Excellence Honor for Jacqueline Charles; Haiti Coverage continues to Captivate & Impress Global Readers 

By Deandrea Hamilton and Dana Malcolm 

Editorial Team

#TurksandCaicos, July 2, 2023 – Decorated TCI-Haitian Journalist with the Miami Herald, Jacqueline Charles has received another honor for her coverage of tumultuous Haiti, this time the International Centre for Journalists ‘Excellence in International Reporting Award’.

The award is reserved for those who despite great personal risks, the recipients provide high-quality, on-scene coverage that shapes public discourse.

Charles, speaking to the Miami Herald, for whom she has reported for decades now, described the award as an unexpected and huge honor.  She has been covering Haiti for over twenty years and continues to provide objective insightful and humanitarian coverage of issues in the country ranging from the 2010 earthquake to the assassination of the president to bloody gang wars leading to tremendous instability for the millions of Haitians languishing in the uncertainty of change in the hemisphere’s oldest Republic.

In the past 24 months, several journalists have been murdered in Haiti as violence spirals but Charles’ coverage remains steady, undaunted and takes the coverage from the sidelines to the frontline.

She has received several awards for this bold brand of coverage in the past including:

• The NABJ Journalist of the Year (twice);
•  2011 Pulitzer Prize nomination
• A Regional Emmy for her role as co-producer on the Herald produced-documentary, “Nou Bouke” and more.

The ICFJ says she will be awarded alongside the 2023 Knight International Journalism Award winners: Riad Kobaissi of Lebanon, whose revelations of corruption foreshadowed the Beirut port explosion and Mariam Ouédraogo of Burkina Faso, who has shown the impact of extremism in West Africa on women and children.

ICFJ President Sharon Moshavi said of this year’s awardees,  “They have risked their lives to bring us difficult, heart-wrenching stories. And their work has had an impact, focusing the world’s attention on suffering, ensuring that the most vulnerable get help, and holding the powerful to account.”

Charles was born in Grand Turk and grew up there before moving to the United States for schooling.

Magnetic Media has had the honour of working alongside and interviewing Charles, who presents compelling narratives, down to earth perspective and on the ground insight in her hard-hitting reports.

Congratulations to Jacquiline Charles, who leads coverage for the Miami Herald within the Caribbean.