L.A. Times Reporter Wins Award From Overseas Press Club
The Overseas Press Club of America has awarded its 1990 prize for economics and business reporting to James Risen of the Los Angeles Times, the New York-based organization has announced.
The $1,000 prize, sponsored by Forbes magazine, was presented for a series Risen wrote, “The Quality Gap: Why Japanese Auto Makers Are Still Winning,” which appeared in The Times in January, 1990.
Risen, 35, now an economics correspondent in the Washington bureau of The Times, was chief of the newspaper’s Detroit bureau when the series appeared.
A 1977 graduate of Brown University, Risen joined The Times in 1984. Before that, he was a reporter for the Detroit Free Press.
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