Nayan Chanda awarded 2005 Shorenstein Prize
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March 1, 2005 — The 2007 recipient of the Shorenstein Prize for Reporting on Asia is Nayan Chanda, who received the prize at a ceremony in March at Harvard University.
The Shorenstein Prize is awarded annually by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Walter H. Shorenstein Forum for Asia Pacific Studies at Stanford University. The prize honors a journalist for distinguished writing and reporting that helps Americans to better understand the complexities of Asia.
Chanda, former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, is currently editor of Yale Global Online and director of publications for the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He is best known for his book, Brother Enemy: The War after the War, on the fate of South Vietnam and Cambodia after 1975. In a news article titled "Legendary Reporter Gets His Due," Gary Shapiro of the New York Sun called Mr. Chanda "one of the shrewdest operators in journalism" and noted that "among a certain strata of journalistic congnoscenti, mutters of satisfaction are being heard that the Shorenstein Award for Journalism was given to Nayan Chanda."
Previous recipients of the Shorenstein Prize include Stanley Karnow, Orville Schell, and Don Oberdorfer.