Salute to Free Press and Freedom : CPJ's 2018 International Press Freedom Awards

In just a few hours, we will be live from New York for CPJ’s International #PressFreedom Awards ceremony. Stay tuned for the live broadcast and join the conversation using the hashtag #IPFA.
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— Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) November 20, 2018

Amal Khalifa Idris Habbani: 2018 International Press Freedom Awards




CPJ is honored to present its 2018 International Press Freedom Award to Amal Khalifa Idris Habbani, a freelance journalist and contributor to the Sudanese news outlet Al-Taghyeer. Habbani has worked in Sudan since she began her career in 2008. She is also the co-founder of the local independent press freedom group Sudanese Journalists Network. She has repeatedly been harassed and detained by Sudanese authorities in connection with her coverage of protests and official wrongdoing.
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Anastasiya Stanko: 2018 International Press Freedom Awards

CPJ is honored to present its 2018 International Press Freedom Award to Anastasiya "Nastya" Stanko, a broadcast journalist and a member of the Ukrainian "Stop censorship" movement. Stanko previously worked for the Ukrainian TV channels Pershiy and TVI and in 2013 co-founded the independent media channel Hromadske. In 2014, while reporting on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, she and her cameraman were taken hostage for two days. She continues to report on the war and on human rights violations by police and Ukraine's Security Service in the area.
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Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh: 2018 International Press Freedom Awards

CPJ is honored to present its 2018 International Press Freedom Award to Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, one of Vietnam's most prominent independent bloggers. Quynh is best known by her pen name Me Nam or "Mother Mushroom." She was released from prison in October while serving a 10-year term on charges of "propagandizing against the state." Prior to being imprisoned in 2016, she faced frequent harassment by Vietnamese authorities. In 2014, she told CPJ she feared she would eventually be arrested and jailed.

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Luz Mely Reyes: 2018 International Press Freedom Awards

CPJ is honored to present its 2018 International Press Freedom Award to Luz Mely Reyes, an investigative reporter who has covered politics in Venezuela for more than 25 years. Her first day as a reporter in 1992 coincided with former President Hugo Chávez's first coup attempt. In 2015, she and two journalists founded the independent news website Efecto Cocuyo to work on "journalism we believed in." There, Reyes and her team host training workshops and panel discussions and collaborate with international journalism organizations and news outlets.

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Pravit Rojanaphruk: 2017 IPFA Acceptance Speech




Pravit Rojanaphruk, one of Thailand's most prominent reporters and a longtime advocate for press freedom, received CPJ's 2017 International Press Freedom Award on November 15, 2017, in New York.