Winners of the Overseas Press Club Awards 2020 ANNUAL EDITION DATELINE 2019: The Year of Violence and Protests

DATELINE 2020 1 Letter from the President / PANCHO BERNASCONI OPC BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2019-2020

n pondering what to share and highlight in my Linda Fasulo ASSOCIATE Independent Reporter BOARD ­MEMBERS letter to you, I have returned again and again to the idea United Nations, NPR Brian Byrd Josh Fine Program Officer of our individual and collective resilience. It is difficult to Senior Segment Producer NYS Health Foundation HBO’s Real Sports with I Bryant Gumbel Bill Collins imagine all the professional and personal hardships that our Communications Consultant PRESIDENT Alix Freedman OPC of America members and their families have to endure Global Editor, Ethics and Standards Pete Engardio Pancho Bernasconi Senior Writer Vice President/Global News in 2020. Coronavirus changed so accountability was proven many connected with peers and friends Boston Consulting Group Getty Images Charles Graeber many of our lives in profound ways. times over during all the upheaval has been a lifeline for many of us Freelance Long-Form Feature Writer Job loss, family dynamics under that unfolded and revealed itself in and I am grateful for the catch-ups FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Sarah Lubman Partner Hendrik Hinzel stress, health concerns, and just 2020. with many of you. Deborah Amos Softbank Group International having to do your job through all I want to highlight the success This was never more profoundly Correspondent Associate Producer NPR VICE News of it. we have had with our pandemic felt than when we gathered to Kem Knapp Sawyer We are here to celebrate the out- relief microgrants. The OPC gave celebrate the life of our dear friend, SECOND VICE Douglas Jehl Contributing Editor standing work created, produced, nearly 50 micro-grants of $750 to colleague, and legendary foreign PRESIDENT Foreign Editor The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting photographed, voiced, and written OPC members around the correspondent Christopher Dickey. Christopher Dickey The Washington Post in 2019 by the 22 winners of the in two rounds of giving in 2020. In His sudden death in Paris last July Foreign Editor Coleen Jose PAST PRESIDENTS The Daily Beast, Paris 81st annual Overseas Press Club their applications for the grants, was a gut punch for all of us. That Premium Success Manager EX-OFFICIO awards. When we announced the freelancers described how CO- pain, grief and shock was soft- THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Adobe Deidre Depke winners in April of last year, I said: VID-19 travel restrictions have ened when we virtually gathered Marcus Mabry Scott Kraft Adriane Quinlan “The OPC Award winners carry on hobbled them, how some news or- together to share our stories of this Michael S. Serrill Managing Editor Supervising Writer the great tradition of international ganizations they depended on have wonderful man. VICE News Tonight David A. Andelman reporting through their curiosity, collapsed and how surviving news I want to wish Paula Dwyer all Allan Dodds Frank tenacity and bravery. Though we organizations have dramatically cut the success during her tenure as TREASURER Azmat Khan Richard B. Stolley cannot honor the winners in person their freelance budgets and delayed President of the OPC of America Liam Stack Investigative Reporter, Alexis Gelber Contributing Writer this year, we do recognize that the payments. and likewise to all the board mem- Reporter Larry Martz New York Times Magazine John Corporon lessons of their riveting journalism I’m delighted that the work we bers. The OPC could not continue William J. Holstein are why the world needs transpar- all put into making the program its work without the dedication and Derek Kravitz SECRETARY Larry Smith Reporter ency and a free press.” a success was recognized with a passion of leaders like Paula and Paula Dwyer ProPublica The continuing need for a free generous and substantial grant from her fellow Governors. I’m especially Senior Editor EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR press that pursues transparency and the Ford Foundation that will allow excited to see visual journalists so Bloomberg News Jim Laurie Patricia Kranz the OPC to offer a third round of well represented on the Board with Director ACTIVE BOARD micro grants in 2021. Sandra Stevenson of The New York Focus Productions, OFFICE MANAGER J. David Ake I would like to give a virtual Times and J. David Ake of the As- Emily Brown Director of Photography Rod Nordland standing ovation to our Executive sociated Press. A special thank you The International Correspondent DATELINE Director, Patricia Kranz. The last to Vice President Scott Kraft for at Large, Kabul Bureau Chief Editors: year has been one of the most chal- also being the Head Judge for the John Avlon The New York Times Patricia Kranz lenging in the history of the OPC. annual awards contest. Senior Political Analyst CNN Gary Silverman Michael S. Serrill The Board and the executive com- It is my most sincere hope that US National Editor Photo Editor: mittee had to make (and continues we can all gather together in person Miriam Elder Financial Times Robert Nickelsberg to make) decisions that directly during 2021 to celebrate great jour- Foreign Editor affect the future of the club, its nalism and toast to the winners of BuzzFeed Ishaan Tharoor Art Director: Foreign Affairs Writer finances, and its members. I am so the 82nd Annual OPC Awards. Vera Naughton Farnaz Fassihi The Washington Post www.veranaughton.com very proud of the open, honest and Freelance Journalist Sincerely, transparent way all of us gathered Contributing Writer Michael Williams pancho bernasconi together virtually to handle all that The New York Times Global Enterprise Editor this last year has thrown at us. 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President’s Letter 2 By Pancho Bernasconi

