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Martha Gellhorn Prize
The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, named for the war correspondent, Martha Gellhorn, was established in 1999 by the Martha Gellhorn Trust. The Trust is a UK-registered charity. The award is founded on the following principles: The award will be for the kind of reporting that distinguished Martha: in her own words "the view from the ground". This is essentially a human story that penetrates the established version of events and illuminates an urgent issue buried by prevailing fashions of what makes news. We would expect the winner to tell an unpalatable truth, validated by powerful facts, that exposes establishment conduct and its propaganda, or "official drivel", as Martha called it. The subjects can be based in this country or abroad. The prize is awarded annually to journalists writing in English whose work has appeared in print or in a reputable internet publication. Alexander Matthews was the chair of the Martha Gellhorn Trust Prize Committee in 2011. According to i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Correspondent
A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war, war zone. War correspondence stands as one of journalism's most important and impactful forms. War correspondents operate in the most conflict-ridden parts of the world. Once there, they attempt to get close enough to the action to provide written accounts, photos, or film footage. It is often considered the most dangerous form of journalism. Modern war correspondence emerged from the news reporting of military conflicts during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Its presence grew in the middle of the nineteenth century, with American journalists covering the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the European newspapermen writing reports from the Crimean War (1853-1856). History People have written about wars for thousands of years. Herodotus's account of the Greco-Persian Wars, Persian Wars is similar to journalism, though he did not himself participate in the events. Thucydides, who some ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hala Jaber
Hala Jaber is a Lebanese-British journalist. She was born in West Africa and writes for ''The Sunday Times''. Work Her first book, ''Hezbollah: Born With a Vengeance'', was published in 1997. The book describes the rise and political agenda of Hezbollah against the background of Lebanese history from 1970 to 1997. Her second book, ''The Flying Carpet to Baghdad: One Woman's Fight for Two Orphans of War'', was published in 2009. The book chronicles her efforts to help two girls during the Iraq War. Jaber was awarded the Amnesty International Journalist of the Year Award in 2003. She won Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2005 and 2006 for her coverage of the Iraq War, and in 2012 for her coverage of the Libyan uprising. She co-won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism for her work in Iraq in 2007. In May 2015, '' NOW News'', a defunct Lebanon-based news website, published a trove of leaked emails from the Syrian government of President Bashar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umar Cheema
Umar Cheema () is a journalist and investigative reporter for the Pakistani newspaper '' The News''. In 2008, he won a Daniel Pearl Journalism Fellowship, becoming the first Pearl fellow to work at ''The New York Times''. Education Cheema holds a master's degree in mass communication from Punjab University in Lahore. He also attended London School of Economics as a Chevening Scholar (Chevening Scholarship), doing M.Sc. in Comparative Politics ( Conflict studies). Career Cheema's investigative reporting on sensitive issues of corruption and military interference in politics has made him many powerful enemies. Cheema has contributed to global investigative journalism teams, examining the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers, and Swiss Bank disclosures. Kidnapping On 4 September 2010, he was abducted, beaten, flogged and sexually assaulted by a group of assailants. They also shaved his head, eyebrows, and mustache. Cheema reported that his attackers asked him if he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks () is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange. Kristinn Hrafnsson is its editor-in-chief. Its website states that it has released more than ten million documents and associated analyses. WikiLeaks' most recent publication of original documents was in 2019 and its most recent publication was in 2021. From November 2022, numerous documents on the organisation's website became inaccessible. In 2023, Assange said that WikiLeaks is no longer able to publish due to his imprisonment and the effect that US government surveillance and WikiLeaks' funding restrictions were having on potential whistleblowers. WikiLeaks has released List of material published by WikiLeaks, document caches and media that exposed serious violations of human rights and civil liberties by various gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assange ( ; Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of News leak, leaks from Chelsea Manning, a United States Army intelligence analyst: July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike, footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, U.S. military logs from the Afghan War documents leak, Afghanistan and Iraq War documents leak, Iraq wars, and United States diplomatic cables leak, U.S. diplomatic cables. Assange has won over two dozen awards for publishing and human rights activism. Assange was raised in various places around Australia until his family settled in Melbourne in his middle teens. He became involved in the Hacker culture, hacker community and was convicted for Security hacker, hacking in 1996. Following the establishment of WikiLeaks, Assange was its editor when it published the Bank Julius Baer v. WikiLeaks, Bank Julius Baer docu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Hari
Johann Eduard Hari (born 21 January 1979) is a British writer and journalist. Until 2011, Hari wrote for ''The Independent'', among other outlets, before resigning after admitting to plagiarism and fabrications dating from 2001 to 2011. Since then he has written books on technology, addiction, and medical policy, including 2022's ''Stolen Focus'', about technology and modern lifestyles' impact on attention spans and mental health, and 2015's '' Chasing the Scream'', about addiction and the war on drugs. Early life Hari was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to a Scottish mother and Swiss father, before his family relocated to London when he was an infant. Hari states he was physically abused in his childhood while his father was away and his mother was ill. He attended the John Lyon School, an independent school affiliated with Harrow, and then Woodhouse College, a state sixth form in Finchley. Hari graduated from King's College, Cambridge, in 2001 with a double first in social an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Times
