Awards

Washington, DC – An American freelance journalist who was held in captivity in Iraq and a Lebanese television broadcaster who survived a car bomb explosion are recipients of this year’s International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award. These women journalists will receive Courage awards along with a Chinese journalist who was unable to accept a 1995 Courage in Journalism Award...

ANKARA, 24 May (IRIN) - Iranian journalist and political dissident, Akbar Ganji, has been awarded the annual Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA). "He stood out in the eyes of the jury, composed by members of 11 different human rights organisations, in terms of the sacrifices he has made and the fact that he refused to compromise [for freedom of expression] in any way," Hans...

NEW YORK - Harper's, New York magazine and the New Yorker each won two National Magazine Awards Tuesday, the highest accolade in the magazine industry. Time and Rolling Stone were also two-time winners. But perhaps the biggest coup was scored by the Virginia Quarterly Review, a small-circulation literary journal that also won two awards but was nominated for six, even more than the other top...

THE United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has released the criteria for the WFP Award for humanitarian journalism. The award aims at recognising journalists’ efforts to deliver consistent, in-depth coverage of humanitarian issues relating to people and communities affected by poverty, food insecurity and HIV and AIDS in Swaziland. WFP Country Director Abdoulaye Balde cited HIV and AIDS as the...

Srinagar, Feb 11: Yusuf Jameel, veteran Kashmiri journalist has won the best journalist of the South Asian region award for his outstanding reporting from Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir during a visit across the Line of Control last year. He was among a dozen journalists from Jammu and Kashmir who joined the return visit to Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir of the South Asian journalists and during...

The Times and its journalists won three major prizes at the What The Papers Say awards today, where it was named newspaper of the year. Individual honours went to Richard Lloyd-Parry, Asia Editor, who was named foreign correspondent of the year, and Peter Brookes, who was named cartoonist of the year. Martin Samuel, a Times columnist, was named sports writer of the year for his articles in the...

The Pulitzer Prize Board announced Wednesday that newspapers may submit online material as well as print content in all 14 of its journalism categories, starting with the 2006 competition. PULITZER ONLINE: "The board believes it has taken a significant step in recognition of the widening role of online journalism at newspapers," said Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. "The board...

The Ministry of Water Resources has instituted two awards for media reporting on 'water'. One award is regarding the print media in the category of best published researched story and the other is for the electronic media for thought provoking telecasted docu-feature. The award in each category consists of Rs 50,000 in cash, a trophy and a citation. Besides, awards have also been instituted on...

The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) has announced three winners for this year's Courage in Journalism Awards to honour journalists from Bangladesh, Germany and Iran who have faced death threats, braved war zones and reported on events and people with integrity and insight. Since 2000, nine journalists have been killed in Bangladesh and reporters are routinely harassed and beaten up...

The call for entries for 10th annual 'Webby Awards' has begun with an early entry deadline of 28 October 2005 and a final entry deadline of 16 December 2005. The awards are the international honours for websites and the innovators behind them. In its 10th year, the Webby Awards is being presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 500-member body of leading web experts...