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Mae Azango, International Press Freedom Award recipient, at the 2012 CJFE Gala: A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting | Photo: Saman Aghvami
Join us on Wednesday, December 4, 2013, for our 16th annual CJFE Gala: A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting.
ABOUT THE GALA
What you don’t know CAN hurt you. Free expression is under attack around the world – and in our own backyard. Never before have we had so many ways to communicate, nor have we been faced with more ways to be silenced and censored.
At the CJFE Gala: A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting, we feature stories that we would never have known about if people had not risked their jobs, their freedom or even their lives to tell us. This annual event is an opportunity to hear these stories and pay tribute to some of these brave individuals.
SPONSORS
For more information on becoming a sponsor for the CJFE Gala, please see the Sponsorship page.
PHOTOS
View a photo gallery of our 2012 Gala.
VIDEOS
View the videos from our 2012 Gala.
2013 GALA STEERING COMMITTEE
Carol Off is the Chair of the CJFE Gala Committee, and co-host of CBC Radio's As It Happens.
2013 GALA CO-CHAIRS
Catherine Cano, Managing Partner, NATIONAL Public Relations
Denise Donlon, C.M., Canadian broadcast executive, host and producer
Wendy Freeman, President, CTV News
Patrick Gossage, Founder and Chair, Media Profile
Frank Switzer, Vice-President of Corporate Communications, Sun Life Financial
Madeline Ziniak, National Vice-President, OMNI Television
Latest award winners
2012
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Vox Libera Award -
International Press Freedom AwardMae Azango is a Liberian reporter at daily newspaper and website FrontPage Africa, and is a senior member of New Narratives—Africans Reporting Africa, a not-for-profit media development initiative.
Her career as a journalist has focused on coverage of issues widely considered taboo...
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International Press Freedom AwardRami Jarrah is a Cyprus-born, U.K.-raised Syrian citizen journalist who often operates under the alias Alexander Page. Jarrah’s work in journalism began in early 2011 when he began attending and often filming Syrian demonstrations inspired by the early Arab Spring protests in Tunisia and Egypt....
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Tara Singh Hayer Memorial AwardEnquête is an award-winning investigative journalism TV program on Radio-Canada hosted by Alain Gravel. While Enquête was already known for unearthing controversial scoops, such as Canadian Olympic champion Genviève Jeanson’s use of performance enhancing drugs in 2007, the show gained notoriety...