Six women who risked their lives reporting in Iraq, a Mexican reporter who faced death threats for her reporting on paedophiles, and an Ethiopian journalist who was charged with treason have received awards for courage from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). ABC News' Bob Woodruff, who was nearly killed in a January 2006 bombing in Iraq, presented the award to the Iraqi women for
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 Delhi: CNN-IBN has added yet another feather in its cap. The channel won four of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism awards on Monday. While Nilanjana Bose won the award in the ‘Uncovering India Invisible’ category, Bahar Dutt won the ‘Excellence in Environmental Reporting’ award. CNN-IBN’s Special Investigation Team won the excellence in political reporting award. The channel's editor...
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...
A Chinese journalist serving a 10-year prison sentence for revealing his government’s orders to newspapers to censor their reporting of the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary, has been awarded the 2007 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize from the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). The award to Shi Tao, who was imprisoned after the American search engine company Yahoo...
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...
Mizzima News Agency has been awarded the 2007 Free Media Pioneer Award by the International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists. Managing Editor Sein Win will receive the prize on behalf of Mizzima at an award ceremony on May 15 during the IPI World Congress in Istanbul, Turkey (May 12-15, 2007). Mizzima News was founded in August 1998 by...
April 16 (Bloomberg) -- The Wall Street Journal won the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for Public Service today for its reports on the scandal surrounding corporate executives' backdated stock options. It was one of two Pulitzers for the Journal. The newspaper was also awarded the prize for international reporting for its look at the impact of Chinese capitalism. The 91st annual prizes for excellence...
