By: (AP) The Novartis International Journalism Awards Program was canceled after the pharmaceutical company that funded it withdrew financial support.
Sheldon Jones, vice president of communications for Novartis, said the company decided to focus resources on its area of expertise: health care. "We just feel it's more beneficial for us to make our contributions and our support in an area that is really our core," Jones said this week.
The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, which administered the prize, decided not to accept entries for 2002 without the money, said Felisa Klubes, a spokeswoman for the school.
"We will continue to honor those journalists from around the world who have won our distinguished awards between 1995 and 2001 for their outstanding effort to bring issues of importance to the public's awareness," the school said in a statement on its Web site.
The award was created in 1995 to recognize outstanding achievement in coverage of international affairs.
The prize included $15,000, as well as public events to showcase the work.
The Associated Press won the award in 2000 for its series "The Bridge at No Gun Ri" about allegations that Americans killed Korean civilians in the early days of the Korean War.
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