Recipient: Leila Fadel
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Public Radio
Award Honored Work: Egypt: A Tumultuous Year
Best radio news or interpretation of international affairs
Leila Fadel draws listeners in with engaging reporting and storytelling from Egypt, capturing the complexities of a country in turmoil through a riveting series that puts listeners in the middle of violence on the streets, at a morgue of the unclaimed dead and in a family home to illustrate the anguish of a nation torn.
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2013Charlie D’Agata, Patricia Shevlin, Heather Abbott, Randall Joyce, Haithem Moussa, Alex OrtizCBS Evening News
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2013
Award Recipient: Charlie D’Agata, Patricia Shevlin, Heather Abbott, Randall Joyce, Haithem Moussa, Alex Ortiz
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS Evening News
Award Honored Work: Crackdown in Cairo
Charlie D’AgataAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2013
Award Recipient: Charlie D’Agata, Patricia Shevlin, Heather Abbott, Randall Joyce, Haithem Moussa, Alex Ortiz
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS Evening News
Award Honored Work: Crackdown in Cairo
Best TV spot news reporting from abroad
Correspondent Charlie D’Agata and producer Randall Joyce risked their lives reporting on what was to become one of the bloodiest and most important weeks in Egypt’s history. They were on the front lines with protesters in Tahrir Square as the military regime’s crackdown intensified and the bodies piled up, telling us their harrowing stories. What stood out was this team’s bravery, knowing they could have been killed at any time. They put their lives on the line so the truth about what was happening to the Egyptian people could be known.
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2013Ric Esther Bienstock, Felix Golubev, Simcha Jacobovici, Sheila Nevins, Nancy AbrahamAssociated Producers Ltd. for HBO Documentary Films
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2013
Award Recipient: Ric Esther Bienstock, Felix Golubev, Simcha Jacobovici, Sheila Nevins, Nancy Abraham
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Producers Ltd. for HBO Documentary Films
Award Honored Work: Tales from the Organ Trade
Left to right: Ric Esther Bienstock, Felix Golubev and Simcha Jacobovici.Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2013
Award Recipient: Ric Esther Bienstock, Felix Golubev, Simcha Jacobovici, Sheila Nevins, Nancy Abraham
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Producers Ltd. for HBO Documentary Films
Award Honored Work: Tales from the Organ Trade
In the finest tradition of Edward R. Murrow, this documentary challenges everything you thought you knew about the illegal trade in kidneys and the international campaign to stop it. Through interviews with donors, recipients, go-betweens, doctors and prosecutors from North America to Israel and Eastern Europe to the Philippines, the filmmakers provide a rare look at how an illegally acquired kidney reaches a sick person and how both desperation and good will drive the trade.
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2013Rowan JacobsenHarper’s Magazine
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2013
Award Recipient: Rowan Jacobsen
Award Recipient Affiliation: Harper’s Magazine
Award Honored Work: "The Homeless Herd: An Indian Village Battles an Elephant Invasion"
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2013
Award Recipient: Rowan Jacobsen
Award Recipient Affiliation: Harper’s Magazine
Award Honored Work: "The Homeless Herd: An Indian Village Battles an Elephant Invasion"
Rowan Jacobsen’s beautifully crafted story about a herd of displaced elephants terrorizing a farming community in India is magazine writing at its best. It took us into a world we didn’t know existed and taught us something new about the larger conflict between animal and man in vivid and compelling detail. It’s a testament to the power of his reporting and narrative that the story magically stayed with us long after we read it.
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Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2013
Award Recipient: Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Economist and Baltimore Sun
Award Honored Work:
Kevin (KAL) KallaugherAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2013
Award Recipient: Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Economist and Baltimore Sun
Award Honored Work:
Best cartoons on international affairs
In a strong year for political cartoons, Kevin Kallaugher’s work stood out for its clarity, visual élan and mordant humor. From the war in Syria to the power struggle in Egypt to the Obama Administration’s use of unmanned drones, Kallaugher’s finely wrought sketches offered consistently provocative and often surprising takes on the year’s biggest international stories.
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Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2013
Award Recipient: Kerry Dolan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Forbes
Award Honored Work: "Prince of Insecurity"
Kerry DolanAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2013
Award Recipient: Kerry Dolan
Award Recipient Affiliation: Forbes
Award Honored Work: "Prince of Insecurity"
Best international business news reporting in magazines
This reexamination by Forbes of one of its “Rich List” constituents unmasked the myth of Prince Alwaleed as the “Buffett of Arabia.” Kerry Dolan’s reporting and analysis revealed a pattern by the Prince of “systematically exaggerating” the market value of Kingdom Holding, his publicly traded company, and other assets while misleading journalists and the public about his real net worth and his golden touch as an international investor.
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2013Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Yeganeh Torbati and Reuters staffReuters
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2013
Award Recipient: Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Yeganeh Torbati and Reuters staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: Assets of the Ayatollah
Left to right: Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Yeganeh Torbati.Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2013
Award Recipient: Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Yeganeh Torbati and Reuters staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: Reuters
Award Honored Work: Assets of the Ayatollah
The judges were impressed by Reuters’ ability to piece together how Iran’s top religious cleric, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had amassed a financial empire worth $95 billion, rivaling the wealth of the late Shah. In a three-part series, Stecklow and colleagues drew a devastating portrait of how Khamenei had secured a position in nearly every sector of Iran’s economy through a little-known agency called Setad. Reuters took major risks in investigating the ayatollah.
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2013Jonathan KatzPalgrave Macmillan
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2013
Award Recipient: Jonathan Katz
Award Recipient Affiliation: Palgrave Macmillan
Award Honored Work: The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
Jonathan KatzAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2013
Award Recipient: Jonathan Katz
Award Recipient Affiliation: Palgrave Macmillan
Award Honored Work: The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
A riveting first-person account of the Haitian earthquake and the failure of the international relief effort by the former Associated Press bureau chief in Port-au-Prince. Jonathan Katz impressively weaves together the dramatic events of the earthquake and its aftermath, including a United Nations-induced cholera epidemic. He highlights the self-defeating efforts of NGOs to deal with the tragedy and the impotence and corruption of Haiti’s government.
