Ahead of the curve on Nobel Peace prize.

Great multimedia coordination and meticulous planning ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement, which was awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo on Oct 8th, put Reuters way ahead of the opposition on text, television and pictures. Interviewing Liu himself was out of the question because he is in jail, but our journalists snagged a multimedia interview with his wife and ran the story the day before the Nobel committee announced its decision. The wife, Liu Xia, predicted that the Chinese government would spare no effort to reject a decision to award the prize to her husband, which is just how events unfolded before.Reuters video package, which included the interview, file footage of Liu Xiaobo and comments by human rights activists and lawyers, was flashed on RLS right after the announcement came from Oslo.The Beijing bureau managed to get Liu`s wife again, for a telephone interview this time, before her phone was cut off by authorities and she was placed under house arrest.