Inquirer's Trudy Rubin wins reporting prize
Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin has been named the winner of a 2008 Edward Weintal Prize for International Reporting. The annual prize recognizes "distinguished reporting on international and diplomatic issues," and is awarded by Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy in Washington.
Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin has been named the winner of a 2008 Edward Weintal Prize for International Reporting.
The annual prize recognizes "distinguished reporting on international and diplomatic issues," and is awarded by Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy in Washington.
Rubin came to The Inquirer in 1983 and writes a column about international affairs, "Worldview," that also is distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. A 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist, she is author of
Willful Blindness: The Bush Administration and Iraq.
She was a national and Middle East correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor before coming to The Inquirer.
Also receiving a Weintal Prize at the March 31 awards presentation will be Margaret Warner, senior correspondent for PBS's
The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer
. Walter Pincus, a reporter for the Washington Post, will receive a special citation.
The Weintal Prize is named for the late Edward Weintal, a diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek.
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