Date: 2009-03-18
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Washington, D.C.—Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) will mark the 34th anniversary of the Edward Weintal Prize for International Reporting with a ceremony honoring the 2009 winners on March 24, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. in the Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Washington, D.C.—Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) will mark the 34th anniversary of the Edward Weintal Prize for International Reporting with a ceremony honoring the 2009 winners on March 24, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. in the Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium.
Selected for their outstanding reporting and analysis over the past year, the 2009 Weintal Prize recipients are Jane Mayer for The New Yorker and Deborah Amos for National Public Radio. In addition, Carol Giacomo for The New York Times and H.D.S. Greenway for The Boston Globe will receive special citations for career contributions in international and national security reporting.
“The past year has been a challenging one for reporters covering foreign affairs and diplomacy, and the breadth and depth of this year's Weintal winners demonstrates just how difficult and rewarding the fruits of this work can be,” says Paula R. Newberg, Marshall B. Coyne Director of the ISD at Georgetown University.
“Deborah Amos has anchored NPR's coverage of many of the world's problem places, including incisive reporting on and about the Middle East. Jane Mayer's investigative reporting has taken the world of U.S. diplomacy back to the fundamental relationships between transparency and secrecy within the U.S. government. And the careers of both Carol Giacomo and H.D.S. Greenway show us the great value of longtime dedication to the fields of foreign affairs and diplomacy,” says Newberg.
Chaired by Marvin Kalb, this year’s Weintal prize selection committee members included Ralph Begleiter, Tara Sonenshine, Elizabeth Becker, Samuel Lewis, David Sanger, Karen DeYoung, Carla Anne Robbins, Anne Blackman, John Walcott, Casimir Yost and Paula Newberg.
Edward Weintal, a former Polish diplomat who became a diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek, established an endowment at Georgetown to recognize outstanding journalists covering diplomacy and international affairs. Since Weintal’s death in 1973, the Edward Weintal prize for international reporting has been awarded annually to internationally acclaimed figures in print and broadcast journalism.
As a political reporter for The New Yorker, Jane Mayer covers the war on terror, the Pentagon’s secret torture policy, the prison at Guantánamo Bay and the legality of C.I.A. interrogations. She has also written about George W. Bush, the bin Laden family, Sarah Palin and the television show “24.” Before joining The New Yorker, Mayer was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal for 12 years, becoming the Journal’s first female White House correspondent in 1984. She is author of the best-selling book, “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War in Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals” (Doubleday 2008), which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books of the year.
Author of “Lines in the Sand: Desert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World” (Simon and Schuster 1992), Deborah Amos covers the Middle East for NPR's award-winning Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. She has returned to work with NPR after a decade in television news, including ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight and the PBS programs NOW with Bill Moyers and Frontline. Prior to her work with ABC News, Amos spent 16 years with NPR. She has won several awards and widespread recognition for her coverage of the Gulf War in 1991.
Carol Giacomo covered foreign policy for Reuters wire service for more than two decades before joining The New York Times editorial board in August 2007. In her previous position as a diplomatic correspondent for Reuters, Giacomo traveled to nearly 100 countries with seven secretaries of state and various other senior U.S. officials. In 1999/2000, she was a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, researching U.S. economic and foreign policy decision-making during the Asian financial crisis. She has been a guest lecturer at the U.S. National War College, among other academic institutions, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Foreign affairs columnist H.D.S. Greenway writes for both The Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune. After serving in the U.S. Navy for two years, Greenway worked for Time Life in London, Washington, Saigon, Bangkok, the United Nations and Hong Kong from 1962 to 1972. After Time Life, Greenway worked for the Washington Post in Washington, Saigon, Hong Kong and Jerusalem from 1972 to 1978. Afterwards, he served as the foreign editor, national editor and editorial page editor for The Boston Globe.
About the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD), founded in 1978, is a program of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and is the School’s primary window on the world of the foreign affairs practitioner. ISD studies the practitioner’s craft: how diplomats and other foreign affairs professionals succeed and the lessons to be learned from their successes and failures. For more information about ISD please visit: http://isd.georgetown.edu.
About Georgetown University
Georgetown University is the oldest and largest Catholic and Jesuit university in America, founded in 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll. Georgetown today is a major student-centered, international, research university offering respected undergraduate, graduate and professional programs in Washington, DC, Doha, Qatar and around the world. For more information about Georgetown University, visit www.georgetown.edu.
Media are invited to cover the award ceremony and lecture, but must RSVP to Katie Martha at (202) 687-4328 or kpm43@georgetown.edu.