CPJ International Press Freedom Awards explained

International Press Freedom Awards
Awarded For:courage in defending press freedom in the face of attacks, threats or imprisonment
Presenter:Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Location:New York City
Country:United States
Year:1991
Website:Awards website

The CPJ International Press Freedom Awards honor journalists or their publications around the world who show courage in defending press freedom despite facing attacks, threats, or imprisonment.[1] Established in 1991, the awards are administered by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent, non-governmental organization based in New York City.[2] In addition to recognizing individuals, the organization seeks to focus local and international media coverage on countries where violations of press freedom are particularly serious.[3]

Every November four to seven individuals or publications are honored at a banquet in New York City and given an award.[4] The ceremony also honors the winner of the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for "lifelong work to advance press freedom". Past hosts have included crime correspondent and former hostage Terry A. Anderson, Amanpour host Christiane Amanpour,[5] and NBC Nightly News anchors Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw.[3] In 1998, the ceremony was briefly disrupted by protesters who unfurled a banner calling for the release of former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal from Pennsylvania's death row.[6]

History

The first awards were given in 1991 to American photojournalist Bill Foley and his wife, journalist Cary Vaughan; Cameroonian reporter Pius Njawé; Chinese dissidents Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming; Russian television news anchor Tatyana Mitkova; and Guatemalan reporter Byron Barrera. In 2014, the organization awarded its twenty-fourth group of journalists. On three occasions, an award was also given to a news organization of which multiple staffers have been at risk: Tajikistan newspaper Navidi Vakhsh (1994), several reporters of which murdered during the 1992–1997 civil war;[7] Guatemalan newspaper Siglo Veintiuno (1995), which was subject to police and army raids for its uncensored coverage of government corruption and human rights violations;[8] and Turkish newspaper Özgür Gündem (1996), which was subject to a campaign of publication bans, assassinations, and arrests for its reporting on the conflict between the Turkish Armed Forces and the Kurdistan Workers' Party.[9]

Occasionally, imprisoned laureates accept their awards at a later ceremony, such as China's Jiang Weiping, who was awarded in 2001 but attended the ceremony in 2009,[10] and Azerbaijan's Eynulla Fatullayev, who was awarded in 2009 but attended the ceremony in 2011. Sri Lankan reporter J. S. Tissainayagam was also awarded in 2009 while imprisoned, but was released in time to attend the 2010 ceremony, quipping in his acceptance speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, my apologies for being late."

The award was given posthumously on three occasions: to David Kaplan, an ABC News producer killed by a sniper in Sarajevo in 1992;[11] to Paul Klebnikov, a Russian Forbes journalist shot to death in 2004 by unknown attackers;[12] and to Atwar Bahjat, an Iraqi journalist for Al Arabiya who was abducted and murdered in February 2006.[13] A number of other laureates had been threatened or attacked in the year preceding their award, such as Guatemalan journalist Byron Barrera (1991), whose wife was murdered in an attack on their car,[14] and Željko Kopanja (2000), who lost his legs in a car bomb.[15] Other laureates have been killed after their awards, such as Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin (1995), awarded a year before her murder,[16] and Palestinian cameraman Mazen Dana (1991), awarded two years before being fatally shot by a US soldier in Iraq.[17] Eritrean journalist Fesshaye Yohannes (2002) died while still imprisoned; owing to conflicting reports and the secrecy of his confinement, the cause and year of his death remain unclear.[18]

Recipients

This list includes the recipients of the award as recorded at the official CPJ website. It is sortable by year, name, and country; owing to naming conventions in different countries, not all names are sorted by last name. Names in italics are publications which have received the award.