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2013Adriana Gomez LiconThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2013
Award Recipient: Adriana Gomez Licon
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Death of a Beauty Queen
Adriana Gomez LiconAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2013
Award Recipient: Adriana Gomez Licon
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Death of a Beauty Queen
Adriana Gomez Licon ventured deep into an area of Mexico where journalists operate under constant risk of attack. Reporting alone, and with considerable initiative, she pieced together details of the death of a young woman killed in a shootout between the cartels. The result is a compelling narrative, meticulously reported with a fine eye for detail and dialogue, which offers an illuminating look inside the drug wars. The reporter went to admirable lengths to illustrate the human cost of the violence.
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2013Habiba Nosheen, Hilke Schellmann, Hemal Trivedi and Dan SugarmanWGBH – Frontline, ITVS, Pulitzer Center and H2H Films
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2013
Award Recipient: Habiba Nosheen, Hilke Schellmann, Hemal Trivedi and Dan Sugarman
Award Recipient Affiliation: WGBH – Frontline, ITVS, Pulitzer Center and H2H Films
Award Honored Work: Outlawed in Pakistan
Left to right: Habiba Nosheen, Hilke Schellmann, Hemal Trivedi and Dan Sugarman.Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2013
Award Recipient: Habiba Nosheen, Hilke Schellmann, Hemal Trivedi and Dan Sugarman
Award Recipient Affiliation: WGBH – Frontline, ITVS, Pulitzer Center and H2H Films
Award Honored Work: Outlawed in Pakistan
“Outlawed in Pakistan” shows how and why it is nearly impossible for rape victims to get justice in Pakistan. This compelling and beautifully filmed Frontline documentary follows 13-year-old Kainat and her family over a period of years as she tries—and fails—to bring to justice the men who allegedly gang-raped her. In the process, the reporters spotlight conditions for women, abuses under Islamic law and serious police failings. Frontline and the filmmakers give the full picture of what a nightmare it is to bring a rape case in Pakistan.
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2013Cam SimpsonBloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2013
Award Recipient: Cam Simpson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: Tech’s Hidden Price
Cam SimpsonAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2013
Award Recipient: Cam Simpson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: Tech’s Hidden Price
Bloomberg’s series showed the grim reality of the life of workers who make the shiny Apple phones so coveted by the world’s consumers. The stories by Cam Simpson were impressively detailed. He went down the supply chain to write about migration, the tactics of recruiters and life in the Himalayan villages that supplied the bonded labor to Apple’s subcontractors. Simpson also questioned the contractors and Apple about their practices. His eye for detail made the story compelling. Weeks after reading it we still remember the images of the stranded workers in Malaysia forced to eat rice flakes after their contracts were abruptly terminated, then returning home still in debt to the brokers who had sold them the right to jobs at the factories of Apple’s supplier.
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2013Craig Welch and photographer Steve RingmanThe Seattle Times
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2013
Award Recipient: Craig Welch and photographer Steve Ringman
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Seattle Times
Award Honored Work: Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn
Craig Welch, left, and Steve Ringman.Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2013
Award Recipient: Craig Welch and photographer Steve Ringman
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Seattle Times
Award Honored Work: Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn
The Seattle Time’s five-part examination of carbon’s effects on our oceans represents an extraordinary effort: fresh, important, and dynamic in its presentation and depth. Times reporter Craig Welch and photographer Steve Ringman took on a subject of crucial scientific and environmental importance that is under-covered and classically challenging to convey to readers. They did it ambitiously and gracefully, finding stories that connected their local economy with larger global issues, and with creative images that were engaging and added a sense of wonderment. The Times demonstrated its commitment to the project with excellent video production, an interactive web presentation and prominent placement in print that elevated the overall effort.
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2013Simon RomeroThe New York Times
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2013
Award Recipient: Simon Romero
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Latin America’s New Paths
Simon RomeroAward Date: 2013
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2013
Award Recipient: Simon Romero
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: Latin America’s New Paths
Simon Romero’s rich reporting and elegant writing provided readers with compelling stories that shed light on a variety of issues across Latin America. His insights on the factors driving protests in Brazil were deep and were accompanied by relevant stories such as those on public rage catching up with the country’s Congress, outsized pay in the civil service and the fact that the ruling leftist party was perplexed by the protests. His ability to weave cultural and political context into his reporting helps readers better appreciate the events he covered, be it from Venezuela, where his obituary of Hugo Chavez cast a spotlight on the state of the revolution he created; Argentina, for stories on its native son, the new pope; and even tiny Uruguay, to profile the president and his austere lifestyle.
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2013Alex BlumbergPlanet Money and NPR Visuals, National Public Radio
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2013
Award Recipient: Alex Blumberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: Planet Money and NPR Visuals, National Public Radio
Award Honored Work: Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
Alex BlumbergAward Date: 2013
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2013
Award Recipient: Alex Blumberg
Award Recipient Affiliation: Planet Money and NPR Visuals, National Public Radio
Award Honored Work: Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
“Planet Money” creators found a way to add an additional layer to its multimedia by not only presenting their findings, but also by producing T-shirts—the actual item about which they are reporting. In doing so, they tackle a subject we might think too familiar and show us much we don’t know. It melds text and video so that they don’t just coexist, they complement and amplify one another, with layers and layers of information adding to the audience experience.
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2013Gerard RyleInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Center for Public Integrity
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2013
Award Recipient: Gerard Ryle
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Center for Public Integrity
Award Honored Work: Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
Gerard RyleAward Date: 2013
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2013
Award Recipient: Gerard Ryle
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Center for Public Integrity
Award Honored Work: Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
“Secrecy for Sale” is a ground-breaking project in the digital age. It is a true tour de force in which a very large team came together to assess, report and analyze a massive trove of data about a secret world of off shore accounts hidden from the eyes of governments and citizens. Villains were named and shamed, while the underworld in which they thrived was revealed and explained with precision and depth. The project was accomplished through the effective management of many editorial partnerships and Gerard Ryle deserves enormous credit for pulling together the whole team so effectively.
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2013Martin WolfFinancial Times
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: Best Commentary 2013
Award Recipient: Martin Wolf
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: Best commentary on international news in any medium
Martin WolfAward Date: 2013
Award Name: Best Commentary 2013
Award Recipient: Martin Wolf
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times
Award Honored Work: Best commentary on international news in any medium
Wolf is not afraid to express a sharp point of view, thoroughly backed up with fact. His depth of knowledge on politics, economics and environmental issues is striking, and it gives his writing a calm authority. His tone is pragmatic in the best way—firm but not strident, convincing but never shrill. And he does more than criticize—he also offers well-thought-out solutions.
