Awards

Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya will be psthumously awarded the prestigious 2007 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. This is the first time the honour has been bestowed posthumously in its 10-year history. Politkovskaya was killed in Moscow on October 7, 2006. Anna Politkovskaya Kavi Chongkittavorn, President of...

COPENHAGEN: The Danish newspaper editor who chose to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005 was on Monday awarded a free press prize for his "determination and courage". The Danish-based Free Press Society awarded Flemming Rose the inaugural international Sappho Prize, which comes with 20,000 kroner ($3,568). The publication of the 12 cartoons in the daily Jyllands-Posten...

The Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism celebrate the best in freelance print journalism and local reporters who show great courage and commitment to reporting on controversial issues. Two $5,000 prizes are awarded each year, one to a local reporter covering local stories in a developing country or nation in transition, and the other to a freelance journalist covering international news...

NDTV managing editor Barkha Dutt has been given the CBA-Thomson Foundation Journalist of the Year Award constituted by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) and Thomson Foundation. Dutt won in a category that included nominations from 53 Commonwealth countries. A woman waits for water in Soweto. The CBA-Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Programme went to South African...

The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) is seeking nominations from around the world for its 2007 Courage in Journalism Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award. The Courage in Journalism Awards honor women working in the news media who have demonstrated extraordinary strength of character in pursuing their profession under difficult or dangerous circumstances. These women show a commitment...

PANJIM, DEC 19—Sonia Faleiro of Tehelka newspaper has been honoured with the second prize print/online category by CNN channel for her story on farmers’ suicides in Vidarbha.. The award for the print/online category went to Rohit Vishwanath of Businessworld magazine from Mumbai for his story ‘Shop Floor Jobs Are Hot Once Again’ which dealt on how engineering graduates are now looking for shop...

The Pulitzer Prize Board has established new rules allowing newspapers to submit a full array of online material such as databases, interactive graphics, and streaming video for its journalism awards. An assortment of Web 2.0 elements will now be permitted in all awards except for the competition's two photography categories, which will continue to restrict entries to still images. "This board...

NEW DELHI, NOV 17 (PTI): An expose of the Bihar flood scam which led to the jailing of an IAS officer and reporting into the missing tigers from the Indian wildlife sanctuaries have won the Indian Express the prestigious IPI India Award for Excellence in Journalism. The India chapter of the International Press Institute (IPI) today announced the award, which carries a cash prize of Rs two lakh, a...

London and Gland, Switzerland, 10 August 2006 (Reuters Foundation/IUCN) – Reuters Foundation and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) launch today the 2006 Media Awards, a worldwide competition aimed at raising global awareness of environmental and sustainable development issues, by encouraging excellence in environmental reporting worldwide. The Awards, established in 1998 by Reuters Foundation...

An Iranian journalist who spent the last six years in jail for criticising the Iranian authorities has been awarded the 2006 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize from the World Association of Newspapers. Akbar Ganji, a leading investigative journalist who is now one of Iran's most renowned dissidents, dedicated the award to "all Iranian dissidents and freedom-fighters." PENNING...