Press freedom groups honor journalists
Posted by Allie Judson on December 13, 2006 at 12:31 PM
Reporters Without Borders, working together with the Fondation de France, awarded media’s top press freedom awards to journalist from around the globe. Winners this year came from a range of countries including Myanmar, Cuba, Russian and the Congo.
The winner in the reporting category was U Win Tin of Myanmar. Jailed since 1989 for "subversion" and "anti-government propaganda," Win Tin is currently Myanmar’s longest serving political prisoner.
Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta received the media award. The bi-weekly paper’s former top journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, was shot and killed Oct. 7. Novaya Gazeta "is known for its investigations which regularly criticize the corruption of the Russian administration," the organization said.
Journalist in Danger, based in Congo, was recognized for their help in the fight for press freedom throughout Africa. Also the cyber dissident prize went to Guillermo Farinas Hernandez, director of the independent press agency Cubanacan Press who underwent a hunger strike last February trying to secure uncensored access to the Internet in Cuba.
Source: ABC News
Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta received the media award. The bi-weekly paper’s former top journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, was shot and killed Oct. 7. Novaya Gazeta "is known for its investigations which regularly criticize the corruption of the Russian administration," the organization said.
Journalist in Danger, based in Congo, was recognized for their help in the fight for press freedom throughout Africa. Also the cyber dissident prize went to Guillermo Farinas Hernandez, director of the independent press agency Cubanacan Press who underwent a hunger strike last February trying to secure uncensored access to the Internet in Cuba.
Source: ABC News
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More are doing it, but it's hard: hard to do things differently and hard to apportion limited resources toward the future.
Love the site, by the way.
I may be missing the point - but what is gained by some newspaper hack reading out his or her words so you can listen to them, rather than, er, read them. Seems to me to be a rather odd thing to do. Or am I being stupid?
Jack, you don't get it. Multimedia journalism is a wonderful thing. On the BBC sports page, for example, I can read an interview with my favourite soccer team's manager. Then I can hear it. And sometimes I can watch it as well. Three stories for the price of one! [Or is it one story for the price of three?]