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Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The President’s Award 2013
Award Recipient: Tom Brokaw
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2013
Award Name: The President’s Award 2013
Award Recipient: Tom Brokaw
Award Recipient Affiliation: NBC
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2012
Award Recipient: Raja Abdulrahim
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: Inside Syria
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2012
Award Recipient: Raja Abdulrahim
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
Award Honored Work: Inside Syria
This vivid and powerful series of reports from inside Syria range from bomb making lessons to kidnapping and government tactics. The reporter focuses on ordinary people — both fighters and housewives — in extraordinary circumstances. She writes beautifully detailed stories from the conflict zone, giving readers a human portrayal of war.
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2012Samuel JamesFreelance for Harper’s Magazine
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2012
Award Recipient: Samuel James
Award Recipient Affiliation: Freelance for Harper’s Magazine
Award Honored Work: The Water of My Land
Samuel JamesAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2012
Award Recipient: Samuel James
Award Recipient Affiliation: Freelance for Harper’s Magazine
Award Honored Work: The Water of My Land
Vibrant and searing images made under difficult conditions. The photographer effectively used full color palette of the environment to engage the viewer and bring them to the locales documented. The work has a strong visual consistency that carries the story forward from frame to frame.
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2012
Award Recipient: Bernat Armangue
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Conflict in Gaza
Bernat ArmangueAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2012
Award Recipient: Bernat Armangue
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Conflict in Gaza
A quiet yet devastating portfolio of images that spans the full range of human emotions. The work draws you into the people and the events captured in the frame. There is a sharp point to the visual story-telling and the work demands that you stop and consider the individuals affected.
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2012
Award Recipient: Oded Balilty
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: An Ultra Orthodox Wedding
Oded BaliltyAward Date: 2012
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2012
Award Recipient: Oded Balilty
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: An Ultra Orthodox Wedding
Beautiful, painterly pictures that hit all the right visual notes. Great photography executed brilliantly that shows not only the photographic talent, but also the journalistic understanding of the subject and the people captured in the work.
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2012Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen, Sebastian Rotella, Ana AranaWBEZ’s This American Life, ProPublica and Fundacion MEPI
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2012
Award Recipient: Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen, Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana
Award Recipient Affiliation: WBEZ’s This American Life, ProPublica and Fundacion MEPI
Award Honored Work: What Happened at Dos Erres
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2012
Award Recipient: Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen, Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana
Award Recipient Affiliation: WBEZ’s This American Life, ProPublica and Fundacion MEPI
Award Honored Work: What Happened at Dos Erres
The judges were riveted as they listened to this compelling and beautifully narrated story of recent events and the violent massacre of more than 200 people in the village of Dos Erres in Guatamala more than two decades ago. In 2012 the discovery of a father, still alive, and his son Oscar Ramirez, an undocumented worker in the U.S., each of whom assumed the other dead in the tragedy, prompted reporter Nosheen and producer Reed to devote five months to researching the story, finding victims and perpetrators. As a result, Ramirez was granted political asylum in the U.S. and several implicated soldiers have been apprehended for trial.
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2012Anonymous CNN Correspondent and Photojournalist, Tamara Hunt, Tony Maddox, Parisa Khosravi, Deborah Rayner and the CNN International Newsgathering StaffCNN
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2012
Award Recipient: Anonymous CNN Correspondent and Photojournalist, Tamara Hunt, Tony Maddox, Parisa Khosravi, Deborah Rayner and the CNN International Newsgathering Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: Damascus Undercover
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2012
Award Recipient: Anonymous CNN Correspondent and Photojournalist, Tamara Hunt, Tony Maddox, Parisa Khosravi, Deborah Rayner and the CNN International Newsgathering Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: Damascus Undercover
CNN’s harrowing reporting from Damascus represents true bravery in the face of danger. The reporter and crew, unable to identify themselves in order to protect their Syrian helpers, uncovered fresh killings of civilians by the Syrian Army. Their work provides an all too important voice to those who have been oppressed and have survived some of the most horrific conditions of war, all the while putting their own personal safety at risk.
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2012Scott Pelley, Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Henry SchusterCBS News – 60 Minutes
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2012
Award Recipient: Scott Pelley, Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Henry Schuster
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News – 60 Minutes
Award Honored Work: "Killing Bin Laden"
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2012
Award Recipient: Scott Pelley, Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Henry Schuster
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS News – 60 Minutes
Award Honored Work: "Killing Bin Laden"
Since the 9/11 attacks on the United States, the hunt for Osama bin Laden has been central to the battle against terrorism and has played continuously in the background of news coverage on the subject. While we all know the end of the tale, the details of the hunt and bin Laden’s death were not available before this first-hand account and year-long investigation.
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2012Russ Rymer with photographer Lynn JohnsonNational Geographic Magazine
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award 2012
Award Recipient: Russ Rymer with photographer Lynn Johnson
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: 10 The Ed Cunningham Award 2012
Award Recipient: Russ Rymer with photographer Lynn Johnson
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work:
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: 11 The Thomas Nast Award 2012
Award Recipient: Rob Rogers
Award Recipient Affiliation: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Award Honored Work:
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: 11 The Thomas Nast Award 2012
Award Recipient: Rob Rogers
Award Recipient Affiliation: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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2012Michael Riley, Ashlee Vance with Zoe SchneeweissBloomberg Businessweek
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: 12 The Morton Frank Award
Award Recipient: Michael Riley, Ashlee Vance with Zoe Schneeweiss
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: "It’s Not Paranoia If They’re Stealing Your Secrets: Inside the Chinese Boom in Corporate Espionage"
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: 12 The Morton Frank Award
Award Recipient: Michael Riley, Ashlee Vance with Zoe Schneeweiss
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: "It’s Not Paranoia If They’re Stealing Your Secrets: Inside the Chinese Boom in Corporate Espionage"
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: 13 The Malcolm Forbes Award 2012
Award Recipient: David Barboza
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: China’s Secret Fortunes
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: 13 The Malcolm Forbes Award 2012
Award Recipient: David Barboza
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: China’s Secret Fortunes
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2012Peter BergenCrown Publishing Group
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award 2012
Award Recipient: Peter Bergen
Award Recipient Affiliation: Crown Publishing Group
Award Honored Work: Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award 2012
Award Recipient: Peter Bergen
Award Recipient Affiliation: Crown Publishing Group
Award Honored Work: Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad
Peter Bergen brings his decades of reporting and insights to bear in this definitive account of the search for Osama bin-Laden. He captures the tension of the years-long post-9/11 search, weaving history and personality into a brisk narrative. Bergen’s deep familiarity with the subject and years of on-the-ground work demystify the dizzingly complex Al Qaeda network, and give rich texture to the most riveting manhunt of our time.
