Ex-Hostage Anderson Wins Overseas Press Club Award
NEW YORK — Terry A. Anderson, a correspondent for the Associated Press who survived nearly seven years as a hostage in Lebanon, has won the President’s Award of the Overseas Press Club. Two Los Angeles Times reporters were also honored.
The club, which honored foreign affairs and overseas reporting at its annual awards dinner Wednesday, praised Anderson for “distinguished and exemplary service in the field of journalism.”
A citation from the club said that Anderson’s courage and faith during 2,455 days in captivity earned “the admiration and respect of journalists and the public alike, and will serve always as a reminder of the dangers confronting reporters all over the world.”
Anderson was kidnaped by Shiite Muslims in Beirut on March 16, 1985. He was freed last Dec. 4.
Among the others honored for overseas or foreign affairs reporting were:
* Carol J. Williams of the Los Angeles Times, the Bob Considine Award for interpretation, for “The Last Days of Yugoslavia,” published in Los Angeles Times Magazine.
* Jonathan Peterson of the Los Angeles Times, the Malcolm Forbes Award for business or economic reporting for newspapers or news services, for a series of articles on the collapse of the Soviet economy and the painful transition toward a free-market system.
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