Coast contributing writer Matthieu Aikins won the Atlantic Journalism Award for Enterprise Reporting in print tonight, for his piece “Unembedded in Afghanistan.”
Aikins won for Adam’s Fall, his investigation of suicides from the Macdonald Bridge.
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Unembedded in Afghanistan
October 7 marks the eighth anniversary of the US-led war on Afghanistan, but is the country any better off? Late last year, Coast contributor Matthieu Aikins headed alone into the Afghan mountains to try to find out what we are fighting for.
To a safer Macdonald bridge
Construction starts next week on “safety barriers” to deter suicides
This article appears in Apr 30 – May 6, 2009.
I’m proud of you, Matt Aikins. That was an outstanding article. I look forward to reading more articles by you, Mr. Aikins. Congratulations on winning the Atlantic Journalism Award. That’s an amazing accomplishment.