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The Third Annual SAJA Dinner
SAJA Journalism Awards 1997
Friday, May 9, 1997, at Shaan Resturant in Manhattan
Guest speaker: LOU DOBBS of CNN
Shankar Vedantam of The Philadelphia Inquirer, winner of
Outstanding Story by a South Asian Journalist.
[Read Shankar's Winning Entry]
Mike Williams, assistant foreign editor of
The Wall Street Journal, receives a finalist's
certificate on behalf on Nikhil Deogun.
(In the middle is Pallavi Gogoi of AP-Dow Jones)
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Deepak Gopinath of Infrastructure Finance, a finalist in the South Asian Journalist category. (On the right
is Alok Jha of WBIS-TV)
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THE FULL RESULTS
(out of 102 stories entered)
Outstanding Reporting on South Asia
Winner ($500.00 + plaque + SAJA T-shirt)
Jon Krakauer, Outside: "Into Thin Air: The Story on Everest"
- A powerful first-hand report about a fatal expedition on an
unforgiving mountain.
Outstanding Story by a South Asian Journalist
Winner ($500.00 + plaque + SAJA T-shirt)
Shankar Vedantam, The Philadelphia Inquirer: "Rx for AIDS: Advances Largely Bypass the Third World"
- A detailed report on the war against AIDS in developing countries.
Finalists
(Certificate + SAJA T-shirt)
- Murthy Andavolu, Poughkeepsie Journal, "On the Waterfront"
- A series about the changing waterfront of Poughkeepsie, New
York.
- Nikhil Deogun, The Wall Street Journal: "Bear facts: A Bust Has
People Asking, What's the Beef?"
- A story about a mail-order food seller entangled with the U.S.
government.
- Deepak Gopinath, Infrastructure Finance: "Going for the Gold"
- A look at Western oil companies entering the former Soviet Union.
- Viji Sundaram, India West: "High Posts Elude Most Asians"
- An investigative report on the alleged glass ceiling in the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Certificate of Special Recognition: Chitra Ragavan of National
Public Radio for her extensive coverage of the 1996 Indian elections.