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Wounded AP reporter vows to return to Afghanistan

In her first interview since being attacked in Afghanistan, AP journalist Kathy Gannon recounts the work that led to the death of her close friend, Anja Niedringhaus, and her own severe injuries.
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CJFE to honour Ukrainian Oleksiy Matsuka with International Press Freedom Award

TORONTO – Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has chosen Ukrainian journalist Oleksiy Matsuka as winner of the 2014 International Press Freedom Award (IPFA). The award will be presented to Matsuka at the 2014 CJFE Gala on December 3 in Toronto.

We are pleased to announce that CJFE will be honouring Oleksiy Matsuka with an International Press Freedom Award at the annual CJFE Gala: A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting, on December 3, 2014.
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CJFE to honour AP Middle East reporter Kathy Gannon with Tara Singh Hayer Award

Evening features exclusive photo exhibit and silent auction of work by late AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus

CJFE will honour Canadian Associated Press (AP) reporter Kathy Gannon with its Tara Singh Hayer Memorial Award at its annual CJFE Gala: A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting, on December 3, 2014.
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Mae Azango wins Press Union of Liberia (PUL) Women Rights Award

By: Stephanie Schoenhoff

Mae Azango was the recipient of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) Women Rights Award at the PUL Annual Awards Night and Dinner in Liberia on May 16, 2014.

At the ceremony, Azango was recognized for her courageous reporting on women’s issues and advocacy for women’s rights.
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Ahmet Şık: International award winner continues to be persecuted

By Alexandra Zakreski

CJFE congratulates its nominee Ahmet Şık on being awarded the 2014 UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, which he accepted at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Friday, May 2 in advance of World Press Freedom Day. In the wake of Ahmet Şık’s latest international accolade, CJFE calls on the Turkish government to drop the spurious charges against Şık and his fellow defendants in the Odatv case, in addition to releasing all prisoners of conscience in Turkey.
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Bob Thomson: Blowing the whistle on Chile’s 1973 brutality

Our 2013 Integrity Award winner Bob Thomson looks back on his decision to leak the Ross cables in an op-ed for the National Post.
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Journalists honoured in Toronto for pursuit of truth

Toronto Star's Public Editor Kathy English reflects on her conversation with 2013 IPFA recipients Ahmet Şik and Mebrahtu Teclesion Berhe.
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2013 Integrity Award Winner: Bob Thomson

CJFE honours Bob Thomson with its second-ever Integrity Award, which recognizes Canadians who act in the public interest when they speak out against dangerous, unethical or illegal practices they uncovered or experienced in the course of doing their jobs.
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2013 IPFA Winner: Ahmet Şık
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2013 IPFA Winners: Dessale Berekhet Abraham, Mebrahtu Teclesion Berhe and Ruth Zecarias Ghebre

Heidi Fortes profiles three Eritrean journalists being honoured with a 2013 CJFE International Press Freedom Award, Dessale Berekhet Abraham, Mebrahtu Teclesion Berhe and Ruth Zecarias Ghebre.
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Wounded AP reporter vows to return to Afghanistan

CJFE to honour Ukrainian Oleksiy Matsuka with International Press Freedom Award

CJFE to honour AP Middle East reporter Kathy Gannon with Tara Singh Hayer Award

Mae Azango wins Press Union of Liberia (PUL) Women Rights Award

Ahmet Şık: International award winner continues to be persecuted

Bob Thomson: Blowing the whistle on Chile’s 1973 brutality

Journalists honoured in Toronto for pursuit of truth

2013 Integrity Award Winner: Bob Thomson

2013 IPFA Winner: Ahmet Şık

2013 IPFA Winners: Dessale Berekhet Abraham, Mebrahtu Teclesion Berhe and Ruth Zecarias Ghebre

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