John Stackhouse

Few foreign journalists have travelled to more villages or remote districts than John Stackhouse. For eight years, he was based in New Dehli as The Globe and Mail's development issues reporter but spent much of his time living with poor farmers, fisherman, lepers and slum-dwellers, travelling by third-class rail through India or by boat through Borneo. He has won five National Newspaper Awards - one for his eye-opening account of life for the homeless on Toronto streets - A National Magazine Award and an Amnesty International prize for foreign reporting.