The World Press Review announced today the selection of Gershom Schocken, editor and publisher of the Israeli daily, Haaretz, as international editor of the year.
Alfred Balk, editor of the Review, an independent monthly digest of world press opinion, said Shocken was the first Middle East editor to receive the designation since the selection program was started in 1975.
The Review lauded the 70-year-old editor for the “forthright reporting” of the Israeli invasion a year ago of Lebanon, and for its role in exposing the massacre at the Palestinian refugee camps at Sabra and Shatila by Christian Phalangists.
Balk said the award was a plaque which will be presented to Schocken, as it has been to earlier awardees, at a time of the winner’s convenience, at a ceremony in New York City. Balk said he expected Schocken would come to New York for the award in the fall.
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