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Nayan Chanda wins Shorenstein Award for Journalism
Nayan Chanda, former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, has received the prestigious Shorenstein journalism award from Harvard University.
Nayan Chanda, former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, has received the prestigious Shorenstein journalism award from Harvard University.
Chanda received the 2005 Shorenstein Award for Journalism in a ceremony at the Shorenstein Centre of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at the university.
Chanda is currently editor of YaleGlobal Online and director of publications for the Yale Centre for the Study of Globalisation.
The Shorenstein award honours a journalist for distinguished writing and for the particular way it has helped Americans understand the complexities of Asia.
The biennial award is presented jointly by the Walter H. Shorenstein Forum for Asia Pacific Studies at Stanford University and the Shorenstein Centre on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard.
Chanda reported for the Far Eastern Economic Review for 22 years before becoming the magazine's editor during 1996-2000.
He has co-authored numerous books on Asian politics, security and foreign policy issues and is best known for his seminal book, "Brother Enemy: The War after the War", on the fate of South Vietnam and Cambodia when they were taken over by Communist regimes in 1975.
Chanda recently co-edited a collection of essays with former US deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott, entitled "The Age of Terror: America and the World after September 11".
Previous Shorenstein award recipients were Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Stanley Karnow, Don Oberdorfer, former diplomatic correspondent for the Washington Post, and Orville Schell, dean of the graduate school of journalism at Berkeley.