OPC Board of Governors 3

Awards Introduction 6 By Scott Kraft

Winners Interview links 7

THE OPC ANNUAL AWARDS

The Hal Boyle Award 8

The Bob Considine Award 8

The Gold Medal Award 9, 10-13

The Olivier Rebbot Award 9, 16-19

The Feature Photography Award 14, 22-25

The Lowell Thomas Award 14

The David Kaplan Award 15

The Edward R. Murrow Award 15

The Peter Jennings Award 20

The Ed Cunningham Award 20

The Best Cartoon Award 21, 32-33

The Morton Frank Award 21

The Malcolm Forbes Award 26

The Cornelius Ryan Award 26

The Madeline Dane Ross Award 27

The David A. Andelman and 27 Pamela Title Award

The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 28

The Whitman Bassow Award 28

The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 29

The Kim Wall Award 29 won two awards, for The Roy Rowan Award 30 interpretive reporting and feature photography, for its The Flora Lewis Award 30 series tracking the quest Where Members are Welcome 34 of Swede Patricio Galvez to retrieve his grandchildren, born to an ISIS convert, from a Syrian camp. Shown is a view from the window of his car as he makes his way thorugh to Qarnishli, . RENA EFFENDI / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL STREET RENA EFFENDI / THE WALL

ON THE COVER: A Haitian shouts anti-government slogans during a violent Port-au-Prince demonstration in June 2019. Photographer Dieu Nalio Chery won the prestigious Robert Capa award for his images of protesters taking to the streets to demand the resignation of the government of President Jovenal Moises, accused of corruption. PHOTO4 BY DIEU NALIODATELINE CHERY / THE ASSOCIATED2020 PRESS DATELINE 2020 5 Letter from the OPC Awards Chair / SCOTT KRAFT AWARD WINNER’S INTERVIEWS IN DEPTH DISCUSSIONS he process of selecting the 2020 Overseas Press Club Awards began with the diligent T work of nearly 100 top-flight jurors, who represented more than two dozen news organizations plus freelancers, authors, writers, photographers, videographers

and editors. Among them were the winners focused on the ongoing we hope will be a new tradition – LISTEN TO OPC AWARD WINNERS TALK journalists and academics with deep tragedy in Syria. A series in The showcasing the year’s best work in experience working abroad as well New York Times called “The individual Zoom sessions, hosted ABOUT THEIR WINNING WORK as past winners of OPC Awards and Tapes” documented the systematic by the jury chairs, who engaged The Overseas Press Club of America was not able to host an in-person Pulitzer Prizes. Each category had bombing of hospitals and other in illuminating discussions of the its own jury, and over the course civilian targets in that benighted winning entries with the journalists awards dinner in 2020 due to the pandemic. But we found another way to of a month they reviewed a record country by Russian aircraft. NPR themselves. Those conversations honor our winners: we offered the journalists the opportunity to discuss number of submissions – more than won for a chilling two-part podcast are avaialble on the OPC website, 500 in all. on the disappearance of Kurdish and youc an also access thm on the their award-winning work with the head judge of each category on Zoom. The overall quality of the en- photojournalist Kamaran Najm. facing page. Our hope is that they Instead of a two-minute thank you speech, they were able to have a tries, and the courage and creativity And Wall Street Journal staffers will be an inspiration for aspiring of journalists who do this work, was won two awards—best interpreta- as well as experienced journalists one-hour, in-depth discussion of how they landed the story or photos. truly impressive. Time and a gain, tive journalism and best feature – and, even when we are able to In a trying year, these conversations helped boost the spirits of winners jury chairs praised the work they photography—for its at once uplift- resume our awards dinner, become saw, which reflected the impor- ing and sobering story of a Swedish an annual feature of the awards and OPC members alike. To listen to the video clips and read a recap of tance of international reporting man who travels to Syria to rescue process. the discussion, please click on the name of the award below. today. Much of it was a showcase his seven grandchildren, orphaned My deepest thanks to all of our for the best in our craft, but it also when their parents, who had joined 2020 jurors, who worked so hard highlighted – not that we needed to the Islamic State, were killed in U.S. to select our winners from such a be reminded – the power of global airstrikes. competitive field. I know they, like Hal Boyle Peter Jennings Joe and Laurie Dine reporting and the value that a U.S. The best journalism wasn’t me, came away with an apprecia- 1 9 17 audience places on it. confined to the Middle East. Our tion for the high quality of the work Not surprisingly, a plurality of list of 22 winners included powerful that is being done, day in and day Bob Considine Ed Cunningham Whitman Bassow work from Asia, and Latin out, across the globe. 2 10 18 America. One of our three pho- tography awards went to National Scott Kraft is managing editor of Photography Winners Best Cartoon Robert Spiers Benjamin Geographic for its images from the Los Angeles Times and a Vice 3 5 11 19 violence-torn El Salvador, while President of the OPC. another photo essay by the Associ- Lowell Thomas Morton Frank Kim Wall ated Press looks at the turmoil in 6 12 20 . The winners also included a deep look at ’s economic David Kaplan Malcolm Forbes Roy Rowan and political crisis from Reuters, 7 13 21 while The New York Times earned our award for the best reporting Edward R. Murrow Cornelius Ryan from Latin America by examining 8 14 the region’s high rate of violence and murder. Madeline Dane Ross The pandemic robbed us of the 15 opportunity to honor the winners and toast their success in person. David A. Andelman and Panela Title Scott Kraft But it prompted us to launch what

