'Time' gets award for RI coverage

'Time' gets award for RI coverage

NEW YORK (AP): Time magazine has won an award from the
Overseas Press Club for its coverage of Indonesia and East Timor.

John Colmey, David Liebhold and Time's Asia staff won best
magazine business reporting for writing about the fortune of
deposed president Soeharto and his family.

Photographer John Stanmeyer, working through Saba Press Photos
for Time magazine, was honored in the category of best
photographic reporting requiring exceptional courage for the
images he captured of Indonesian Police killing an independence
supporter in East Timor.

The Associated Press also received an award for its Pulitzer
Prize-winning story on an alleged massacre by U.S. troops during
the Korean War.

AP's president and CEO Louis D. Boccardi also received the
club's President's Award for lifetime achievement.

In announcing the awards on Thursday, the club cited
Boccardi's success in moving the news cooperative into television
and digital photography and his leadership on freedom of
information and First Amendment issues.