Recipients by year and country
YearHonoreesCountryRef.
1991 and [19]
Pius Njawé
Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming
1992
Thepchai Yong
1993
Đoàn Viết Hoạt
1994Iqbal Athas
Hong Kong
Navidi Vakhsh
1995
and Siglo Veintiuno
Ahmad Taufik
1996
and Özgür Gündem
1997[20]
and Shieh Chung-liang,
1998[21]
Goenawan Mohamad
1999[22]
and Najam Sethi
2000[23]
2001Jiang Weiping[24]
2002[25]
Tipu Sultan
2003[26]
2004[27]
Aung Pwint and Thaung Tun
2005[28]
Shi Tao
2006[29]
2007[30]
Gao Qinrong
2008[31]
and Farida Nekzad
2009[32]
2010[33]
2011[34]
2012[35]
Dhondup Wangchen
2013[36]
Nguyễn Văn Hải
2014[37]
Aung Zaw
2015Zulkiflee Anwar Haque[38]
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently
Cándido Figueredo Ruíz
Zone 9 Bloggers
2016Mahmoud Abou Zeid[39]
Malini Subramaniam
Can Dündar
Óscar Martínez
2017Pravit Rojanaphruk[40]
Ahmed Abba
Patricia Mayorga
Afrah Nasser
2018Amal Habani[41]
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh
Luz Mely Reyes
Anastasia Stanko
2019Neha Dixit[42]
Patrícia Campos Mello
Lucía Pineda Ubau and Miguel Mora
Maxence Melo Mubyazi
2020Shahidul Alam[43]
Mohammad Mosaed
Dapo Olorunyomi
Svetlana Prokopyeva
2021Katsiaryna Barysevich[44]
Anastasia Mejía
Matías Guente
Aye Chan Naing
2022Abraham Jiménez Enoa[45]
Niyaz Abdullah
Sevgil Musayeva
Phạm Đoan Trang
2023Nika Gvaramia[46]
Anastasia Mejía
Matías Guente
Aye Chan Naing
Ferdinand Ayité