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THE1 HAL BOYLE AWARD THE2 BOB CONSIDINE AWARD THE3 ROBERT CAPA THE4 OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD GOLD MEDAL AWARD Best newspaper, news service or digital Best newspaper, news service or digital Best photographic news reporting from abroad reporting from abroad interpretation of international affairs Best photographic reporting from abroad published in any medium requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium The Associated Press Staff, with support from Isabel Coles and Rena Effendi Moises Saman the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting The Wall Street Journal Dieu Nalio Chery National Geographic “Outsourcing Migrants” “Children of No Nation” The Associated Press “El Salvador: A Country in Crisis” “Haiti: Nation on the Brink”

The Associated Press delivered The judges were deeply moved Local AP photojournalist Dieu Moises Saman’s work was a series of courageous series by Isabel Coles’ series following Nalio Chery showed exceptional a sensitive portrayal of on migrants delivered a series a Swedish grandfather as courage while covering protests the violence consuming El of courageous, impactful and he fought to find and rescue in his home country of Haiti. In Salvador and the numerous riveting stories showcasing the his orphaned grandchildren, 2019, he was wounded while lives it has affected. Saman’s global migration crisis from the children of ISIS recruits covering one protest after a images reflect the complexity Latin America to the Middle Isabel Coles from battle-scarred Syria. The Dieu Nalio Chery Haitian senator fired a pistol Moises Saman of a situation that is too often East. The series exposed how policies in Western stories not only highlighted an during a confrontation with only documented through and developed nations were creating a huge increasingly overlooked but protesters just outside parliament. scenes of gore. The humanity of the individuals pool of languishing people. We met characters in critically important issue facing Even after being hit in the jaw with a fragment entangled in this web comes across in each of , and that we will not soon the international community — from the bullet, Chery remained to cover the his photographs, from the residents at the scene forget. The team of reporters impressed us with the fate of those ISIS fighters chaotic scene. His images were raw, precise of a homicide to the young girl deported from their access and effort focused on haunting and other displaced people and engrossing, leaving viewers with a strong the U.S. Saman’s holistic photography showed a personal details while never losing sight of the following the collapse of the emotional sense of what it was like to be on deep understanding of El Salvador’s tragedy. big picture. Rena Effendi “caliphate” — but did so in a the ground. Chery’s brave work highlights the compelling way. The series, unique dangers some local journalists face to Citation: Citation: including powerful photos by Rena Effendi, cover the stories important to their communities Natacha Pisarenko Gerry Shih brought to light the larger story of ’s and to the world. The Associated Press The Washington Post homegrown Muslim foreign fighters and the “Bolivia: Political Unrest” “” situation in post-conflict Syria in a way readers Citation: could relate to and engage with. The series Nariman el Mofty View the slideshow here: featured brave, dogged reporting in the initial The Associated Press Sponsor: Norman Pearlstine in memory of https://opcofamerica.org/ report inside Iraq and Syria, followed by two “Disembarking in Hell” Jerry Flint  Awardarchive/the-olivier-rebbot- equally compelling follow-ups after the orphans award-2019/ Judges: were returned to . Judges: Farnaz Fassihi (head), New York Times Daniella Zalcman (head), freelance Mohammed Jamjoom, English Citation: Noelle Flores Theard, Magnum Foundation Vanessa Gezari, The Intercept Louisa Loveluck, Liz Sly, Erin Cunningham, Natalia Jimenez, The Washington Post Eduardo Castillo, Associated Press Souad Mekhennet, Joyce Lee and Alice Martins Cinthya Santos Briones, freelance Mei Fong, Center for Public Integrity The Washington Post Mikhael Simmonds, Solutions Journalism Network Larry Kaplow, Middle East Editor, NPR “After the Caliphate”

View the slideshow here: Judge Eduardo Castillo recused herself from the final selection. Sponsor: William J. Holstein and Rita Sevell https://opcofamerica.org/  Awardarchive/03-the-robert-capa- Judges: gold-medal-award-2019/ Peter Spiegel (head), Financial Times Stephen Fidler, The Wall Street Journal Heather Timmons, Reuters Maura Reynolds, Politico Julian Barnes, The New York Times

Judge Stephen Fidler recused herself from the final selection.

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Demonstrations and police alleged embezzlement by it all in images shot from arrive; a relative of Rigueur and gang violence engulfed the government of President February thorugh November. Pierre Richard, who was Haiti for much of 2019, as Jovenel Moise from a multi- Clockwise from above: killed in a drive-by shooting citizens took to the streets billion dollar aid package Two women escape a fiery two blocks from the national to protest food and fuel awarded to Haiti by Venezuela. protest on a moto-taxi; looters palace, is overcome with grief. shortages, rising prices and Photographer Chery captured flee from a store as police

10 DATELINE 2020 DATELINE 2020 11 Gun violence was behalf of prime minister DIEU NALIO CHERY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (3) rampant during the nominee Fritz Michel; 2019 protests. Chery a demonstrator pleads himself was wounded for help for a woman when hit in the face by shot by police; a police shrapnel from gunfire. officer draws his gun Clockwise from left: on protesters in Port- Opposition Senator au-Prince. Four people Ralph Fethiere fires were shot and wounded warning shots in that day. September after being rushed by a crowd while attending a rally on

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THE5 FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY THE6 LOWELL THOMAS THE7 DAVID KAPLAN THE8 EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD AWARD AWARD AWARD Best feature photography on an international Best radio, audio or podcast coverage of Best TV or video spot news reporting Best TV, video or documentary interpretation theme published in any medium international affairs from abroad of international affairs with a run time up to 30 minutes

Rena Effendi Gregory Warner, Karen Duffin, Marianne Hind Hassan, Craig Thomson, Singeli Agnew, Rukmini Callimachi, Geoff O’Brien The Wall Street Journal McCune, Jess Jiang, Sebastian Meyer and team Madeleine Haeringer, Julia Lindau and Joe Hill and Victor Tadashi Suarez “He lost a daughter to the Islamic State. NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast VICE News Tonight The New York Times Can he save his grandchildren?” “The Search: Parts 1 and 2” “: Orphanage, Inc.” “Collision”

The jury was moved by Rena Through its intimate recounting This episode of the New York Effendi’s thoughtful approach of the disappearance of Kurdish Times’ The Weekly series tells a to telling the complex story photojournalist Kamaran Najm, tale of poignant tragedy, through of Patricio Galvez, a Swedish “The Search” reminds us that VICE uncovered a horrendous story of meticulous reporting and strong citizen of Chilean descent who wars don’t end when fighting unregulated orphanages in Uganda that bring visual imagery. The narrative traveled to Syria to retrieve stops. We hear audio of Najm’s in some $250 million in donations from rich arc takes viewers from the open dramatic last moments of Rena Effendi his seven grandchildren, Gregory Warner countries like the U.S. for what turns out to Singeli Agnew joyfulness of two young Americans, whose mother had joined freedom, as well as a shocking be — at least in part — a corrupt business into the heart of a cold-blooded the Islamic State. Effendi’s photgraphs made phone call from his ISIS captors. scam by Ugandan officials in which children are ISIS outpost in the wilds of vivid the thousands of children left behind by Most powerful, though, are the the victims. With her brave and enterprising Tajikistan. From the victims’ excited the Syrian civil war, and the fraught nature voices of Kamaran Najm’s family reporting, correspondent Hind Hassan and her dispatches home, to the chilling cell of the international response to the crisis. and friends, recorded during crew got some of those involved to incriminate phone videos from their killer, the Her images are emotive, beautiful, and lyrical their years of searching to learn themselves on camera, while also showing film leaves the audience moved and depictions of Patricio’s journey to reunite with his fate. Najm was just one of the costs to the poor children, some of whom disturbed. Rukmini Callimachi his grandchildren, galvanizing public discourse Karen Duffin thousands of people lost in the are not even real orphans, but all of whom are and offering a personal perspective on the cost Kurdish communities occupied too innocent to realize how they are being Citation: of war. by ISIS. In telling their story with used. Disturbing, haunting, top-notch reporting. Seb Walker, Adam Desiderio, honesty and openness, Rough Amel Guettatfi, Mikhail Galustov, Roberto Daza and team Citation: Translation has helped us grasp Citation: Adam Ferguson the very human long-term Cynthia McFadden, Christine Romo, VICE News Tonight TIME Magazine legacy of conflict. Lisa Cavazuti and Bill Angelucci “Taken by Isis” NBC News Investigations “A Harbinger of Things to Come: Farmers in Geoff O’Brien Sponsor: CBS News Struggle With Its Hottest Drought Marianne McCune Citation: “’Zone Rouge’: An Army of Children Toils in Ever” Ira Glass, Diane Wu and African Mines” Emanuele Berry Judges: This American Life Sponsor: Sony Images Sponsor: ABC News Vivienne Walt (head), Episode #686: “Umbrellas Up” TIME magazine Judges: Jim Bittermann, CNN View the slideshow here: Sponsor: Deborah Amos Terry McCarthy (head), James Graff, https://opcofamerica.org/ American Society of Cinematographers Victor Tadashi The Wall Street Journal  Awardarchive/05-the-feature- Judges: Parisa Khosravi, former CNN Worldwide Nevine Mabro, Jess Jiang photography-award-2019/ Ann Cooper (head), David Reiter, ABC News Channel 4 News (UK) Professor Emerita, Miguel Marquez, CNN Steven Mufson, Columbia Journalism School Erin Lyall, CBS News The Washington Post Ann Garrels, author Suzanne Marmion, KPBS San Diego Chris Livesay, freelance

