The 2011 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Silver Medal for written media coverage of the UN and its agencies was jointly awarded this year to Louis Charbonneau and Joe Laurence Lauria.  This section is about Joe Lauria's contribution.

Joe Laurence Lauria, The Wall Street Journal

Joe Lauria has been the Wall Street Journal’s U.N. correspondent since Feb. 2009 and a journalist for more than two decades.  He has daily covered the U.N. for 20 years for several publications, including the Boston Globe, the London Daily Mail, the London Daily Telegraph, the Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Johannesburg Star and the German Press Agency dpa.  He has been an investigative reporter for the Sun- day Times of London since 2000, was a staff reporter at Bloomberg News and the New York correspondent for the London Sunday Business.  He is the author of a book with a former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate published by Seven Stories Press.

The following is a list of links to the reprints of articles submitted by Joe Lauria to the UNCA Awards judges (in chronological order):

• Rwanda to Keep U.N. Contingent - 24 Sept 2010 - WSJ.com.pdf

• China Courts Sudan Secessionists - 22 Oct 2010 - WSJ.com.pdf

• Audit Faults U.N. Contract With PricewaterhouseCoopers - 9 Feb 2011 - WSJ.com.pdf

• U.N. Leaks Risk Ivory Coast Security - 27 March 2011 - WSJ.com.pdf  

• Panel Calls Sri Lanka War Crime Claims 'Credible' - 26 Apr 2011 - WSJ.com.pdf

• U.N. Role Is Found in Haiti Cholera - 5 May 2011 - WSJ.com.pdf

• Somalia Would Embrace U.S. Strike - 12 May 2011 - WSJ.com.pdf

   

• Panel Suggests Plan for Post-Gadhafi Libya - 29 June 2011 - WSJ.com.pdf

• U.N. Blasts Israel For Lethal Reply to Protesters - 7 July 2011 - WSJ.com.pdf