Notes and References

  1. Web site: CPJ to honor brave international journalists . September 2, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120902115010/https://www.cpj.org/awards/2010/cpj-to-honor-brave-international-journalists.php . 2010 . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  2. Web site: Frequently Asked Questions . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 19, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120819100337/http://www.cpj.org/about/ . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  3. News: International Press Freedom Awards Shine Spotlight on Endangered Journalists . Georg Szalai . November 27, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101127011450/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/international-press-freedom-awards-shine-48557 . November 23, 2010 . The Hollywood Reporter . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  4. News: Committee to honor 4 journalists for courage . Anita Snow . October 6, 2011 . Associated Press . https://web.archive.org/web/20150623215646/http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9Q6QMP80.htm . June 23, 2015 . Bloomberg BusinessWeek . August 10, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  5. Web site: CPJ Fetes Journalists, Rather at Waldorf Banquet . Jack O'Dwyer . December 5, 2011 . October 1, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131001124200/http://www.odwyerpr.com/blog/index.php?%2Farchives%2F3664-CPJ-Fetes-Journalists%2C-Rather-at-Waldorf-Banquet.html . O'Dwyer's . August 10, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  6. News: Five journalists honored by international press freedom group . Associated Press . November 25, 1998 . NewsLibrary.com . August 10, 2012 . October 12, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141012192437/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=APAB&d_place=APAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F8B7168E12357CC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM . live . (Subscription required)
  7. Web site: Killing the Messenger . November 2005 . Sherry Ricchiardi . American Journalism Review . https://web.archive.org/web/20060510211034/http://ajr.org/article.asp?id=1509 . May 10, 2006 . May 28, 2011 . dead . mdy .
  8. Web site: José Rubén Zamora, Guatemala . International Press Institute . https://web.archive.org/web/20121104174519/http://www.freemedia.at/awards/jose-ruben-zamora.html . November 4, 2012 . August 10, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  9. Web site: The International Press Freedom Awards: Ocak Isik Yurtçu . https://web.archive.org/web/20120903164743/https://cpj.org/awards96/yurtcu.html . September 3, 2012 . 1996 . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  10. Web site: Jiang Weiping, China . Committee to Protect Journalists . September 2, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120902082151/http://cpj.org/awards/2009/jiang-weiping-china.php . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  11. News: ABC Producer's Widow Accepts Press Freedom Award . October 22, 1992 . Associated Press . June 2, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150602015232/http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1992/ABC-Producer-s-Widow-Accepts-Press-Freedom-Award/id-8fbcb364553a818ac2bd87e413c34cf3 . August 12, 2012 . live . mdy .
  12. Web site: CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2004: Paul Klebnikov . Committee to Protect Journalists . June 3, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110603093001/https://cpj.org/awards04/klebnikov.html . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  13. Web site: CPJ honours four journalists with International Press Freedom Awards . November 20, 2006 . December 10, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111210182859/http://ifex.org/international/2006/11/20/cpj_honours_four_journalists_with/ . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 10, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  14. Book: Communication in Latin America: journalism, mass media, and society . 23 . 978-0842025591 . Richard R. Cole . 1996 . Rowman & Littlefield . August 10, 2012.
  15. News: International Press Freedom Awards: Zeljko Kopanja . NewsHour . PBS . May 29, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120529051144/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/ipf/kopanja.html . August 10, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  16. News: The second fall of Veronica Guerin . . May 6, 1998 . September 20, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120920171821/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/86191.stm . September 30, 2011 . dead . mdy .
  17. News: US troops 'crazy' in killing of cameraman . Jamie Wilson . August 19, 2003 . March 28, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120328233931/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/aug/19/iraqandthemedia.iraq . The Guardian . August 1, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  18. Web site: In Eritrea, a prominent journalist dies in a secret government prison . February 9, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120902082805/http://www.cpj.org/2007/02/in-eritrea-a-prominent-journalist-dies-in-a-secret.php . September 2, 2012 . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 10, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  19. Web site: Journalists Receive 1996 Press Freedom Awards . Committee to Protect Journalists . June 5, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120605095952/https://www.cpj.org/attacks96/frontmatter/ipfa.html . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  20. Web site: 1997 Press Freedom Awards . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 28, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075311/http://www.cpj.org/awards/1997/ . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  21. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 1998 . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 28, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075310/http://www.cpj.org/awards/1998/ . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  22. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 1999 . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 28, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075308/http://www.cpj.org/awards/1999/ . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  23. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2000 . Committee to Protect Journalists . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075307/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2000/ . August 28, 2012 . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  24. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2001 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075306/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2001/ . August 28, 2012 . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  25. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2002 . Committee to Protect Journalists . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075304/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2002/ . August 28, 2012 . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  26. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2003 . Committee to Protect Journalists . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075300/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2003/ . August 28, 2012 . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  27. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2004 . Committee to Protect Journalists . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075257/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2004/ . August 28, 2012 . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  28. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2005 . Committee to Protect Journalists . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075255/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2005/ . August 28, 2012 . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  29. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2006 . Committee to Protect Journalists . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075254/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2006/ . August 28, 2012 . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  30. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2007 . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 28, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075253/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2007/ . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  31. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2008 . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 28, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075250/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2008/ . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  32. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2009 . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 28, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075247/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2009/ . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  33. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2010 . Committee to Protect Journalists . August 24, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120824080320/http://cpj.org/awards/2010/ . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
  34. Web site: CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2011 . Committee to Protect Journalists . https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075243/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2011/ . August 28, 2012 . August 11, 2012 . dead . mdy .
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  36. Web site: CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2013 . Committee to Protect Journalists . October 6, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150321012852/http://cpj.org/awards/2013/ . March 21, 2015 . dead . mdy .
  37. Web site: CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2014 . Committee to Protect Journalists . October 6, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150315073339/http://cpj.org/awards/2014/ . March 15, 2015 . dead . mdy .
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  43. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2020. Committee to Protect Journalists. 2021-08-23. April 19, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220419194350/https://cpj.org/awards/2020/. live.
  44. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2021. Committee to Protect Journalists. 2021-08-23. November 20, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211120055931/https://cpj.org/awards/2021/. live.
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  46. Web site: International Press Freedom Awards 2023 . Committee to Protect Journalists . 2023-11-18 . November 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231118023717/https://cpj.org/awards/cpjs-2023-international-press-freedom-awards/ . live .

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