Sebastian Meyer Shandukani Mulaudzi, freelance

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MOISES SAMAN National Geographic “El Salvador, A Country in Crisis”

Onlookers gather at the scene of a homicide in downtown San Salvador. Violence has driven hundreds of Salvadorans to leave each day for the , where they make up the fourth largest Latino community, after Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Cubans. Top: Salvadoran police Authorities house crossed the U.S. check for gang tattoos members of different border in 2018, then on a suspect arrested gangs in separate held in separate for having a gun in his prisons to avoid facilities for a month car. Above: Members violence. Right: before being deported of the MS-13 gang, Fisherman Arnovis separately to El which has thousands Guidos Portillo enjoys Salvador, where they of members in the the company of his reunited. U.S., are jammed into a children in Usulutan cell in a Chalatenango department. Father prison, in northern El and daughter were Salvador. detained when they MOISES SAMAN (3) SAMAN MOISES

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THE9 PETER JENNINGS AWARD THE10 ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD THE11 BEST CARTOON AWARD THE12 MORTON FRANK AWARD Best TV, video or documentary about Best magazine-style, long-form Best print, digital or graphic journalism Best international business news international affairs with a run time over narrative feature in print or digital on on international affairs reporting in any medium 30 minutes an international story

Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts, Dan Edge and Alex Perry Adam Zyglis Rick Young, Emma Schwartz, Raney Aronson-Rath Outside The Buffalo News and Fritz Kramer FRONTLINE PBS “The Last Days of John Allen Chau” FRONTLINE PBS “For Sama” “Trump’s Trade War”

This is the powerful story In this superb feat of Zyglis is a cartoonist in the The report did an excellent about a mother’s love for her storytelling, Alex Perry weaves bloody-fingered tradition of job of guiding viewers through young daughter, a city on the a deeply human portrait of a Thomas Nast, but with a little an up-close understanding brink of destruction and a young man with what turns of James Gillray’s whimsy of the places, from Wenzhou, war that unleashes a terrible into fatal missionary zeal thrown in. His portfolio China to cities in Ohio, and humanitarian disaster. Waed and illuminates the ongoing consists of powerful and the people, including Trump himself, who forged this Waad Al-Kateab Al-Kateab didn’t start out as a Alex Perry effects of missionary work, Adam Zyglis insightful commentary on a Rick Young journalist — she was driven by adventurism and the exoticism wide variety of international confrontation between the her desire to save the Syrian of the world’s remote peoples. issues including climate change, United States and China. city of Aleppo — but she ended conspiracies, the U.S. abandonment of Kurdish As well, the film provided a up doing what journalists do: Citation: allies, Brexit and Trump’s fealty to dictators. coherent overview not just telling a compelling story based Ellen Barry An impressive caricaturist, Zyglis is the kind of of what happened inside on witnessing a human tragedy. The New York Times cartoonist who might be jailed immediately if the White House but in Her camera captures stories of “The Jungle Prince of Delhi” he lived abroad. That’s the standard by which all the broader U.S. business Emma Schwartz Edward Watts love, loss and survival. This is a great political cartoonists should be judged. community and revealed key beautiful documentary about Sponsor: Michael S. Serrill moments and decisions that horrible events that continue to Citation: resulted in the Trump tariff wreak havoc on the people of Judges: Matt Wuerker regime. Syria. Megan Stack (head), author Politico Zahra Hankir, author Citation: Citation: Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times Sponsor: Daimler Kavitha Chekuru, , Tim Gallagher, Tim Weiner, author Josh Rushing, Laura Sullivan Joel Van Haren, Leslie Atkins Dan Edge Leon Ferguson Judges: and Laila Al-Arian and Ian Sherwood Rob Rogers (chair), freelance Fault Lines, NBC News Chelsea Saunders, freelance

“American Betrayal” Jenny Robb, Ohio State University Al-Jazeera English Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “System Failure: Sponsor: The Jennings Family Nikahang Kowsar, freelance The Boeing Crashes” Judges: Raney Fritz Kramer Aronson-Rath Robert Friedman (head), View the slideshow here: Sponsor: Marc Lemcke Bloomberg News https://opcofamerica.org/  Awardarchive/the-best-cartoon- Judges: Abi Wright, Columbia Journalism School award-2019/ Geraldine Baum (head), Graduate School of Sara Just, PBS NewsHour Journalism CUNY Tom Hurwitz, freelance Carlos Rajo, NY1/Noticias Josh Fine, HBO’s Real Sports Liz Alderman, The New York Times with Bryant Gumbel Amanda Aronczyk, NPR Jane Sasseen, McGraw Center for Business Journalism

Amanda Aronczyk recused herself from the final decision.

