Journalists from The New York Times awarded the 2023 James Foley Medill Medal for Courage editorandpublisher.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from editorandpublisher.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The three international journalists are recognized for risking their lives as the last remaining international media in the besieged city of Mariupol, Ukraine.
Jonathan Myerson Katz is a freelance journalist. He is the author of 'The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster,' winner of the Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Book Award, finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, and a Kirkus, Slate, Christian Science Monitor and Amazon.com Book of the Year. He is a regular New York Times contributor whose coverage has included U.S. police violence and the 2015 murders of Muslim students in Chapel Hill, N.C. Other work has appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Politico, and New Yorker website, with grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
A former Associated Press foreign correspondent, Katz won the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his coverage of the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake and his investigation that revealed United Nations peacekeepers had caus