Journalist Susana Ferreira has won New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute’s inaugural Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award.
The Carter Institute established the award last fall in remembrance of the late journalist Matthew Power. The $12,500 award is given “to a young journalist researching an important story that illuminates the human condition.” Ferreira spent four years in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where she was a correspondent for Reuters and served as a freelancer for Time, CBC Radio, PRI’s “The World,” the Wall Street Journal, France 24, and the Guardian.
“Many inspired proposals were submitted to us, but hers was particularly original and stood out as the sort of thing Matt might have done,” stated Professor Ted Conover of the Carter Journalism Institute, a friend of Power’s who coordinated the judging. “We hope that funding this kind of work will help to keep his spirit alive.”