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Photographer Effendi spent many hours with Patricio Galvez while he sought to retrieve his seven orphaned grandchildren from the camp where they were held in Syria. Upper right, Galvez and Here he travels by bus from the children wait in Erbil, hortheast Syria to Iraq, where Iraq, for permission to fly to he lived while organizing his Gothenberg. Bottom right: a childrens’ release to Sweden. photo of Galvez’s daughter The Swedish government Amanda, who was killed in a was cool at first, but heavy U.S. airstrike while traveling coverage by local media with trapped Islamic State helped smooth the way fighters. Her husbnd was also for the kids’ repatriation. killed.

22 DATELINE 2020 DATELINE 2020 23 Far left, the al-Hol refugee camp where Galvez’s children were held until he rescued them. The camp at the time held 70,000 people, many of them wives and children of Islamic State fighters. They were malnourished and had their heads shaved to ward off lice. Top: The children on the airplane that would take them to Sweden, where 53% of those polled said they opposed the return of Islamic State family members. Left: Galvez sips a cup of tea during one of the many hours of waiting for his grandchildren to be repatriated.

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THE13 MALCOLM FORBES AWARD THE14 CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD THE15 MADELINE DANE ROSS THE16 DAVID A. ANDELMAN AND AWARD PAMELA TITLE AWARD Best international business news reporting Best non-fiction book on international affairs. Best international reporting in the print Best international TV, video, radio, audio or in newspapers, news services, magazines or medium or digital showing a concern for the podcast reporting showing a concern for the digital human condition human condition

Katherine Eban Karla Zabludovsky Gregory Warner, Jane Arraf, Nick Kostov and Sean McLain BuzzFeed News Marianne McCune, Michael May, The Wall Street Journal Ecco/HarperCollins Sana Krasikov and team “Bottle of Lies: Inside the Generic Drug Boom” “The Fight for Women’s Rights in “The Fall of Carlos Ghosn” Latin America” NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast “D.I.Y. Mosul”

Through the efforts of two Karla Zabludovsky wrote Generic drugs are critical In “Rough Translation: DIY Mosul” reporters half a world apart, with great passion and a to the U.S. health system, for NPR, Jane Arraf, who has working through headquarters sense of urgency about making up 60 per cent of the covered the Middle East for on a third continent, the ordinary women in Latin country’s drug supply — and three decades, tells a series of Journal owned one of the most America whose lives were 40 per cent of those generics unexpectedly engaging stories competitive business stories upended by the restrictive are manufactured in . from Iraq’s second-largest city of the year: the stunning — and sometimes deadly Gregory Warner Nick Kostov Katherine Eban In a shocking and masterful Karla Zabludovsky as it struggles to emerge from downfall, arrest and, ultimately, — reproductive health laws work of global investigative the war with ISIS. In the rubble of escape of a renowned auto that are the norm in the region. Her profile of reporting, Katherine Eban documents the Mosul, Arraf and her team found executive. By peeling an a Bolivian mayor who was savagely attacked massive fraud by which Indian drug makers independent civic groups doing onion of ambitions, rivalries displayed the reporter’s ability to use an have evaded a fumbling U.S. FDA to sell billions work the local government wasn’t and self-dealing, Kostov and extraordinary moment in a person’s life to of dollars in unsafe and ineffective drugs to the performing: clearing streets of McClain revealed the scope illuminate a broader issue: in this case, the U.S. The drug makers — with the knowledge of corpses, rescuing books from a of the intrigue at Nissan and entrenched misogyny that female politicians top executives — falsify safety tests on a colossal destroyed library, even repairing the Renault that set Carlos Ghosn’s in Latin America grapple with. Zabludosky Jane Arraf Sean McLain scale and routinely hide unsanitary production. city water system. Arraf tells these fate in motion. Their persistent operated under dangerous conditions, While fully documenting this global scandal, stories of grassroots civic action enterprise over the course of the year helped traveling across the region to report with Eban turns it into a page turner, focusing on key with uncommon sensitivity and Journal readers solve a great mystery. authority and sensitivity. Her work embodies figures like the courageous Indian executive insight into Iraqi culture — insight the spirit of the Madeline Dane Ross Award: turned whistleblower at the big Indian drug born of long years covering a very deeply reported stories about the human Citation: maker Ranbaxy and a dogged FDA inspector in complicated country. Erika Fry condition. India who rips aside the curtain of fraud. This is FORTUNE a book that should inform and alarm the many Citation: “Epidemic of Fear” Citation: Marianne McCune millions of Americans (and their doctors) who Ric Esther Bienstock, Rick Gur- Rebecca Plevin and Omar Ornelas use generic drugs. witz and Sponsor: Forbes Magazine The Desert Sun, Matthew Shoychet Citation: USA Today and Animal Politico (Mexico) TLNT Productions in association Judges: Andy Greenberg “Fleeing violence, Mexicans Seek Asylum in with Good Soup Productions Tim Ferguson (head), freelance Penguin Random House / Doubleday the U.S.” “The Accountant of Auschwitz” David Barboza, The New York Times “Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar” Janet Guyon, freelance Sponsor: Linda Fasulo Michael May Sponsor: David A. Andelman and Loretta Chao, VICE Sponsor: Friends of Richard Threlkeld Pamela Title Charles Wallace, freelance Judges: Judges: Hannah Allam (head), NPR Judges: Dan Hertzberg (head), freelance Mark Seibel, Washington Post Doyle McManus (head), John Bussey, The Wall Street Journal Eugenia Harvey, WNET Los Angeles Times Jennifer Siebens, freelance Tina Susman, TIME magazine Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center on Margaret Scott, New York University Ernesto Londono, The New York Times Crisis Reporting Donatella Lorch, Sana Krasikov Georgetown University Leila Fadel, NPR Sonni Efron, National Press Foundation

