My vote for journalist of the year would go to the Guardian’s New York correspondant Gary Younge. (He also contributes to The Notion blog in The Nation).
His column in The Guardian Weekly are always the first thing I seek out and he is able to write about complex political and moral questions without being simplistic or bombastic.
His perspective as a Black Briton gives him a unique insight into racial issues which are so central to American politics. It also enables him to identify with the sense of being an outsider and to write about the culturally ‘dispossesed’ with compassion and understanding.
Gary talks about his new book ‘Stranger In A Strange Land- Encounters In The Disunited States’ on NPR.
Archives of his pieces are well worth checking out.
Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King jr. delivered his historic and still profoundly moving “I Have a Dream” speech to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
