NYT Wins Big at Overseas Press Club Awards; Koppel Becomes Most Honored

By: (AP) The New York Times won five Overseas Press Club Awards, including honors for reporters and photographers working in Iraq, Russia, Sudan, and Indonesia. Ted Koppel and Seymour Hersh also won.

Times reporter Dexter Filkins and photographer Ashley Gilbertson each won for their coverage of a Marine unit that took 36 casualties while fighting in Iraq.

Filkins won the award for best newspaper or wire-service reporting from abroad, and Gilbertson won for best published photographic reporting from abroad.

Times photographer James Hill won the feature photography award for his black-and-white photographs from the Beslan school attack in Russia, and Paolo Pellegrin was given the award for best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines and books for a series on the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, that was published in the Times magazine.

The award for environmental reporting went to the Times' Jane Perlez for "Indonesia: Poisoning Buyot Bay," an expose of abuses by a mining corporation in Indonesia.

Koppel, of ABC News' "Nightline," won his 10th Overseas Press Club Award for best television spot news from abroad, making him the most-honored correspondent in the club's history. Koppel shared the award with a team of co-workers for "Spotlight on Darfur."

Also honored were The New Yorker's Hersh, who won the award for best print coverage dealing with human rights for his work on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, and Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, who won the President's Award for distinguished service in the field of journalism.

Other winners:

&8226; Philip Pan, of The Washington Post, won the award for best newspaper or wire service interpretation of international affairs for "China: Confronting the System."

&8226; Andrea Bruce Woodall, of The Washington Post, won the award for best newspaper or wire service photographic reporting from abroad for "The Cost of Liberty -- Prostitution in Iraq."

&8226; Michael Goldfarb, Anna Bensted, and George Hicks, of WBUR-FM in Boston, won the award for best radio news or interpretation of international affairs for "British Jihad: Inside Out."

&8226; David Fanning, Sharon Tiller, Stephen Talbot, Ken Dornstein, KQED and WGBH, "Frontline/World," won the award for best television interpretation or documentary on international affairs for "Stories from a Small Planet."

&8226; Patrick Graham, of Harper's Magazine, and Michael Ware, of Time, shared the award for best magazine reporting from abroad. Graham won for "Beyond Fallujah: A Year with the Iraqi Resistance," and Ware won for "Reports from Iraq."

&8226; Kevin Kallaugher, of The Baltimore Sun, won the award for best cartoons on international affairs.

&8226; Pete Engardio, Dexter Roberts, and Aaron Bernstein, of BusinessWeek, won the award for best magazine business reporting from abroad for "The China Price."

&8226; Ken Silverstein and T. Christian Miller, of the Los Angeles Times, won the award for best business reporting by a newspaper or wire service from abroad for "The Politics of Petroleum."

&8226; Steve Coll, author of "Ghost Wars," won the award for best nonfiction book on international affairs.

&8226; Mark Danner, of The New York Review of Books, won the award for best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition for "Torture and Truth."

&8226; Simcha Jacobovici, Ric Esther Bienstock, Tim Wolochatiuk, Felix Golubev, Jennifer Hyde, Sid Bedingfield, associated producers for CNN and CBC, won the award for best international broadcast reporting showing a concern for the human condition for "CNN Presents: Impact of Terror."

&8226; Sven Bergman, Joachim Dyfvermark, Fredrik Laurin, of Sweden's TV4, won for best international broadcast reporting that deals with human rights for "Cold Facts: The Broken Promise."

&8226; Stephen Segaller and Angeus MacQueen, of Thirteen/WNET, Channel 4, October Films Ltd., won for best reporting on Latin America for "Wide Angle: An Honest Citizen."

&8226; Dimitri Beyakov won for outstanding reporting by a Russian journalist for "Beslan."

The Overseas Press Club, which aims to promote freedom of the press, educate journalists, and encourage high standards in reporting, was founded in 1939.