Times reporter cited for foreign affairs coverage

Alexandra Zavis of the Los Angeles Times has won the American Academy of Diplomacy’s 2014 Arthur Ross Award for distinguished reporting on foreign affairs.

The academy singled out Zavis’ reporting on Africa, which has included coverage of the Ebola outbreak and a five-part series, produced with Times photographer Rick Loomis, on the ethnic and religious violence in the Central African Republic.

Zavis, a writer and editor on The Times’ foreign desk, also reported from the Gaza Strip in July during Israel’s bombardment of the territory in its long-running conflict with the radical group Hamas.

Also recognized by the academy was Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, who received a Ross Award for columns exploring how immigration and other global trends “are reshaping our neighborhoods, our families, ourselves.”