CPJ International Press Freedom Awards
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| Awarded for | Contribution to freedom of the press in the face of threat and arrest |
| Loan location | New York City |
| Country | United States of America |
| Awarded by | Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) |
| First awarded | 1991 |
| website | official website |
The CPJ International Press Freedom Awards are an award for outstanding service to press freedom. It honors journalists and publications who advocate freedom of the press even in the face of dangerous situations, threats or arrests. The award was first presented in 1991 by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent non-governmental organization based in New York City . In addition, the organization tries to focus more local and international coverage on countries with serious violations of the freedom of the press.
The awards ceremony takes place annually in November in New York and goes to four to seven people or publications. In the course of the ceremony, the CPJ will also present the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for “lifelong work to advance press freedom”. The event in the past, among others, the American journalist was moderated Terry A. Anderson , the British-Iranian journalist Christiane Amanpour and NBC Nightly News presenters Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw . In 1998, protesters stopped the ceremony to protest for the release of former Pennsylvania Black Panther member Mumia Abu-Jamal, who had been sentenced to death in Pennsylvania .
The first awards were given in 1991 to the American photojournalist Bill Foley , his wife Cary Vaughan , who also works as a journalist , the Cameroonian reporter Pius Njawé , the Chinese regime critics Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming , the Russian TV presenter Tatyana Mitkova and the Guatemalan journalist Byron Barrera . In 2012 the awards were given to their own 22nd group of journalists. In three cases, the CPJ gave awards to news agencies whose employees were at high risk: the Tajik newspaper Navidi Vakhsh (1994), which lost several journalists to assassinations in the civil war 1992-97 ; the Guatemalan newspaper Siglo Veintiuno (1995), which was attacked by the police and the army for uncensored coverage of government corruption and human rights violations; and the Turkish newspaper Özgür Gündem , which was confronted with censorship, arrests and attacks due to reporting on the conflict between the Turkish military and the Kurdish Workers' Party .
Occasionally, incarcerated winners receive the award at a later date, such as the Chinese Jiang Weiping and Eynulla Fatullayev from Azerbaijan. Weiping received an award in 2001, but was only able to attend the ceremony in 2009. Fatullayev received her award in 2009, but was only able to receive it in 2011. The jailed Sri Lankan journalist JS Tissainayagam was also honored in absentia in 2009. He received his freedom in time for the award in 2010 and joked in his speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, my apologies for being late."
Three awards were given posthumously: to ABC News producer David Kaplan , who was shot dead by a sniper in Sarajevo in 1992; to the Russian Forbes journalist Paul Klebnikov , who was shot dead by unknown persons in 2004; and the Iraqi Al-Arabiya journalist Atwar Bahjat , who was kidnapped and murdered in February 2006. Some award winners were threatened and attacked in the year after their award. The wife of the Guatemalan journalist Byron Barrera (1991) died after an attack on their vehicle. Željko Kopanja (2000) lost a leg in a car bomb. Further laureates died after the award ceremony: the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin (1995) was murdered one year after receiving the award . The Palestinian cameraman Mazen Dana (1991) was shot dead by a US soldier in Iraq two years after receiving the award. Eritrean journalist Fesshaye Yohannes (2002) died in custody, the exact circumstances and year of his death are unclear due to conflicting reports and secrecy.
Award winners
The following list contains the recipients of the awards as published by the CPJ official website. It can be sorted by name, year and country. Due to the different naming conventions in the countries, not all names are sorted by surname. Names in italics denote publications that have received an award.
| † | Award posthumously awarded |
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b CPJ to honor brave international journalists . Committee to Protect Journalists. 2010. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ Frequently Asked Questions . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ^ A b c Georg Szalai: International Press Freedom Awards Shine Spotlight on Endangered Journalists . In: The Hollywood Reporter . November 23, 2010. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ^ Anita Snow: Committee to honor 4 journalists for courage . In: Bloomberg BusinessWeek , October 6, 2011. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 10, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d e f CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2011 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b ABC Producer's Widow Accepts Press Freedom Award . October 22, 1992. Archived from the original on August 13, 2012. Retrieved on August 12, 2012.
- ↑ Jack O'Dwyer: CPJ Fetes Journalists, Rather at Waldorf Banquet . O'Dwyer's. December 5, 2011. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 10, 2012.
- ↑ Five journalists honored by international press freedom group , NewsLibrary.com. November 25, 1998. Retrieved August 10, 2012. (Subscription required)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad Journalists Receive 1996 Press Freedom Awards . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d e CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2012 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on September 22, 2012. Retrieved on September 22, 2012.
- ↑ Sherry Ricchiardi: Killing the Messenger . In: American Journalism Review . November 2005. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on May 28, 2011.
- ^ José Rubén Zamora, Guatemala . International Press Institute. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 10, 2012.
- ^ The International Press Freedom Awards: Ocak Isik Yurtçu . Committee to Protect Journalists. 1996. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ Jiang Weiping, China . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ^ CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2004: Paul Klebnikov . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ^ CPJ honors four journalists with International Press Freedom Awards . Committee to Protect Journalists. November 20, 2006. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 10, 2012.
- ^ Richard R. Cole: Communication in Latin America: journalism, mass media, and society . Rowman & Littlefield, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8420-2559-1 , p. 23 (Retrieved August 10, 2012).
- ↑ International Press Freedom Awards: Zeljko Kopanja . In: NewsHour . PBS. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 10, 2012.
- ^ The second fall of Veronica Guerin . BBC News . May 6, 1998. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved September 30, 2011.
- ↑ Jamie Wilson: US troops 'crazy' in killing of cameraman . In: The Guardian . August 19, 2003. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 1, 2012.
- ↑ In Eritrea, a prominent journalist dies in a secret government prison . Committee to Protect Journalists. February 9, 2007. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 10, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d e 1997 Press Freedom Awards . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d e International Press Freedom Awards 1998 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d International Press Freedom Awards 1999 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d International Press Freedom Awards 2000 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d International Press Freedom Awards 2001 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d International Press Freedom Awards 2002 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d International Press Freedom Awards 2003 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d International Press Freedom Awards 2004 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d International Press Freedom Awards 2005 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d International Press Freedom Awards 2006 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d International Press Freedom Awards 2007 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d International Press Freedom Awards 2008 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d International Press Freedom Awards 2009 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d International Press Freedom Awards 2010 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2013 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2014 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Archived from the original on March 3, 2015. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2015 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2016 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2017 . Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
Web links
- Official website (English)