AWARDS: Alumni winners of Overseas Press Club awards
Prof. Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, reports that our alumni winning at a different prize ceremony last week.
See the full list of winners at this OPC link.It turns out that three former students — all at the NY Times – won top awards at the OPC dinner Thursday night: Andrea Elliott, J’99 (best magazine reporting), Lydia Polgreen, J2000 (best reporting on the human condition) and Damien Cave, J’98 and his wife, Diana Oliva, not a former student (best Web site coverage of international affairs). Another grad, Jose de Cordoba, of Wall Street Journal, won a citation (honorable mention); think he graduated in the late 1970s. Not sure about anyone else.
[Update from Irena Choi Stern, director of alumni relations - another winner: Bob Drogin J’76 (best nonfiction book on international affairs for “Curveball: Spies, Lies and the Con Man Who Caused a War”).]It was, quietly, a great night for the j-school (and for an old RW1 prof).