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2012Mark Jenkins with photographer Lynn JohnsonNational Geographic Magazine
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: 15 The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2012
Award Recipient: Mark Jenkins with photographer Lynn Johnson
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: The Healing Fields
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: 15 The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2012
Award Recipient: Mark Jenkins with photographer Lynn Johnson
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: The Healing Fields
Mark Jenkins has captured the breadth of human emotions, motivations, and coping mechanisms in his examination of how one country, Cambodia, has moved forward from the lingering horror of land mines. Many will think they already know this topic well, but Jenkins’ deeply researched and accessibly written report made the subject matter fresh and compelling.
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2012Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie DoranWGBH Frontline and Clover Films
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2012
Award Recipient: Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie Doran
Award Recipient Affiliation: WGBH Frontline and Clover Films
Award Honored Work: Opium Brides
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2012
Award Recipient: Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie Doran
Award Recipient Affiliation: WGBH Frontline and Clover Films
Award Honored Work: Opium Brides
Najibullah Quraishi’s reporting in Opium Brides stood out for its exploration of a dangerous, hidden world to reveal a human tragedy: young Afghan girls traded by their opium poppy growing families to pay debts to international drug lords. The subject matter is intrinsically important, highlighting the plight of Afghan farming families caught between drug traffickers who finance their crops and government officials bent on poppy eradication. But what set the entry apart was the way it ventured into the remote Afghan countryside to show the plight of individual families and their children, as they weighed up the demands of the traffickers and then succumbed to them. Brave, beautifully shot and paced, this entry was sensitive in its handling of a tragic human dilemma and harrowing in its impact.
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2012Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana, Brian Reed, Habiba NosheenProPublica, Fundacion MEPI and WBEZ’s This American Life
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2012
Award Recipient: Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana, Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica, Fundacion MEPI and WBEZ’s This American Life
Award Honored Work: “Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala”
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2012
Award Recipient: Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana, Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica, Fundacion MEPI and WBEZ’s This American Life
Award Honored Work: “Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala”
“Finding Oscar” is a magnificent journalistic collaboration documenting how prosecutors, forensic anthropologists and human rights activists persevered for 30 years in their quest for justice against the perpetrators of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala. The story begins with the compelling account of a 2011 phone call to Oscar Ramirez, an undocumented Guatemalan immigrant living in Massachusetts, from a prosecutor back home, informing him that he isn’t who he thinks he is. What follows, in both written and radio formats, takes us back in time to Dos Erres, a Guatemalan town whose 250 residents were killed by soldiers three decades ago. Oscar, it turns out, was one of two survivors, abducted at the age of three by the commander of the army squad that murdered his family, and he is now evidence of government complicity in the massacre. Recently several soldiers involved in the raid were convicted and the former Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt was indicted on charges of genocide.
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2012Peter Gwin with photographer Brent StirtonNational Geographic Magazine
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2012
Award Recipient: Peter Gwin with photographer Brent Stirton
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: Rhino Wars
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2012
Award Recipient: Peter Gwin with photographer Brent Stirton
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Geographic Magazine
Award Honored Work: Rhino Wars
We chose to honor the powerful National Geographic piece, Rhino Wars by Peter Gwin, with amazing photographs by Brent Stirton. The topic was enterprising and fresh (of the 3 submissions on African animals killed for horns, it was the earliest piece by quite a few months, with other media following suit). Finally, from an impact point of view, it helped lead to some of the worst South African rhino killers facing long jail terms, one rhino poaching kingpin getting 40 years.
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2012
Award Recipient: Alberto Arce
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Honduras
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2012
Award Recipient: Alberto Arce
Award Recipient Affiliation: Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Honduras
One of the most violent countries in the world receives scant media coverage. But Alberto Arce of the Associated Press has displayed a combination of courage, strong reporting and a flair for writing to explain life in Honduras – how this is a country where gangs extort cash from homeowners, where inmates rule its deadly prisons and where the charities of political candidates give away free coffins. Honduras is struggling to maintain political stability three years after its former president was run out of office at gunpoint. Arce goes beyond the standard wire service reporting. His “Letter from Honduras” colorfully recounts difficult life inside the impoverished and dangerous Central American nation. Readers are lured into one story on a father’s quest for justice after his son was killed, allegedly by military officers, with the following lead: “In a capital so dangerous that only the “walking dead” are said to venture out after dark, nothing could draw an obedient son from the safety of his parents’ suburban home into the deserted night. Nothing, that is, but a girl.”
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2012Thomas Jennings, Sabrina Shankman, Travis Fox, James Milward, Pietro Gagliano, Ryan Andal, Ashlee Lougheed, Sam Bailey, Andrew Golis Based on reporting by Sebastian Rotella of ProPublicaWGBH/Frontline & Secret Location
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2012
Award Recipient: Thomas Jennings, Sabrina Shankman, Travis Fox, James Milward, Pietro Gagliano, Ryan Andal, Ashlee Lougheed, Sam Bailey, Andrew Golis Based on reporting by Sebastian Rotella of ProPublica
Award Recipient Affiliation: WGBH/Frontline & Secret Location
Award Honored Work: “A Perfect Terrorist: David Coleman Headley’s Web of Betrayal”
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2012
Award Recipient: Thomas Jennings, Sabrina Shankman, Travis Fox, James Milward, Pietro Gagliano, Ryan Andal, Ashlee Lougheed, Sam Bailey, Andrew Golis Based on reporting by Sebastian Rotella of ProPublica
Award Recipient Affiliation: WGBH/Frontline & Secret Location
Award Honored Work: “A Perfect Terrorist: David Coleman Headley’s Web of Betrayal”
This entry’s use of video, documents, photographs and news articles was unlike any other project submitted for this year’s awards. The entry combines an excellent narrative with a compelling presentation that includes raw simplicity and sophisticated technology, pointing the way to a truly new form of multimedia storytelling. It gets bonus points for employing a new kind of technology — Popcorn.js, a new HTML5 / Javascript media toolkit created by Mozilla. Its presentation was fresh and arresting. The narrative is excellent, and all the breaking points in the story are very well put together.
