BAYEUX, France: France’s prestigious Bayeux-Calvados award for war correspondents on Saturday honoured journalists covering conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, as well as Europe’s worst migrant crisis since World War II.
Two of the awards went to correspondents covering the Islamic State group’s game plan and its atrocities.
The text category award went to German Der Spiegels’ Christoph Reuter, who wrote an in-depth story on the shadowy mastermind of IS’s strategy in Syria and Iraq.
The article, published on April 18 this year, ploughs through a set of documents left behind by Haji Bakr after his death, which Reuter describes as “the source code …read more
Source: theSun
