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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...

Papers belonging to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein concerning Mark Felt, the source known as Deep Throat, have gone on public display at the University of Texas at Austin. Some can be viewed online. The first set of notes includes a direct quote from Felt: “this could ruin the admin, I mean ruin.” Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. 1973. Woodward and Bernstein’s papers...

Whatever other reasons may explain the lack of women’s voices on the nation’s op-ed pages, the lack of women asking to be there is clearly part of the problem. Many opinion page editors at major newspapers across the country say that 65 or 75 percent of unsolicited manuscripts, or more, come from men. The obvious solution, at least to Catherine Orenstein, an author, activist and occasional op-ed...

Stockholm- A jailed Swedish-Eritrean journalist was on Wednesday awarded a newly created freedom of speech prize by the Swedish Association of Publicists. As of Wednesday, Dawit Isaak has been imprisoned for 2,000 days in his native Eritrea in east Africa and was unable to attend the award ceremony in the Swedish capital Stockholm. To mark the occasion, the editors of the culture sections of six...

EL FASHER, Sudan, March 3 -- In this dusty market town in northern Darfur, a lucky few with satellite dishes can get news of the war surrounding them from CNN or the BBC. Others rely on a tree. For the past 10 years, Awatif Ahmed Isshag has handwritten monthly dispatches and commentary about life in El Fasher and hung them on a short, wiry tree that scatters shade along the yellow-sand lane by her...

LONDON (AFP) - In a tranquil church just yards from the London hubbub, lie tributes to journalists killed as far afield as Vietnam, Somalia, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Welcome to the "journalists' altar" at St Bride's Church, just off Fleet Street -- for generations synonymous with the mighty British press. Their names are engraved on the church's wood panelling, penned on their...

LABOR has recruited high-profile media personality Maxine McKew to take on Prime Minister John Howard in his NSW seat of Bennelong. Ms McKew confirmed last night that she was seeking ALP preselection for the seat held by Mr Howard since 1974. Last year's electoral redistribution significantly reduced Mr Howard's majority and it would take a swing of 4.2 per cent for Labor to win his seat in the...

Well-known columnist and former editor of the Times of India, Sham Lal, died here today due to age-related illness, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported. He was 95. He is survived by wife, two daughters, one of them Neena Vyas, a journalist, and a son. A master in reviewing books of all genre, he died in his sleep at his residence in Gulmohar Park. He had been unwell for the past couple of days...

Australian journalist Ben Hills has refused to apologise after finding himself at the centre of an international diplomatic row with Japan over a book he wrote about Crown Princess Masako, according to news reports. On Monday, diplomats from the Japanese Embassy in Canberra delivered a letter to Hills and his publisher Random House Australia, protesting "defamatory" references in his latest book...

President Roh Moo-hyun on Monday appointed Oh Young-jin, the economics desk editor at the English-language newspaper The Korea Times, as his secretary for overseas communications, Roh's office announced. Oh, who joined the local daily in 1988, will succeed Sun Mi-ra who quit for personal reasons, Chong Wa Dae said. Oh also served as political desk editor of The Korea Times between May 2003 and...