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2012Michael Forsythe, Shai Oster, Natasha Khan, Dune Lawrence, Ben Richardson, Henry SandersonBloomberg News
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2012
Award Recipient: Michael Forsythe, Shai Oster, Natasha Khan, Dune Lawrence, Ben Richardson, Henry Sanderson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg News
Award Honored Work: Revolution to Riches
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Best Investigative Reporting 2012
Award Recipient: Michael Forsythe, Shai Oster, Natasha Khan, Dune Lawrence, Ben Richardson, Henry Sanderson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg News
Award Honored Work: Revolution to Riches
Through painstaking analysis of the families of Xi Jinping and the so-called “Eight Immortals” and ingenious scrutiny of regulatory filings to trace holding companies to these families, the reporters were able to demonstrate for the first time how China’s elite have used political influence for enormous personal gain. In the process, they have fundamentally changed our understanding of the Chinese state.
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Best Commentary 2012
Award Recipient: David Ignatius
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: Foreign Affairs
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: Best Commentary 2012
Award Recipient: David Ignatius
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: Foreign Affairs
David Ignatius’s insightful writing about the Middle East, informed by his original reporting, was refreshing and illuminating. The judges were especially impressed by his brave visits inside Syria to see first-hand the struggles of the rebel movement. Ignatius’s “48 hours in Syria” is not only a compelling narrative about the rebels, but also an impassioned argument for more direct US support, which might prevent Islamic fundamentalists from gaining an upper hand should Assad fall. “The shower of cash and weapons coming from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and other Arab nations is helping extremist fighters and undercutting any orderly chain of command through the Free Syrian Army,” he warns. In another column, Ignatius reports first hand from Syria on the growing influence of an Al Qaeda-affiliated group. Whether writing about Syria, Egypt or Lebanon, Ignatius provides a level-headed view of the world, while uncovering new information that enhances our understanding . As one judge said, this columnist is “an expert guide” for navigating a complex world full of characters whose motives may be anything but obvious.
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The President’s Award 2012
Award Recipient: Ted Turner
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: President's Award
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The President’s Award 2012
Award Recipient: Ted Turner
Award Recipient Affiliation: CNN
Award Honored Work: President's Award
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2011C.J. ChiversThe New York Times
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2011
Award Recipient: C.J. Chivers
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: War Reports from Libya and Afghanistan
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Hal Boyle Award 2011
Award Recipient: C.J. Chivers
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
Award Honored Work: War Reports from Libya and Afghanistan
In a year of momentous events and in a category filled with outstanding entries, the stories by Chris Chivers of The New York Times from Libya and Afghanistan stood out as war reporting at its best. His superb and evocative dispatches explained why the Afghanistan war has become so difficult for the U.S., strategically, tactically and politically. Chivers’ war coverage was a remarkable blend of cool, analytical reporting and impassioned first-hand accounts of the suffering experienced by the victims. In January, his story from Afghanistan about the improved survival rates of wounded U.S. soldiers showed, with impressive documentation, an important trend in the waging of war. Later in the year, his story about the civilian victims in Libya belied assurances by NATO that its seven-month air campaign was without unintended casualties. Tough, cool and brave: these were the hallmarks of Chivers’ great reporting in 2011.
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2011David GuttenfelderThe Associated Press for National Geographic
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2011
Award Recipient: David Guttenfelder
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press for National Geographic
Award Honored Work: The Zone
David GuttenfelderAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2011
Award Recipient: David Guttenfelder
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press for National Geographic
Award Honored Work: The Zone
By entering Japan’s closed-off nuclear exclusion zone, Guttenfelder shows us ghost towns abandoned by people fleeing the invisible but very real hazards of radioactivity. Feral dogs roam the deserted streets and unmade beds lie as they were when people hastily evacuated their communities. On the flip side he takes us to intimate scenes in makeshift shelters, where despite their predicament, the evacuees cling to their dignity while attempting to normalize their lives.
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2011Pete MullerThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2011
Award Recipient: Pete Muller
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Battling Impunity: The Fight Against Mass Rape in Eastern Congo
Pete MullerAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The John Faber Award 2011
Award Recipient: Pete Muller
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Battling Impunity: The Fight Against Mass Rape in Eastern Congo
Muller took an original approach to documenting a sensitive and difficult story, rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Opening with anonymous but effective portraits of the victims, and then taking us through the makeshift trials that eventually led to convictions and justice for the victims, Muller illuminates a very dark side of human behavior. The glee and satisfaction reflected on the faces of the public after the verdicts were announced is a remarkable and positive ending to at least a part of an endemic abuse of women’s rights.
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Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2012
Award Recipient: Jeremy Page
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: A Murder Shakes China
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2012
Award Recipient: Jeremy Page
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: A Murder Shakes China
In this extraordinary series of articles, Jeremy Page not only connected the dots behind the mysterious death of a British businessman, but provided startling glimpses into the life of one of China’s leading Communist Party bosses before he was fired in disgrace, as well as a look at the privileged lifestyles enjoyed by at least some corrupt politicians in today’s China.
The stories are notable for depth of reporting, an even presentation of the evidence, and a balanced tone. Nevertheless, taken together, they form a damning case that the wife of Chongqing party leader Bo Xilai may have poisoned businessman and family adviser Neil Heywood, a crime for which she was ultimately convicted. Aside from exposing the political scandal of the year in China, Page interprets the events in light of the power struggles taking place in the country just prior to its once-in-a-decade transfer of leadership.
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2011David GuttenfelderThe Associated Press
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2011
Award Recipient: David Guttenfelder
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Inside a Closed Society: Daily Life in North Korea
David GuttenfelderAward Date: 2011
Award Name: Feature Photography Award 2011
Award Recipient: David Guttenfelder
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Associated Press
Award Honored Work: Inside a Closed Society: Daily Life in North Korea
Guttenfelder’s images provide a unique and special vision of a hard to access society. While mainly photographed in the company of government officials, they are a series of special moments taken in a creative and innovative fashion. They show us what daily life is like in a closed-off and isolated society.