''The Sunday Times'' is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK (formerly News International), which is owned by News Corp. Times Newspapers also publishes ''The Times''. The two papers, founded separately and independently, have been under the same ownership since 1966. They were bought by News International in 1981. In March 2020, ''The Sunday Times'' had a circulation of 647,622, exceeding that of its main rivals, ''The Sunday Telegraph'' and '' The Observer'', combined. While some other national newspapers moved to a tabloid format in the early 2000s, ''The Sunday Times'' retained the larger broadsheet format and has said that it intends to continue to do so. As of December 2019, it sold 75% more copies than its sister paper, ''The Times'', which is published from Monday to Saturday. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Colvin
Marie Catherine Colvin (January 12, 1956 – February 22, 2012) was an American journalist who worked as a foreign affairs correspondent for the British newspaper ''The Sunday Times'' from 1985 until her death. She was one of the most prominent war correspondents of her generation, widely recognized for her extensive coverage on the frontlines of various conflicts across the globe. On February 22, 2012, while she was covering the siege of Homs alongside the French photojournalist Rémi Ochlik, the pair were killed in a targeted attack by Syrian government forces. After her death, Stony Brook University established the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting in her honor. Her family also established the Marie Colvin Memorial Fund through the Long Island Community Foundation, which strives to give donations in Marie's name in honor of her humanitarianism. In July 2016, lawyers representing Colvin's family filed a civil action against the Syrian Arab Republic in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Cobain
Ian Cobain (born 1960) is a British journalist. Cobain is best known for his investigative journalism into human rights abuses committed by the British government post-9/11, the secrecy surrounding the British state and the legacy of the Northern Ireland's Troubles. Early life Ian Cobain was born in 1960 in Liverpool, England, and lives with his wife and two children in London. Journalism A journalist since the early 1980s, Cobain was the senior investigative reporter for British newspaper ''The Guardian'' until August 2018. He has reported on six wars, including the war in the Gulf, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In September 2005, he revealed that the British government had been supporting the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" programme. In 2006, he joined the BNP as part of an undercover investigation, and ended up being appointed central London organiser for the party, a position he swiftly resigned. Cobain published a book in 2012, ''Cruel Britannia'', which d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Omer (journalist)
Mohammed Omer Almoghayer (), (born 1984) is a Palestinian author. He has reported for numerous media outlets, including ''The New York Times'', the ''Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'', Al Jazeera, ''New Statesman'', Pacifica Radio, Electronic Intifada, ''The Nation'', Inter Press Service, Free Speech Radio News, ''Vermont Guardian'', ''ArtVoice Weekly'', the Norwegian ''Morgenbladet'', and ''Dagsavisen'', the Swedish dailies ''Dagen Nyheter'' and ''Aftonbladet'' the Swedish magazine ''Arbetaren'', the Basque daily '' Berria'', the German daily ''Junge Welt'' and the Finish magazine ''Ny Tid''. He also founded ''Rafah Today'' and is the author of several books, including ''Shell-Shocked''. His work has been translated into 23 languages, including Hindi, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Japanese. He completed his doctoral studies, culminating in a PhD degree, at both Columbia University and Erasmus University Rotterdam. During his time, he also held a prestigious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inter Press Service
Inter Press Service (IPS) is a global news agency headquartered in Rome, Italy. Its main focus is news and analysis about social, political, civil, and economic subjects as they relate to the Global South, civil society, and globalization. History IPS was set up in 1964 as a non-profit international journalist cooperative. Its founders were the Italian journalist Roberto Savio and Argentine political scientist Pablo Piacentini. Initially, the primary objective was to fill the information gap between Europe and Latin America after the political turbulence following the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Later the network expanded to include all continents, from its Latin American base in Costa Rica in 1982. In 1994, IPS changed its legal status to that of a "public-benefit organization for development cooperation". In 1996, IPS had permanent offices and correspondents in 41 countries, covering 108 nations. Its subscribers included over 600 print media, around 80 news agencies and data ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail (born 1968) is an American journalist who was one of the few Embedded journalist, unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 and 2005, and presented his stories on his website, entitled "Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches." Jamail has been a reporter for ''Truthout'' and has also written for Al Jazeera Media Network, Al Jazeera. He has been a frequent guest on ''Democracy Now!'', and is the recipient of the 2008 The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. In 2018, the ''Izzy Award'' of the Park Center for Independent Media was awarded to Jamail, and shared by investigative reporters Lee Fang, Sharon Lerner, and author Todd Miller (journalist), Todd Miller. Biography Jamail is a fourth-generation Lebanese American, who was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University and later moved to Alaska. In October 2007, his fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
