Lebanese journalist wins Gebran Tueni Award
Posted by Evan Fell on December 10, 2007 at 11:17 AM
Michel Hajji Georgiou, a senior political analyst at the French-language daily L'Orient-Le Jour in Lebanon, has been awarded the 2007 Gebran Tueni Award.
Gebran Tueni Award is an annual prize from the World Association of Newspapers that honors an editor or publisher in the Arab region. It honors the memory of Gebran Tueni, the Lebanese publisher and WAN Board Member who was killed by a car bomb in Beirut in December 2005.
Michel Hajji Georgiou received the award Sunday during the opening ceremony of the 2nd Arab Free Press Forum in Beirut, Lebanon, before 1,500 attendees and a national television audience. Thomas Brunegard, WAN Vice President and CEO of the Stampen Group in Sweden presented the award.
Mr. Hajji Georgiou, who is a member of L'Orient-Le Jour’s editorial board was given the award for demonstrating the values upheld by Mr. Tueni: attachment to freedom of the press, courage, leadership, ambition and high managerial and professional standards. L'Orient-Le Jour is a major contributor to the intellectual and political debate in Lebanon and takes bold editorial stands regarding the government, Lebanon's relationship with Syria, and Hezbollah and other radical groups.
The award carries a 10,000 Euro scholarship to enable Mr. Hajji Georgiou to undertake advanced newspaper leadership training.
Source: World Association of Newspapers
Michel Hajji Georgiou received the award Sunday during the opening ceremony of the 2nd Arab Free Press Forum in Beirut, Lebanon, before 1,500 attendees and a national television audience. Thomas Brunegard, WAN Vice President and CEO of the Stampen Group in Sweden presented the award.
Mr. Hajji Georgiou, who is a member of L'Orient-Le Jour’s editorial board was given the award for demonstrating the values upheld by Mr. Tueni: attachment to freedom of the press, courage, leadership, ambition and high managerial and professional standards. L'Orient-Le Jour is a major contributor to the intellectual and political debate in Lebanon and takes bold editorial stands regarding the government, Lebanon's relationship with Syria, and Hezbollah and other radical groups.
The award carries a 10,000 Euro scholarship to enable Mr. Hajji Georgiou to undertake advanced newspaper leadership training.
Source: World Association of Newspapers
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