Leila Fadel recused herself from the jury’s final decision.

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THE17 JOE AND LAURIE DINE AWARD THE18 WHITMAN BASSOW THE19 ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN THE20 KIM WALL AWARD AWARD AWARD Best international reporting in any medium dealing Best story or series of stories on with human rights Best reporting in any medium on Best reporting in any medium international affairs using creative and international environmental issues on Latin America dynamic storytelling techniques

Malachy Browne, Evan Hill, Christiaan Triebert, Angus Berwick, Sarah Kinosian, Brian Ellsworth, Azam Ahmed Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker Whitney Hurst, Dmitriy Khavin and the Visual Mayela Armas, Carlos García Rawlins and BuzzFeed News The New York Times Investigations Team Reuters’ Venezuela Bureau “World Wildlife Fund’s Secret War” “Kill or Be Killed: Latin America’s Homicide The New York Times “The Russia Tapes: Reuters Crisis” Health Care and Civilians Under Attack in Syria” “Maduro’s Venezuela”

Against all odds, a The World Wildlife Fund Azam Ahmed asked the For more than a year, fighter Reuters team told for Nature is the world’s question: why are so many jets have bombed scores of the indispensable largest conservation people from Central America civilian targets in Syria, including story of the organization; its familiar and the Caribbean risking underground hospitals and corruption inside Maduro’s government and the panda logo is an icon so much to come to the refugee camps, in clear violation physical dangers faced by Venezuelan citizens, many of the environmental United States? His answer of international law. The New Azam is the gutsy series “Kill or Be York Times team approached of whom have had to flee the ravaged country. At a Tom Warren movement. Yet an eye- Ahmed Malachy Browne time when attention has turned to other pressing opening investigation by Killed.” The New York Times this undercovered story with geopolitical problems, Reuters stayed with an BuzzFeed News revealed Mexico City Bureau Chief took us on an almost innovative use of digital tools important story, documenting human rights abuses that the group’s alliances cinematic journey through communities undone — not just to enhance the that are not getting the attention they deserve. Using with park rangers and by violence. His stories have vivid scenes, with storytelling but to report the court documents and government records as well paramilitary groups unforgettable characters, that propel readers story itself. In so doing, the as interviews, the Reuters team helped explain how tasked with confronting forward. Violence has long been a theme for journalists proved conclusively Maduro has managed to hold onto power (partly by wildlife poachers have coverage of Honduras, Jamaica and Mexico, that Russia was behind the buying off the police and military and restructuring the Katie J.M. Baker had a deadly human cost. but Ahmed found new ways to make us care. Ean Hill bombings. The Times’ forensic chain of command), documented the hunger among With meticulous research, Ahmed spent weeks covering the siege of a visual presentation is masterfully Venezuela’s children as well as the breathtaking world careful documentation and round-the-world neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, done — and a reminder that of corruption and kickbacks from a Chinese joint interviews, the reporters laid out a record where rival gangs fought block-by-block for investigative journalism reaches venture. While top officials line their pockets, many of rape, torture and murder committed control. His persistence showed in the 17 months corners of the world that might Venezuelans are famished and trying to escape in by WWF’s partners in the increasingly he spent interviewing one of Mexico’s deadliest otherwise be ignored. The rickety boats. Top-notch reporting and photography, as militarized world of wildlife conservation. assassins, an enforcer for the drug cartels. In reporting was stellar, the evidence well as clear and accessible writing, rounded out this BuzzFeed’s stories led the WWF to another article he tracked a killer in Jamaica it uncovered compelling and important investigation. overhaul its human rights guidelines, even that police called Briana, who “preyed on the Christiaan Triebert persuasive. as Congress investigated how the U.S. parish of Clarendon, carrying out nine confirmed Citation: government could have unwittingly helped kills…” Briana, he later reveals, was a 9-millimeter Citation: Amina Ismail fund such atrocities. Amid a range of highly Browning handgun smuggled into Jamaica from Terrence McCoy and Courtney Reuters accomplished work on environmental issues the United States. Judges were also deeply Kan “Inside Sisi’s ” in 2019, the judges found this reporting impressed by the photography, graphics and The Washington Post merited the highest honor. forensic mapping that accompanied the work. “More Tigers Now Live in Cages Judges: than in the Wild”

