International

Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas and Burmese investigative reporter May Thingyan Hein have been named the 2007 Knight International Journalism Award winners by the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ). They will be honoured along with Founders Award recipient Tom Brokaw at the 10th annual ICFJ Awards Dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Centre in Washington DC on November...

The Marseille-Provence-Alpes du Sud Press Society is organising the International Award for Freedom of Speech. It will reward a leading article, coverage, survey or interview conveying a free and independent vision. Award amount : 5 000 Euros Every year around the world, many journalists disappear. Some of them have been abducted, imprisoned, tortured or simply shot down. The only crime they have...

Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath has been named as one of the seven winners of the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Awards in recognition of his passionate reporting about the condition of India's rural poor. "In electing Palagummi Sainath to receive the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts, the board of trustees recognises his passionate commitment as a...

NEW YORK: Just a day after United Press International revealed it would lay off its lone White House correspondent with no plans to replace him, comes word that UPI's long-running United Nations bureau will close after 62 years of covering the worldwide organization. In that move, the news organization is losing its most senior reporter, William M. Reilly, who joined UPI in 1961 and covered beats...

NEW YORK: United Press International is cutting 11 positions from its Washington, D.C., bureau, including its lone White House correspondent, Richard Tomkins. The move marks the first time in its history that UPI will have no one on that beat. "I have been expecting it for some time," said Tomkins, a seven-year UPI veteran who has covered the White House since 2003. "The company is not doing well...

Amnesty International has presented its special award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat to Dina Meza - an investigative journalist who works for monthly e-magazine Revistazo.com in Honduras. At its annual awards ceremony earlier tonight, Dina Mesa was given the award for continuing to work in danger as a result of her human rights journalism. Ms Meza and her team of journalists have been...

Tens of thousands of journalists are planning a co-ordinated day of protests in every European capital to highlight a dramatic media crisis over political pressure, falling standards and poor working conditions across Europe. “It’s time to stand up for journalism,” said Aidan White, General Secretary of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) at a national conference of German journalists on...

Journalists who have made a raised awareness of issues related to human rights or press freedom violations are eligible to be nominated for one of two awards organized by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE). Nomination deadline: June 20. The International Press Freedom Award will be presented to a journalist or media organization that has demonstrated a significant commitment to...

LOS ANGELES: A local news Web site's editor who hired two reporters in India to cover suburban Pasadena said he's been so overwhelmed by handling reaction to his plan that he had to postpone publication of their first stories. James Macpherson said he hasn't found the time he hoped to have to train one of his new staffers to cover Monday night's City Council meeting, which is shown live on the Web...

As the attack by a deranged gunman unfolded at Virginia Tech on Monday, one thing became increasingly clear: In many ways, and for a growing number of people, blogs and wikis -- and Facebook and MySpace -- are the new CNN. In the same way that reporters for the TV news network became a symbol of a new age, as they crouched on the rooftop of the Baghdad Hilton with their satellite phones while...