Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas and Burmese investigative reporter May Thingyan Hein have been named the 2007 Knight International Journalism Award winners by the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ). They will be honoured along with Founders Award recipient Tom Brokaw at the 10th annual ICFJ Awards Dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Centre in [...]

The Marseille-Provence-Alpes du Sud Press Society is organising the International Award for Freedom of Speech. It will reward a leading article, coverage, survey or interview conveying a free and independent vision. Award amount : 5 000 Euros Every year around the world, many journalists disappear. Some of them have been abducted, imprisoned, tortured or simply shot [...]

The Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (ALF) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have announced the launch of the second edition of their Journalist Prize for Cultural Dialogue. The Journalist Prize aims at encouraging journalism that effectively contributes to open dialogue between cultures and people by spreading awareness of diversity [...]

New Delhi: CNN-IBN has added yet another feather in its cap. The channel won four of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism awards on Monday. While Nilanjana Bose won the award in the ‘Uncovering India Invisible’ category, Bahar Dutt won the ‘Excellence in Environmental Reporting’ award. CNN-IBN’s Special Investigation Team won the excellence in political reporting award. The [...]

Amnesty International has presented its special award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat to Dina Meza – an investigative journalist who works for monthly e-magazine Revistazo.com in Honduras. At its annual awards ceremony earlier tonight, Dina Mesa was given the award for continuing to work in danger as a result of her human rights journalism. Ms Meza [...]

Journalists who have made a raised awareness of issues related to human rights or press freedom violations are eligible to be nominated for one of two awards organized by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE). Nomination deadline: June 20. The International Press Freedom Award will be presented to a journalist or media organization that has [...]

April 16 (Bloomberg) — The Wall Street Journal won the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for Public Service today for its reports on the scandal surrounding corporate executives’ backdated stock options. It was one of two Pulitzers for the Journal. The newspaper was also awarded the prize for international reporting for its look at the impact of [...]

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 the UNESCO/Guillermo World Cano [...]

Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ)’s annual journalism contest honours outstanding environmental coverage in nine categories, each with a $1,000 prize offered, plus a student category. Nearly 200 entries for the fifth annual contest were judged in summer 2006 by panels of esteemed journalists and journalism educators, and the winners announced at SEJ’s 16th Annual Conference [...]

COPENHAGEN: The Danish newspaper editor who chose to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005 was on Monday awarded a free press prize for his “determination and courage”. The Danish-based Free Press Society awarded Flemming Rose the inaugural international Sappho Prize, which comes with 20,000 kroner ($3,568). The publication of the 12 cartoons in the [...]

The Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism celebrate the best in freelance print journalism and local reporters who show great courage and commitment to reporting on controversial issues. Two $5,000 prizes are awarded each year, one to a local reporter covering local stories in a developing country or nation in transition, and the other to a [...]

NDTV managing editor Barkha Dutt has been given the CBA-Thomson Foundation Journalist of the Year Award constituted by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) and Thomson Foundation. Dutt won in a category that included nominations from 53 Commonwealth countries. A woman waits for water in Soweto. The CBA-Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Programme went to South [...]

The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is seeking nominations from around the world for its 2007 Courage in Journalism Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award. The Courage in Journalism Awards honor women working in the news media who have demonstrated extraordinary strength of character in pursuing their profession under difficult or dangerous circumstances. These women show a commitment [...]

PANJIM, DEC 19—Sonia Faleiro of Tehelka newspaper has been honoured with the second prize print/online category by CNN channel for her story on farmers’ suicides in Vidarbha.. The award for the print/online category went to Rohit Vishwanath of Businessworld magazine from Mumbai for his story ‘Shop Floor Jobs Are Hot Once Again’ [...]

The Pulitzer Prize Board has established new rules allowing newspapers to submit a full array of online material such as databases, interactive graphics, and streaming video for its journalism awards. An assortment of Web 2.0 elements will now be permitted in all awards except for the competition’s two photography categories, which will continue to restrict entries [...]