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2011Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Loren Jenkins, Douglas Roberts, Jonathan Blakely, Sean Carberry, Grant Clarke, Nishant Dahiya, J.J. SutherlandNational Public Radio
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2011
Award Recipient: Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Loren Jenkins, Douglas Roberts, Jonathan Blakely, Sean Carberry, Grant Clarke, Nishant Dahiya, J.J. Sutherland
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Public Radio
Award Honored Work: Arab Spring
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Lowell Thomas Award 2011
Award Recipient: Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Loren Jenkins, Douglas Roberts, Jonathan Blakely, Sean Carberry, Grant Clarke, Nishant Dahiya, J.J. Sutherland
Award Recipient Affiliation: National Public Radio
Award Honored Work: Arab Spring
Simply making her way into Libya last year to report the story of ragtag rebels overthrowing an entrenched dictator was achievement enough. But Lourdes Garcia-Navarro did more, recording pitch-perfect narration from Gadhafi’s Tripoli compound and notorious Abu Selim prison and providing honest, unflinching portraits of people whose lives were being destroyed, or begun anew, as the country lurched into its new era.
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2011Christiane Amanpour, Katie Hinman, Bartley Price, Nasser Atta, Jeanmarie CondonABC News
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2011
Award Recipient: Christiane Amanpour, Katie Hinman, Bartley Price, Nasser Atta, Jeanmarie Condon
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work: Arab Spring – Cairo to Tripoli
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The David Kaplan Award 2011
Award Recipient: Christiane Amanpour, Katie Hinman, Bartley Price, Nasser Atta, Jeanmarie Condon
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work: Arab Spring – Cairo to Tripoli
In addition to her courageous reporting in the face of danger, Christiane Amanpour distinguished her coverage of the revolts by obtaining two timely and revealing interviews: in Egypt with President Hosni Mubarak and in Libya with Colonel Moammar Gadhafi. She was the only journalist to talk to these doomed leaders as their regimes were being torn apart. Because Amanpour has been covering the Middle East for two decades, her depth of understanding of the region enabled her to truly capture these historic times in her compelling reports — both as a witness and especially as an interviewer.
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2011Abigail E. Disney, Pamela Hogan, Gini Reticker, Nina Chaudry, Peter Bull, Claudia Rizzi, Oriana Zill de Granados, Johanna HamiltonThirteen / WNET and Fork Films
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: 09 The Edward R. Murrow Award 2011
Award Recipient: Abigail E. Disney, Pamela Hogan, Gini Reticker, Nina Chaudry, Peter Bull, Claudia Rizzi, Oriana Zill de Granados, Johanna Hamilton
Award Recipient Affiliation: Thirteen / WNET and Fork Films
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: 09 The Edward R. Murrow Award 2011
Award Recipient: Abigail E. Disney, Pamela Hogan, Gini Reticker, Nina Chaudry, Peter Bull, Claudia Rizzi, Oriana Zill de Granados, Johanna Hamilton
Award Recipient Affiliation: Thirteen / WNET and Fork Films
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2011
Award Recipient: Charles Graeber
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Ed Cunningham Award 2011
Award Recipient: Charles Graeber
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2011
Award Recipient: Patrick Chappatte
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Herald Tribune
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Thomas Nast Award 2011
Award Recipient: Patrick Chappatte
Award Recipient Affiliation: International Herald Tribune
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2011Daniel GoldenBloomberg Businessweek
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2011
Award Recipient: Daniel Golden
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: "New Oriental Cracks the SAT Code"
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Morton Frank Award 2011
Award Recipient: Daniel Golden
Award Recipient Affiliation: Bloomberg Businessweek
Award Honored Work: "New Oriental Cracks the SAT Code"
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2011Paul Sonne, Steve Stecklow, Farnaz Fassihi, Margaret Coker, Loretta Chao, Christopher Rhoads, Matt Bradley, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Nour Malas, Don ClarkThe Wall Street Journal
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2011
Award Recipient: Paul Sonne, Steve Stecklow, Farnaz Fassihi, Margaret Coker, Loretta Chao, Christopher Rhoads, Matt Bradley, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Nour Malas, Don Clark
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: Censorship Inc.
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Malcolm Forbes Award 2011
Award Recipient: Paul Sonne, Steve Stecklow, Farnaz Fassihi, Margaret Coker, Loretta Chao, Christopher Rhoads, Matt Bradley, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Nour Malas, Don Clark
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: Censorship Inc.
The Journal ran a series of articles over the course of almost a year that described how Iran, Egypt, Libya and Syria used technology from Western and Chinese companies to break through Skype’s encryption features to spy on dissidents, track mobile phone users, conduct surveillance of them, and censor web activity and satellite television broadcasts. Protesters were using high-tech tools to rally support, but their governments were also secretly using technology to stop them. The series raised disturbing questions about whether U.S. and European firms have a responsibility to keep their technology out of the wrong hands and whether Western governments can prevent Chinese companies from rushing in to assist such countries as Iran.
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: THE CARL SPIELVOGEL AWARD 2011
Award Recipient: Christof Putzel, Jeff Plunkett, Alex Simmons
Award Recipient Affiliation: Current TV
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: THE CARL SPIELVOGEL AWARD 2011
Award Recipient: Christof Putzel, Jeff Plunkett, Alex Simmons
Award Recipient Affiliation: Current TV
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2011
Award Recipient: Robin Wright
Award Recipient Affiliation: Simon & Schuster
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2011
Award Recipient: Robin Wright
Award Recipient Affiliation: Simon & Schuster
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2011Diane Sawyer, Dr. Richard Besser, John Quinones, Deborah Roberts, Jessica Velmans, Kerry SmithABC News
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2011
Award Recipient: Diane Sawyer, Dr. Richard Besser, John Quinones, Deborah Roberts, Jessica Velmans, Kerry Smith
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work: Giving Life: A Risky Proposition
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 2011
Award Recipient: Diane Sawyer, Dr. Richard Besser, John Quinones, Deborah Roberts, Jessica Velmans, Kerry Smith
Award Recipient Affiliation: ABC News
Award Honored Work: Giving Life: A Risky Proposition
Every 90 seconds somewhere in the world a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth; 80% of these deaths are preventable. The program focused on nations with the worst history and how the powerful drive of women is bringing hope and help. The team traveled from Afghanistan to Sierra Leone, Bangladesh and elsewhere, filming the efforts of NGOs and doctors to train volunteers to use cell phones to communicate with doctors during pregnancies and to deliver babies hygienically in primitive homes. It cited how well-known model Christy Turlington, who almost died in childbirth in the U.S., used her fame to make a documentary to raise awareness and money for the medications that saved her life. The judges credit the program additionally for its success in moving viewers to contribute interactively to a number of organizations dedicated to health improvement worldwide.