Anya Schiffrin (head), Columbia University Citation: Citation: Whitney Hurst Molly Bingham Alison Bethel McKenzie, The Washington Post Staff The Wall Street Journal Staff Sponsor: Caribbean Consortium of Investigative Journalists “2 Degrees C: Beyond the Limit” “’s Deadly Dam Collapse” Rebecca Chao, The New York Times Judges: Louise Roug (chair), Mai Lynn Miller Nguyen, Sponsor: Robert Serio Judges: Open Society Foundations William Booth (head), The Washington Post Huffington Post Kim Barker, The New York Times Matt Schiavenza, Asia Society Judges: Dudley Althaus, freelance Kim Murphy (head), editor, Lizette Alvarez, freelance Jessica Reed, The Guardian Dimitry Khavin The New York Times Geri Smith, Inter-American Development Bank Paul Hamilos, BussFeed News Andrew Revkin, Jeff Franks, freelance Emily Feldman, freelance The Earth Institute, Columbia University Mansi Choksi, freelance Craig Welch, National Geographic Suki Kim, freelance Mary Rajkumar, The Associated Press Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post Sam Eaton, freelance Melissa Segura, BuzzFeed 28 DATELINE 2020 DATELINE 2020 29 THE OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD WINNER OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA Moises Saman ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS 2019 National Geographic “El Salvador: A Country in Crisis”

In Intipuca El Salvador, a mosquito net protects Maria Augustina Marquez. She lives in poverty with her THE ROY ROWAN AWARD THE FLORA LEWIS AWARD husband and granddaughter, 21 22 but her two sons who live Best investigative reporting in any medium on Best commentary in any medium in the U.S. barely manage an international story on international news to send money home.

Michael Schwirtz, Dionne Searcey, David Kirkpatrick Li Yuan and the visual Investigations team The New York Times The New York Times “The New, New World” “Russia’s Shadow War”

The evil emanating from Vladimir Li Yuan’s pieces on Putin’s Russia has rarely, if ever, been China and Hong Kong revealed in more shocking detail than in were informative, “Russia’s Shadow War,” a courageous, insightful, and delightful multi-continent investigation by to read; a great mix The New York Times. Ranging from of vivid reporting with Michael Schwirtz to Syria, Madagascar to central Li Yuan restrained but knowing Africa, Montenegro and beyond, Times perspective, and much reporters documented in stark prose of it entailing personal risk. and harrowing images the extent to which the Kremlin has gone to extend Citation: Russian influence to other nations. Martin Wolf Moscow-directed assassination squads, The Financial Times sophisticated disinformation campaigns, Dionne Searcey the slaughtering of innocent civilians Sponsor: Paula Dwyer — these are now pages in the Kremlin’s foreign policy playbook. Extraordinary Judges: in its use of conventional reporting and Bill Keller (head), freelance cutting-edge technology, The Shadow Scott MacLeod, freelance War’s moments include riveting footage David Shipley, Bloomberg of Russian pilots knowingly bombing John Daniszewski, The Associated Press Syrian hospitals and other civilian Eleanor Randolph, The New York Times David Kirkpatrick targets — their voices clearly heard as they unleash their deadly payload. The Bill Keller and Eleanor Randolph recused themselves analysis of the cockpit recordings, the digital forensics, from the final decision. the deciphering of the Russian military codes was unlike anything any of us had seen before by a news organization. Often reported at great personal risk to the reporters, the series brought us a view of Russia much darker and more sinister than we’d seen before.

Citation: Chris Bing and Joel Schectman Reuters “Project Raven”

Sponsor: Marcus Rowan

Judges: James B. Steele (head), independent Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times Sarah Cohen, Arizona State University Joe Stephens, Princeton Vernon Loeb, Inside Climate News

30 DATELINE 2020 DATELINE 2020 31 THE BEST CARTOON AWARD ADAM ZYGLIS The Buffalo News

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Nariman El-Mofty Associated Press “Disembarking in Hell”

Nariman El-Mofty of the AP got a citation for excellnce in the Robert Capa competition for his images from Yemen. Here a pair of Ethiopian migrrants make their way across a road in Lahj, Yemen during a sandstorm. 36 DATELINE 2020