Meridith Kohut Wins Chris Hondros Award for Venezuela Coverage – The New York Times

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Meridith Kohut Wins Chris Hondros Award for Venezuela Coverage

Before Meridith Kohut won the award for documenting Venezuela’s crumbling mental hospitals, she had been mentored by Mr. Hondros.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/merdith-kohut-wins-the-fifth-annual-getty-images-and-chris-hondros-award/

Meridith Kohut, who has been documenting Venezuela’s downward spiral for The New York Times, has won the fifth annual Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award. The award was created in honor of Mr. Hondros, who was killed in Libya in April 2011 along with the photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington.