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New York Times white house correspondent Helene Cooper was the recipient of the sixth-annual Urbino Press Award for her journalistic work "reporting on the ever-changing world." Cooper, born in Monrovia, Liberia, had to flee the country after the 1980 coup. She wrote about her experiences in the war-torn African country in her memoir, The House at Sugar Beach.

At the award ceremony hosted by the Italian Embassy on April 20, Cooper remarked: “I’m incredibly honored to receive this year’s Urbino Press Award, for both professional and personal reasons.

Professionally, I’m thrilled and humbled to share a stage with David Ignatius, Tom Friedman and Martha Raddatz—they are all first-rate chroniclers of the world around us. And personally for me, there is no higher honor than being recognized by the cultural heirs of Baldassare Castiglione, Elisabetta Gonzaga and Federico da Montefeltro—a trio who epitomized Renaissance cool as far as I’m concerned. Grazie mille, Urbino.”

An additional ceremony will be held for Cooper in Urbino on June 3.

  

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Sixth Annual Urbino Press Award at the Italian Embassy

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Kaeleigh Forsyth

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April 26, 2011

New York Times white house correspondent Helene Cooper was the recipient of the sixth-annual Urbino Press Award for her journalistic work "reporting on the ever-changing world." Cooper, born in Monrovia, Liberia, had to flee the country after the 1980 coup. She wrote about her experiences in the war-torn African country in her memoir, The House at Sugar Beach.

At the award ceremony hosted by the Italian Embassy on April 20, Cooper remarked: “I’m incredibly honored to receive this year’s Urbino Press Award, for both professional and personal reasons.

Professionally, I’m thrilled and humbled to share a stage with David Ignatius, Tom Friedman and Martha Raddatz—they are all first-rate chroniclers of the world around us. And personally for me, there is no higher honor than being recognized by the cultural heirs of Baldassare Castiglione, Elisabetta Gonzaga and Federico da Montefeltro—a trio who epitomized Renaissance cool as far as I’m concerned. Grazie mille, Urbino.”

An additional ceremony will be held for Cooper in Urbino on June 3.

  

About
Kaeleigh Forsyth
:
The views presented in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent the views of any other organization.