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2011Andrew Higgins and Aaron HarlanThe Washington Post
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2011
Award Recipient: Andrew Higgins and Aaron Harlan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: Disaster in Japan
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2011
Award Recipient: Andrew Higgins and Aaron Harlan
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Washington Post
Award Honored Work: Disaster in Japan
These stories, written in the days and weeks after Japan’s tragic earthquake and tsunami, were emotionally moving tales of individual survival that conveyed universal truths about pain, loss, resilience and recovery. The prose was spare but evocative, the individual tales compelling, and the overall message a global one: confronted with unimagined disaster, the human response is to find a way to press on.
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2011
Award Recipient: Sarah Stillman
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: The Invisible Army
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 2011
Award Recipient: Sarah Stillman
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: The Invisible Army
Stillman wins for her investigation of serious labor abuses on American military bases in war zones. She combines deep reporting with powerful writing to expose the conditions that foreign workers endure while working for subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. Stillman’s outstanding piece of investigative journalism uncovers serious abuses, including sexual assault and indentured servitude, that were ultimately carried out on behalf of the U.S. government and funded by American taxpayers.
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2011
Award Recipient: Evan Osnos
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: "The Fallout"
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Whitman Bassow Award 2011
Award Recipient: Evan Osnos
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New Yorker
Award Honored Work: "The Fallout"
There was no bigger environmental story in the past year than the multiple meltdowns at the nuclear power plant known as Fukushima Daiichi. While various outlets did heroic work in covering breaking developments in Japan and explaining the risks and realities, Osnos demonstrated mastery of the nuclear accident’s multiple facets. Whether illuminating Japan’s history with nuclear power or coping with the hard science of meltdowns or radioactive fallout, Osnos showed real depth as well as flair for clear, concise and compelling language. Such insightful reporting and writing ensures that the reader will not forget this cautionary tale.
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2011Pamela Hogan, Abigail E. Disney, Gini Reticker, Nina Chaudry, Oriana Zill de Granados, Kristen Huntley, Jennifer Janisch, Lena Shemel, Juan CarlosThirteen / WNET and Fork Films
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2011
Award Recipient: Pamela Hogan, Abigail E. Disney, Gini Reticker, Nina Chaudry, Oriana Zill de Granados, Kristen Huntley, Jennifer Janisch, Lena Shemel, Juan Carlos
Award Recipient Affiliation: Thirteen / WNET and Fork Films
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2011
Award Recipient: Pamela Hogan, Abigail E. Disney, Gini Reticker, Nina Chaudry, Oriana Zill de Granados, Kristen Huntley, Jennifer Janisch, Lena Shemel, Juan Carlos
Award Recipient Affiliation: Thirteen / WNET and Fork Films
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: BEST ONLINE COVERAGE OF BREAKING NEWS 2011
Award Recipient: GlobalPost Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: GlobalPost Staff
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: BEST ONLINE COVERAGE OF BREAKING NEWS 2011
Award Recipient: GlobalPost Staff
Award Recipient Affiliation: GlobalPost Staff
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: GENERAL EXCELLENCE ONLINE AWARD 2011
Award Recipient: Staff of Foreign Policy
Award Recipient Affiliation: ForeignPolicy.com
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: GENERAL EXCELLENCE ONLINE AWARD 2011
Award Recipient: Staff of Foreign Policy
Award Recipient Affiliation: ForeignPolicy.com
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: BEST USE OF ONLINE MULTIMEDIA 2011
Award Recipient: CFR.org and MediaStorm
Award Recipient Affiliation: Council on Foreign Relations
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: BEST USE OF ONLINE MULTIMEDIA 2011
Award Recipient: CFR.org and MediaStorm
Award Recipient Affiliation: Council on Foreign Relations
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: BEST USE OF ONLINE VIDEO 2011
Award Recipient: Maisie Crow and Jesse Dukes
Award Recipient Affiliation: Virginia Quarterly Review
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: BEST USE OF ONLINE VIDEO 2011
Award Recipient: Maisie Crow and Jesse Dukes
Award Recipient Affiliation: Virginia Quarterly Review
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2011Nicholas D. Kristof, Adam B. Ellick, Sean Patrick Farrell, Jaron GilinskyThe New York Times
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: BEST ONLINE COMMENTARY 2011
Award Recipient: Nicholas D. Kristof, Adam B. Ellick, Sean Patrick Farrell, Jaron Gilinsky
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: BEST ONLINE COMMENTARY 2011
Award Recipient: Nicholas D. Kristof, Adam B. Ellick, Sean Patrick Farrell, Jaron Gilinsky
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
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2011Vanessa Houlder, Megan Murphy, Benjamin Freese, Johanna Kassel, Christine Spolar (Financial Times); Jeff Gerth and Tom Detzel (ProPublica)Financial Times and ProPublica
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: BEST ONLINE INVESTIGATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE OR EVENT 2011
Award Recipient: Vanessa Houlder, Megan Murphy, Benjamin Freese, Johanna Kassel, Christine Spolar (Financial Times); Jeff Gerth and Tom Detzel (ProPublica)
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times and ProPublica
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Award Date: 2011
Award Name: BEST ONLINE INVESTIGATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE OR EVENT 2011
Award Recipient: Vanessa Houlder, Megan Murphy, Benjamin Freese, Johanna Kassel, Christine Spolar (Financial Times); Jeff Gerth and Tom Detzel (ProPublica)
Award Recipient Affiliation: Financial Times and ProPublica
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2011Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle, Matthew Karnitschnig, David Enrich, Stacy Meichtry, Brian Blackstone, David Gauthier-Villars, Gordon FaircloughThe Wall Street Journal
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2011
Award Recipient: Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle, Matthew Karnitschnig, David Enrich, Stacy Meichtry, Brian Blackstone, David Gauthier-Villars, Gordon Fairclough
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: European Disunion
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 2011
Award Recipient: Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle, Matthew Karnitschnig, David Enrich, Stacy Meichtry, Brian Blackstone, David Gauthier-Villars, Gordon Fairclough
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Wall Street Journal
Award Honored Work: European Disunion
The Journal’s coverage of the European sovereign-debt crisis demonstrated that it’s possible to write about complicated subjects in a compelling way. From a moving account of Greece’s rising suicide rate to a novelistic reconstruction of how Europe’s leaders dithered, Journal reporters combined insight, anecdotal and evocative writing in a nuanced, three-dimensional series that explained how a mountain of debt threatened to sink a continent.
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2012Fabio BucciarelliFreelance for Agence France-Presse
Award Date: 2012
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2012
Award Recipient: Fabio Bucciarelli
Award Recipient Affiliation: Freelance for Agence France-Presse
Award Honored Work: Battle to Death
Fabio BucciarelliAward Date: 2012
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2012
Award Recipient: Fabio Bucciarelli
Award Recipient Affiliation: Freelance for Agence France-Presse
Award Honored Work: Battle to Death
The images from this portfolio put you “in the moment” and have a palatable sense of urgency. There is a consistency to the images that helps the viewer identify with the subjects and the perils they are encountering. Syria has been one of the deadliest locations for journalists since the beginning of this armed conflict and this photographer embodies the finest values of the Capa Award in this collection of images.
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Award Date: 1959
Award Name: Best Radio or TV Reporting from Abroad
Award Recipient: Leslie Midgley, Don Hewitt
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
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Award Date: 1959
Award Name: Best Radio or TV Reporting from Abroad
Award Recipient: Leslie Midgley, Don Hewitt
Award Recipient Affiliation: CBS
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Article or report on Asia in any medium 1971
Award Recipient: Harvey Meyerson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Houghton Mifflin
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: Best Article or report on Asia in any medium 1971
Award Recipient: Harvey Meyerson
Award Recipient Affiliation: Houghton Mifflin
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: The Bache and Company Incorporated Award 1971
Award Recipient: Leonard S. Silk
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
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Award Date: 1971
Award Name: The Bache and Company Incorporated Award 1971
Award Recipient: Leonard S. Silk
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
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1983Bob GibsonThe Los Angeles Times
Award Date: 1983
Award Name: Best economics news reporting from abroad for newspapers and wire services 1983
Award Recipient: Bob Gibson
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
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Award Date: 1983
Award Name: Best economics news reporting from abroad for newspapers and wire services 1983
Award Recipient: Bob Gibson
Award Recipient Affiliation: The Los Angeles Times
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1983Lewis H. Young and othersBusiness Week
Award Date: 1983
Award Name: Best economic news reporting from abroad in magazines and books 1983
Award Recipient: Lewis H. Young and others
Award Recipient Affiliation: Business Week
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Award Date: 1983
Award Name: Best economic news reporting from abroad in magazines and books 1983
Award Recipient: Lewis H. Young and others
Award Recipient Affiliation: Business Week
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Award Date: 1983
Award Name: Best business reporting from abroad in magazines and books 1983
Award Recipient: Michael Cieply
Award Recipient Affiliation: Forbes Magazine
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Award Date: 1983
Award Name: Best business reporting from abroad in magazines and books 1983
Award Recipient: Michael Cieply
Award Recipient Affiliation: Forbes Magazine
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1984William Montalbano, Juan DeOnis and Juan VasquezLos Angeles Times
Award Date: 1984
Award Name: Best economics reporting from abroad for newspapers or wire services 1984
Award Recipient: William Montalbano, Juan DeOnis and Juan Vasquez
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
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Award Date: 1984
Award Name: Best economics reporting from abroad for newspapers or wire services 1984
Award Recipient: William Montalbano, Juan DeOnis and Juan Vasquez
Award Recipient Affiliation: Los Angeles Times
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2011André LiohnEuropean Pressphoto Agency / Prospekt Photographers for Newsweek
Award Date: 2011
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2011
Award Recipient: André Liohn
Award Recipient Affiliation: European Pressphoto Agency / Prospekt Photographers for Newsweek
Award Honored Work: Almost Dawn in Libya
André LiohnAward Date: 2011
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2011
Award Recipient: André Liohn
Award Recipient Affiliation: European Pressphoto Agency / Prospekt Photographers for Newsweek
Award Honored Work: Almost Dawn in Libya
Liohn’s harrowing and dramatic series of images taken in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata are truly in the spirit of Robert Capa’s combat photography. These searing images are a first rate example of close quarters combat photography obtained at great personal risk. Rarely do we see photos taken so deep in the fog of war, serving, as they do, to shine a bright light on the horrors and consequences of combat.
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2010Christian Caryl, Stephanie Giry, Malise RuthvenThe New York Review of Books
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Online Commentary 2010
Award Recipient: Christian Caryl, Stephanie Giry, Malise Ruthven
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Review of Books
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Online Commentary 2010
Award Recipient: Christian Caryl, Stephanie Giry, Malise Ruthven
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Review of Books
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Use of Video 2010
Award Recipient: Adam B. Ellick
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Use of Video 2010
Award Recipient: Adam B. Ellick
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Online Investigation of an International Issue or Event 2010
Award Recipient: Sebastian Rotella
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Online Investigation of an International Issue or Event 2010
Award Recipient: Sebastian Rotella
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Use of Multimedia 2010
Award Recipient: CFR.org
Award Recipient Affiliation: Council on Foreign Relations
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Use of Multimedia 2010
Award Recipient: CFR.org
Award Recipient Affiliation: Council on Foreign Relations
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Online Coverage of Breaking News 2010
Award Recipient: Staff of NYTimes.com
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: Best Online Coverage of Breaking News 2010
Award Recipient: Staff of NYTimes.com
Award Recipient Affiliation: The New York Times
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2010Dafna Linzer, Chisun Lee, Krista Kjellman-SchmidtProPublica
Award Date: 2010
Award Name: General Excellence Online Award 2010
Award Recipient: Dafna Linzer, Chisun Lee, Krista Kjellman-Schmidt
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica
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Award Date: 2010
Award Name: General Excellence Online Award 2010
Award Recipient: Dafna Linzer, Chisun Lee, Krista Kjellman-Schmidt
Award Recipient Affiliation: ProPublica
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