(May 13, 2016) The journalist from the New York Times, Mark Mazzetti is the winner of 2016 Urbino Press Award, the Italian prize awarded annually to an American reporter or columnist. The official announcement of the victory will be given on May 17 by the Italian Ambassador to the United States, Armando Varricchio, during a ceremony at the Embassy of Italy in Washington. As per tradition, after the announcement in Washington, the prize will be awarded at a ceremony to be held over the summer at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino. “The choice of Mark Mazzetti as a winner of the Urbino Press Award 2016 testifies to the recognition of the value and enterprising journalistic dynamism” commented Varricchio, “The Embassy partnered with the Urbino Press Award is the result of an important partnership that looks to the future of journalism and how foreign policy is communicated to the readers and Mazzetti was then added to a list of important American journalists. They have also distinguished themselves in the field of journalistic investigation”. Marco Mazzetti is the correspondent in Washington for the New York Times for which he write about national security since 2006.
